Friday, February 19

Squad players all doing their bit

The impressive thing about the new West Ham is that when needed all the squad players come in and do a job for the team. Moyes seems to have got rid of a lot of the egos. It would have been easy for Ryan Fredericks to have sulked since being replaced by Coufal, but he's come in and played really well at Aston Villa and then scored against Sheffield United as a late sub. That goal was made by Said Benrahma, another player who might have been annoyed at being left out of the starting line-up.

Similarly Manuel Lanzini and Pablo Fornals don't seem to be complaining to their agents every time they don't start, while Crag Dawson has had to wait an age to get a game. Issa Diop is another big-name signing who has awaited his chance and returned to score against the Blades.

The man management certainly seems to have improved at West Ham, and perhaps with Moyes and four senior coaches in Kevin Nolan, Paul Nevin, Alan Irvine and Stuart Pearce there's time for every player not in the side to be spoken to and made to feel valued. For once the sum of a West Ham team seems to be greater than its parts.

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