David Moyes
West Ham are on the brink of a European campaign next season with continental competition all but secured as they head into the final game of the season.
David Moyes said: “I think this is the new level for West Ham. The new level for West Ham has to be being competitive in the league, it needs to be. That doesn’t mean that we are guaranteed that we are going to be competing at the top every year. It doesn’t mean that. But I think competitive means we’re back to being the new West Ham, which is going to try to be competitive and we’re going to try and look at ourselves as a club at the top end of the league. That’s what I want to do.”
Moyes is on the verge of signing a new long-term contract with West Ham but does not want any distraction ahead of the final game of the season. Once Moyes puts pen to paper on his new deal the manager is keen to keep the Hammers competing for Europe and believes he has earned the right to do so.
David Moyes said: “I’m not asking for time, I don’t think any manager can ever ask for time. But I think if you’re ever going to give a manager time it would be now, where somebody has come in and saved the club twice, had one year and got ourselves in a position where we’re going to challenge for Europe. Now if you are ever going to trust and say ‘let’s go to the next level’, now you have got to give that trust over. You have got to give the manager the ability to try to take the club on to reach what you see as the next level.”
Moyes is excited about the return of West Ham fans to the stadium and hopes the supporters will be in as high a spirit as the players are.
David Moyes added: “We have tried to work in this pandemic to get a good team spirit. Anyone who knows us will see there is a fantastic spirit. What we need is that fantastic spirit from the terraces now as well, from the supporters. We need to build on it. We need positive around the club. I’m going to try and do that I’m going to try and keep building it, I’m going to be positive, I want the supports to be positive.”
