David Moyes shares reasoning for selling West Ham favourite Snodgrass
West Ham boss David Moyes has explained why he allowed Robert Snodgrass to be sold West Bromwich Albion.
Snodgrass moved to The Hawthorns earlier this week to help out former Hammers boss Sam Allardyce as his new side face a relegation battle.
The attacker was a popular figure at the London Stadium and Moyes has claimed that he didn’t want to lose Snodgrass for that very reason.
Moyes is quoted by Football.London as saying, “Robert Snodgrass was going to be out of contract in the summer.
“With us having Yarmolenko and Jarrod Bowen playing in a similar position, it made it something which we wanted to help him with.
“Snoddy’s been fantastic for the club, he is a great character, he’s great around the club, we didn’t want to lose him for those reasons.”
Moyes is trying to build something at the London Stadium and there can be no room for players who aren’t regularly playing.
Snodgrass’ departure was inevitable but it is sad to see a player who had so much passion for the club leave without a proper goodbye.
The Hammers will probably receive a barely significant fee for Snodgrass but he will be off the wage bill which could allow the club to bring in some new faces this month.
New faces are certainly needed in the attack with Sebastien Haller securing a switch to Ajax, this leaves Michail Antonio as the only striker in the first team.
As Moyes said, we are covered for wingers but perhaps the wages we have back from selling Snodgrass can help the club bring in a new striker to replace Antonio when he inevitably gets injured again.
It would be fitting if the money earned from the sale of a player who was well-liked could help the club improve further.
In other West Ham news, Frank McAvennie casts doubt on move for big-name player.