Only 2 teams invested more
After Chelsea and Manchester United, West Ham is the team that has invested the most money in transfers in the English Premier League this season: The “Hammers” spent around 194 million euros on signing nine new players, which remained sporty However, the club from the northeastern part of London fell well short of expectations – in the run-up to the basement duel with bottom-placed Southampton, in which coach David Moyes’ team went penultimate on Saturday, the coach said on the TV station “Sky Sports‘ about the reasons – and gave free rein to his disappointment.
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“It was my decision that we had to make a few changes to keep trying to grow the club and take the team forward. I honestly have to say it didn’t work out the way I would have liked,” said the 59-year-old, who has been on the touchline since December 2019, in what is already his second spell at West Ham. While last year’s seventh in the league in the Conference League has not yet lost a single point and will be competing there in the quarterfinals with Belgian representative KAA Gent in around two weeks, there are only six wins from 26 games in the English upper house. For Moyes, however, the disappointing performance of his team to date is not solely due to the fact that the newcomers to the second most expensive purchase in the club’s history, Lucas Paquetá, have not taken off.
“We have a lot of players here who aren’t able to match the form they’ve had in recent years and on the other hand, there’s a lot of newcomers who have to get used to the league and need time,” said the Scot, adding: “I don’t think that we could have done something differently, but we just have to try to fight our way through this valley.” If you had made fewer or cheaper commitments and were in the current situation, “we would have said now that it was wrong”.
With Paqueta, Gianluca Scamacca, Emerson Palmieri, Nayef Aguerd and the German Thilo Kehrer, internationally experienced professionals were brought to the Thames in the summer, who are all part of the national team in their home countries: “We thought that was good enough for us for the Premier League and for Europe compared to last season and I still firmly believe that our squad is better – but are we playing as well as a team this year? No. Ultimately, this is the next level. We have to try to get that back together.”
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However, Moyes is confident “that we will be in a better position at the end of the season”. He also said: “There were some games that I was very happy with, but there were others that I wasn’t so happy with. So I’m trying to bring more consistency back into the team and we’ll have to show that on the pitch over the next few weeks and months.
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