MOYES: I EARNED LOYALTY FROM EURO CAMPAIGN
DEFIANT David Moyes claims he has never feared for his job at West Ham and is not about to start now.
Moyes is a man in danger of the sack if he loses to his former club Everton today, but no one would suspect that from listening to him.
He believes he is owed some loyalty for delivering on the Hammers owners’ promise to bring European football to the London Stadium.
And he claims he cannot be doing too bad a job if he is being linked to other clubs – including a shock return to Goodison Park.
Asked if he had worried about his future over the past few weeks, Moyes said: “No, I’ve not. The board are very trusting of the manager.
“I speak to them regularly. They are very much in the mindset that what we have done in the past three years has been good, let’s see if we can get back to doing it again.
“I wasn’t here when the club moved.
“Someone said to me the other day that David Sullivan came out and said, ‘We’re going to have European football at the London Stadium’.
“Well he’s got European football at the stadium, so do the supporters.
“We fill it now, we’re the 15th richest club, they have more money to spend than I thought!
“So I think there’s been a lot of things the board will look at and say we’ve achieved in recent years. Let’s see if we can keep it going. They’ve been greatly supportive.”
The likes of Rafa
Benitez have been linked with his job in recent weeks with West Ham in the bottom three, above Everton only on goal difference.
But Moyes (above) said: “I get linked to loads of jobs myself. It’s part of the job and I’m getting linked with jobs now, while I’m in the job.”
Moyes shot down any talk of him returning to Everton any time soon though.
Asked if the struggling Toffees have been in touch, he said: “In the past, yes. But not recently, no.”
When he first arrived at West Ham, Moyes inherited a mess, with supporters protesting and the club in danger of going down.
Now it is Everton whose fans are demonstrating about the running of their club.
Moyes said: “I think that club needs to come together. When I came here, we had supporters running on the pitch and it was a terrible time for us.
“But I don’t see a divided club here at West Ham now. This club is much more together than it’s ever been.”
New boy Danny Ings - a £15million signing from Aston Villa - could start against Everton, opponents he has scored six times against in 14 league games.
Moyes said: “He’s got a good record against them, I’m hearing. Which I didn’t know… but it does help.
“We wanted someone who wasn’t a risk and knew how to score, someone who knew the league.
“Ings is as good as it gets.”