CONFIRMED: Moyes Leaving - All Reaction Here

[Brennan]

Not our rivals? I'm a scouser and I hate the mancs and the kopites.

Yes, Man United are not our rivals. They're winning the league pretty much every season and are from a different city.

 

[ijjysmith]

I think this is a ridiculous statement. Moyes has stuck with this club and all its associated bull**** for the past decade.

It was pretty obvious by his remarks about it that he was absolutely gutted by the collapse of the Fer deal, which was most likely the final straw in dealing with this board. If he is truly going to walk away in the summer, what should he do?

Complain to the media about lack of transfer funds? (Benitez, Graham at Spurs, etc.)
Publically campaign for another job in the second half of the season? (Redknapp)
Throw his toys out and quit immediately? (McLeish)

No, he's keeping shut about it because he's too much of a professional and cares too much for the welfare of the club. He knows that announcing his intention to leave now will have a detrimental effect on the spirit of the players.

I would argue that everything that has happened off the pitch at the club over Moyes' tenure has been an unmitigated failure:

-Multiple embarrassing disasters in the transfer market not even including players we simply could not afford (Fer, Ofoe, Banega, Obinna, etc.)
-Complete lack of any marketing strategy or non-television revenue increase
-Complete lack of any presence in the city of Liverpool and its public spaces (ever seen an Everton kit for sale at JLA? I haven't...)
-Having to sell our best players in order to avoid bankruptcy
-Borrowing money on unfavorable terms
-Selling Finch Farm and immediately leasing it back
-Poor shirt sponsorship deals relative to other clubs
-Failure to find investment or a buyer, including refusing to state a valuation
-Failure to sign a first XI players for TWO YEARS while losing Arteta, Pienaar, Yakubu, Beckford, and more.
-Utter lack of communication with supporters, going so far as to cancelling AGMs
-Failure to make any progress on a new stadium or Goodison redevelopment
-Always out of pies at half time

Seriously, I am absolutely astonished that people spend time slating the manager about a perceived negative philosophy or our away record at teams that outspend us by an order of magnitude or a couple of duds in the transfer market. Everyone makes mistakes, even Ferguson has made a loss of 26m on Berbatov, bought Juan Veron, and bottled the title last year by losing to Wigan and drawing us at OT. Nobody is infallible. Yet it seems many here expect the manager of Everton to be.

Meanwhile I challenge you to name one thing that the board have gotten right in the last ten years. (which by the way Moyes has never criticised even when he has had perfectly reasonable grounds to do so)

Your anger is misdirected.

A lot here is only half right.

 

[Brennan]

why? they'd stop winning trophies

Fairly sure if Moyes had been given the £40m Rodgers has pissed up the wall then they'd be in with a good chance of a trophy.

 

[ToffeeMike]

Yes, Man United are not our rivals. They're winning the league pretty much every season and are from a different city.

Well it's up to you if you consider they are or not, in my eyes they're our second biggest rivals.

 

[Allezfan]

Well it's up to you if you consider they are or not, in my eyes they're our second biggest rivals.

If I was listing our rivals the two manchester clubs would porbbaly be 2nd and 3rd, like.

It's just that it's only really Liverpool I really have a problem with.

 

[DanEFC92]

Yes, Man United are not our rivals. They're winning the league pretty much every season and are from a different city.

I consider them rivals, obviously not city rivals, but rivals non the less. Same with City.

 

[Ihaters]

Fairly sure if Moyes had been given the £40m Rodgers has pissed up the wall then they'd be in with a good chance of a trophy.

I hate to think what Moyes could do with real money. He's never bought an expensive player but I bet he's spotted a few superb ones.

 

[Ste Hean]

i would defo take mourinho any day i no he wont be around years cos hes not that kind off manager but he is looking for a challenge and i believe we are the challange he would be looking for their would be upsides to this to

-big name manager
-possibly new investment
-attractive football

by the way i love david moyes but we cannot forward plan just in case he doesn go

 

[ijjysmith]

i would defo take mourinho any day i no he wont be around years cos hes not that kind off manager but he is looking for a challenge and i believe we are the challange he would be looking for their would be upsides to this to

-big name manager
-possibly new investment
-attractive football

Sorry mate. There is no way in hell.

 

[Ihaters]

A lot here is only half right.

There are a couple of things I don't agree, don't see FF as the issue many do for example, but the overall point he's making is 100% spot on.

 

[DanEFC92]

MOYES OUT
MOURINHO IN.

 

[Christiffa25]

i would defo take mourinho any day i no he wont be around years cos hes not that kind off manager but he is looking for a challenge and i believe we are the challange he would be looking for their would be upsides to this to

-big name manager
-possibly new investment
-attractive football

by the way i love david moyes but we cannot forward plan just in case he doesn go

Attractive football - mouriniho haha I don't think so!!

Agree with the rest tho.

 

[Brennan]

I consider them rivals, obviously not city rivals, but rivals non the less. Same with City.

Technically every team in the league is a 'rival', but a team who are about twenty points ahead of us by Christmas every year and regularly turn us over are not what i would consider 'rivals' in this day and age. Our rivals are the likes of Liverpool and Spurs.

 

[ijjysmith]

There are a couple of things I don't agree, don't see FF as the issue many do for example, but the overall point he's making is 100% spot on.

Sort of and it was quite well written.

I don't beleive he has any 'inside' knowledge to know that anything he said is fact though.

And I nearly replied with:
Saha Off
Distin On

But thought better of it!

 

[D410]

i would defo take mourinho any day i no he wont be around years cos hes not that kind off manager but he is looking for a challenge and i believe we are the challange he would be looking for their would be upsides to this to

-big name manager
-possibly new investment
-attractive football

by the way i love david moyes but we cannot forward plan just in case he doesn go

nothing wrong with thinking big sadly the owners will employ somone from the bottom 3 if they have there way.