Former Leeds United goalkeeper Rob Green has claimed that you "need a David Moyes style manager" to battle against relegation after some West Ham United fans were heard chanting for the club to get rid of the Scot following their 4-0 defeat to Brighton.
Leeds sit a point behind West Ham in the Premier League table after both sides lost their weekend matches to Chelsea and Brighton respectively. Javi Gracia will be hoping he can keep the Whites out of the bottom three come May after he was tasked with maintaining the club's top-flight status for next season.
Moyes has been one of the names tipped with the top-job at Leeds on a long-term basis at Elland Road, and after some West Ham fans have now called for the Scot to be sacked, Green has stated that he is exactly the kind of manager that a club needs when battling against relegation.
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He told BBC's Monday Night Club: "You wonder when you're going back to being in relegation form and being at those clubs and you say you could stay up in the Premier League by not winning a game effectively. If you drew every game in the season you could stay up and some clubs with snatch your hands off for that.
"And you're looking at West Ham, what they invested where they were going, the noises that they were making start the season and it's just not happened...
"I think West Ham now, the weekend it really did turn [the anger from the fans] at Brighton and started getting directed towards David Moyes and that's a difficult situation because to get yourself out of a situation like that, you need a David Moyles style manager.
"Yes, they did brilliantly in Europe [last season] they got to the semi-final that kind of overshadowed the league. And now this season, it's not been the same and it's been it's been slowly brewing and I think that that bad feeling has been growing there at West Ham."
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