West Ham United: Alex Crook predicts David Moyes and David Sullivan split in the summer
Alex Crook has predicted that West Ham United manager David Moyes and David Sullivan will shake hands and go their separate ways in the summer regardless of the club’s Premier League status.
Moyes once again eased calls for his sacking with a scrappy if unspectacular 1-0 win against Fulham on Saturday (8 April) that took the Hammers up to 14th in the Premier League table.
Speaking live on talkSPORT Breakfast (11 April), Crook lavished praise on West Ham owner Sullivan for sticking with Moyes amid the 12 Premier League managerial sackings that have taken place this season but predicted that the two could still part ways in the summer.
“I think actually David Sullivan at West Ham deserves some credit,” he said.
“Because he probably knows that David Moyes is reaching the end of the line there, but they have surveyed the options and decided, ‘now is not the right time to make a change, who is the best person to keep us in the Premier League, David Moyes.’
“I think he will probably do that and at the end of the season, they will shake hands, and they will go in a different direction.”
Makes sense
Sullivan’s decision not to sack Moyes this season has come under severe scrutiny, but six points from the club’s last three games may have justified such a call.
Although one of these matches was a 5-1 drubbing to Newcastle, West Ham fans won’t care how ugly it is in their fight against relegation as long as they get the magical number of points to stay up.
Against Fulham, the Hammers were by no means at their best, but Moyes’ defence stood tall and delivered a heroic rearguard while coming under severe pressure at Craven Cottage.
Despite West Ham United sitting in a safer position in the Premier League at this moment in time, with a Europa Conference League quarter-final also on the horizon, a summer parting of ways does make a lot of sense.
The whole atmosphere around the club has felt lethargic and stale this season, and some fresh ideas might be needed to push them back into the top half of the Premier League table.