Difficult to believe in just three years West Ham United have fallen from European champions to relegation-threatened Premier League basket cases. June 2023 saw wild elation both in Prague and around the streets of the old ground as fans celebrated silverware for the first time since 1980 and it seemed the club could really be heading for ‘world class’ status.
How hollow that all rings now: Fan protests, £100 million plus losses, failed transfers, morale at an all time low and player sales expected in the summer even if relegation is avoided just to balance the books.
A new report today by footballinsider247.com claims that West Ham’s ‘massive’ failures are to be used as a cautionary tale over exactly how not to run a football club by former rivals – now of course far and away Premier League superiors Everton who are striving for European qualification themselves this season. According to their article:
“Former West Ham scout Mick Brown, who worked closely alongside Moyes at the London Stadium, told Football Insider that Everton will not repeat the Hammers’ mistakes. West Ham opted to let Moyes leave in search of a more attractive brand of football, and just two seasons later have found themselves in the relegation zone.
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Everton are currently eighth in the Premier League and on course to qualify for a European competition, and their first priority is to tie down the manager to a new deal”.
In fairness many would say it was not David Moyes’ leaving that was the mistake: Rather the choosing of his successor and then failing to monitor and control Lopetegui’s and Steidten’s excesses in the transfer window that precipitated West Ham’s fall from grace. And we know whose fault that was.