2025/26 David Moyes

[Rooney_Tunes]

Penalty aside I thought we played well enough to earn a point.

I’ve had it from some reds that even they thought the ref was biased.

Not as biased as the guy who reffed the Spurs game.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Did you forget to look at the teamsheet tonight ?

What's that got to do with anything? Do you think he'd of done any different with the first eleven in?

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Not as biased as the guy who reffed the Spurs game.

Laughable how their second goal was allowed to stand

 

[jackyboy]

Maybe less so when the fella has spent a billion pounds and been at his club for 6 years and you’ve got a shell of a squad that’s decimated and robbed of its 4 best players.

Fair shout mate.

Still think it's fair he has to shoulder some of the blame as to why we're starting the game with Mykolenko and O'Brien at full back. Whikst the winger we spent £40m is on the bench, and a fella who was playing with the reserves for Brighton is now back in the team.

It all comes back to recruitment and whatever the set-up was, it didn't work.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We’re clearly not going down sitting 11 points above West Ham. Ndiaye and Gana are at AFCON and KDH is injured. This for me would be the perfect time to start Dibling and Rohl (in fairness was coming back from injury) for a run of games and get them upto speed. Why are we playing McNeil who basically wanted out of the club in the summer and won’t see another contract here over Dibling who we pursued all summer.

No one can tell me that what McNeil has produced on the right is keeping Dibling out the team either as he’s been absolutely terrible.

 

[chicoazul]

Reckon we’re not far from glass ceiling shouts. Which should be fun for seeding discontent between two opposing sides on this, Everton’s premier forum.

 

[Zatara]

I think he could be under pressure

Moyes? Cant see it while were 3pts off 6th.

I think we'll know more this window and in the summer the key will be how much the transfer budget is.

Its a risk to have a manager go into the last season on his contract. Why would players sign 4 or 5 year deals for him?

He needs europe or for there to be a positive development of the younger players who should be fixtures in and around the 11 next season.

Charly has one good asset to his game other than that he shows glaring holes in his actual ability, he cant take the ball back to goal, or transition play once he has had to much time to think.

You can see that Moyes has spoken to him, because once back to goal, he looks straight back to pickford. His passing range is below sub par.
He is good tho when it's direct, face to goal and less time to think.

Without Illy moving us up the pitch and KDH stamping a foothold in the middle with Garner, which inturn wakens Jack up, we are not a great front footed team.

Look at the obvious signs of missing 2 massive players, rather than scraping the barrell for holes to pick

Well, last season he was receiving the ball back to goal, turning and running directly at the opposition goal.

Even this season when used as a 10 he was initially doing the same - that is one of his main strengths, quick on the transition and then make things happen through risky, potential game changing runs and passes.

He's not done any of that recently and it looks like this is being coached out of him, in favour of running around and making simple passes to retain posession.

He's being turned into a negative boring player otherwise hes not being played.

Fair shout mate.

Still think it's fair he has to shoulder some of the blame as to why we're starting the game with Mykolenko and O'Brien at full back. Whikst the winger we spent £40m is on the bench, and a fella who was playing with the reserves for Brighton is now back in the team.

It all comes back to recruitment and whatever the set-up was, it didn't work.

Who is the " fella who was playing with the reserves for Brighton" ?

 

[jackyboy]

Moyes? Cant see it while were 3pts off 6th.

I think we'll know more this window and in the summer the key will be how much the transfer budget is.

Its a risk to have a manager go into the last season on his contract. Why would players sign 4 or 5 year deals for him?

He needs europe or for there to be a positive development of the younger players who should be fixtures in and around the 11 next season.



Well, last season he was receiving the ball back to goal, turning and running directly at the opposition goal.

Even this season when used as a 10 he was initially doing the same - that is one of his main strengths, quick on the transition and then make things happen through risky, potential game changing runs and passes.

He's not done any of that recently and it looks like this is being coached out of him, in favour of running around and making simple passes to retain posession.

He's being turned into a negative boring player otherwise hes not being played.



Who is the " fella who was playing with the reserves for Brighton" ?

