2025/26 David Moyes

[Swartzy]

I see your point then I dislike him intensely .people forget we wanted him out for having the same mindset all those years ago .

Haha seems like your growing to him already..

I get your point m8, if you weren't a great fan of his b4 than he probably cant change your opinion now..

 

[Rita_Poon]

A Knife to a Gunfight .....

remember when all we had was a blindfold and a cigarette?

 

[Joey66]

remember when all we had was a blindfold and a cigarette?

I can remember four champion ship sides & 2 Fa cup wins & winning nothing under boring Dave ....

 

[bobbylatch]

DM did his job last season - his summer signings have been bog average+ Barry to me is an enigma- we needed two fullbacks from day one ?
Two keepers on the bench last home game on a very fortunate result much needed in the games coming up -
The new owners will not suffer fools of we drop down the league+ DM will go - he may last till the end of the season & we need a up & coming Manager imo

What like Potter? Who loads of people were calling for.
Actually, what we need is period of calm and stability. Not a return to the boom and bust times of the last few years.
Constant top 8 finishes and build from there.

 

[Drico]

Not lacking ambition but feel we must just see an improvement on last season and go from there as a base. Build up slowly but surely.

We are still miles behind the top teams but should comfortably be ahead of others. Just get ourselves in position for a go next season.

We all know what we need and so does Moyes. Jan should see us get another striker and at least 1 full back.

He is much better than Dyche as this time last season we were in 16th place looking doomed or near doomed.

We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves as fans and expect European football but we will give it a go. That is all we can ask at the current moment.

At least it looks like our problems of the last few years are behind us and we can now start to look up.

That is improvement to me. Finding the right manager to take over Moyes will carry risk so I feel it is just a little early to dump Moyes

No need or reason to dump Moyes right now. Let him steer us through the season. That's "stability". However, the succession plan needs to be put in place right now. Next summer is the first real opportunity to take advantage of stability and build something better. There is no reason for the club to wait around if we are comfortably mid-table this season. Get a new man in come June. Moyes was never the future. His remit was to stabilise us. That job will be done by next May. If he can't stabilise us, he'll be sacked. If he does "stabilise" us, his work here is done. Unless you think he's a man who can truly move us forward and help us achieve tangible success. I don't.

 

[Joey66]

What like Potter? Who loads of people were calling for.
Actually, what we need is period of calm and stability. Not a return to the boom and bust times of the last few years.
Constant top 8 finishes and build from there.

Not with DM .....he states himself someone eles will take the club onwards .......

 

[Joey66]

Grealish has been ‘bog average’?

Loan not a signing without him we would be in serious trouble by now ...

 

[Marcus Kendall]

No need or reason to dump Moyes right now. Let him steer us through the season. That's "stability". However, the succession plan needs to be put in place right now. Next summer is the first real opportunity to take advantage of stability and build something better. There is no reason for the club to wait around if we are comfortably mid-table this season. Get a new man in come June. Moyes was never the future. His remit was to stabilise us. That job will be done by next May. If he can't stabilise us, he'll be sacked. If he does "stabilise" us, his work here is done. Unless you think he's a man who can truly move us forward and help us achieve tangible success. I don't.

Spot on Drico, excellent post

 

[Rita_Poon]

I can remember four champion ship sides & 2 Fa cup wins & winning nothing under boring Dave ....

Can you remember the generational talent sold for ~£30m to keep the club alive sold summer 2004, and 'boring Dave' eventually allowed to set a club transfer record buy of Fellaini £15m summer 2008. This snapshot of business describes accurately the confines of the club at the time.

Something I find quite amazing, we loaned a left footed midfielder from City who had acquired from Villa previous, we then turned that loan into a full signing the summer next 2014.
In a game awash with piles of dirty cash, how we have been penniless for so long and limped onward mortally wounded is a shambles.

What did the most successful and decorated manager in the history of the game win with us or so much as have us near winning?

