Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
Silva Fulham 2021Think that only paints half the picture though?
Silva was a right man in the wrong time, as he's proven by taking a Fulham team to PL stability and has a go at the cups.
"Dour Davey" is because we know who and what Moyes is. Problem with his overly inflexible approach is that, while it's pragmatic, it's rarely adventurous and has barely won a pot in his several decade long career because of the knife to a gunfight mentality.
The whole point is that with Brentford he was quick to see what did and didn't work - hired as manager and changes the tactic to fit the players and get points, even if it didn't instantly work out; kept at it in the Championship and kept them as a consistent promotion "threat", until they got promoted; tried to play the same way as they did in the Championship but that lasted only a few games until he saw that it's just not going to work and changed it to be more direct and take advantage of set pieces, etc., took a full season before they started playing "better". The whole point of Moyes here and now is to provide that stable platform so that whoever comes next doesn't need 9 years.
Safe from the Beto thread I don't really think anyone expects us to "sell at a loss and just buy better players, simples". Everyone should know we're a bit handicapped anyway, as are most teams outside the SkY sIx, and selling everyone just to buy 15 new players isn't gonna be Moyes fault. What will be his fault is the re-signing of Doucoure and DCL, for example, or missing out on Charly, which are both things I expect people like Frank to not do really.
Champions in championship
10th
13th
11th
Not drastically different from Frank.
Moyes has won one more pot than both Silva and Frank?
I'll labour the point again, give Moyes a specialist striker and see how he gets on. If you've got no one bagging the goals you can be as adventurous as you like, it's not often gonna work.
Funny thing about those harking back to the 'Moyes mentality', when he was in charge of the pennies, we never got a points fine did we.
Also, I didn't say 'sell at a loss', the loans go home, and the OOC find new clubs. There's not a lot of anything tangible in the squad that can be sold, outside of those everyone wants to keep. Everton plc have had a contract on the table for Cal-Lewin for 18 months, now it's Moyes fault? Although I don't like it, I understand why managers keep picking Doucoure, and I can see why at only 32 he'd be offered another contract. As for Alcaraz, 4 sides in 16 months is not something I can remember a lot of previous. Is there a bigger issue in the back ground?