Moyes did not steer us out of trouble in his first season. He had the worst PPG of all permanent West Ham managers in his first period and was saved by a couple of lucky results against a bunch of teams on the beach, and three teams being worse than us.
He's been coasting on the great form he found during lockdown, but it's clear that every team in the PL has worked out his tactics and knows how to nullify them, and he shows no interest in changing. He continually overrelies on a first 11 and maintains a very thin squad, the players are always knackered by the end of the season.
Yes, we won a European trophy. I'll thank him forever for that and if I ever met him I'd shake his hand and offer him a drink. But you don't keep a manager because of what they've done in the past, you keep them because of what they're going to do in the future, and our future is clear. The football is dire to watch, there's no attacking plan beyond hoping someone can create something out of nothing and we can keep it tight and win a 1-0, something we fail to do almost every week.
In our last 18 games we've won 5. If they were the first 18 games of the season we'd be around 14th. The fact that we're 9th now is down to teams around and below us dropping points combined with a fluky stretch in around November.
Moyes is never going to take us further than he has, so the time is right to change.
