Won a trophy and played much better football, for the most part Moyes has played, defensive boring football
The football we played under Royle is what I want to see every week.
I agree about Royce, Silva s overrated. None of his teams have ever be able to defend. Ancelotti, yeah obviously.
With both Gana & Palhinha Silva was able to play.
Removing them at critical points was a massive hinderence to his setup and defensive structure.
So they all did a superior job at Everton than Moyes has? Silva was abysmal and Ancelotti wasn’t much better at Everton given the squads they were afforded compared to the two states Moyes has picked us up.
Can you explain the logic that Moyes picking Everton up relegation threatened in March 2002 and leaving us 6th on 65 points after half a decade of top 7 finishes, is a worse job (by “A LONG SHOT” according to you) than Ancelotti picking us up in 12th and leaving us 11th and silva taking over a team that finished 8th and leaving us 14th until Ferguson steadied the ship ahead of Ancelotti’s arrival.
Keep it nice but please explain why they did better jobs AT EVERTON than Moyes did.
I’ll wait.
Moyes did a good job last season with the style of play and the goodwill of supporters who had been watching Dycheball.
This season he has changed the style of play and reverted to type.
Silva had done well when he had a tackler in midfield. This was removed.
Ancelotti had a great first half of the season which then dropped down once his chosen players became injured and there was no money for reinforcements.