'Limited'?? Do you really think Man Utd only had £28m to spend on players that summer??
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'Limited'?? Do you really think Man Utd only had £28m to spend on players that summer??
Man Utd have almost limitless cash. They could have found the money for any player he wanted. His incompetence and dithering meant they spent £28m on Fellaini when they could have got him for £4m less a month previous.
And there was no chance he was ever going to stay here once he knew United were interested in him succeeding Ferguson.
He hugely failed at United. The squad he tookover shouldn't have finished outside the top 4 let alone 7th. That's why they got rid as quick as they did.
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marcus
Player Valuation: £15m
Never had a chance imo.....
Any Manager needs time to build a team/squad it can not be done in a matter of months it is just not realistic.....
He just wasn't good enough for a club of that stature mate. Moyes simply melted when put under far greater scrutiny.
I work with two Man Utd season ticket holders and they don't have a good word to say about him. Yes, he had a huge act to follow with stepping into Ferguson's shoes, but he just wasn't up to the job, and has followed it up with two more failures since.
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Badge1878
Player Valuation: £8m
Everton indulged him; his ego was such he made himself as attractive as possible to any suitor by running his contract down- It smacked of double standards, he wouldn’t let a player do what he did. They were moved on for as big a fee as possible rather than us lose them for nothing but how Kenwright allowed him to do that still baffles me. If he wouldn’t sign an extension he should have been punted, he was an employee not the owner, and that was his problem he saw himself as bigger than Everton.
Because of what we have now we look too favourably at his tenure - I’ll never forgive him for giving up the Derby game at Anfield mid-week because we had Sunderland at home in the quarters on the Saturday. A game we drew. His away record against the top four sides as was says enough about his approach to the game. Better than Sam? Yes. What we need now – absolutely no.
Because of what we have now we look too favourably at his tenure - I’ll never forgive him for giving up the Derby game at Anfield mid-week because we had Sunderland at home in the quarters on the Saturday. A game we drew. His away record against the top four sides as was says enough about his approach to the game. Better than Sam? Yes. What we need now – absolutely no.
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
Time to properly consign him to the history books. He did a solid job here and no more.
He may not have had money but he had plenty of time and that is an even more precious commodity.
We failed at almost every big game under him. It irks me now actually as Man City only emerged in the latter stages of his time here and Spurs were a joke.
Someone with a bit more bite and ambition would have succeeded in getting us Top 4 on several occasions I am convinced of it and we may well be still reaping the benefits now.
He was happy to languish us in his own comfort zone for years with ready made excuses. I still think it was small time in the extreme to let him take that West Ham game too.
He may not have had money but he had plenty of time and that is an even more precious commodity.
We failed at almost every big game under him. It irks me now actually as Man City only emerged in the latter stages of his time here and Spurs were a joke.
Someone with a bit more bite and ambition would have succeeded in getting us Top 4 on several occasions I am convinced of it and we may well be still reaping the benefits now.
He was happy to languish us in his own comfort zone for years with ready made excuses. I still think it was small time in the extreme to let him take that West Ham game too.
United on the bread line were they...you did see Moyes with money and he did nowt with it
argietoffee
Player Valuation: £20m
Forgive my malbec induced .memory loss but I remember Moyes best signings as really cheap or defenders.
He knew how to work Aldi and Lidl
ToffeeJord
Player Valuation: £750k
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Does Moyes deserve more respect for what he did during his time here?
Yes, he did marvels with a limited budget. Played better football than people care to remember, and the team was focused and united.
Should Moyes come back as manager? No. The club and the man have changed. And even Kendall was never the same when he came back. There are lists of managers that return and never reach the same heights.
That said I would rather we found a Moyes type manager again, than go for another five minute foreigner, with no loyalty to the club.
Yes, he did marvels with a limited budget. Played better football than people care to remember, and the team was focused and united.
Should Moyes come back as manager? No. The club and the man have changed. And even Kendall was never the same when he came back. There are lists of managers that return and never reach the same heights.
That said I would rather we found a Moyes type manager again, than go for another five minute foreigner, with no loyalty to the club.
TraffordBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
The OP seems like a wind up, and clearly Moyes is not the manager he was when he took over at Everton. Don't want him back and after the contempt he treated the club with, and the fans, shortly after getting his dream move means I am glad at how bad things turned out for him.
That said, there appears to be a complete rewriting of history from a lot of our supporters about the job he did because Moyes did an excellent job at this club. He took us from being relegation strugglers to European Contenders, and without much money either.
What is more bizarre is that some fans talk of how he was OK for getting us 7th-8th regularly as if it's just a given that we should finish there anyway as a minimum. 7th-8th ignores that he got us 5th twice, 6th twice, as well as our best league finish of 4th since 1988. We had only one top 6 finish between 1990 and the season he came in. Since he left we've struggled for consistency.
We're battling it out for 9th in one of the poorest Premier League's in History, we were 8 points off 6th and 14 off 5th last season and came 11th with 47 points in the 2 seasons before that. I'd much rather be watching the Everton under Moyes than this spineless group of players who represent us now, who not only struggle against the poorer sides of the league, but also get swept aside against the Top 6, at home as well as away.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
He made the mistake of trying revolutionise the back team staff. And once having made that decision everything was difficult. Players questioned new methods given that many had only work, the media were on his back and idiots like Rio Ferdinand were openly undermining him (mainly because Rios days were numbered as a top rated footballer).
He made mistakes but he needed time to rebuild a squad and stamp some authority. He was never given that. And in fairness Man Utd prob couldn’t take the risk
If it is a wind up then it falls under the - ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
Edit. Moyes coming back is silly, but with Kenwright still there...
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
We’d all be enjoying the bottom half of the table, getting hit for cricket scores at Anfield, and watching geriatric strikers on the wing. Sin Miedo though and all that.
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