David Moyes has defended his decision to select Kurt Zouma for West Ham’s 1-0 win over Watford with the manager believing Zouma’s availability is a decision for ‘the club’. Speaking ahead of the match to BT Sport, Moyes explained his decision to select Zouma by stating that he is one of West Ham’s “better players.” After the match, the manager passed the decision of Zouma’s future availability to the board by saying,
David Moyes said: “The club will sort the other side of it out and I will look after the football side. My feeling was Kurt has apologised and I understand that a lot of people will not just accept an apology I understand that. But to me, he came out and he said that very honestly and as I said before I had to do my job then and that was to pick the best team I possibly could.”
The Scot was adamant his decision was the correct one and not one to send a poor message to his players regarding discipline.
David Moyes said: “The club are dealing with it and I look after the football side and I had to try and get a result tonight and Kurt at the moment is in our first eleven so the decision was to play him.”
The decision to include Zouma was criticised far and wide and not just by angry social media users but by many former players who were shocked at Zouma’s inclusion.
