Simon Jordan shares West Ham United relegation verdict after 1-1 draw v Aston Villa live on talkSPORT
Simon Jordan feels that David Moyes still has enough about him to keep West Ham in the Premier League, but doesn’t like that he keeps talking about the past.
The Hammers earned a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa at the London Stadium to move outside of the relegation zone on goal difference, leaving many fans worried about playing Championship football next season.
But while speaking live on talkSPORT (14 March, 12:13), Jordan admitted that while he thinks West Ham have too much quality in their team to be relegated, he isn’t a fan of the way the manager keeps speaking about previous achievements.
“It feels like the bottom three are beginning to become the bottom three,” he said.
“But there’s such a juxtapose week on week.
“I think Southampton are gone. And it’s looking more like, and I made a case for Leeds United but they’re not recovering.
“I like Javi Gracia, I think he’s a decent manager. I think he can consider himself slightly unlucky at Watford but then there are a list of managers who can consider themselves unlucky at Watford.
“I look at that and I say I don’t think Crystal Palace will get sucked back into it. I think Wolves with Lopetegui, he’s just too good a manager. I think Dyche has always been maintained by most of us that he’ll get Everton out of trouble. Moyes I still maintain has enough about him, although I don’t like David’s constant looking back at what they’ve done previously.
“So then you’re left with Brendan (Rodgers) at Leicester, with the bottom three.
“The challenge is that nobody is adrift. Nobody is out of consideration and what you’ve got is a race to the bottom, literally.
“I just don’t think West Ham and Leicester, with their managers and the quality of some of those players (will go down).”
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Right now the only reason people are expecting West Ham to stay in the Premier League is because of what David Moyes has done in the past and what West Ham have done in the past.
Ultimately, this team has won just nine Premier League games in the last year and it simply isn’t good enough.
Moyes had done a good job until a certain point, but all that credit that he stocked up has gone out of the window this season and now he’s on borrowed time.
West Ham fans won’t be surprised if we get relegated because we have seen this coming a mile off, but casuals and people who don’t care can’t see past the names and are just expecting us to be okay because of it.
Moyes needs to go and things need to change at West Ham because it simply hasn’t been good enough so far this season or over the last period of time.