2025/26 David Moyes

[PercyPlant]

Did he? Well he brought Lukaku in, and that's the reality. Our best CF since the glory days.

Lukaku was in no way shape or form better than Rooney. But I’d advise thinking before posting buddy, boasting that your favourite manager has “our best CF” when registering back to back bottom half finishes isn’t the flex you think it is.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

He's done well. But let's not forget that he inherited

the England No.1 GK
one of the best CB pairings in the PL
Ndiaye
Garner
O'Brien
Gueye
Iroegbunam
Alcaraz

...and he spent £110M last summer.

The same players you said could only finish 15th lest we forget. Dave stop doing this to yourself, it isn't healthy.

 

[MikeH72]

I think you've lost your way here mate; you obviously dont know what you're posting from the vaults as none of that makes any sense in relation to what we're talking about right now....and you have a couple of fellow chuckleheads 'liking' what you're dredging up from the vaults. Lol.

You're so enraged and frothing at the mouth it must be hard to think straight and focus on a sequence of events and how they help or detract from what you're posting.

You’ve genuinely with a straight face just listed a load of players to try and make out Moyes inherited a top class squad, when you yourself thought the same players were so bad they were beyond saving under the previous manager. I only aim to present your own hypocrisies to the forum for you to be laughed at, that’s the only service I’m providing.

 

[PercyPlant]

He's done well. But let's not forget that he inherited

the England No.1 GK
one of the best CB pairings in the PL
Ndiaye
Garner
O'Brien
Gueye
Iroegbunam
Alcaraz

...and he spent £110M last summer.

Did we not sign Alcaraz this summer?

 

[grandjoeblue]

Lukaku was in no way shape or form better than Rooney. But I’d advise thinking before posting buddy, boasting that your favourite manager has “our best CF” when registering back to back bottom half finishes isn’t the flex you think it is.

Rooney's best season for Everton he only scored 10, Lukaku scored more than that pretty much every year.

 

[John from Bootle]

He's done well. But let's not forget that he inherited

the England No.1 GK
one of the best CB pairings in the PL
Ndiaye
Garner
O'Brien
Gueye
Iroegbunam
Alcaraz

...and he spent £110M last summer.

Garner has come on leaps and bounds under Moyes. Dare I say, he's been like a new signing this season. He's gone from being a competent midfielder for us to being the first name on the team sheet. Getting the best out of players is one of the things he should definitely be judged on.

I'm not sure they are one of the best CB pairings in the league. Branthwaite is class, Tarks is a good solid prem player, nothing more. We could argue about that all day though, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

O'Brien is a decent player, but pretty much everybody agrees he's not a good enough RB for us going forward, and he's allegedly got one of the best cb pairings in the PL to contend with so I'm not sure he's been useful to Moyes in a way you could say 'wow, what a player to inherit'

Tim's a squad player.

Gueye, Pickford and N'diaye are class, granted.

Moyes brought Alcaraz in, and he's not even been that great. Decent enough buy at £12 million, but again, a squad player, and this squad will only kick on to another level if he ends up leaving in the next few years. Not because I'm singling him out, just because that's how you make your squad stronger - move players on and bring better ones in.

 

[MikeH72]

Did we not sign Alcaraz this summer?

In January we signed him on deadline day as well, 3 weeks after Moyes was appointed.

 

[davek]

You’ve genuinely with a straight face just listed a load of players to try and make out Moyes inherited a top class squad, when you yourself thought the same players were so bad they were beyond saving under the previous manager. I only aim to present your own hypocrisies to the forum for you to be laughed at, that’s the only service I’m providing.

I didn't say he inherited a top class squad; I posted a list of players that underlined that Moyes had inherited most of the first team that we'd be surprised or disappointed not to hold onto now.

Dyche - as Ive said before many times - is a more limited manager than even Moyes. Of course we should expect Moyes to get more out of those players. It's the same argument that Martinez got much more out of the players he inherited from Moyes, because Martinez is a superior manager to Moyes.

You haven't thought your argument through.

 

[PercyPlant]

He's done well. But let's not forget that he inherited

the England No.1 GK
one of the best CB pairings in the PL
Ndiaye
Garner
O'Brien
Gueye
Iroegbunam
Alcaraz

...and he spent £110M last summer.

