2024/25 David Moyes

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The slightly more creative players arent creative enough to guarantee improved results.
So chances are we become defensively more vulnerable and consequently get beaten easier. Rather than making us difficult to beat and having a chance of stealing the game.
I would like us to play attacking free flowing football, but I would not attempt it with this squad. Not enough pace and not enough guile.
Beto is doing a job, but he is a wildcard and not someone you can build a forward line around. Doucs for his faults is seen as someone to pick up the second balls in the final third. I agree he lacks quality but i can see the thought process with him. We win the ball again in the final third it’s the first line of defence.
Dyche and Moyes were / are playing to our strengths, you might not like it, but we don’t have a squad with enough.
The alternative is that we go like Lampard did and try naively try and play football we are not capable of… or again we look at the likes Ipswich manager this season or Burnley last season with there attractive style of football which effectively saw them relegated.
Unless we change the playing personnel it’s a waste of time trying to play more attractive football.
Defensively we are strong, from keeper to centre backs and gueye - these are the only players that could get into top half premier leagues sides, it’s not surprising we play to their strengths.
No result is ever guaranteed. It's about having the bollocks to try and go for it.

People moaned about how negative Dyche had us set up. If people are honest, what we've seen this last month hasn't been terribly different.

This belief that the only way we can play is with 11 men behind the ball at all times or we will immediately get hammered has to die.
 
If it hadn’t been for an awful VAR intervention we’d be 3 points clear of United and our momentum wouldn’t have been stalled like it did. If we think we have management issues, can only imagine what’s going on in the United forums.

It’s amazing that we can enjoy a sunny day and not have the fear of relegation and yet still fill a thread of should we sacking a manager we’ve only put in place 3 months ago who turned us around and allowed us not to fear being o in the championship.
 
Ive just took a step back mate and come up with this.

HIs form since he came back is around top 8, thats with this squad.
Next season for sure we will have better players than what he has available now.

A point on the first part of your post.

Nuno has done it with Forest
Emery has done it with Villa
Howe has done it with Newcastle
Ariola has done it with Bournemouth

Its really not that hard in this league, you have 2 certainties to go down each season and 4-5 for the top spots, the rest is up for grabs if the recruitment is right.

It can be done and has been done.
I agree it can be done. Some teams need more surgery than others.

Villa started building this squad in championship. McGinn and Mings were purchased there.
Martinez, Konza, Watkins, Cash came in the first season in the premier league. That is the spine of the side. They have also mixed big spending, decent frees (barkley, teilermans) championship (Rogers) and excellent loans. As well as bringing the odd player through And traded players when there stock was high - Jhon Durran, and Grealish

They have been asstute but spent a lot.

Forest signed a whole entire new squad. It was always going to be difficult to make that work the first season with so many players moving in especially from foreign clubs but Nuno has been able to benefit

No manager turns us into a successful side next season, we need massive investment in the right areas that we can build on. We don't need short term buys creating a mercenary culture which we had last night. I do trust Moyes with the money to get this right character wise, we need to replicate that season we plucked Lescott, Cahill, and Jags from the Championship.
 

No result is ever guaranteed. It's about having the bollocks to try and go for it.

People moaned about how negative Dyche had us set up. If people are honest, what we've seen this last month hasn't been terribly different.

This belief that the only way we can play is with 11 men behind the ball at all times or we will immediately get hammered has to die.
That’s because some people aren’t that bright mate.
People can’t see that if you don’t spend money you can’t magic up free playing winning teams from fresh air. No matter who is in charge.
Moyes has not had a bean to spend yet. Appart from one loaning with conditions applying to him if he plays enough
 
If it hadn’t been for an awful VAR intervention we’d be 3 points clear of United and our momentum wouldn’t have been stalled like it did. If we think we have management issues, can only imagine what’s going on in the United forums.

It’s amazing that we can enjoy a sunny day and not have the fear of relegation and yet still fill a thread of should we sacking a manager we’ve only put in place 3 months ago who turned us around and allowed us not to fear being o in the championship.
If it hadn't been for a flukey Doucouré finish we would have won once in the last 9. That can go all sorts of ways.

