Technical director Tim Steidten has aimed a clear dig at David Moyes as Luis Guilherme is unveiled as West Ham’s first signing of the summer.
Things were never going to work out long term at West Ham between David Moyes and Tim Steidten.
Hammers News called it when Steidten was first appointed as we hailed the technical director to be the best appointment the club had made for decades.
Things ended between Moyes and Steidten much like they started, fraught with tension. It was a match made not quite in hell, but in purgatory.
Two football men from completely different eras with completely different perspectives and philosophies.
Steidten almost walked just a month into his role at West Ham last summer.
The top source inside the club exclusively confirmed to Hammers News at the time that the German was ‘finding the manager hard work’.
Steidten and Moyes were match made in purgatory
Because old school Moyes simply wasn’t having the situation with someone dictating transfer policy and recruitment.
Moyes had power of veto on all deals written into his contract and he wasn’t afraid to use it.
Some common ground was found for Steidten to sign brilliant duo Mohammed Kudus and Edson Alvarez while Moyes pushed for James Ward-Prowse.
When there was a clamour for Moyes to be handed a new deal around Christmas time, Hammers News exclusively revealed the Scot’s contract would be ‘subject to terms’.
Those terms were that Steidten would have full control of recruitment and Moyes’ power of veto would be removed.
