West Ham United boss David Moyes has summed up life under David Sullivan and David Gold with a grim transfer update.
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Earlier this month West Ham became the only club in the Premier League not to have made a new signing so far this summer.
Unpopular owners Sullivan and Gold have been pleading poverty due to the global health crisis.
But that has not stopped West Ham’s Prem rivals splashing the cash as spending reaches around the £1 billion mark.
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With two weeks left until the transfer window shuts, West Ham are playing a dangerous game.
Particularly given their hugely underwhelming start to the new season which has seen them lose the first two games against Newcastle and Arsenal.
Moyes appeared to deliver a positive update for West Ham fans ahead of the Arsenal defeat (whufc.com). He said signings were ‘edging closer’.
But Just 24 hours later the Scot delivered a more sobering assessment of West Ham’s transfer hopes (Evening Standard).
The Scot gave a glimpse at his life under the restrictions placed on him by Sullivan and Gold.
Moyes delivers grim glimpse of life under Sullivan and Gold with transfer update
Moyes says he wants as many as four new signings. But he rather bluntly added the club do not have the money for them.
“I don’t just want centre-halves. I want other positions as well,” Moyes said after the defeat at Arsenal (Evening Standard).
“Ultimately I would like to sign three or four players.
“But I totally understand we are not in a financial position to do so.”
The update is not what West Ham fans want to hear with just two weeks left until the window slams shut.
Tantamount to footballing suicide
Sullivan and Gold’s lack of investment is tantamount to football suicide.
West Ham have a horror run of fixtures coming up. And it would not be beyond the realms of possibility that the club will be rock bottom with no points after eight games.
Just two games into a new campaign and supporters are already looking around the league for signs of encouragement that there might be three worse teams than them this season.
By failing to back Moyes in the transfer market West Ham’s owners are buying a one-way ticket to the Championship.
The mere fact that is even a possibility just four years after the move to the London Stadium is nothing short of scandalous.
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