Sorry meant "against Bradford"! McNeil

 

[Zatara]

We’re clearly not going down sitting 11 points above West Ham. Ndiaye and Gana are at AFCON and KDH is injured. This for me would be the perfect time to start Dibling and Rohl (in fairness was coming back from injury) for a run of games and get them upto speed. Why are we playing McNeil who basically wanted out of the club in the summer and won’t see another contract here over Dibling who we pursued all summer.

No one can tell me that what McNeil has produced on the right is keeping Dibling out the team either as he’s been absolutely terrible.

He's quoted as saying something like:

Dwight is an experienced player and has had injuries since I returned to the club.

- so basically he picked him because hes older than Dibling.

 

[Saint Domingo]

He's quoted as saying something like:

Dwight is an experienced player and has had injuries since I returned to the club.

- so basically he picked him because hes older than Dibling.

The biggest irony of the whole thing is that Dibling is actually one of those players that hardly loses the ball. He’s like Grealish in that players do the rally press him and he had that good first touch. Meanwhile McNeil for all his ‘experience’ lashed a corner straight to the opposite corner and gave the ball away pretty much every time he got it.

 

[Timbucktoo]

We’re clearly not going down sitting 11 points above West Ham. Ndiaye and Gana are at AFCON and KDH is injured. This for me would be the perfect time to start Dibling and Rohl (in fairness was coming back from injury) for a run of games and get them upto speed. Why are we playing McNeil who basically wanted out of the club in the summer and won’t see another contract here over Dibling who we pursued all summer.

No one can tell me that what McNeil has produced on the right is keeping Dibling out the team either as he’s been absolutely terrible.

I wouldn`t be so sure that a contract extension is off the table for McNeill. We have form for giving players who don`t get near the first team contract extensions and even make them captain.

 

[Zatara]

The biggest irony of the whole thing is that Dibling is actually one of those players that hardly loses the ball. He’s like Grealish in that players do the rally press him and he had that good first touch. Meanwhile McNeil for all his ‘experience’ lashed a corner straight to the opposite corner and gave the ball away pretty much every time he got it.

Precisely. He's known for being extremely hard to disposess.

Makes no sense to me why hes not used on the right and simply tasked to get the ball down the pitch. Have fun and enjoy himself.

I also wonder how he'll look with Barry if hes used in the 10. Have Alcaraz when Beto is on the pitch and Dibling with Barry.

 

[Zatara]

I wouldn`t be so sure that a contract extension is off the table for McNeill. We have form for giving players who don`t get near the first team contract extensions and even make them captain.

Some were hoping he was being given exposure so Moyes could sell him in January.

Looks unlikely but we can also live in hope.

 

[Drico]

We suffered a very narrow defeat to perhaps the best team in Europe.... as a consequence of a penalty kick.... while missing our two best players.

We also should have been given a penalty when Barry was fouled in the box.

Let's get some perspective here.

I don't think losing to Arsenal is upsetting too many. It was the manner of the performance. We never laid a glove on them. Losing 0-1 is "respectable" but we barely had a shot. Grim. The key now, however, is we win at Burnley. Four points mimimum from the next two. My worry is we are so bereft without the missing Ndiaye and KDH that I don't see where the next goal is coming from. In that sense, winning at Burnley doesn't look quite as straightforward as it should be. And needs to be. With Moyes, the utter lack of fantasy against the likes of Arsenal at home can only be balanced by a good win at places like Burnley. If he plays the "they're better than us" card against the top sides, the flipside is we need to deliver against the relegation fodder. In the absence of being entertained by a "have-a-go" side, we have to be winning at places we should be winning.

 

[davek]

He's quoted as saying something like:

Dwight is an experienced player and has had injuries since I returned to the club.

- so basically he picked him because hes older than Dibling.

Actually, last night, in the subtext of his pre-match answer to that sky interviewer's question on McNeill's inclusion, looked at her and practically told her to mind her own 'kin business.

The feller is as insecure as that. A man who constantly needs his ego being stroked and sees anything else as an attack on his decision making.