2025/26 David Moyes


….if we pull off an unexpected win, it’ll be very quiet and you’ll be disappointed. If we’re beaten, it’ll just be pages of the same stuff.

I dont think anyone will be disappointed lol. We used to get this sh!t in the calvert lewin thread. Doesnt score for 6 months. Bags one. And you've got posters going where are you now dom haters 😂
I think Evertonians are just so used to the drill now at so many grounds. We literally had it already this season. Went to Anfield. Payed them far to much respect. By time we woke up and realised they werent all that the ship had sailed.
At least 5 or 6 away games every season you can more or less write the script with Everton before KO.
 
I dont think anyone will be disappointed lol. We used to get this sh!t in the calvert lewin thread. Doesnt score for 6 months. Bags one. And you've got posters going where are you now dom haters 😂
I think Evertonians are just so used to the drill now at so many grounds. We literally had it already this season. Went to Anfield. Payed them far to much respect. By time we woke up and realised they werent all that the ship had sailed.
At least 5 or 6 away games every season you can more or less write the script with Everton before KO.
Moyes is (currently) one of our biggest assets, as evidenced by the impact he had coming in last year, but he’s also one of our biggest handicaps because of his ‘too much respect’ attitude to the supposedly big clubs.

I don’t think it’s coincidence that his track record of away games at these clubs is poor, even when his teams are in a good run of form.

I’m still hoping for us to cane them tonight but, like you say, the team needs to recognise they’re not up against the greatest and get stuck into them to rattle them early doors, otherwise we’ll have left it too late again.

Still, things are so much better than they were this time last year so I’m not feeling too miserable about it.
 

No, he is a decent manager but tbh Id put him at the same level as Moyes. He has very basic tactics that he rarely changes from and he has fallen out with the board at every club he has been at. He is in the "Good PL manager" category for me and nothing more whereas Emery is another level up from both, his trophy cabinet backs that up tbh.
Yeah. He got Forest to within a few points of a CL place last season too.

This league is nothing to write home about and hasn't been for years.

People on here handing out free passes to Moyes to finish about mid-table really need to acknowledge just how easy it is for a good manager to get a European place never mind a top ten spot.
 
Yeah. He got Forest to within a few points of a CL place last season too.

This league is nothing to write home about and hasn't been for years.

People on here handing out free passes to Moyes to finish about mid-table really need to acknowledge just how easy it is for a good manager to get a European place never mind a top ten spot.
Said many times, I find our fans the most placid, ambitionless bunch of know-their-place merchants in the league. I live down south and small clubs like Brighton and Bournemouth and their fans have far more get up and go than our lot do. We have a great new stadium and we should be matching it on the pitch but far too many are still happy to just go to the match and have a pint and providing they get that they don't care, there are still massive mentality hangovers from the Kenwright era imo.
 
Said many times, I find our fans the most placid, ambitionless bunch of know-their-place merchants in the league. I live down south and small clubs like Brighton and Bournemouth and their fans have far more get up and go than our lot do. We have a great new stadium and we should be matching it on the pitch but far too many are still happy to just go to the match and have a pint and providing they get that they don't care, there are still massive mentality hangovers from the Kenwright era imo.
Spot on mate. Anyone who advocates something better are pilloried for it.

Some point sometime soon, being in that new stadium just isn't going to cut it.

Managers like Moyes are not good enough for where we need to be going and anyone with half a clue knows it.
 
“ I always thought when I took the job that it wouldn’t be able to be fixed quickly,” he said. “I saw not long after I went in that it was going to take a bit of time ''
From today's Guardian , Moyes talking about when he went to Man U . Could equally have been talking about Everton today .
 
Not remotely arsed.

Genuinely think it's pathetic that "fans like you" focus in on individual results rather than focus on the bigger picture of how we are doing overall.

If you'd said "fans like you" that will never see Everton win a trophy again, if have been onside. But focusing on one result in 38 games is properly small time and will never lead to any sort of successful mentality.

