Roaming the plains with the Dycheosauras and the beast that is known as Big Samosaurus
I think the only one that really applies to is dibling. It’s certainly a bit of a leap to say he’s ’refusing to start’ Barry considering he’s started 17 of the last 18 games.
Because clearly he is not allow to spend the money as he wishes...perhaps some of the signings might have been influenced by moyes such grealish, kdh, the ones with pl experience (i am sure if he was the deciding factor, he would go with only players that have pl/championship experience).I think the more exotic ones were clearly work done by the recruitment team with minimum involvement from moyes....
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Stranger again would be sidlining him completely on recruitment, priotising youth, and expecting David Moyes to bring them on. I mean, Moyes is a competent manager. Clubs can do far worse. But he is never in a million years the right man to oversee a progressive youth-first recruitment model that depends on giving chances, time, and minutes to rookies he hasn't personally vetted, scouted, and groomed.
I come back to the lack of preparation last summer. Kinnear was just in the door and his "competent professionals" were still on gardening leave waiting to start. They needed a heavyweight to get them through the summer. Hence, Moyes stayed on. The slow start to the window was probably the first symptom of the cross purposes between the club's preferred model and the Moyesiah's tried and tested recruitment control freakery. Knowing he was never going to be their long-term choice, he went to war in so much as he could, made some public criticisms, and got in what he could influence.
This never works out for anyone. It hasn't worked out for the club (as today's team sheet proves), and it hasn't worked out for the manager who has divided the fanbase and lost support even among loyalists.
Moyes will go when he goes. The bigger worry for me right now is we don't seem to have clear leadership at the top of the club if what we've seen so far is any guide. This summer is going to be illuminating.
It's genuinely impressive that he's made 4 changes from Monday night and none of them give me any enthusiasm.
Branthwaite back to CB, maybe, but that just means we have to endure Mykolenko.
Branthwaite back to CB, maybe, but that just means we have to endure Mykolenko.
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
I was very firmly in the camp that they're not good enough to start and Moyes was right but I can't accept that about Dwight McNeill starting over the two young lads.
He's a passenger at the best of times.
Here, we have the Moyesasaurus Rex, he prowls the training pitches preying on young players, devouring their confidence, leaving them a husk of their once promising self.
I’d genuinely forgotten about aznou to be fair, he’s so far out of the picture he isn’t even registering anymore. Rohl’s a weird one, Moyes has bigged him up plenty of times and he’s the type of profile he likes so I can 100% believe he was more than happy to sign off on that one, but obviously there’s something going wrong somewhere for him not to be playing.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
*Assumes David Attenborough voice*
"The most terrifying dinosaur since Archie Knox."
McNeil?
I've given up.
I've given up.
Can we bring several from the bench now please
Why mcneil its a joke
