2025/26 David Moyes

Yup, one of the other lads pointed me in the right direction, thank you.

Not a bad read although I do think you held back a bit on their "copy and paste" manager. What did you make of the half time thing,? Apparently their manager said that the players have to wait and follow the captain into the changing rooms. But the captain was busy having a whinge at the ref, so all the players were hanging round like naughty schoolboy outside the headmaster office.
Its superficial leadership peacocking that only creates disconnect over time between employer and employees I’m sure some of you are subject to it in your workplace.

Everton, on the other hand, seem to enjoy fighting for their leader.
 
Moyes has dragged the team, dragged the club, from relegation strugglers to European contenders, that deserves praise, and backing.

At times this season Moyes did look lost, the home defeats, selections, subs, lame cup exits, no one can say he didn't deserve criticism or scrutiny.

Every manager goes through difficult patches. He's definitely worked through those difficulties. If we get in to Europe he deserves to lead us in to next season he'll be here no matter what.
 
I'll make no bones about the fact that I didn't want him back, but, there's no denying he has made a very good job of stabilising the club. A decision has to be made in the summer, if he gets us into Europe, then I think he should and would be offered an extension, even if he doesn't get Europe I wouldn't mind him getting an extension. The main thing, in my opinion, is he should not go into the summer entering the last year of his contract, this would make recruitment very tricky.

Extend his contract or replace him.
 
I dunno man, I get he is getting on and has his blind spots. But its March 22nd and we are 3 points off 5th and 5 points off CL spot. Results wise he's getting everton back to where he roughly had it.
If we actually have the funds to strengthen the squad which we didnt have in Moyes 1.0 times, im verging on it being exciting times.

Starving for a cup run mind you...
 
Moyes has dragged the team, dragged the club, from relegation strugglers to European contenders, that deserves praise, and backing.

At times this season Moyes did look lost, the home defeats, selections, subs, lame cup exits, no one can say he didn't deserve criticism or scrutiny.

Every manager goes through difficult patches. He's definitely worked through those difficulties. If we get in to Europe he deserves to lead us in to next season he'll be here no matter what.
Every manager deserves criticism and scrutiny. Blindly taking a position on either side of the debate and abandoning all critical thinking is a sign of a genuine lack of intelligence.

Personally, I've said all along that a mid table finish was my target before the season started. Think that was a reasonable stretch based on wanting to see improvement on previous years and reflecting that Moyes had been given mid table resources to spend rather than the relegation budgets of previous years.

Away games and games at home against teams who want to come out and play are where Moyes excels - yesterday was great, but I had a feeling it would suit us.

European qualification would be more than I expected this season, but with 7 games to go we are 3 points off a Champions League place - realistically that isn't happening, but we are on track to get 50 odd points, which is a decent improvement on the last few years and that will have us close to European spots. Unless we completely fall apart in the last few games, the season has been largely successful. The thing to be more concerned with, in my opinion, is what good looks like next season. Maybe it's a bit soon for that discussion given we don't know budgets etc yet, but it's hard to imagine at this point that Moyes will underperform what the minimum requirements were for this season (or at least my minimum requirements).
 
with 7 games to go we are 3 points off a Champions League place - realistically that isn't happening

Party pooper!
Has your season ended?

We're currently ONLY 3 points off a Champions League place.
We've just stuffed Chelsea, and we perform better away. Onwards and upwards.

After we spank the RS on 19th April you'll be renewing your passport in readiness for next seasons European campaign . All thanks to Mr Moyes.

Hopefully.
 
I dunno man, I get he is getting on and has his blind spots. But its March 22nd and we are 3 points off 5th and 5 points off CL spot. Results wise he's getting everton back to where he roughly had it.
If we actually have the funds to strengthen the squad which we didnt have in Moyes 1.0 times, im verging on it being exciting times.

Starving for a cup run mind you...
I'm a Moyes critic and make no bones about it that I don't think he is the right manager for a club putting an emphasis on youth (if that is what the suits are doing). But he is competent - and that's a very underappreciated quality in this league. Moyes will never take a risk when he can be conservative, but I have always believed in rewarding tangible success. If he gets any European spot, he deserves an extension. It's that simple. The only thing missing from this season - so far (beside a derby win, which we still hope for) - is that cup run. We have three weeks off for a reason... but, on the other hand, these remaining league games take the same form now as a cup campaign: we can dream.

Get Europe and extend. Miss out on Europe and I would say we need to be much more clear-eyed as a club about our recruitment strategy and where we truly see ourselves over the coming half decade. We're dreaming today, but blow the next two and we're back in mid-table having lost another derby. Fine margins right now. We'll enjoy the next three weeks anyway...
 
I'm a Moyes critic and make no bones about it that I don't think he is the right manager for a club putting an emphasis on youth (if that is what the suits are doing). But he is competent - and that's a very underappreciated quality in this league. Moyes will never take a risk when he can be conservative, but I have always believed in rewarding tangible success. If he gets any European spot, he deserves an extension. It's that simple. The only thing missing from this season - so far (beside a derby win, which we still hope for) - is that cup run. We have three weeks off for a reason... but, on the other hand, these remaining league games take the same form now as a cup campaign: we can dream.

Get Europe and extend. Miss out on Europe and I would say we need to be much more clear-eyed as a club about our recruitment strategy and where we truly see ourselves over the coming half decade. We're dreaming today, but blow the next two and we're back in mid-table having lost another derby. Fine margins right now. We'll enjoy the next three weeks anyway...


i’m sure our summer recruitment is already sorted out who we want and things - so moyes will hopefully know who he wants and hope we can get them
 

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