I am at a point where I can't believe what I am reading.
People are worried about Moyes wasting money. Of all the things you could not criticise moyes with over the last tenure it cannot be his ability to find value in the market.
Yes people keep coming back to strikers, but we never had the wages or transfer fees to get a guaranteed striker, so your beaties clearly were a miss. But Andy Johnson had a good season, Saha and Yakubu were solid striker purchases.
But for every Klodrup and Beatie, there were 5 amazing players, some of which in hindsight can be viewed as Everton legends of the Premier League era, including Cahill, Arteta, Jagielka, Baines, and Peinnar.
Also signing Lescott, Yobo, Distin, and, of course, John Stones... All of whom were great defenders. And lets not forget 60k Coleman. Signed decent keepers too.
The big signing was Fellaini, and we made a good profit on him. As well as selling Rodwell at the right time.
He was prepared to take chances on players with potential x factor that never came off too, Van de Meide, Fernandes, Jo and Drenthe - all of which were gambles never came off but showed ambition. None of which broke the bank.
But yes, you are also going to have to put up with the solid yet boring signings work horses - Nevilles, Kilbans, Naismiths.
No manager gets everything right in the transfer market, but Moyes, for me, is the man that I would trust more than anyone else to spend frugally and wisely. We have not bought as well at any time during the Premier League era as when Moyes was manager for the first time. Signing players on the way up or with something left to prove... and then coaching the team to be greater than the sum of its parts.