Not having the fear of relegation as the baseline expectation is not an accomplishment to be proud of. Moshiri has broken so many people.

Take the deductions out of last season and that squad was exactly in the table where it is now, possibly slightly higher. We were not a relegation team last season or this season despite some paranoia and that's even with how crap Dyche had us playing.

People go on in here like Dyche got sacked. He packed in the job because he knew he wasn't sticking around. The new owners were fine with him continuing to muddle along to 16th or 17th. Appointing Moyes shows they were fine with the negative set ups as well.
 
Nonsense.

Everton were and are only always going one way from this summer.

The only idiot would be someone using Everton of the last few years as the acceptable benchmark.

This summer we have a tremendous opportunity to really put a massive kick up the arse of a club that for years has just been aiming to exist under a self preservation board, a paralyzed, AWOL owner.

"Be glad we'll be a bit better than the last few years"

Give me a break.
Having moyes as our manager for the first league game there is at odds with the vision of a revitalised upcoming club in my opinion.

I don’t believe the owners wanted this either but their hand was forced.
 
Having moyes as our manager for the first league game there is at odds with the vision of a revitalised upcoming club in my opinion.

I don’t believe the owners wanted this either but their hand was forced.
I mean there were plenty of other directions they could have gone in but they made their choice. Their hand was forced on the timing, nothing else.
 

I mean there were plenty of other directions they could have gone in but they made their choice. Their hand was forced on the timing, nothing else.
Maybe their first choice wasnt available or they were rushed into a decision. I can understand it given where we were at the time. Moyes would have known our squad better than most so was a safe choice.

Thought it was a bit odd they didn’t have their own person lined up as soon as the takeover was finalised given how long it had been drawn out tbh.
 
seeing a lot of posts about chelsea’s spend and position in the league etc, and what do we expect

if we went and gave that a good go yesterday, with the right players, and lost. id be disappointed but would accept it

what’s frustrating is the persistence with doucoure, the reluctance with alcaraz, not allowing him and ndiaye to play together, two keepers on the bench

i expected us to lose this game. what i struggle to accept is poor and negative decisions

at least when it was neville and osman getting picked perennially you could see the positives and solidity they brought to the side , with doucoure hes constantly losing possession which is dangerous defensively, and constantly losing duels

he must be incredible in training

it’s also the frustration of seeing every other decision he’s made so far be spot on, so maybe we should have more faith, but this alcaraz one is a killer. we’ve been starved of quality players like that for years and to see one available to snap up for £12m and Moyes is seemingly squandering it is absolutely infuriating

the obligation fee is being seen as a barrier/risk when it should be seen as a really positive and easy way to secure a quality player of 22 years of age, playing in the second most expensive position on the pitch, and arguably the hardest to play

if he has the second coming of Ozil lined up to sign then brilliant. but what i fear is its going to be Soucek

and even if we did sign the next Ozil or Mata, theyre going to be costly

12mil can solve our number 10 for another year or two, and we can spend our budget on a striker and a right winger which is going to be really expensive unless he has some gems up his sleeve

i think another frustration is since united the form has dipped, theyve just got a point at bournemouth, we are going to end up 16th or 17th when we could have kicked on and finished higher, giving us more money to spend with psr and looking a better prospect for signings
 
Maybe their first choice wasnt available or they were rushed into a decision. I can understand it given where we were at the time. Moyes would have known our squad better than most so was a safe choice.

Thought it was a bit odd they didn’t have their own person lined up as soon as the takeover was finalised given how long it had been drawn out tbh.

Whoever they wanted is probably employed. They wanted to ride with Dyche till the summer and get there guy in.

That still might happen.
 
Whoever they wanted is probably employed. They wanted to ride with Dyche till the summer and get there guy in.

That still might happen.
Aye that’s definitely the impression I got as well. Don’t have a whole lot of faith they’ll get the next one right either.
 

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