Nuno needs to copy David Moyes to succeed | Sky Sports

West Ham’s new head coach has more than team selection headaches to deal with once his feet are under the desk at London stadium. If he is to succeed, his ability to play football politics will be every bit as important as winning at the weekend, according to a new report out this afternoon. Neither Julen Lopetegui nor Graham Potter were able to walk the tightrope in the way the David Moyes managed to do, according to Sky’s Kaveh Solekhol, Chris Ready and Rob Dorsett.

The SKYsportsnews article claims the not since Moyes’ era was a Hammers manager able to work with the boardroom as well as the changing room challenges:

“As with any manager, Nuno will have to ‘manage up’ as well as down. That is easier said than done with all the off-pitch issues at West Ham.

The only manager in recent times who has succeeded on both fronts is David Moyes – he brought success on the pitch and, on the whole, he enjoyed a good relationship with Sullivan and Brady.”

“The issues they have are not just about results, they are about the way the whole club is being run,” – evident to everyone with the club and its supporters at odds!

“The West Ham job is widely acknowledged as being one of the most difficult in the game. Results were clearly not good enough under Potter, but the problems at the club cannot be fixed by one man alone in nine months.”

Luckily for Espírito Santo, the summer wasn’t an absolute fail for recruitment and there is now a spine of a side for him to work with: Providing he can get a tune out of a questionable set of centre backs, that is, it should not take another nine months to start moving away from the bottom three places. However, we’ve all been here twice before very recently, so the optimism Is just a little muted. It does, however, mean thousands of Hammers fans are now looking forward to Monday Night Football – which can’t be bad.

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