David Moyes has made some baffling decisions this season at West Ham that have arguably contributed to their current loss of form.
For example, after appearing to go with Jarrod Bowen as his main striker, the Scot brought back Michail Antonio into the side against Brentford and was rewarded by the 33-year-old missing an open goal which might well have taken the game away from the Bees.
It was symptomatic of Antonio’s form given that he’s not found the net since August per WhoScored.
Keeping Mohammed Kudus on the bench up until recently was another baffling move from the Hammers manager.
Fans of the Irons would have every right to question why the club would buy a player and then not play him, and that’s something else Moyes needs to answer.
Another decision he has appeared to make was dropping first-team star, Ben Johnson, down into the U21 side for their fixture against Cheltenham Town on Tuesday, ahead of the senior side’s Europa League tie against Olympiacos.
Our U21s are back in @BSM_Trophy action tonight ??? pic.twitter.com/qAJvWKaStx
— West Ham United (@WestHam) November 7, 2023
Though Vladimir Coufal has been in decent form for the east Londoners so far this season and that’s clearly why Johnson hasn’t been able to force his way into his manager’s thoughts, the 23-year-old is surely not going to be happy about having had to drop down to play with some of the club’s upcoming youngsters.
Can never understand much what Moyes does? if I was playing, seeing a grey faced man on the side, would not encourage me at all! Rumours he will be moved upstairs, what as a caretaker?
Moyes has to go he has lost the dressing room has no idea how to handle young players
Playing Danny ings the fans are laughing at him
He buys players then sits them on the bench
He plays players out of form
We need to bring in a new manager and get shot of people like Newman please tell me what he does
Moyes is inherently cautious, he never steps outside of what he knows, and what he knows is FM 1997 !
His tactics are so old school that he’s probably the only surviving member of the “safety first” club in the Premier league.
His in game management is baffling to say the least.
The fans have had enough of this clown and our one saving grace is Tim Steidten who won’t sit by and watch this like Sullivan has done previously
Steidten’s influence is tremendous and is exactly what we have needed for years, someone who acts rather than watches by