With the imminent signing of Mohammed Kudus from Ajax, West Ham have gone from having the worst window of the Premier League clubs to having one of the best – all within the space of three weeks.
David Moyes was hamstrung to an extent in terms of transfers, as nothing happened until Arsenal had fully completed the signing of Declan Rice.
Only then did chairman, David Sullivan, and sporting director, Tim Steidten, appear to get their act together and start bringing in new players.
Supporters can’t really have any complaints over the standard of new signings that the club have managed to get over the line to this point, though Moyes has warned Steidten regarding any others in the final week of the window.
“Unfortunately we’ve got a game on the Friday as well which is transfer deadline day which hasn’t helped us greatly,” he said to Sky Sports in his pre-match press conference (h/t Hammers News).
“But hopefully we’ve got our work all done (before then). We’ve got a new German technical director who’ll probably not be used to the way we do our business here in the UK where it’s last minute and signings getting done at 11 o’clock at night etc etc.
“But that’s the way it happens sometimes here. We’ve had real reasons (why we have had a slower window), the longer season with the final, pre-season in Australia etc. It’s sort of knocked everything we wanted to do back a little bit.
“Ideally we’d have had it done a little bit earlier but nevertheless we have to go and try and get one or two more players in before it closes.”
Given how experienced Steidten is it’s a bit of an odd comment from Moyes, who has perhaps inadvertently put more pressure on the German to get those potential transfers over the line quickly.
If the Hammers are able to secure the likes of Youssef En-Nesyri to shore up their front line, and injuries notwithstanding, they could be one of the teams to beat in the 2023/24 campaign.
Moyes then won’t have any reason to complain either, and the pressure will then be back on his shoulders to produce results.
Most fans know our best transfer has been Tim stieten and can’t wait till he also gets in a progressive coach too that this narcistic clown disliked moyes goes out of our club. Renowned for playing entertaining football from Greenwood and lyall days even h days we now are bored to death with this dinosaur moyes. His jealousy of Tim stieten shows how nasty this moyes is. Well done tim very proud of you being here.
I just cannot understand comments like this; we have NEVER made Europe 3 seasons on the trott. Moyes has delivered that, and now we look in the best shape I can ever remember, and I went to my first game in 67. You are probably one of the haters of Sullivan and Brady too, cannot understand why we left Upton Park…..Doh
Well I went to my first game in 61 and I couldn’t agree more with Razorwine in his opinion on Moyes. To suggest the success we have had is solely down to him is in my opinion ludicrous. For starters he did not “save West Ham” on arrival after Pellegrini, all it took was getting the team fit. Since then how many points have been lost by sitting back instead of staying on the attack against clearly inferior teams. Football is not merely about winning, it never has been and never will be it is also about playing with style and both are equally important
Couldn’t agree more, hate his type of football.Should have gone after the final.
Well I went to my first game @ Upton Park in 1972 and think David Moyes is the best manager we have had since then. I remember all the Lyall haters and ‘Lyall Out’ painted in the South Bank door – our fans have always been like this – and I love it!
Moyes has said , ” It’s not the way we do it in England ” . Well actually the way we do it in England is not all last minute..It’s actually David Moyes that does it all last minute .. Now we have a new technical director he may decide do it differently