West Ham United backed to target English manager repeatedly praised by David Moyes

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West Ham United are being backed to consider Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Gary O’Neil this summer.

The Hammers have been in dire form to start 2024.

West Ham haven’t won a single league game since the turn of the year, losing their last three.

David Moyes is subsequently a man under immense pressure – especially with his contract expiring at the end of the season.

West Ham are already looking at a host of potential replacements for Moyes, including Julen Lopetegui, Steve Cooper and Graham Potter.

Those three are all out of work right now but one in-work Premier League boss has been touted as a possible target.

Gary O’Neil to West Ham United?

Transfer insider Dean Jones has told Give Me Sport that he wouldn’t be surprised if West Ham looked at Gary O’Neil.

Jones hailed O’Neil’s work at Wolves as ‘brilliant’ but believes that vultures will now be circling Molineux.

That includes O’Neil as well as star players like Pedro Neto, with Jones suggesting that O’Neil could be a man for West Ham to target.

“It’s a weird situation that Wolves are in right now. At the start of the 2023/24 season, their biggest worry was being relegated. Now, they are in a pretty comfortable situation, but the guys that have gotten them into that place will now be looked at by some other sharks across the Premier League, looking to eat up Wolves and get them out of there.

“I think O’Neil has done a brilliant job so far, and it wouldn’t totally surprise me if West Ham did end up having to look back into the Premier League if that was the sort of manager that did interest them from the top flight.”

O’Neil does have some history at West Ham.

O’Neil joined West Ham in 2011, spending two-and-a-half years in East London whilst racking up 56 appearances and three goals.

The 40-year-old is now catching the eye as a manager having worked wonders at Bournemouth before shining at Wolves.

O’Neil has also caught the attention of West Ham boss Moyes – the man O’Neil is being backed to potentially replace in East London.

Moyes praised O’Neil for doing a ‘brilliant job’ at Bournemouth, suggesting that he had made the Cherries into a ‘really good team’.

Moyes hailed O’Neil earlier this season too, suggesting that he has been doing a ‘great job’ at Molineux whilst proving himself as a young manager.

We would be surprised to see O’Neil swap Wolves for West Ham right now, but we could hardly blame the Hammers for being interested – and Moyes may even understand given that praise.