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Whisper it quietly, but depite having only recently emerged from an atrocious run of results, West Ham have attained 'media momentum'. The club is no longer the subject of widespread derision, far from it, somehow David Moyes has managed to elevate West Ham to levels previously thought relatively implausible and virtually impossible!

You have to go back to 2018, one of West Ham's brightest stars who had been lighting up the Premier League had just had an amazing season, he was off to play alongside his hero and mentor Lionel Messi for his country Argentina, ahead of returning to the domestic league where newly ensconced manager Manuel Pellegrini had planned to build his entire team around the 'hot property' that WAS Manuel Lanzini, the Little Jewel.

Palace: Guaita, Ward, Guéhi, Andersen, Mitchell, Milivojevic ©️, Hughes, Schlupp, Ayew, Edouard, Benteke Subs: Butland (GK), Matthews (GK), Tomkins, Kelly, Riedewald, Olise, Eze, Mateta
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Johnson, Soucek, Rice©️, Bowen, Lanzini, Benrahma, Antonio. Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Vlasic, Fredericks, Masuaku, Kral, Alese, Noble, Oko-Flex.

West Ham could sign Authur Cabral from Swiss outfit Basel as early as this coming Wednesday, which would make him eligable to face Leeds United in the FA Cup and League double commencing on January the 9th. If you thought that the financial crisis was limited to British clubs, look again and see just how MASSIVE the financial fall out in Europe has been!

Imagine the scenario, you are a top flight manager with over 1000 games under your belt, you have redeemed yourself from a particularly squalid period of time and moved on to re-establish yourself as a manager to be reckoned with, your team is doing unbelievably well when suddenly the wheels come off the wagon, big time!

There has been plenty of media speculation regarding which players, if any, are going to join West Ham during the January transfer window. There is a perception that Hammers manager David Moyes, or 'dithering Dave' as he has often been labelled, has NOT provided head of recruitment Rob Newman OR the Board with a list of players he wants and has done nothing to ensure the club hits the ground running to avoid missing out on targets.

With 'Murder Month' drawing to its conclusion, the fall out for ALL clubs large and small is plain to see with players dropping like flies due to the insane schedule forced upon them aided and abetted by the new surge of the Omicron Covid variant.

The season of good will has definitely departed from David Moyes, or you would think so given his acerbic post match interview. The Hammers manager 'snapped' at the reporter from the moment his post match presser began, all the poor interviewer did was to have the temerity to suggest the Irons migh be on their way to the top four of the Premier League after a difficult spell of results.

Watford: Bachmann, Femenia, Sierralta, Cathcart, Masina, Tufan, Sissoko©️, Kucka, Hernandez, King, Dennis. Subs: Angelini, Louza, Pedro, Sema, Gosling, Fletcher, Morris, Conteh.
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Johnson, Soucek, Noble©️, Bowen, Lanzini, Benrahma, Antonio. Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Vlasic, Fredericks, Masuaku, Kral, Alese, Ashby, Oko-Flex.

The Queen Elizabeth Park area is becoming something of a satellite state of the Czech Republic, with THREE players currently at West Ham AND of course the new 27% co-owner of the club Daniel Kretinsky all hailing from there. That three might possibly become four if the transfer planets align.