I refuse to pamper any stars here, says Moyes

DAVID MOYES insists there will be no ‘ pussyfooting’ or ‘pampering’ on his watch, telling West Ham’s players to expect a no-nonsense approach.

The new manager is getting to know the squad after the last of those who were away on international duty returned to Rush Green yesterday.

Ahead of his first game in charge against Watford tomorrow, Moyes (below) said: ‘I’ve just not got any time for any nonsense. I’m not going to be pampering to any needs.

‘I can’t be bothered. If anybody says they can’t get back from international duty, well don’t think you will be coming in and playing Saturday. It’s that sort of thing.

‘It can’t happen any longer. You do the work, you do the training, you do the running back, you do the running forward, you do that then you have a chance of getting selected.

‘I am certainly not pussyfooting around with them.’

Moyes also fired a warning to Marko Arnautovic. The Austria international was sent off in only his second game for West Ham and has failed to impress following his club record £24million summer transfer from Stoke City.

Moyes added: ‘I can only go on what people have told me and they don’t think he has come up to the standard he set at Stoke.

‘I watched him a lot at Stoke. I thought he looked like the sort of player you would never be keen to play against.

‘But he also has to be a team player. The clips I have seen at times, he has not looked a team player. He would not be the only one I would say that about. The other players also have to do the work for the team if they want to be part of it.’

Moyes and his coaching team of Stuart Pearce, Alan Irvine and Billy McKinlay have been overseeing double training sessions in a bid to boost fitness.

Damning statistics show the Hammers, under previous boss Slaven Bilic, have covered the least distance in the Premier League. ‘The players have grasped it,’ added Moyes. ‘We’ve tried to put an awful lot of work into them in the last five or six days.’