West Ham United boss David Moyes has been emboldened by the dramatic turnaround he has overseen in the last year.
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After securing survival with West Ham for a second time in two spells, Moyes set the sights higher this season.
And the Hammers have responded in emphatic style, making their best start to a season for 22 years.
With victory at Goodison Park West Ham moved on to 26 points after 17 games.
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That eclipsed the 25 points amassed in the Farewell Boleyn season five years ago.
And it matched the points haul at the same stage of West Ham’s brilliant 1998/99 campaign where they went on to secure their highest ever Premier League finish of fifth.
With a positive goal difference as opposed to a negative goal difference in 98/99 it could be argued this has been a better start.
West Ham are looking up and looking good.
But rather than sit back and bask in a good job done, Moyes is using the turnaround to push for more.
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The Scot detailed during lockdown how he was desperately working to make West Ham a more respected, organised and competitive side.
He wanted to do away with the ‘soft touch’ tag West Ham have often been labeled with.
Moyes has certainly achieved that so far.
But now the bullish West Ham boss is demanding owners David Sullivan and David Gold back him in revolutionising the club’s recruitment and transfer dealings.
West Ham’s recruitment has been scattergun and incoherent during Sullivan and Gold’s tenure.
Sullivan has assumed a director of football style role which has rarely paid off long-term.
‘We are behind every other club’
Now, speaking to The Evening Standard, Moyes says West Ham are behind every other Premier League club when it comes to recruitment.
“Yes, it’s my long-term job,. I want to get us a state-of-the-art recruitment department for the future which we can look to and use,” Moyes told The Evening Standard.
“We are undoubtedly behind, I would argue probably every other club in that area. But it’s something I will fix, it’s something I want to get in place better.
“But let me tell you, if we can bring in a Tomas Soucek this January window like we did last January window, without too many people in the staff, I will take that because they’ve done a great job.”
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