2025/26 David Moyes

[JobForTheMoyes]

He binned off the DOF so he could get control so he got plenty of say in the transfers!

Sounds to me like this Howarth fellow will be the key man:

• James Smith (Director of Scouting and Recruitment): Will join Everton in September, moving from his position as Director of Scouting and Recruitment at the City Football Group. Joined Manchester City from Manchester United in 2014, before being appointed as the recruitment lead for the City Group’s stable of clubs across the world in 2023. Prior to United, Smith was part of Everton’s recruitment and insights team for 10 years.
• Chris Howarth (Head of Football Strategy & Analytics): “Will ensure the club is at the vanguard of data optimisation in the development of all aspects of football operations.” Has worked with 14 clubs across Europe through his Insight Sport data consultancy. As part of his arrival, Everton’s owners, The Friedkin Group, have acquired Insight Sport.
• Nick Hammond (Head of Player Trading):Retired as a player in 2000 and went on to become Director of Football at Reading for 13 years, Technical Director at West Brom for three years and as Head of Football Operations at Celtic. Most recently worked as a transfer consultant at both Leeds United and Newcastle United.

 

[jceverton]

Does anyone know who we'd want to get as manager if we sacked Moyes? Because I'm seeing an awful lot of "get rid" posts from people who don't seem to understand that this is real life. Not fifa manager. Sacking any manager, mid-season without any realistic upgrades available is a bad idea. I'm far from being happy with Moyes. He never changes or learns. He torpedoed our season when he shrugged off our league cup campaign. But I'm not going to demand that we cut our noses off, to spite our faces and call to sack him without any real plan in place beyond that. Its nonsense.

Yeah i tend to think this is right in this situation. Personally, i would never have appointed the guy, but unless someone the club actually wants is available then it's pointless sacking him. If they've got someone in mind and they can get him then do it! Otherwise, get all of your ducks in a row and boot him in the summer.

 

[jceverton]

Sounds to me like this Howarth fellow will be the key man:

• James Smith (Director of Scouting and Recruitment): Will join Everton in September, moving from his position as Director of Scouting and Recruitment at the City Football Group. Joined Manchester City from Manchester United in 2014, before being appointed as the recruitment lead for the City Group’s stable of clubs across the world in 2023. Prior to United, Smith was part of Everton’s recruitment and insights team for 10 years.
• Chris Howarth (Head of Football Strategy & Analytics): “Will ensure the club is at the vanguard of data optimisation in the development of all aspects of football operations.” Has worked with 14 clubs across Europe through his Insight Sport data consultancy. As part of his arrival, Everton’s owners, The Friedkin Group, have acquired Insight Sport.
• Nick Hammond (Head of Player Trading):Retired as a player in 2000 and went on to become Director of Football at Reading for 13 years, Technical Director at West Brom for three years and as Head of Football Operations at Celtic. Most recently worked as a transfer consultant at both Leeds United and Newcastle United.

Smith and Howarth will be key but the manager has to clearly set out the way he wants to play and the type of players he wants. Then at the end of all this he's still making the final call. Judging by the summer, and what he's done this season he's pretty clueless. At this point I've seen zero to suggest that binning off the DOF role was the correct decision.

 

[windymiller]

Thank God it's Indykalia saying this so it's obvious nonsense!

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Maybe, but when your start building a house it doesn’t look like the finished article for quite some time!

 

[windymiller]

So it's Moyes fault that Barry missed that sitter?
So the deflected equaliser is Moyes fault?

The above are not simplistic views, they are fact, something which appears to have escaped you totally...

Jeez, think about what you are posting...

Were they the only two things that happened in the game? The simplistic thing is thinking that two moments are the only factors influencing the outcome of a match.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Is Moyes paying you to write this nonsense? The manager is solely responsible for this mess of a season. He demanded that the DOF role got the boot, and Thelwell and Purdy both left. He demanded that he be put in charge of transfers. He decided in his infinite wisdom to change the successful way he played last season instead of playing to the current squad's strengths and building from there. In short, he's got every major decision wrong from the summer onwards and has had an absolute nightmare of a transfer window and a season. There's no one else to blame; it's on him and him alone.

Load of tosh. We’ll see how things stand at the end of the season. Fact is, the team has been forced to play without its first choice defence for the whole season so far. Branthwaite makes a massive difference to how the whole team operates.

 

[windymiller]

Load of tosh. We’ll see how things stand at the end of the season. Fact is, the team has been forced to play without its first choice defence for the whole season so far. Branthwaite makes a massive difference to how the whole team operates.

