The return of David Moyes

[trueblue84]

I still think it's a risk with this squad and would've rathered waiting until summer with a clean slate. Now we've possibly got a manager that West Ham fans wouldn't accept on a longer contract than Dyche.

I think their fans were thinking twice about wanting him gone after the mess lopetegui made.

 

[jazzy]

If Sean Dyche is farmfoods
David Moyes is the Co-op

Farmfoods is too good for Dyche , he's more Kwik Save - and yes I know they've closed down!

 

[BloodOnTheTrax]

What did he win for us .?
He had 11years.
Failure .

I get it, but he turned us into a competitive force and some of his signings were pretty good. Cahill, Arteta, Baines, Pienaar. Not a failure IMO. But YMMV

 

[neil999]

Wants 2 and half years eeeeeeeeeeekkkkk

 

[whiteshadow]

Last successful manager we had was Royle .
Everyone since has been a failure.

I get if you hate Moyes for his style of football.

Moyes to TFG, I imagine, is a safer bet than some of the other options.

They may end up being wrong but I can understand why they're worried about relegation.

 

[Harryflashman]

We will see I suppose.

Whatever happens it can’t prove anything really can it ? If we get relegated despite half a season left if you wanted you could argue it was partially due to Dyche and nothing could be proved that just because the new man took us down the old one wouldn’t . Also if we’re safe it doesn’t mean you couldn’t argue dyche would have saved us .

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

2.5 year deal. OK that's mental

 

[Jadubsee]

Getting rid of a manager who famously doesn't know how to get a team playing attacking football, only to replace him with another manager who doesn't know how to get a team playing attacking football. WHYYYY

 

[Victus]

It's all very underwhelming isn't it..

 

[efcste97]

2 and a half years is a joke

 

[Harryflashman]

He has just gone back to the under 21's, wants to stay there for the moment, got mentioned on the radio this morning.

Fair enough then mate . I didn’t hear it but personally id suspect he’d jump at a premier league job whatever he says publicly.

 

[Azza]

I don't understand your last sentence.
Just because TFG have come in doesn't suddenly give us an additional twenty points. Nor does it change the fact we are in a relegation scrap and next season will be going though a huge change process which ultimately may mean stability is required.

What is this nonsense about stability.

Why would Moyes or a manager of his ilk give more stability than literally any other manger.

The club needs progressive future thinking, not short-term Premier League necessity fire fighting. That's what got us in this doom cycle to begin with.

Any manager is going to have to deal with the summer situation, if Moyes stayed until after the summer and we inevitably bin him off after next season any new manager is going to end up with a ton of players they probably wouldn't want.

Villa didn't go back to Smith or Lambert after Gerrard, when they were struggling a bit.

It's a complete myth.

 

[BloodOnTheTrax]

If he gets us mid table by the end of the season I will be the first to congratulate him. We shall see but we had some really dodgy seasons under him.

 

[Lanolin]

That’s not the point. The point is the same people crying about being linked to Moyes, are the same people who thought Dyche was providing us stability by keeping us up by the skin of our teeth. That’s not stability. What Moyes gave us in his first spell is stability.

I don't think that's particularly surprising, given that most people who were advocating keeping Dyche were doing so precisely so that we didn't end up having to appoint someone like Moyes to replace him. There's no doubt that we'd have been in a better position to bring in a manager in the summer, and the hope was that Dyche could just do enough to tide us over until then. Unfortunately recent weeks showed that wasn't going to happen and he rightly got the bullet, but now we're in the position that I desperately wanted us to avoid - wasting another couple of years with a dull manager instead of getting on with a proper rebuild.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

People need to get over this

Small time.

It's called self respect