2025/26 David Moyes

[leslad]

I bet he had a full fat latte today after the Newcastle win and he was full of bonhomie.

And not long until he's back on the skimmed milk and plain cheese sandwiches on white bread without butter after scraping a draw tomorrow.

 

[Efcjake]

I think an Everton win tomorrow hands full momentum to the Moyesttes.

The four games after should give a window of opportunity to Evertonians who fume when Everton win though.

Will be nice to see them again here after their weekend off

 

[Sean0925]

One thing I'm curious about is whether Moyes even wants to stay beyond his contract. Has he even said much on it? I thought he wasn't really looking for work around the time he came back and it was mostly just cause it was us that he did. That might be all news to make it sound like a sentimental return but could be some truth to it at his age.

 

[blueboy72]

Kettle, pot, black
Your self awareness is outstanding

I don’t make up [Poor language removed] to suit my agenda. If you can find where I have be my quest, that Ken’s left peg will try and convince you we play in red if it helped his argument

 

[Bedfordblue]

We won on Saturday, great result, so what. You either believe in Moyes as the man to take us where we want to be, or you don't. A win here, a loss there doesn't change any considered opinion on Moyes. I think he's a competent manager slowly being left behind. He is not the man who will develop young players. So, either the club decides to abandon the young player first transfer model and pivots to "seasoned pros" like Tomas Soucek to placate the manager, or it changes the manager. Hanging on to Moyes and expecting Tyler Dibling to be "PL ready" in 2027 is a recipe for disappointment.

Anyway, we're merely on the rollercoaster again. We had a great win and those losing faith in the Moyesiah are pulled back in despite second-guessing themselves. Fail to beat Burnley at home tomorrow - a totally different challenge to Saturday that Moyes has fluffed more than once this season - and it'll be pitchforks again from people who can't make up their mind or stand by the courage of their convictions.

Holding on to Moyes means getting mid-table, standing still, early cup exits, "respectability", undeveloped young players, and treading water. Hold on to him and we'll be back here this time next year wondering why Dibling, Aznou, and Röhl aren't first-teamers, why we are out of two cups, and why if only we had beaten Coventry and Millwall at home we would have been top six.

 

[DualityNSNO]

No it's not a flat weak argument at all, if those are the clubs you are chosing as your Ammo.
It's more a flat weak argument to do it that way..

Everyone bloody wants it, but don't chose such a ridiculous way to counter your point..

Make your post about clubs we should be competing with, not clubs that have since gone and not come back..

I've not been a part of it and it's not my point, just seeing "oh but did you know they are relegated now?" every single time is pointless. Did you know that the others teams who won it aren't? And some aren't massive either, Palace did it last year and didn't have to spend a gorillion pounds and won't get relegated.

Even if it was my point/argument/whatever, I've seen it parroted around enough to know the exact reply will be "ah yeah but Pompey got relegated tho!!!" or whatever, pointless. We apparently can't do what Palace did and actually try for a cup, it's unfathomable, we should just lay down and die at the first hurdle and focus on getting 40 points in the league and nothing else. Europe who?

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

We won on Saturday, great result, so what. You either believe in Moyes as the man to take us where we want to be, or you don't. A win here, a loss there doesn't change any considered opinion on Moyes. I think he's a competent manager slowly being left behind. He is not the man who will develop young players. So, either the club decides to abandon the young player first transfer model and pivots to "seasoned pros" like Tomas Soucek to placate the manager, or it changes the manager. Hanging on to Moyes and expecting Tyler Dibling to be "PL ready" in 2027 is a recipe for disappointment.

Anyway, we're merely on the rollercoaster again. We had a great win and those losing faith in the Moyesiah are pulled back in despite second-guessing themselves. Fail to beat Burnley at home tomorrow - a totally different challenge to Saturday that Moyes has fluffed more than once this season - and it'll be pitchforks again from people who can't make up their mind or stand by the courage of their convictions.

Holding on to Moyes means getting mid-table, standing still, early cup exits, "respectability", undeveloped young players, and treading water. Hold on to him and we'll be back here this time next year wondering why Dibling, Aznou, and Röhl aren't first-teamers, why we are out of two cups, and why if only we had beaten Coventry and Millwall at home we would have been top six.

Perfectly encapsulated.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Who are these teams? Winning a cup requires lots of luck. We have only won 6 cups competitions in our entire history and for most of that time we were one of the elite financially dominant clubs. We had our moment of winning as underdog against the odds in 1995. Our best chance was under Martinez when he fluffed it.

I'd say our best chance was when your hero/god/messiah Moyes was scared crapless against Chelsea in the actual final, in the 1 time we tried to win something in his time here.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

City went out and bought Guehi and Semenyo to try and win a title. Villa brought in Abraham and Luiz to try and claim champions league spots.

Not comparing us to them, mainly comparing the objectives and goals. An attacking fullback or pace in the side could make or break 3 points to get Europe.

Put it this way, if we were 4th at this point in the season do you think the club would find a player if we needed one in January? Its intention.

Moyes is cautious in the transfer market we all know this so if you want to blame anyone then he's the biggest culprit. Maybe he has targets already identified who will be available in the summer (free agents etc) and didn't want to bring in players in January as it would of bloated the squad and increased the wage bill meaning we wouldn't have the same financial clout for the summer. Just a thought. Also it's fairly obvious Moyes isn't after an attacking full back but one who's defensive minded instead judging by his interest in Kenny Tete

 

[Sadken]

Like him or not, i dont think any other manager could have turned the club around in the year hes been in the job,big credit where its due.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Moyes is cautious in the transfer market we all know this so if you want to blame anyone then he's the biggest culprit. Maybe he has targets already identified who will be available in the summer (free agents etc) and didn't want to bring in players in January as it would of bloated the squad and increased the wage bill meaning we wouldn't have the same financial clout for the summer. Just a thought.

Yeah, can't wait for us to do business early as he's got his targets identified for at least half a year ahead of time. Great thought.

We definitely won't wait until a week before the league starts.

 

[blueboy72]

I don't want to compare to these clubs, I want to compare to the "so called" bigger clubs, and why they can do it, or spurs can win a European trophy..

That's ambition, not talking about clubs that are dusting their trophy whilst forgetting what premiership football felt like.

I was pointing out, that why he did a good job for us in the premier league, his record in the cups was embarrassing

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Yeah, can't wait for us to do business early as he's got his targets identified for at least half a year ahead of time. Great thought.

We definitely won't wait until a week before the league starts.

Probably not I agree. We'll see what the summer brings

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Like him or not, i dont think any other manager could have turned the club around in the year hes been in the job,big credit where its due.

Not sure, the league has been so dire and inconsistent this season it's hard to make solid judgements on what's a good achievement

 

[Bedfordblue]

Going to be another miserable year for you and all his haters if he keeps us around 8th.

I can't see him being sacked while we sit comfortably top half.

The race is not for the swift, but he who can endure it.

He will be universally detested again soon enough. One simply needs the patience to allow his methods to alienate everyone as his run of winning nowt but the Rumbalows Cup once in 20 odd years continues, while he bores everyone to tears with his talk of insufficient funds to compete and lingers on ‘where this club has been for the last few seasons’

This Moyesette gloating over another win against the run of play courtesy of a MotM performance from our keeper and a winner going in of his baby giraffes backside will be short lived I fear.