Accept I'll be in a minority here, but winning at Anfield means next to nothing to me in isolation. We've won at Anfield in my lifetime when we were a poor team with no chance of winning anything.
I'm not focusing on one result. I want to see Everton win everywhere. We can't go to places like Anfield and Old Trafford and win with this manager in charge. He can't do it, he has a complex. We'll never win a trophy under him, again, he has a complex and can't inspire his team to win on big occasions.

I understand why they appointed him in January. But he can't stay on as our manager after this season because we're wasting our time.

The new owners need to find a good, young manager that will move Everton forward. I know it isn't easy but just because we made terrible appointments with Moshiri in charge doesn't mean the new owners should plod along being happy with finishing midtable. Benitez, Lampard and Dyche were terrible appointments and that should never have happened. But you can't let it cloud your judgement and think we should just keep Moyes on forever.

The new stadium will only be a draw for so long. Eventually there'll be hundreds of, if not thousands, empty seats because people are bored. Even the likes of Brighton and Bournemouth play football that is far more entertaining than us.

That's before I even get started on our extremely questionable transfer business this Summer.
 

“ I always thought when I took the job that it wouldn’t be able to be fixed quickly,” he said. “I saw not long after I went in that it was going to take a bit of time ''
From today's Guardian , Moyes talking about when he went to Man U . Could equally have been talking about Everton today .
They literally won the league the season before he went there!
 
3 years of what?

Splashing out £150mil a summer without a plan?

Slowing down our effective playing style?

I dont even know what "this" is?



Hard to tell with managers who comes in and performs, sometimes even the top ones dont 'click' at clubs.

Moyes has to show the fans that hes got the future mapped out by using the likes of Dibling and making moves in the transfer market that make the summer window make some sense.



What about the summer looked like were planning to sign young players to develop?

A cheap punt on Aznou at £8mil doesnt really say much when we spent £4mil on a poor backup keeper.

£35mil+ on Dibling was the one off sensible u21 signing we made. We needed to sign 3 players of his age/quality at RW, CM and RB and we only got 1 of them.

The rest of the money went on Rohl, Alcaraz, KDH, Travers, Barry, King and Grealish.

A total mishmash of players and a total lack of strategy.




Tricky thing is to narrow down to 3 managers who can build a squad based on youth and a few older heads.

Sometimes managers just dont click at another club. Who would be on your wishlist to take over in the summer?



Because of Moyes saying something or because of Moyes reputation?



Definitely need a top DOF. Cant have Moyes signing players again.

£150mil blown and a lot of work needed over the season to make the majority of the signings look worth it.



You reckon Moyes goes before Armstrong if it went head to head?

Cant see it at all.
Age vs Moyes

Not Armstrong v Moyes

If the club want to bring in younger players and he refuses to buck his trends, than it can only go one way.

Young players are looked at as future investment, that investment has to be allowed to pay off eventually.

A manager really is just a 'Now' manager, whatever their name is.

Moyes will be left to have his own ideas aslong as they are working, but his ideas will still have to be inline with the clubs plans.

I expect he's already loving what he's seeing in Armstrong.
 
Spot on mate. Anyone who advocates something better are pilloried for it.

Some point sometime soon, being in that new stadium just isn't going to cut it.

Managers like Moyes are not good enough for where we need to be going and anyone with half a clue knows it.
It goes in Roundabouts mate. you have one group that expect overnight success, one group that want to see actual progression but not at the cost of falling straight back into the same hole we've been digging ourselves out of for years now.

Some expectations are realistic, some are from a fantasy land that doesn't exist.

Moyes has the season, than look at the Progression vs Expectation.

I'm sure most people would agree on that part.
 
I keep ragging on Moyes for not having a single win at Old Trafford in his entire career, which I feel is justified. I get that even as their dominance has faded, winning at Old Trafford can be a tricky place and it's understandable to not have a sterling record there, but not one single win? Come on man get out of your head and break the cycle you anxious lad
 

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