Stuart Pearce is back: West Ham players get their first taste of David Moyes' new coaching team in training

Ken Dyer13 November 2017

West Ham’s players had their first opportunity to train under David Moyes’ new coaching staff on Monday.

Alan Irvine, Stuart Pearce and Billy McKinlay have all been appointed as coaching assistants by Moyes, who took over from Slaven Bilic last week.

Irvine, 59, is the more senior of the trio, having worked with Moyes at Preston and Everton. He also managed Preston, Sheffield Wednesday and was head coach at West Brom.

More recently Irvine had been caretaker manager at Norwich.

McKinlay, 48, was briefly in charge, along with Ray Lewington, of Fulham in 2007 before Roy Hodgson was appointed manager.

He was Watford manager for just eight days in 2014 before Slavisa Jokanovic was appointed and subsequently became part of Moyes’s coaching team at Real Sociedad.

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He was appointed manager of Stabaek, in Norway, in November 2015 before resigning the following July to rejoin Moyes at Sunderland.

Pearce, 55, played for West Ham between 1999-2001 and went on to manage Nottingham Forest (twice) and Manchester City and coached the England Under-21 and Great Britain Olympic teams.