Exclusive: A highly-placed West Ham board source has responded to shock Tim Steidten claims amid a transfer stand-off.
They say too many cooks spoil the broth and that certainly seems to be the case at West Ham thus far in the summer transfer window.
Although in West Ham’s case it is more the head chef refusing to taste what the up-and-coming man with fresh ideas is cooking.
What has become abundantly clear since the arrival of highly-rated and coveted technical director Tim Steidten at West Ham, is that the German has a very different recruitment philosophy to manager David Moyes.
Hammers News warned that would be the case before Steidten’s appointment. And unfortunately it looks like that’s exactly how things are playing out for the Hammers.
West Ham are the only club in the Premier League yet to sign a player in the summer window so far.
Exclusive: Highly-placed West Ham board source responds to shock Tim Steidten claims amid transfer stand-off
And the club’s scattergun approach suggests the mix of Moyes and Steidten is already jarring.
On one hand West Ham are being linked with older and/or established players such as Harry Maguire, Joao Palhinha, Scott McTominay and James Ward-Prowse. Players a club does not need a highly paid and highly rated technical director to unearth. Especially one with the nickname ‘the pearl diver’.
Meanwhile there are links to players Steidten has reportedly recommended including Carlos Borges, Denis Zakaria, Jonathan Tah, Youssouf Fofana, Edson Alvarez and Habib Diallo.
Overnight it was claimed by 90 Min journalists Graeme Bailey and Toby Cudworth on the Talking Transfers podcast that Steidten could be prepared to walk away from his role less than one month into the job.
Hammers News has put those claims to a very senior source inside West Ham in the hope of quashing the rumour.
Now the highly-placed West Ham board source has responded to the shock Steidten claims amid the transfer stand-off.
‘Very hard work’
And the reaction is very worrying indeed.
“Who knows,” a key source inside West Ham told Hammers News when asked whether there was any truth to talk Steidten could walk.
“He finds the manager very hard work.”
This is a man who was genuinely being chased by the likes of Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea.
He could shape West Ham’s future both in terms of players and the manager when Moyes inevitably leaves at the end of next season.
Yet here we find ourselves in a situation where he might walk as a result of a manager in the last year of his contract dictating recruitment – the job Steidten has been brought in to do.
The situation must be resolved one way or another as soon as possible with the season now just over two weeks away.
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