David Moyes has hardly put a foot wrong since he returned for a second managerial stint at West Ham in December 2019 but the early signs are that this may be a season of consolidation for him and his team.
A manager of his vast experience will rightly look at the bigger picture, despite three successive defeats in the Premier League. However, West Ham’s vibrant Europa League adventure last season is already a distant memory and even back then, there were ominous signs that the dynamism which took Moyes’s team to European qualification was beginning to tail off.
