Roy Keane has suggested Kalvin Phillips will be fuming after dropping down to the bench on Sunday, but highlighted how West Ham boss David Moyes will be worried about him picking up an injury.
West Ham boss David Moyes started Kalvin Phillips against Bournemouth last week but dropped him back down to the bench on Sunday for the Manchester United clash, and Roy Keane reckons that Phillips won’t be happy one little bit with that.
The Hammers boss brought the 28-year-old midfielder to the London Stadium from Manchester City on loan in the January transfer window.
Phillips is a top-class player, but he hadn’t started a Premier League game since May before Thursday night.
I’m not really sure why Moyes threw him into a game from the start where we didn’t really need him but then dropped him for a match where we did?
It was bizarre management if you ask me.
Roy Keane says Kalvin Phillips will be absolutely furious with David Moyes
The Sky Sports pundit was a guest on Super Sunday, and suggested that Phillips will not be happy one little bit having not started the game at at Old Trafford:
“From the player’s point of view I think he’ll be fuming. You go out on loan to play some games you get 70 minutes, he’s a sitting midfielder so you use your intelligence there in terms of when to sprint. Obviously David Moyes will be worried about him, in terms of picking up an injury but from the player’s point of view he has to get minutes, has to get games, now he’s gone from City and he’s sat on the bench and I think from the player’s point of view, he’ll be fuming.”
Personally, I think Moyes got it wrong. He should have left Phillips on the bench for the Bournemouth game, and eased him into the game with 20 minutes or so to go.
Then, he should have started the 28-year-old for our clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Now Phillips is in a situation where he’s right up against after a poor start to his West Ham career, but it didn’t have to be that way. Moyes’s poor management of the midfielder’s start to life at the London Stadium has put him and the player behind the eight ball now.
Roy Keane was absolutely spot on with his criticism of David Moyes, and the way that the Scot has handled Kalvin Phillips so far.
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