2025/26 David Moyes

[Neiler]

Did he really say Hill Dicky

"It was amazing the last game at Goodison and I was privileged to be able to lead the team... leaving it in a good way was plaeasing. We're now in the Hill Dicky and we are enjoying it."

 

[wandyr79]

"I have never understood this fixation with playing younger players".

I meant more the comments on here sometimes are only concerned with younger players and the desperate need to get them into the team. As in 'fixated' on talking about them and how they should definitely be playing. Nothing about not buying them.

 

[Eggs]

 

[pedro789]

You've got to respect every PL team.
They've got very good players who can win any game.
But he's got to shake off this inferiority complex against them.
This game can be won in first 20 mins imo.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

This would guarantee a motivation increase on FM

 

[Zatara]

I meant more the comments on here sometimes are only concerned with younger players and the desperate need to get them into the team. As in 'fixated' on talking about them and how they should definitely be playing. Nothing about not buying them.

If you buy them, they have to be developed. Developing players typically doesnt mean not playing them in competitive fixtures.

 

[HKContractDave]

He might not but his analysts must have by now

 

[Saint Domingo]

Good presser that, didn’t spend any time blowing smoke up the RS’s arse.

 

[Bluepablo]

Yes - i'm a little bored at work, but I have just done some quick calculations.

If we did 3 league tables based on the bellow, and compare it to current standings - This is how they look.

1. Total transfer spend THIS season - 6 teams currently sit within 3 places of a Total transfer spend table
2. Net transfer spend THIS season - 6 teams currently sit within 3 places of a Net transfer
3. Total wage bill for THIS season - 10 teams currently sit within 3 places of a Total wage bill

This is all anyone is saying....its just a more reflective predictor.

Factoring in Cup success...points deductions...Euro success is different....and the trying to calculate the biggest club or anything more...THIS is not about that.

FWIW & it isn’t intended as a dig at Moyes (so he doesn’t require defending ) some of the highest paid players don’t necessarily command the highest transfer fees presumably because of the limited number of clubs able or willing to pay them combined with the players preference.

TAA & Salah will get top wages & cost nothing & Grealish will be our top earner if he signs but it looks like we are only willing to pay up to £20m for him.

According to Soccernomics, transfer spend has a surprisingly weak correlation with league position, explaining only about 16% of variation in performance, while salary expenditure is far more critical, explaining up to 92%. While high transfer fees can improve a team over time, they do not guarantee immediate success, and wages are the true driver of league success

 

[Armaghtoffee]

This will be like Chelsea. The RS won’t know what’s hit them

 

[blulouie]

I hope thats a lie he doesnt watch Liverpool.
He should be watching every opponent that we play.
Their strengths , their weaknesses , their style of play , their formation , set pieces corners & free kicks.
Everything should be "watched" , so I'm putting that down as a big fat fib.

If it isnt GTF Moyst.

 

[st.domingo]

To me it suggests that other teams are scoring more ugly goals from set plays and fewer from open play, whereas we’re one of the few teams still playing the kind of sexy liquid football we were playing last season.

I mean, you have to give some kudos to the manager, clearly.

But I was more meaning what’s caused the near universal drop-off in everyone else?

Seems unlikely that suddenly the defending got better across the board.

No rule changes that I can think of.

Maybe just an anomaly that will revert next season. If not, then a bit of a mystery.

 

[Boston Blue Sox]

Jesus, his exact quote was "I don't watch Liverpool results." He was very clearly trying to indicate that he's not concerned with where they finish, not that he doesn't watch them play football.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

If the data provided on here for the club salaries for 2025/26 is accurate then there is not really that much in it between Bournemouth in 17th spending circa £62 million a year to Everton in 10th spending circa £78 million a year. Crystal Palace are 12th spending circa £76 million a year, West Ham 13th spending circa £74 million a year. Brighton 15th spending circa £69 million which is less than £10 million a year than Everton.

Man City top spending circa £235 million a year with the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd all massively exceeding more than double the annual salary spent by Everton. Forest are 9th spending almost £10 million more than Everton a year and then the big gap really to the big 8 with Newcastle coming in at 8th spending circa £116 million - almost £40 million more than Everton a year.

Based in annual salaries Tottenham are the massive underachievers, Newcastle and Forest also performing well below their outlay. West Ham have been disappointing as well. Brentford, Bournemouth, Sunderland and Brighton are all overachieving. If you add in net spend over the past 5-6 years then Tottenham are having a truly shocking season as they have outlaid hundreds of millions more than Everton.

Based purely on annual salaries any where between 10th-13th would be a par season. But then Everton's net spend over the past 5-6 seasons will be hundreds of millions less than a lot of other teams and this is a factor that has to be considered as well.

People need to see it not as either or. If you are paying good wages but spending a lot less on transfers then you still have a lower budget.

Moyes tended to run at a profit on the transfer market and we would pay the going rate to players. But if you are giving a good contract to a Baines after buying him relatively cheaply you still save a fortune.

 

[Eggs]