After last night’s much-needed win for West Ham United, Gary Neville discussed one of the club’s star players.
David Moyes went into last night’s game against Brentford knowing that West Ham needed to record their first win of 2024.
Speculation over Moyes’ future has been rife, with sources claiming that any talks over a new contract could be stalled.
Despite his successes over the last few seasons, it seems Moyes has a lot to prove before the end of the season and Monday’s win was a good start.
Jarrod Bowen was the star of the show, scoring a timely hat-trick to diffuse the pressure in what could have been a nervy game.
Apart from Emerson Palmieri, Mohamed Kudus, who played on the right side, was also interesting.
However, Gary Neville was not impressed with Kudus’ performance for West Ham in his post-match podcast.
Neville acknowledged the 23-year-old’s positive performance, but felt there were still a lot of things to improve.
Gary Neville felt that Mohamed Kudus was too unpredictable for West Ham last night:
Neville recognised in Kudus a player with incredible ability, but felt that his game still needs a lot of refinement,
Kudus needs to find a balance in his creativity, according to an insider, so that he can be better coordinated with his teammates.
Neville said, “Kudus has something in him, he just needs a bit more, what do you call it, yes, his final choice, he just needs maturity in his game.
“Sometimes wingers have it, where they are unpredictable, but unpredictable for everybody, unpredictable not only for the opponent but also for their own players who don’t know when he’s going to run.
“In the first half he had three or four wild shots that were from positions where he could have played the finishing pass.
“And I said in that first half that all David Moyes could say at half-time is that he needs to be a little bit more precise in what he does.
“But the third goal I thought fell because it was really direct and it gave Jarrod Bowen a wonderful cross, which was an important moment in that game.”
Of course, you have to imagine that Neville wouldn’t have bothered to comment on Kudus’ performance last night if he didn’t think he could become a West Ham star.
Kudus is already very close to becoming the finished article, a player who can perhaps be as important as Bowen, but he may have to make those subtle changes, especially if he is to achieve the rather audacious target set by his former coach.