David Moyes must be sacked after Brighton loss, manager is out there to get West Ham United playing – talkSPORT pundit
David Moyes must be sacked as West Ham boss because there will be another manager capable of getting better performances from the Irons squad says Gabby Agbonlahor.
The Hammers were brushed aside 4-0 at the Amex on Saturday and the away fans turned on Moyes for taking off Said Benrahma at half-time, as well as for the terrible performance in general.
The Irons boss’ job is now back in the spotlight and Agbonlahor believes that with players such as Declan Rice, Lucas Paqueta and Jarrod Bowen in the ranks there is an alternative who can do a better job.
Speaking live on talkSPORT after the game (4 March), via a clip on the station’s Twitter account, Jamie O’Hara said: “We’ve got some really angry West Ham fans. Got absolutely destroyed by Brighton today. What do yo make of it? David Moyes, time to go?”
Agbonlahor replied: “I looked at starting line-up… you’ve got Paqueta, [Tomas] Soucek, Rice, Benrahma, Bowen, [Danny] Ings. You’ve got a £30million striker, [Gianluca] Scamacca, sat on the bench.
“Moyes has got to go now. There’s a manager out there who can get these players playing.”
Is this the end?
It is a question that has been hanging over the manager for the duration of this season as fortunes headed rapidly in the wrong direction.
He was getting more from less over the past two seasons, even if the league form towards the end of the previous campaign was also poor.
But despite being aided by a club-record spend in the summer transfer window he hasn’t got near the Champions League places that were under threat for much of the previous season.
The good work that Moyes has done previously arguably bought him the time to keep going as far as he has, and last week’s win (25 February) suggested maybe that had paid off.
But in the face of the latest awful showing loyalty to a fault could send the club into the Championship, and all of the four clubs below the Hammers, currently in 16th but just two points from all three in the drop zone, have changed managers at least once this season.
David Sullivan is thought to not be impressed with the available alternatives, but the manner of the defeat at Brighton, who also underwent an enforced change in the dug-out this year, is likely making the majority shareholder more twitchy than ever before.