Duncan's Donuts
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Was it just me or is he starting to look like the Emperor from Star Wars? Stick him in a black hooded cloak and I reckon you'd be pushed to tell the difference.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
This may already be the case... it would certainly explain a lot.
Everyone knew this period would be tough over the winter with the african nations and injuries.
Everyone.
Yet we hit a rough patch with a 1/4 strength team and the Moyes haters grasp it and double down on him
He was doing just fine until this player shortage crisis.
Yeah sack him and get on the merry go round again.
Who do you want in? Amorim? Frank? Potter? Howe? Unkown foreign genius?
Moyes did not take those jaw droppingly crap pens and did not have the players to impliment champions league like tactics today....or make meaningful subs.
But no...Moyes out. Yeah right.
Same as last time he was here.
He left then and we never recovered.
There is a decision to make in the summer. Moyes turns 64 next season before the end of his contract.
If there's an acceptance that next year is Moyes's last season then his authority is undermined in the dressing room which happened at West Ham. Otherwise it's a 'will he get a new contract' sideshow.
He was brought in to steady the transition from leaving one stadium for another and ensuring Premier League football. He's done that now.
I think his away performances have been good on the whole, but the football isn't good enough at home. He's not won many home games in the year he's been in charge and the football is dire bar individual quality of Ndiaye or Grealish at times.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Excellent article.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Dyche was burned out. He was toast the day we lost at home to Forest last December. His leaving was a relief at that point. Moyes had us safe in double-quick time. Allowing for the fact that the competent professionals were STILL not in situ come August (some only joined in September), you can see why they kept Moyes and allowed him to dictate the summer transfers. That's not going to be the case next summer - so hard to see why they would keep hold of Moyes. If they are not going to open the wallet this window, that's the third window of their tenure finished and the second where they spent nothing. So much for a rebuild... It could also mean they are keeping their powder dry for a new man in the summer.
At the time Dyche left we’d won the same number of games as Ipswich. We’d just lost to Southampton in what ended up being their only home win of the entire season. The fact he had us competing at the same level as some of the worst teams the league has ever seen was truly shameful.
our home record not good enough
and needs to be better. we call all gage our opinions and rightly so
until summer we won’t know
so let’s get behind him and the team
as the seasons “not over”
Indeed. One thing that irritated me is the way he was at pains to point out that Aznou only played well because he was playing higher up the pitch
Basically saying "He wouldn't have played well at left back so I was right all along". I thought that was a bit lame
Bayboy
Player Valuation: £950k
Whichever way you look at it, Moyes is not the future for us. We have time now to prepare for the summer. We are told that we have a top notch team behind the scenes. We now need to see them at work. They need to find a young progressive manager, and provide him with some decent talented additions to the squad for him to work with. C'mon Everton, we can do this.
I don't think Moyes lost 3 home games in a week either, it just feels like it. We drew against Wolves.
So I agree it’s not over if you agree traipsing out of the stadium in the cold it felt pretty much done .
We’ve got some tough games ahead having finished our relatively ‘easy ‘ run . Hopefully returning players will help but we need some better results and we need them pretty quickly .
