Yet another pundit has told West Ham fans to be careful what they wish for after their poor start to the season.
Both sides of Moyes’ debate ultimately want the same thing, and that’s for the club to be successful. While they both believe the right man to lead them to success is different, the majority can agree that this whole argument has grown tiresome and is just draining the joy out of supporting this club.
Unfortunately, the Hammers’ woeful start to life under Julen Lopetegui has only made these debates drag on, with more and more pundits jumping on the “I told you so” bandwagon, and the same phrase they’ve been hearing for the last year is still being repeated.
The latest “be careful what you wish for” comes from former Everton chief Keith Wyness, who goes as far as to claim that Lopetegui is already losing the dressing room. “It’s still early days,” Wyness told Football Insider. “But I have a feeling there is a bit of a rot setting in at West Ham, and the confidence for Lopetegui isn’t quite there as it should be. I’m already hearing rumours of player unrest in the squad. It’s not a good sign.”
“If the fans turn against them in that big cavernous London Stadium, then it won’t be good. They might be thinking ‘I wish we hadn’t gotten rid of Moyes’. You’ve got to be careful of what you wish for.”
There’s a few issues with what Wyness has said. Firstly, it’s hard to imagine that Lopetegui has lost the dressing room this early into his West Ham career.
Secondly, any fan who wanted Moyes gone is not going to have changed their mind on this. Whether Lopetegui is the right man for the job or not is irrelevant to whether or not getting rid of the Scotsman was correct.
Finally, this whole “be careful what you wish for” narrative is just becoming extremely lazy. It fails to recognise what those fans who wanted him gone actually were annoyed with and it suggests they all desperately wanted to Lopetegui – they didn’t. Everyone knew replacing him was going to be a risk, that doesn’t mean it was wrong to roll the dice just because someone might not do as well as he did.
