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They need to start getting worried. They don’t just get beat, they get hammered – 3-0 at home to Brighton, 4-1 at home to Liverpool, 3-0 at Newcastle, 4-0 at Manchester United.
They were 2-0 up at Crystal Palace and still didn’t win.
They need to get out of the mentality that they are too good to go down. They need to get real. I don’t like that kind of talk at all.
Moyes won’t find it easy. They have some hard fixtures.
If they don’t beat Watford in his first game they will have to have a go at home to Leicester, which is dangerous against such a good counter-attacking team.
Then they’ve got to go to his old club Everton, who are fighting for their lives, and then it’s Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal! Unless he gets off to flyer, I’d be amazed if they’re not still in the bottom three at Christmas, and then he’s already in trouble with the fans.
They are going to have to be patient because if Moyes manages to reproduce the things he did at Everton, he’ll do alright, but if he doesn’t, there will be unrest.
Alarm
It’s not an appointment to get the fans excited but the backlash so far has been a bit over the top. He deserves a chance.
But where are West Ham going? What is the long-term plan? They have a huge, fabulous stadium and with the money they have they should be in the top six or seven.
Moyes needs to get them fit because they don’t look it at the moment and when your players are complaining they are not being worked hard enough, alarm bells ring.
He needs to find a shape as well, and he needs to get their confidence back.
He needs to get them organised and work out who plays up front as well, because Carroll with Javier Hernandez wide is not going to work. Is it going to be little and large up front together or does one of them stay on the bench? Tough choices.
But what support is he going to get? The fans don’t like him and he hasn’t even started yet, and if he wants £30m to spend in January, are the owners going to give it to him? I don’t think so.
This is not a great team. If you put all the West Ham players up for sale tomorrow, how many of them would be bought?
I think Moyes is a decent manager but I feel for him here. This is going to be tough.
Will he keep them up? I think it’s 50/50.