2025/26 David Moyes

[Clarky cat]

….i doubt he’d be interested but could be worth attempting to get an extra year on his contract.

Stick this in the Seamus Coleman thread as well mate, maximum fume.

 

[blueboy72]

Yesterday was calamitous but just like the Newcastle match the best way to reset the narrative is to put in a dominant and hopefully winning performance in the next match against Wolves and we'll be back in the mix on the premier league table

We have to win full stop. Anything less and these last 4 games would have been a massive failure, to end up with 4/5 points out of 12 would be criminal

 

[Curtis]

We have to win full stop. Anything less and these last 4 games would have been a massive failure, to end up with 4/5 points out of 12 would be criminal

Even lacking some of our quality players we should still be expected to win the wolves match , Moyes needs to stop foisting his favorites into the lineup such as Keane , instead looking at past lineups that provided results such the most recent forest match

 

[blue61]

I'm predicting losses until we play Leeds at the earliest purely because what comes into replace KDH & Ndiaye isn't as good and without a threat for the opposition to overly worry about they can take more risks.

Yes, we're stripped of our better players. But the two players highlighted played against Spurs and Newcastle, when we were utterly pathetic. The tactics at home are a big issue.

 

[Curtis]

Also Davey stop throwing Keane back into the lineup when he hasn't fully recuperated, he did it with the Newcastle match and it was equally disastrous. I just don't get how some managers are so loyal to players who don't deliver especially when managers create factors that increase further challenges in that particular situation

 

[PITA]

The last substation annoyed me.
But other then that not much more he could do personell wise .
We need to shift some of them out the door and get in better players obviously but thats not a simple fix.

I thought it was electric.

 

[blueconverse]

Stop zonal marking you pleb. It doesn't work

 

[willo30]

I hope this is true because it's exactly how the club should be run right now.

But I don't understand how Moyes fits into that. A manager who has a huge say in transfers and a) has totally different goals to the ownership (results right now) and b) is incredibly averse to developing those youngsters that the whole plan is based around. Why would they keep him on longer than this season?

He doesn't. He's gone end of next season regardless.
There is a reason he isn't playing the youngsters, he didn't buy them.
He'd rather spend the money on older players if he gets the chance.

 

[evertondotcom]

He doesn't. He's gone end of next season regardless.
There is a reason he isn't playing the youngsters, he didn't buy them.
He'd rather spend the money on older players if he gets the chance.

I think Moyes gets a contract extension. He won’t be gone any time soon.

 

[willo30]

I dont buy any of that.

Where is the evidence of this three year plan they've set for Moyes and the lack of immediate demands for him to hit targets on Europe - and the spending plan?

It wouldn't take a hell of an improvement to get a low hanging euro place as it'll probably go down to 7th or 8th.

If he doesn't get top ten his feet wouldn't touch with any ownership group that handed him £110M for players some of which he wont even play.

What you've just sketched out is a painfully slow evolution that just doesn't fit anyone's requirements.

Moyes's target is Europe. The owners would take it but there wouldn't be any investment in the squad unless it was CL.

He's here until the squad they build under performs or the end of his contract. The squad at this moment in time is over performing in their eyes.

Forget the youngsters bought recently Moyes didn't buy them.

 

[willo30]

I think Moyes gets a contract extension. He won’t be gone any time soon.

He'll be 64 when his current contract ends. He knows the plan and is on board. Rumour is he goes upstairs.

 

[Drico]

I dont buy any of that.

Where is the evidence of this three year plan they've set for Moyes and the lack of immediate demands for him to hit targets on Europe - and the spending plan?

It wouldn't take a hell of an improvement to get a low hanging euro place as it'll probably go down to 7th or 8th.

If he doesn't get top ten his feet wouldn't touch with any ownership group that handed him £110M for players some of which he wont even play.

What you've just sketched out is a painfully slow evolution that just doesn't fit anyone's requirements.

Depends, David. If these Yanks are simply here to nurture their investment before flipping in a few years, 9th may make no more difference to them than 13th. I've seen no evidence that they have set any great ambitious targets during their tenure to date. Hope I am very wrong, mind.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Cracks me up every time I read about him ‘going upstairs’ in the future.
I’m yet to see anything indicating such a move other than on here, and there’s absolutely nothing in his past that suggests he’d be at all interested in it.
If anything he’s shown lots of distain for those pulling the strings ‘from upstairs’ so why he would want to impose that on his replacement I don’t know.
What would he even do ‘upstairs’ that doesn’t already have one of Anus’s team of world leaders in their field already doing it.

 

[hetion]

He doesn't. He's gone end of next season regardless.
There is a reason he isn't playing the youngsters, he didn't buy them.
He'd rather spend the money on older players if he gets the chance.

I get what you mean but also that's what I'm getting at - if our manager 'doesnt fit into the plan', why is he our manager? Why aren't we getting one that fully buys into the plan, rather than fights against it by managing for the short term and not developing young players?

 

[evertondotcom]

He'll be 64 when his current contract ends. He knows the plan and is on board. Rumour is he goes upstairs.

64 is nothing in management really