With echoes of the situation Moyes inherited from Slaven Bilic in November 2017, the former Manchester United boss admits that instilling discipline in his expensively-assembled squad will be one of his first priorities.

“I’ve come in today and it feels a bit like deja vu,” Moyes admitted.

“I actually thought that I had got rid of some of those things and we’d got to a bit where there was quite a bit of non-negotiable ‘you’re doing the work’.

“But I feel I might have to go back to the start and say ‘we’re back to here’, and I’d have liked to have come in with a new message.

“Discipline, I’d have said, was probably one of the biggest jobs I had when I came in last time. I had to make sure there was zero tolerance.

“There can only be certain limits with what you can do but it looks like I am going back to that level and saying ‘this is how it is going to be’.

“You either get on board or you don’t, because I haven’t got enough time and enough games – so if one or two of you don’t like it then sorry, let me know.”

Moyes, who led the Hammers to a 13th-placed finish in his seven months in charge, vowed to give the owners “no choice” but to renew his contract this time.

“Do I feel I have unfinished business? I certainly do,” added Moyes.

“I really, really enjoyed my time here last time. I felt that, by the end of my time, we had turned things around and had gone in a positive direction with the players, and I think the players would say that as well.

“They really enjoyed the end of the time here. Obviously I would have liked to have developed that and worked from there but it didn’t quite happen.

“Do I feel I was treated badly? No, I don’t because things were done correctly in as much as I wasn’t taken on, and I was told that.

“I have another chance to go again and I think that says a lot about the owners that they thought the job I did do with my staff was good enough to give me another opportunity.

“This time I am going to make sure there is no choice that they will always want to renew in the future.”