2025/26 David Moyes

[Kevsleftpeg]

Thanks for the feedback. I’d suggest you have absolutely no idea what I do or don’t know so your comment is rather silly on a forum.

So you know which players are fully fit/carrying minor injuries and how Moyes is managing that in terms of minutes. Right you are ...

 

[Bedfordblue]

To be fair from memory he wanted Bale and Fabregas. They went all out for them, didn't sign them and he ended up signing Fellaini for around £10 million more than they needed to as they missed the deadline for a lower fee! I think he signed Mata in January as well who had a good a career at Utd and that was pretty much it? He obviously failed at United but it wasn't due to a signing a load of duds as he didn't actually spend much money.

You can’t seriously by trying to tell me those two weren’t attracted by the chance to play Moyesball?

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

He’s just spent £100m plus & most of the money is sat on the bench. Why would anyone with common sense give him more money to spend.

Also remember it was his choice not to buy full backs.

We're 8th with a squad with basically the same value as the last few years when we have fought relegation. Everything else is just pathetic tittle tattle.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

He had one at Man Utd and got sacked in his first season.

And all subsequent managers also struggled. Lots of extremely successful managers have flopped at big clubs.

 

[Kirkdale]

The manager isn't holding us back though. Give h a champions league budget and squad and let's see how he performs.

Remember united. All the money in the world and bought Fellaini, tried to take Baines n Coleman as well. Basically turn them into Everton. Proves he's stuck on his favourites and won't budge

 

[Swagger]

Indeed.

Inheriting the champions of England, at a club widely regarded as the richest in the world with an unmatched budget, with a team packed to the gills with players who had been assembled at a cost of hundreds of millions, really was an impossible task. They were lucky he managed to get them to 7th tbf.

United haven't come close to winning the league or champions league since Moyes was sacked and that includes serial winners like Mourinho, Van Gael etc so it's not like he butchered an amazing team. Ferguson won the league in the season before Moyes mainly thanks to Van Persie being fit for every single league game and the opposition being in transition - plus this was pre Pep, Klopp etc. Moyes failed of course but I think whoever went in would have had similar struggles. The older players who were once top level had dropped off yet their egos thought they were still elite and they wouldn't have played for another manager after Ferguson. Similar to Clough at Leeds the players didn't want to know after don Revie.

 

[Swagger]

You can’t seriously by trying to tell me those two weren’t attracted by the chance to play Moyesball?

Would they have been tempted to play for Manchester United at that time?

 

[Clarky cat]

So you know which players are fully fit/carrying minor injuries and how Moyes is managing that in terms of minutes. Right you are ...

Last night Moyes confirmed that both Jake O’Brien and James Garner had been ill since playing against Newcastle. A few days later they both started and played the full match against Burnley. Thoughts?

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

United haven't come close to winning the league or champions league since Moyes was sacked and that includes serial winners like Mourinho, Van Gael etc so it's not like he butchered an amazing team. Ferguson won the league in the season before Moyes mainly thanks to Van Persie being fit for every single league game and the opposition being in transition - plus this was pre Pep, Klopp etc. Moyes failed of course but I think whoever went in would have had similar struggles. The older players who were once top level had dropped off yet their egos thought they were still elite and they wouldn't have played for another manager after Ferguson. Similar to Clough at Leeds the players didn't want to know after don Revie.

That's a great comparison.

 

[Kirkdale]

We're 8th with a squad with basically the same value as the last few years when we have fought relegation. Everything else is just pathetic tittle tattle.

8 th but could well be 13th , it's a tight league and we have a tough run in. Brag at the end of the season mate

 

[blueboy72]

To be fair from memory he wanted Bale and Fabregas. They went all out for them, didn't sign them and he ended up signing Fellaini for around £10 million more than they needed to as they missed the deadline for a lower fee! I think he signed Mata in January as well who had a good a career at Utd and that was pretty much it? He obviously failed at United but it wasn't due to a signing a load of duds as he didn't actually spend much money.

One of His biggest mistakes was getting rid of Ferguson back room team
And bringing in his own, Ferguson advised him against this.
Fellaini would have also been 100% on him, he was a good player, but surely you don’t from Fabregas to fellani. I’m sure he could have got 10 midfielders better than Fellaini and utd would have had the finances and pull to get most of them

 

[matty1878]

still makes me feel sick that if we lose a game same old want him gone

and even sicker that you want us to lose a game for him to be gone

 

[MikeH72]

8 th but could well be 13th , it's a tight league and we have a tough run in. Brag at the end of the season mate

Just in case anyone was wondering, we’re closer to Liverpool in 5th than we are to Newcastle in 13th.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Why are we still going on about Dyche mate? As you know, I backed him, and I'm of the opinion that he deserves credit for the 'rescue job' he did. However, his goose was cooked by the end. He showed he had absolutely no other way to work than survival mode. He tried for a little bit at the start of his last season. He went more attacking, watched us concede a load of goals and then just decided that he had to go back to survival mode and basically admitted he had nothing else to offer.

There was some credible draws in his last season, but ultimately, it was January 9th when he went and we'd won 3 league games: Palace & Wolves at home, and Ipswich away. I'm all for backing managers, and I like to think I give them all a fair crack of the whip, but even I'd had enough of him by then.

As a slight aside, I've also lost a ton of respect for him after listenng to him on some podcast or other. When the points deduction came up, he said something like 'so I got a call to tell me we'd been docked the 10 points. I couldn't believe it, I knew absolutely nothing about it'... Really Sean? It was pretty well documented, and was certainly a hot topic amongst the fanbase.

We’re not. I was more laughing that one of the biggest holders of binary opinions on here was the one pleading for nuance on the forum.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Remember united. All the money in the world and bought Fellaini, tried to take Baines n Coleman as well. Basically turn them into Everton. Proves he's stuck on his favourites and won't budge

He tried to sign two of the best fullbacks in the league you mean? Honestly, the agenda against is just so boring. You're like a bunch of grown men still moaning because you only got 90% of the things on your Xmas list 30 years ago. It's pathetic.