Daveys Greatest Gaffes?

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Those brown loafers he wore once with a black suit at Anfield. Shocking fashion sense does Moyesy.


EDIT: This is shocking

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1. The second leg against Sporting Lisbon, we were on the best run we've ever had under him (in terms of the sheer quality against Utd and Chelsea) and he must have told everyone in the dressing room that we had it in the bag, at fucking 2-1!!

2. Sitting back after the first 24 seconds of the biggest domestic cup final around.

3. Signing Van Der Mayde, Davies & Kroldrup, three of Evertons biggest duds, the season we got into the Champions league, now that one REALLY stunk!

4. As a sort of extension to 1 and 3, basically bricking it in Europe.
 
General gaffes:

  • Cementing Kenwright in his position by backing his chairmanship at every opportunity
  • Too cautious over using talent like Rooney and Rodwell
  • Substitutions at 80 minutes
  • Saying that he doesn't want to talk about lack of funds...and then talking constantly about lack of funds
  • Sticking to his guns in the transfer market...until the very last week, then selling star players and barely - if at all - getting replacements in
  • Not playing two up against [Poor language removed] opposition (yeah Cahill is the extra forward in his system...yada yada yada...)
  • Never ever sorting the midfield out since he arrived
  • Making stupid statements like he's going to 'lower the age of the squad' to have young English players, and ending up with an ageing international brigade all over the pitch after 9 years in charge
 
davek said:
General gaffes:

  • Cementing Kenwright in his position by backing his chairmanship at every opportunity
  • Too cautious over using talent like Rooney and Rodwell
  • Substitutions at 80 minutes
  • Saying that he doesn't want to talk about lack of funds...and then talking constantly about lack of funds
  • Sticking to his guns in the transfer market...until the very last week, then selling star players and barely - if at all - getting replacements in
  • Not playing two up against [Poor language removed] opposition (yeah Cahill is the extra forward in his system...yada yada yada...)
  • Never ever sorting the midfield out since he arrived
  • Making stupid statements like he's going to 'lower the age of the squad' to have young English players, and ending up with an ageing international brigade all over the pitch after 9 years in charge
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thread should be closed now...This sums it all up for me....Fantastic post...
 

davek said:
General gaffes:

  • Cementing Kenwright in his position by backing his chairmanship at every opportunity
  • Too cautious over using talent like Rooney and Rodwell
  • Substitutions at 80 minutes
  • Saying that he doesn't want to talk about lack of funds...and then talking constantly about lack of funds
  • Sticking to his guns in the transfer market...until the very last week, then selling star players and barely - if at all - getting replacements in
  • Not playing two up against [Poor language removed] opposition (yeah Cahill is the extra forward in his system...yada yada yada...)
  • Never ever sorting the midfield out since he arrived
  • Making stupid statements like he's going to 'lower the age of the squad' to have young English players, and ending up with an ageing international brigade all over the pitch after 9 years in charge
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Yep that pretty much sums it up.

One more i might throw in which always winds me up is the fact he always comes across as a nice guy on things like 'Goals On Sunday' then infuriates me every weekend.
 
davek said:
Saying that he doesn't want to talk about lack of funds...and then talking constantly about lack of funds
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Oh, yeah. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed that.

davek said:
Sticking to his guns in the transfer market...until the very last week, then selling star players and barely - if at all - getting replacements in
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It's not a bug, it's a feature. The Moyes blueprint for selling players (post-Rooney) is pretty clear - never announce that you want rid of a player; never agree to the first offer you receive; always drag it out for as long as possible; always claim that you don't have or want to sell the player. Generally, it has worked - the bidders have been hooked and have tended to overpay. I would argue that between Lescott, McFadden, AJ and even Anderson de Silva, Naysmith, S. Davies and Bent, this strategy has generated at least 20 million more than if they had been sold at a "true" value. The downside is not only the short span for getting replacements in, but also the fact that a lot of the players will simply not be sold, thus leading to situations when they will leave on frees or retire. West Ham called his bluff on the Yak, so others may be getting wise to this strategy as well.

I will not consider Moyes's stubbornness as a gaffe, it defines him as a manager. Yes, it makes him far too rigid with his formation and selection; yes, it means that he's unable to make a game-changing substitution. It also means that he's never going to accept that our competitors have more money and better squads, so it's better if we set our targets low. He's probably the only person in the world who saw our squad in 04/05 as capable of finishing in the CL places.

However, his greatest gaffe may be that he has bought into the "best squad in 20 years" hype and he may have squandered years of fiscal prudence for a mad push for the CL this season. Since Lescott's departure, our weekly wages have exploded by (at least) 200 000£/25% without any corresponding increase in results. The TV deals have helped, but there are no indications that our turnover is substantially better. It may turn out that our commercial department has got much better, we may yet qualify for the CL, and when the 09/10 fiscal report comes out this may turn out to be fear-mongering. But right now it appears that we will either have to dismantle the squad after this (or possibly the next) season OR we'll collapse if the next TV deal isn't as good as the present.

My support for the Moyes/Kenwright leadership has always been based on the premise that if/when the football bubble bursts, Everton will be well poised to take the place of at least 3 of the present Sky 4 clubs. Due to Moyes's profligacy this may no longer be the case.
 
Might not be totally moyes...but the club and him are a bit naieve.

Examples - gettin a work permit for eber banaga only to find out he was never gonna come or even knew about it.

Gosling and the handshake of doom.

Wagner love was coming...but his agent lied
 

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