David Moyes has lifted the lid on two transfer insiders who helped Tim Steidten seal amazing West Ham deals over the summer.
West Ham are widely regarded to have had one of the best summer transfer windows in the Premier League.
Journalists, pundits and fans have raved about how West Ham’s new technical director Tim Steidten and David Moyes spent the Declan Rice money.
So much so Steidten has taken on cult hero like status and even has his own terrace chant.
Edson Alvarez, James Ward-Prowse, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Mohammed Kudus arrived for a combined £122m.
‘Tim Steidten went to Dam…’
At one point during the summer Hammers fans would not believe news about a signing until Steidten was pictured on a jet with the player.
But he had a lot of inside help for the biggest deals of West Ham’s window according to the manager.
Moyes has lifted the lid on two transfer insiders who helped Steidten seal amazing West Ham deals over the summer.
And one of them did such a good job aiding the £72m arrivals of Kudus and Alvarez he is now at West Ham.
David Moyes lifts lid on two transfer insiders who helped Tim Steidten seal amazing West Ham deals over the summer
Speaking to The Evening Standard, Moyes has revealed his former Everton stars John Heitinga and Steven Pienaar – who both also played for Ajax – were just as important to West Ham signing Kudus and Alvarez from the Dutch giants as Steidten.
Moyes has since appointed Heitinga – who was interim boss at Ajax last season – as his assistant at West Ham.
His input alongside that of Pienaar, who was Ajax youth team manager until this summer, was crucial to the deals claims Moyes.
‘I had some meetings… I phoned him too’
“I met Johnny in the summer a couple of times before I brought him in,” Moyes told The Evening Standard.
“I’d had some meetings him but I was also asking him about the Ajax players and what might be there.
“I didn’t know I was going to end up getting them because they were two lads on our list of recruitment…
“But I was able to talk to Johnny about Edson and then Mo when he started to become a consideration (for the job at West Ham).
“Steven Pienaar has been at Ajax as well and he was one of my ex-players (at Everton) so I phoned him about them too.”
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