2025/26 David Moyes

[jazzy]

Well we don't have anyone who would be a good full back week in week out either, shall we rule out the possibility of playing a back 4 too? Surely whoever the manager is and whatever system they prefer to play, we have to work on the basis that we would be recruiting with that in mind?

For all the jokes about Moyes playing 4 centre halves it is undeniable that this is one of the stronger areas of the squad so it would make sense to play 3 at the back. It would also be a way of playing 2 forwards.

 

[Simon Buttle]

His legs haven't gone at all though.

He still gets around the pitch. He is in fantastic shape.

Ignore his age, could he not just be having a bad run of form?

The game just goes past him these days, he is miles off it most weeks.

 

[Curtis]

Should send them to train in stoke , build some grit and fortitude

 

[MikeH72]

His legs haven't gone at all though.

He still gets around the pitch. He is in fantastic shape.

Ignore his age, could he not just be having a bad run of form?

How long are we supposed to “ignore his age” and wait for a 36 year old to get back to the levels of a 28 year old?

 

[blue61]

There's no pressure on for the rest of the season. We're not going down, and far too inconsistent to push for Europe. Moyes should be planning for the future, giving younger players a decent run in the team, while phasing out others with less of a future, trying new systems, giving the fans something different. I know he won't, but he should.

 

[milks]

Truffert has been part of a defence that has conceded as many as anyone outside the bottom 3. Who's to say he wasnt right(if true)
I never said he got a free pass. You said he's been here a year. I said it goes back almost 10 to lucas digne. The last decent fulback we signed.
Thats nothing to do with Moyes.

I was, and I am, arguing your point that another manager (using Glasner as the example) wouldn't join Everton because of historic transfer policies, and because Everton haven't signed a good fullback in 10 years.

The point remains that anything prior to TFG taking over the club is utterly irrelevant in regard to who we appoint and will not enter the the thinking of any prospective new manager.

Someone isn't going to turn down the Man City job because they didn't like how Sven Goran Eriksson was treated are they?

 

[Bluewolf]

Maybe if he took the cups - and penalty kicks - seriously, we could be bringing money into the club with "extra" home matches and saving money on jaunts to Dubai.

I mean we took the fa cup seriously.

We just didnt have anyone to play in the squad and we got to penalties.

Its not moyes fault they decided to take bad penalties.

 

[milks]

We don't have the players. I'm not sure we have anyone who would be a good wing back week in week out

Palace didn't have the players to do that before they appointed Glasner.

They went and bought Nunoz and Lacroix; both of whom had experience in that system and who Glasner wanted.
He then adjusted Mitchell's role and he has become a good left wing back; Chris Richards has gone from being a bit part player into a solid right centre back.

 

[bullybeef]

Moyes rewarding our absolutely shocking home form with a foreign holiday.

Yeah nice one! Well deserved.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Get them down to Formby Dunes for a Gaffers Day NOW.

 

[Taifi gorm]

I mean we took the fa cup seriously.

We just didnt have anyone to play in the squad and we got to penalties.

Its not moyes fault they decided to take bad penalties.

Aznou drove us to penalties and then got banished.

 

[Taifi gorm]

Get them down to Formby Dunes for a Gaffers Day NOW.

They could use the statue's on Crosby for offside and set piece drills.

 

[Bedfordblue]

For all the jokes about Moyes playing 4 centre halves it is undeniable that this is one of the stronger areas of the squad so it would make sense to play 3 at the back. It would also be a way of playing 2 forwards.

 

[milks]

If it wasn't for Illy, Moyes would stick 10 central players on the field..

11 if counting pickford..

The attacking 'strategy' is very much, "Kiernan, get it to Illi and we might spawn a goal"

 

[Drico]

Truffert has been part of a defence that has conceded as many as anyone outside the bottom 3. Who's to say he wasnt right(if true)
I never said he got a free pass. You said he's been here a year. I said it goes back almost 10 to lucas digne. The last decent fulback we signed.
Thats nothing to do with Moyes.

I saw Truffert against Arsenal and he stood out...because he turned his back in a cowardly fashion for the first Arsenal goal. On that basis alone, not a natural defender. Simon Kuper in his book Soccernomics has a chapter called "Gentlemen prefer blonds". It refers to the statistical fact that scouts are more likely to select a blond-haired player than a player of any other hair colour - simply because they stand out. I suspect a bit of that with Truffert.