2025/26 David Moyes


Today we were missing
Grealish
KDH
Ndaiye
Gana
Branthwaite.

We simply do not have players in the squad who are even close to replacing that level of quality.

Burnley were missing players also but nothing like the standard of player that we were short.

We already know our squad is too small , we already know there are positions like full backs and striker where we simply don't have good quality first choice nevermind second choice.

We know that building a team will probably take four or five transfer windows not just one.

A win to day could have seen us rise to seventh which I think would have been at the highest end of our expectations for the season.

I am hopeful we will bring in a couple of players next month but in the short term I would like to see Grealish and KDH back
 

I think palace had a banner from that 'James' song... "If I hadnt seen such riches I could live with being poor'.
I feel that way about everton managers after Ancelotti.
I just look at how he played DCL and how all the managers after played him did, till he went to leeds, fark was paying attention.
I look at the way he took James in knowing his injury record but also his ability to create magic.
He took players like Godfrey and Davies and made them look like real footballers.
He changed formations, made subs when needed.
Yea, it dropped off at the end of his full season but I'd imagine his head was elsewhere.
Now when I look at Moyes, yeah, he's doing fine. Boring, stable, fine.
Grealish has been foundout on the wing in recent games but Moyes wont move him.
No tactical changes.
Even today. 2 subs at 60 mins, no wait, Beto and Alcaraz both did something just there. Make the subs 68 mins
I'm grateful he's brought stability and he'a a gazillion times better than dyche but I'd love a new manager next season.
 
windymiller said:
That's the opposite of what I said. I literally said that just staying up was the expectation under Dyche, and that his critics (me included) thought that was unacceptable. I then stated that some of the posters that considered that unacceptable under Dyche suddenly seem comfortable with that under Moyes under the banner of "stability" and that that is a double standard.
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I dont think we've got a particularly good squad. So to be sitting comfortably away from any relegation fears right now isnt being happy or lacking ambition. We've sweated buckets for last few years looking over our shoulders and we're not going from that to anything major overnight.
Moyes literally took the team dyche said he could get nothing from and doubled every positive stat straight away.
Moyes isnt the long term answer for me but he pisses all over dyche.
 
MikeH72 said:
But even that’s weird ain’t it? Don’t like him because he… erm… inherited a relegation haunted basket case with no money and Gazza running around the training ground with his undies on his head, and turned it into top half and European regulars going deep into cup competitions?

He’s the manager that has picked the standards up off the floor at this football club TWICE, he is certainly not the one that’s lowered them.
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By the time his first spell ended I was glad to see the back of him.

Time apart has taught me humility as nobody really managed to do any better.
 

Gilbert.. said:
I dont think we've got a particularly good squad. So to be sitting comfortably away from any relegation fears right now isnt being happy or lacking ambition. We've sweated buckets for last few years looking over our shoulders and we're not going from that to anything major overnight.
Moyes literally took the team dyche said he could get nothing from and doubled every positive stat straight away.
Moyes isnt the long term answer for me but he pisses all over dyche.
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I agree, I'm not advocating for sacking Moyes, that makes no sense. I'm just saying that when he gets things wrong he should be criticised and that shouldn't be a big deal. I'm also saying that if an opportunity to appoint a better manager emerges before the end of Moyes' contract then we should be all over it. Every manager we've appointed since Koeman (maybe Silva, I suppose) has been an emergency appointment. I'd like to see us target a specific manager, to a specific style of play and with a specific player recruitment strategy for once and if summer 26 is a possible time to do that then we should go for it.
 
I think you have to give a manager an actual extended period to build the squad they want.. that's the thing. I'm sure Moyes knows that we're still 3,4,5 players short at least of having a squad to challenge the way he wants. But it was impossible to do all in one season.

I think most would struggle to argue against the fact that we are vastly improved from before Moyes came in.

For me, he deserves the time to actually build his squad aslong as improvement is visible year on year, which so far it is.
 

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