According to the Evening Standard, Kalvin Phillips has played his final game for West Ham and will depart the team the following week after missing the match against Luton Town.
On May 10, the newspaper announced on their website that the midfielder for Manchester City, who is now on loan, will return to his parent club ahead of schedule since he is unable to play against them on May 19, the last day of the season, due to a calf injury. Additionally, he will miss the final home game of the David Moyes era on May 11.
He lost his spot in the England squad as a result of his “disastrous” tenure at the London Stadium, which amounted to three starts and included several high-profile mistakes. He will now resume his recuperation at the start of next week, back at the treble champions.
After joining the Hammers in January, the 28-year-old appeared in 10 matches across all competitions. He also participated in the same amount of games for Pep Guardiola throughout the season’s first half.
David Moyes to outlast Kalvin Phillips by just one West Ham match
Nothing went right for Phillips as an Irons player and the fact that his high-profile signing didn’t work at all might be what ultimately did for Moyes.
The Scot had pushed to land the midfielder despite opposition within the club when attacking additions seemed far more important, and that decision proved to be the wrong one.
At the time of the former Leeds United star’s arrival it seemed the manager’s future was still hanging in the balance, with a contract extension being readied just weeks previously.
Had Moyes sanctioned reinforcements in the forward areas he might have been able to get the results over the second half of the campaign to extend his stay at the London Stadium, and the struggles of the man who was unmistakably his signing wouldn’t have been parked directly as the manager’s door.
In January the Scot seemed eager to secure the option to make Phillips’ stay at West Ham a long-term one, just as he no-doubt hoped his own would be extended.
But as it is neither will be at the club next season, and while Moyes’ tenure will ultimately be remembered far more fondly than it is right now it is unlikely that the passage of time will do much for the City man’s legacy at the club.
Some moves just don’t work out in football and it perhaps wasn’t that hard to predict this being one when Phillips had been given so little football at the Etihad over the previous 18 months, but prolonging it any further than necessary does nobody much good so an early return to Manchester is the only real option.
