2024/25 David Moyes

The problem I find and it’s not David Moyes at all he will be as frustrated as much as we are, it’s whoever is the one having to try get deals over the line needs changing. It’s been a massive problem for like 20 years or more. Dawdling taking way to much time probably goes over the process and any paperwork about 50 times so in his head he finally accepts it’s good before sending off for completion and signing etc. Then other clubs highjack the player or player loses interest because it takes so damn long. I’m surprised we’ve had signings this early tbh normally it’s right before deadline day or last minute wouldn’t surprise me if anymore that we do get will roll that way. So frustrating and Moyes isn’t exactly thrilled either
 
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At a very early stage Moyes will have sat down with the recruitment team and compiled a list of targets which covered favourites, most important, down to not as high profile, cheaper etc and i would imagine that list was very comprehensive. That was his job done and so he can get on with his own job as in managing the team and getting them ready for the season ahead because recruitment is not his job, there is a full recruitment team employed to do all of that work that never has to face questions from the media.

Is there any wonder he is getting frustrated when they have not done their job and all the questions are aimed at him, the person who's job it is not. I am glad he is being honest about it. He is putting pressure on them because they are not delivering. Don't be waiting for targets to make up their mind. If that is where their head is at then they are not the right fit anyway so move on to the next one right away.

Keep the pressure on them Davey. It will be you that gets the blame for their failures.
 
I dont see an issue with him lighting a fire under the recruitment team. Hes just voicing what many on here have said, and putting pressure on them to do their jobs. If they are good at their job, it wont be a problem, will it?

Hes got the clout to do it, and since hes only here for 2 years he doesnt care about backlash. Hes in a great position to just tell it like it is, and Im sure if they sign a couple starters this week he will praise them for it.
 

Frenk said:
But why don’t they want to come? Other team who came up and those that finished below us or just above us are signing players.
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Who though? any club can sign "players" i think leeds have signed 6 players. I could only tell you about one. Sean longstaff. Sunderland likewise. Seem to have spent a lot on players from belgium and lower league french sides.
Im pretty sure Everton could have gone and got them.
Next horrible question is is that also our market. Sadly it might not be far off it.
 
Pickford
O'Brien*-Keane*-Branthwaite-Mykolenko
Gana-Garner*
Ndiaye-Alcaraz-McNeil*
Barry​

I see this as the best possible team he'll be able to name against Leeds, and that's hoping that Branthwaite makes it (Tarkowski seems unlikely, Aznou won't go straight in). If not we're even weaker, with Patterson at right back.

Stars next to players in the side quite literally because there is genuinely no semi-decent competition within the entire squad.

On paper it's not bad, but take a couple out and you're left playing Onyango and Patterson. 😆

Hopefully Moyes isn't being afraid to get stuck into the deal makers being the scenes as this squad is utterly threadbare right now.
 
Dixieslaces said:
He doesnt need to name em tho Dave, they will know and this way he keeps it a bit more professional
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It could be just seen (by the owners and CEO and the "exceptional operators" they employed) as part of the very rich tradition of Moyes underplaying what he's likely to have available to him and not a direct challenge. For that (possible) reaction to his words internally he has to look to himself and his knives to gunfights type of statements.

Of course, I think he's right on being understrength. We need urgency here and a lot of players brought in.
 

Toffe3m4n said:
So why did Dyche have those same players in and around the bottom three for so long the following season?
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Because we were skint, they were also in and around the same position at the same time the season before and finished on the equivalent finish as we did last Season.

It’s a hard job of work trying to convince anyone sane that the squad of the past three years was high quality. But here we are.

This summer has to be the change in that.
 
A thought occurred to me earlier...

...what if Moyes' perceived disappointment/frustration at the current transfer activity wasn't strictly down to the performance/speed of the recruitment team in securing our top targets - but rather a product of his ego taking a bit of a bruising because certain players whom he'd assumed would be falling over themselves to come and play for him haven't done so and it's made him perhaps look a tad silly in front of his new bosses?

Genuinely wouldn't surprise me if that was the case yeno :lol:
 
Marius57 said:
So you could argue just looking at that, that the last 4 seasons would be potential relegation threatened.

But Allardyce was supposedly brought into save us but despite being in like 13th when he took over (in relegation zone when Koeman was sacked).

Then Carlo took us over when we were in 16th place but Silva had been sacked when in 18th and in relegation zone.

Do those 2 seasons count as relegation threatened?
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You can argue it a couple of ways - given we finished above Man U and Spurs were they in a relegation battle all along but didn't realise it ?
 

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