David Moyes is reportedly under pressure at West Ham
(Picture: REUTERS)Despite West Ham’s busy summer in the transfer market, Glen Johnson says the bulk of David Moyes’ new signings are yet to work out.
While these are early days of course, the club sit in the relegation zone after a difficult start to the Premier League season, picking up just four points from their opening seven games.
As such, there have been reports suggesting Moyes is under pressure. Arguably the victim of his own success after two successful seasons, the Scot recently blamed his senior players for a loss away at Everton.
Invariably, access to more resources heighten the pressure on managers to succeed and West Ham were amongst the highest-spending clubs in Europe this summer.
Lucas Paqueta arrived in a record-breaking deal worth around £51m, while Gianluca Scamacca cost in the region of £30m, the two headlining an ambitous recruitment drive to have also seen the arrival of German international defender Thilo Kehrer.
Speaking to SafeBettingSites, Johnson said: “They went quite deep in the Europa League on a light squad. West Ham have got a lot of new faces and unfortunately, not many of them are firing
“Just when you think ‘they’ve got some more legs in there, they’ve got a bigger squad and they can kick on now’, actually the opposite has happened.
“It’s normal for a couple of new signings to not hit the ground running, but you normally expect some of them to do the opposite.”
