Former West Ham manager David Moyes has been given both barrels by controversial TalkSport host and former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan.
Moyes had been speaking over the weekend after being asked about the treatment of Graham Potter following his sacking at West Ham.
It’s clear Moyes was unimpressed with how the Hammers board handled Potter’s dismissal and made a plea for better treatment. The Scotsman argued that managers in other industries, and people in everyday life, are treated far better than Premier League football bosses.
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However, when this viewpoint was put to Jordan, he made it clear he didn’t buy the comparison between multimillionaire coaches and ordinary 9–5 workers.
“I would imagine — and I like David a lot — in David’s wide experience of other industries and how managers are treated, he can speak from a reference point of understanding that he’s been a football manager and a football player all his life. Posited and institutionalised and protected from the outside world,” Jordan said.
“He’s got an axe to grind with West Ham for, I think, legitimate reasons, because I don’t think he was treated very well by the fans at West Ham at times and by the board in terms of the work that he did and the way his contract was just allowed to run down.
“But with all due respect to Moyes, you cannot suggest that you can compare the opportunities and travails of a football manager — and the upsides of being one — to any other walk of life.”
To be fair to Jordan he has a point. No doubt Everton manager Moyes was seeing an opportunity to have a dig about his own treatment at the London Stadium. And let’s be honest here, neither Potter or Julen Lopetegui were treated well by the Hammers board when their time came to an end.