It'll be a brave decision by the owners if they get rid of Moyes before his contract runs out, given how we've been the last 10 years or so. He's safe and that also says a lot about his style of play. He tends to have players in their positions and there is never a great deal of movement within his teams. I suspect he picks players based on how they follow his instructions without the ball rather than what they can do offensively.
His teams have always struggled to score goals, but he'll always come out and somehow the strikers will get the blame. In reality we don't create many chances for the striker, as his system isn't set up to. His teams always seem desperately slow as well, and tend to have to work hard to score goals. I do think he's a better manager than when he was first here (experience) but he's still massively limited.
He doesn't inspire hope, and that's the main issue with him. He's a safe manager, his teams tend to play safe and he'll comfortably get through a lot of games as when his team scores first they can be difficult to break down as they don't deviate out of position much and tend to be well organised. But if they don't score first then it usually means defeat.
For the owners I guess it all depends what their plans are. He'll be safe and keep us up but we can already see he won't really improve their assets on the field. Players like Dibling etc. will be left out over more experienced players. Everton as a club can't afford to be spending £40m on substitutes. If we're spending £40m on a player then you need a return on that investment (as well as to actually use them) and given we don't generate massive revenues then we need sell on values. I feel most of the signings point towards that kind of direction and I hear data driven decisions. I personally don't feel that Moyes brings youngsters through. He'll pick one player Rooney, Januzai etc. and try and concentrate on them to say he does, but in reality he doesn't. People will say Rodwell but he was a highly rated England youth defender, but Moyes didn't trust him and turned him in to a midfielder.
So do you stick with the safety of not having to worry about relegation but not really increasing the value of your investments, or do you take a calculated risk on a more progressive manager who will at least use and try to improve the players they bring in.
