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My fear is more with the fans than whoever replaces moyes.

What happens if the new manager has a season similar to this one? Will people have the patience to see it out or will we be back wanting them out?

I have little faith that the fanbase has what it takes to let a so called more “progressive” work it out for 12 months before we see the best of them.

Moyes is the safe hands I would like a more progressive coach who plays good football and maybe more high tempo fans on the edge of their seats type stuff but it could go all West Ham very easily

He’s done a great job in terms of league position and stability.

He’s done a terrible job in terms of quality football and tactics.

He gets more time for me simply because I don’t see where the stable upgrade comes from.

I’d be intrigued if you dangled Iraola or Glasner in front of me but I think they’re both destined for bigger jobs even with the latter tanking his stock in the second half of this season (I think that turmoil largely starts at the boardroom level and has simply seeped down but you never know).

There might be some good options who are out of work but I’ll be honest and say that I can’t keep up anymore.

Overall, the management world is still almost completely devoid of people who can manage a team competently for even 3 years at a time. Too many egotists-turned-blaggers trading off of one or two good seasons, burning out and/or falling out with their squads, and leaving clubs with a pile of rubble to picked up. I’m not mentally ready to be back in that mix and to their credit, the Friedkins might know enough now to know how to keep us out of it.

Another year of Moyes with a more complete squad is fine for me. I’m sure many of the frustrations will remain but he’ll have fewer external things to point at. If he’s not up to challenging for bigger things with even better circumstances then we can make the call from there.

Been very frustrated with all the square pegs in round holes recently but he’s still the man for the job for me

Although I'm very much in the keep Moyes camp, if Ireola wanted the job I'd jump at the chance.

But I doubt he'd come here, and whilst Moyes is matching the club's remit I also don't think we'd be sounding out potential replacements.

Juanito wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 3:23 pm For me, it’s a bit like when Iraola replaced O’Neil at Bournemouth after he did an ok job in keeping them in the division and it was seen as ruthless. It’s just football and they went with a better manager.

Why is it madness to suggest it’s ok now Moyes has stabilised us, to go with someone else, someone with a better track record or working with a lot of these younger players signed perhaps.

We don’t know if there is not a better manager available who will do a better job and we don’t know if we get a rookie who sends us down but the idea of replacing Moyes is not so outrageous.

If we sack moyes we’ll be sacking a manager with a brilliant track record that includes a European trophy and getting west ham into the top seven.

I’m not sure we’d get a manager with a better track record than that?