Speculate to accumulate.
It’s a phrase that is probably more comfortable in a gambling context, but is equally at home when it comes to football as well, especially with how West Ham could attack the upcoming window.
I spoke yesterday, in light of the changes in the backroom staff, about how David Moyes essentially needs to make this his team, and whatever makes him comfortable and makes him think he can do the best job with what is going on around him.
That logic can also be extended out to the players that are at his disposal. Given the time of his appointment last season, he didn’t exactly get a fair go of things in the transfer window as he didn’t get all the time to prepare and get things in order, perhaps why he was only able to make the one ‘major’ move in bringing in Jarrod Bowen, and that one was left rather late in the day.
So this summer is going to be the first time that he will really have a chance to put his foot down and try to build the team, not totally from scratch, but in a method that he likes.
That’s why I don’t think we should totally be against the sale of Issa Diop if the opportunity came along. Recent reports have said that a bid of £45m could be enough to entice West Ham to sell, and that would act as a great starting fund to help Moyes build the team in his image.
Should Moyes look to sell Diop this summer?
Yes
No
West Ham currently have the second oldest team in the Premier League according to Transfermarkt, and it needs to have a lot of fresh faces injected into it if the club is to move forward, which hopefully Moyes will be allowed to oversee.
Whilst Diop himself is relatively young at the age of 23, if we were to take that money and invest in a younger goalkeeper for instance (our youngest is 33), or a potential new centre-back to replace 32-year-old Angelo Ogbonna, then I’d totally support it.
Start afresh, and let Moyes take the club forward like he did in his early Everton days.
