David Moyes

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How weird - you hate a football manager? Especially one who was here for years due to one comment?

I don't hate him, I was talking about the atmosphere and particularly the boos that rained down on him for the 90 minutes. Not just that the words of abused directed at him all game long. My personal dislike of him is down to more than one comment. But I can park that and look at his career since, he deserves a job in the Championship. That's his level now. Sacked, Sacked, Relegated and Sacked. Nowhere near good enough.
 
Amongst all the revisionism that goes on,it’s worth remembering that the football was largely dreary during his 11 year reign, effective at times certainly, but on the whole a stodgy unexciting offering.
For the safety of stability we paid a heavy and continuous price in cowardly point grinding running the channels bore ball.
His failure to record any win away win to a top four club is heavy indictment to any future efficacy on his part.
During his tenure three members of our group jibbed their STs altogether because of the quality of football and these were lads I had been going to away matches with since the early 70s , lads who till then lived and breathed Everton.
By the end I avoided any mention of praise towards him in the pub after the matches because it would almost certainly set off an anti Moysian tirade from everyone else and that was after a win.
He did what he had to do, made sure he was suitably remunerated for his time then slyly jibbed us off when it suited him and I’m done with him personally. 11years is long enough for such a lacklustre manager.
 
I don't hate him, I was talking about the atmosphere and particularly the boos that rained down on him for the 90 minutes. Not just that the words of abused directed at him all game long. My personal dislike of him is down to more than one comment. But I can park that and look at his career since, he deserves a job in the Championship. That's his level now. Sacked, Sacked, Relegated and Sacked. Nowhere near good enough.
Technically that’s not true. Sunderland wanted him to stay on (!) and he resigned. West Ham his contract was up
 


I'm not sure I agree with the football dinosaur quotes. Yes the old hairdryer treatment, hypothetically, shouldn't work with a bunch of multi gazillionaires who are more focused on what their hair looks like. However, football as a game just goes in cycles. Formations will revert back at some point to 4-4-2. Makelele came along and the box to box went out the window and in came the DM and AM. Then Pep came along and it's all possession, tika taka, etc. Then we had the one up front and the false nine happening. We saw on Saturday that 4-4-2 still works and is a weapon. Napoli beat Liverpool playing it, Leicester won the league playing it and this idea of passing it all out from the back will evolve back to a mixture.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Moyes but I just don't agree that his ideas of how to defend and set a team up are out of date. I do however feel that when he came to Everton, he was a young, energetic, ambitious individual who was very demanding of his players in order to meet his own ambitions. I'm not so sure that 20 years later, a hell of a lot richer and after many failed stints, he has the same hunger which once made people work for him. Everyone has their time and this is not his now. We need someone hungry and ambitious. You could see how much the players responded to Ferguson at the weekend. That is because they could see his hunger and desire to win the game. I'm not sure you get that from someone who a reputation such as Moyes.
If he were to come in though, I don't see what the point in Marcel Brands is....The only thing I would say Moyes can be good at is identifying players (from his time at Everton) bilyaletdinov and per koldrup shouts I hear you but he did unearth some gems and legends of the club for next to nothing. Maybe he can come in and do Brands job haha
 

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