Pablo Fornals has sent a clear word of warning to David Moyes and the West Ham owners over the club’s ambition.
West Ham fans are growing frustrated by the club’s lack of transfer activity this summer.
The Hammers made a positive start to the window with the £30m signing of Nayef Aguerd.
The Moroccan defender is West Ham’s only new arrival for the first team so far.
Moyes’ only other business has been to make goalkeeper Alphonse Areola’s loan move permanent which, while excellent business, does not add any further depth to West Ham’s shallow squad.
The new Premier League campaign kicks off in just over four weeks.
Moyes admitted West Ham needed to sign at least six or seven quality players in a big rebuild this summer.
With Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky on board supporters felt the club – having not signed any of Moyes’ targets in January – would be primed and ready to make signings as soon as the season ended.
Many supporters feel a lack of true ambition in the January transfer window cost West Ham a real chance of glory and a place in the Champions League as Moyes’ shallow squad became predictably overstretched.
In a parting message to the club’s owners, retiring captain Mark Noble said West Ham were already three players short last season BEFORE he and a host of others departed this summer.
It has been widely reported that Declan Rice wants to West Ham match his ambitions.
Moyes made it clear he wants to do just that following Rice’s interview with The Overlap last season (whufc.com).
Pablo Fornals sends word of warning to David Moyes and West Ham owners over ambition
Hammers fans are yet to see it, though.
Now another key Hammers star has put pressure on the club to prove it wants to continue to grow and get bigger.
Pablo Fornals has sent a word of warning to Moyes and the West Ham owners over the club’s ambition.
Speaking in an interview with West Ham’s official website, Fornals said he and his ambitious teammates want to stay with the Hammers so long as the club continues to prove it wants to grow.
“The club is growing and trying to do what we did last year every season,” Fornals told whufc.com.
“This is why us as players want to stay here, because we are growing a big West Ham and, for all of us, it’s really good to be in one of the best moments of the club and be part of the success.
“We know we’re not in the Europa League this season, but we’re in the Europa Conference League and we want to play as many games as possible and, to be honest, the final in the Conference League was a decent final [between Roma and Feyenoord] that could have been a game in the Champions, so it’s not going to be easy at all.
“I don’t know if it is the mentality of this club that has changed, or the desire of the people around this club to make the club grow.
“Hungry people, of which I am one, want to stay in places where they can grow. I’m a team player and if my team is still growing, I want to be part of that.”
Moyes and the owners must start to get quality players through the door.
West Ham kick off a manic first half of the season – with 25 games in 12 weeks – against Manchester City in little over a month.
And the squad quite simply is nowhere near big enough.
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