[West Ham’s](https://www.claretandhugh.info/potter-may-have-dodged-a-bullet-with-poisoned-west-ham-challice/) season is fast disappearing, almost as an afterthought – into the mire. Lopetegui limps on, the board – or David Sullivan – depending on who you believe – stall on firing him and wait for him either to walk out or improve enough to stagger through the Premier League campaign and crawl over the 40 point line some time in early May.
The way the leadership of West Ham act is hardly a resounding ’employer recommendation’ for any likely successor watching on from the sidelines.
Now we understand that Sullivan only wants a short term appointment, presumably having made such a hash of the Lopetegui recruitment.
Reportedly, Graham Potter has rejected such a scenario: Who can blame him. If he has any sense he’ll run for the hills (or straight into work at Molineux next week). Even if Lopetegui walks, no decent coach would take a six month role, would they?
I know one who would. Like a shot.
And he has history with Sullivan that would suit both. How David Moyes would love to come and be the saviour again at West Ham and ‘right the wrong’ of last year’s public and painful rebuttal.
And how (most of us) would despair witnessing his return through the door at London Stadium. He’d gleefully take a six month contract to ‘save’ the club from relegation. Sullivan and Moyes is like the perfect marriage made in hell.
It almost seems, to my admittedly frustrated and fatigued analytical senses, as if events are being engineered behind the scenes to ensure any other bona fide, high quality candidate is ruled out or, justifiably, runs scared.
The ‘desperate straights’ West Ham would find themselves in might just be perfect for the third coming of the Moyesiah. God help us.