Marko Arnautovic has been a big disappointment since joining West Ham United from Stoke City.
New West Ham United manager David Moyes has warned Marko Arnautovic to start being a team player if he is to make a success of his transfer from Stoke City, according to BBC Sport.
The Mirror claims that Moyes is prepared to sell the Austrian forward, who cost a club-record £25m in the summer, to fund his own January business after a disappointing start to his Hammers career.
Moyes, who takes charge of West Ham for the first time on Sunday when they travel to Watford, does not feel that Arnautovic has pulled his weight in his nine appearances this campaign.
And he insists that any culture of excuses under previous manager Slaven Bilic will not be accepted any longer.
“I can only go on what people tell me and they didn’t think he has come up to the standard he set at Stoke,” Moyes is quoted by BBC Sport as saying.
“He has to be a team player, and the clips I have seen at times he’s not looked a team player. He wouldn’t be the only one. They’ve got to be the ones who take a lot of responsibility for what their actions are now.
“They can’t always be saying ‘the manager doesn’t do this or the manager doesn’t do that’, come on let’s see what you can do yourself.”
Arnautovic is yet to score for the Hammers, having hit 17 over his last two seasons at Stoke, and BBC Sport reports that he was booed off when substituted during the 3-0 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion.
West Ham are currently in the Premier League relegation zone and Moyes will not tolerated any passengers as he aims to lift them out of trouble and rebuild his repuation after a difficult four years.
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