 

[banno]

No need or reason to dump Moyes right now. Let him steer us through the season. That's "stability". However, the succession plan needs to be put in place right now. Next summer is the first real opportunity to take advantage of stability and build something better. There is no reason for the club to wait around if we are comfortably mid-table this season. Get a new man in come June. Moyes was never the future. His remit was to stabilise us. That job will be done by next May. If he can't stabilise us, he'll be sacked. If he does "stabilise" us, his work here is done. Unless you think he's a man who can truly move us forward and help us achieve tangible success. I don't.

Can't disagree with that

 

[Joey66]

Can you remember the generational talent sold for ~£30m to keep the club alive sold summer 2004, and 'boring Dave' eventually allowed to set a club transfer record buy of Fellaini £15m summer 2008. This snapshot of business describes accurately the confines of the club at the time.

Something I find quite amazing, we loaned a left footed midfielder from City who had acquired from Villa previous, we then turned that loan into a full signing the summer next 2014.
In a game awash with piles of dirty cash, how we have been penniless for so long and limped onward mortally wounded is a shambles.

What did the most successful and decorated manager in the history of the game win with us or so much as have us near winning?

Talk us through Barry & no full backs ....

 

[PhoenixFirebird]

I see so many <I-do-not-know-what-to-call-them> on here!!!

The season is 7 games old, and old biases are surfacing up so much so that people are now announcing the fact that they "hate" the manager because he is what "they" think is a boring manager, not winning a trophy in 11 years as if the financial disparities don't really exist and every team has equal amount of resources / richness. Sure Leicester did that, but it was a freak season and a fantastic manager in Ranieri (playing pragmatic football, though).

Till last year everybody was praying for safety and continued presence in premier league. Now that the fear is gone, everyone wants the manager to start playing like elite-level football club immediately, forgetting what we CAN afford. It's a like a dirt-poor family, gains stable income and now thinks thy can live like billionnaires. How dare anyone suggest live-within-your-means and don't buy that porshe, when we can't afford a two-wheeler. And pragmatic manager is boring/dithering/<and whatever else fancies them>.

As a fan, we have expectations, we have wishes, we have dreams sure... As a fan, we also need to be realistic about where we are and what our current status is, in the whole business of Football as it exists today. So many managers came and went with Moshiri's millions, what did they achieve? Let us clear that rubble first.... Then we can walk through Barry and other stuff.

Seriously!!! Let the manager do what he wants... He is a manager for a reason, you or I are NOT for a reason...

 

[Bedfordblue]

 

[Joey66]

Leave it mate, he’s off his meds again.

Traitorous poster

 

[Rita_Poon]

Talk us through Barry & no full backs ....

Tried a switcheroo with Patterson, something went awry. Got Aznou in. TB is 23 in 9 days, and played the euro u21's this summer (not a lot of summer break for this kid), was a one in three striker for Villareal last season. A season in Belgian second division, a season in Switzerland, and then a season in Spain. If we were getting a bit more from Beto there'd be less pressure on Barry to be the latest saviour to be scoring the goals that lead us to championship winning glory. As it is, we got him in after the u21 tournament and a weeks rest, so that the 9th July - which is all of three months ago.
4 minutes vs leeds away. subbed on 86th minute.
started vs brighton, subbed on 64 minutes.
14 minutes vs wolves away, subbed on for beto on 76 minutes.
15 minutes vs Villa home, subbed on for beto on 75 minutes.
vs rs, subbed on for all of the second half. 45 minutes.
subbed on vs west ham on 69th minute for beto.
started vs Palace, replaced HT by beto.

4 minutes
64 minutes
14 minutes
15 minutes
45 minutes
21 minutes
45 minutes

208 minutes total. 2.3 games worth of league game action. This is a side integrating Grealish, D-Hall, in full time, and some sub appearances from Dibling and Alcaraz.

What did you expect? We had 19 players leave in one way or another over the summer and we got 9 in.