For those who fall for this nonsense, a bit of context of what you’re dealing with.

Martinez inherited this

 

[PercyPlant]

In January we signed him on deadline day as well, 3 weeks after Moyes was appointed.

Was it not a loan? Point is, Alcaraz was included in the £110m referenced?

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Kevin Nolan has literally been on the radio this morning and was talking about Mavropanos and it was 100% a Moyes signing, Kev watched him on Moyes behalf mate as did Pearce. Nice try though JFTM. He has actually been one of their better players recently so I'm not sure why you are complaining tbh as its a Moyes signing coming good.

Did he? Well it goes against pretty much all prior reporting on the matter.

There is plenty of other sources, but here is one example. Indeed, Steidten supposedly went out of his way to pour cold water over the Maguire transfer, claiming it was bad value for money.

Inside Tim Steidten’s West Ham exit: Signing mistakes, managerial issues and relief at leaving

Technical director Steidten has left West Ham after a difficult 18 months - here's the behind-the-scenes story of that time

www.nytimes.com

 

[PercyPlant]

I didn't say he inherited a top class squad; I posted a list of players that underlined that Moyes had inherited most of the first team that we'd be surprised or disappointed not to hold onto now.

Dyche - as Ive said before many times - is a more limited manager than even Moyes. Of course we should expect Moyes to get more out of those players. It's the same argument that Martinez got much more out of the players he inherited from Moyes, because Martinez is a superior manager to Moyes.

You haven't thought your argument through.

Then explain back to back bottom half finishes on less than 50 points?

Is our current squad better than what we had between 14-16?

 

[Simon Buttle]

Did he? Well it goes against pretty much all prior reporting on the matter.

There is plenty of other sources, but here is one example.

https://www.[Publication is blackli...rget-on-the-verge-of-joining-west-ham-united/

You have quoted a blacklisted website which means its clickbait nonsense basically hence the link won't work mate. Nolan was talking him up and said he was always confident the player would come good despite the shaky start but they had been watching him for a while.

just seen the other link you posted

Who knows then but that's what he was saying this morning mate.

 

[davek]

Garner has come on leaps and bounds under Moyes. Dare I say, he's been like a new signing this season. He's gone from being a competent midfielder for us to being the first name on the team sheet. Getting the best out of players is one of the things he should definitely be judged on.

I'm not sure they are one of the best CB pairings in the league. Branthwaite is class, Tarks is a good solid prem player, nothing more. We could argue about that all day though, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

O'Brien is a decent player, but pretty much everybody agrees he's not a good enough RB for us going forward, and he's allegedly got one of the best cb pairings in the PL to contend with so I'm not sure he's been useful to Moyes in a way you could say 'wow, what a player to inherit'

Tim's a squad player.

Gueye, Pickford and N'diaye are class, granted.

Moyes brought Alcaraz in, and he's not even been that great. Decent enough buy at £12 million, but again, a squad player, and this squad will only kick on to another level if he ends up leaving in the next few years. Not because I'm singling him out, just because that's how you make your squad stronger - move players on and bring better ones in.

I think we can all agree that Moyes hadn't been left with a relegation outfit - far from it. Then he had £110M to throw at the first team and brought in class players like Grealish (wages) and KDH who could be the difference in terms of getting us up the field.

It isn't a miraculous story. Not in any way shape or form.

We are currently 8th in the league. That's only a little ahead of schedule that I expected. My long held and stated view has been that for this season we need minimum top 10 for him to keep his job in what is a garbage league now.

So, as I stated above, he's done well.

That's about it really.

 

[MikeH72]

I didn't say he inherited a top class squad; I posted a list of players that underlined that Moyes had inherited most of the first team that we'd be surprised or disappointed not to hold onto now.

Dyche - as Ive said before many times - is a more limited manager than even Moyes. Of course we should expect Moyes to get more out of those players. It's the same argument that Martinez got much more out of the players he inherited from Moyes, because Martinez is a superior manager to Moyes.

You haven't thought your argument through.

So what you’re saying is that Moyes has improved a set of players tenfold that you thought were so bad under the previous manager that they’d get overtaken by Dyche’s Leicester City? One of which was permanently relegated to the bench under him and had everyone questioning what the point of the signing was? Wow, well done Moyes I suppose.