So the latest excuse is that we are a one man team? You're getting close to the bottom of the barrel, JFTM.

What was that lad called who loved Benitez on here and excused everything he did? Can we do an IP address check?

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

So the latest excuse is that we are a one man team? You're getting close to the bottom of the barrel, JFTM.

What was that lad called who loved Benitez on here and excused everything he did? Can we do an IP address check?

@davek is still here mate.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

So the latest excuse is that we are a one man team? You're getting close to the bottom of the barrel, JFTM.

What was that lad called who loved Benitez on here and excused everything he did? Can we do an IP address check?

Given the players available, what would your solution be? It’s easy to criticise, but it’s a lot harder to offer workable solutions.

 

[windymiller]

@davek is still here mate.

Ha ha, yes that was a Dave classic but he's just a contrarian. There was a poster who turned up when Benitez did and excused him of everything, to be fair to him he stayed on for a bit after he was sacked to tell us how he was going to tear it up at Celta Vigo and how we'd regret sacking him but disappeared when that went south. @JobForTheMoyes shares a lot of traits with that guy. It's bugging me what his name was.

 

[Bedfordblue]

we should have been 2 or 3 up and coasting, come out second half awake and been able to throw a few subs on to get some active game time under their belts. what needs changing is in the taking chances department. then he can chop and change and try all sorts of fancy stuff all he likes once games are settled. until then, anxious cautious football with so much riding on either staying in a match or white knuckle holding on to a slender lead.

The worrying thing for me, is that while you are right we could / should have been at least 0:2 up at half time, other than the Barry chance, the rest weren’t down to tactics or coaching etc, imo they were speculative / opportunistic / reliant on an individual bit of skill.
For me those chances masked a pretty average if not poor performance including the first 30 mins. As I said in the match thread, even the games we’ve won have been pretty spawny affairs, and more down to the oppositions own profligacy in front of goal than our performance.

 

[Drico]

Thank God it's Indykalia saying this so it's obvious nonsense!

Um, about that...

The myth and mystery of Indy Kaila: the X account that ‘w...

For 13 years an anonymous social media account has posted transfer gossip to the delight – and despair – of fans

observer.co.uk

 

[jceverton]

Load of tosh. We’ll see how things stand at the end of the season. Fact is, the team has been forced to play without its first choice defence for the whole season so far. Branthwaite makes a massive difference to how the whole team operates.

Moyes has chosen to play differently. Why sign KDH, Grealish, Dibbling etc none of them fit into the way he played last season? As we've previously discussed if Moyes wanted us to play higher up the pitch the way we did last season with Branthwaite then he can move JOB into the middle, he's quicker than Branthwaite. He failed to address either full back position or have a back up/new first choice 6 etc in the summer window. This is all on him.

 

[degsy]

Yeah i tend to think this is right in this situation. Personally, i would never have appointed the guy, but unless someone the club actually wants is available then it's pointless sacking him. If they've got someone in mind and they can get him then do it! Otherwise, get all of your ducks in a row and boot him in the summer.

This is probably what will happen.

Sounds to me like this Howarth fellow will be the key man:

• James Smith (Director of Scouting and Recruitment): Will join Everton in September, moving from his position as Director of Scouting and Recruitment at the City Football Group. Joined Manchester City from Manchester United in 2014, before being appointed as the recruitment lead for the City Group’s stable of clubs across the world in 2023. Prior to United, Smith was part of Everton’s recruitment and insights team for 10 years.
• Chris Howarth (Head of Football Strategy & Analytics): “Will ensure the club is at the vanguard of data optimisation in the development of all aspects of football operations.” Has worked with 14 clubs across Europe through his Insight Sport data consultancy. As part of his arrival, Everton’s owners, The Friedkin Group, have acquired Insight Sport.
• Nick Hammond (Head of Player Trading):Retired as a player in 2000 and went on to become Director of Football at Reading for 13 years, Technical Director at West Brom for three years and as Head of Football Operations at Celtic. Most recently worked as a transfer consultant at both Leeds United and Newcastle United.

These 3 probably leave Moyes just as the PE Teacher described below by Darryl Pugh...

It's the system that's the problem -- as well as strikers -- and Moyes dictates the current system. If you get £5M+ a year, you are paid for strategy, agility, and conceptually manifesting your principles onto a football pitch executed by the players; otherwise, your real job title is PE Teacher*

*why do I keep getting flashbacks from the film Kes