High-profile West Ham star to leave within days amid ‘Disastrous’ situation 
Kalvin Phillips has played his last game for West Ham and will leave the club next week after missing the Luton Town fixture, according to the Evening Standard.
The paper reported via their website on 10 May that the on-loan Manchester City midfielder will go back to his parent club early as he is ineligible to face them on the final day of the season (19 May), with a calf injury ruling him out of the final home game of the David Moyes era on 11 May.
His “disastrous” spell at the London Stadium has therefore amounted to three starts and encompassed some high-profile errors which has seen him lose his place in the England squad, and he will now continue his rehabilitation back at the treble winners at the start of next week.
The 28-year-old made a total of 10 Hammers appearances in all competitions following his January arrival, having played the same number of games for Pep Guardiola in the first half of the season.
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.
