West Ham try their luck with £35m bid for world class defender

Under Julen Lopetegui in 2024/25, West Ham fans will arguably get back a playing style that’s somewhere approaching the ‘West Ham way’ of yesteryear.

David Moyes, for all of his good points – and he did consistently get the club into Europe and won them their first major silverware in over four decades – played a way that was often safety first.

That won him few admirers, who surely believed that the right way to go about things was to play on the front foot and consistently attack the opposition.