2025/26 David Moyes

[Swartzy]

Aren’t the only clubs he’s not been fired out a cannon and got to the last year of his contract here and WHU (v2.0) and in both instances his contract was run down resulting in uncertainty? - obv here he was under orders from Sir Whiskey Nose and WHU they withdrew their offer after his dithering.

Preston

Tho don't remind @Joey66

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Ahem...

"I fear in England we are already being left behind and a whole generation of forward-thinking, innovative and progressive coaches will be lost to the game.

"Football is too great a sport to be paralysed by fear and the longer it strangles our game and promotes safety-first appointments, and the accompanying arcane philosophy of football."

Safety-first managers will leave Premier League on the hard shoulder | Liam Rosenior

David Moyes to West Ham is merely the latest example of a roundhead appointment prevailing over more innovative, cavalier thinking

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bedfordblue]

Preston

Tho don't remind @Joey66

We bought him out of his contract there though didn’t we / gave them compo mid contract I thought (but prob wrong)

Edit - £1.6m compo in 2002

Moyes takes Everton job

Everton FC have confirmed the appointment of David Moyes as their new manager on a four-year deal.

www.uefa.com

 

[Rehnman]

Ahem...

"I fear in England we are already being left behind and a whole generation of forward-thinking, innovative and progressive coaches will be lost to the game.

"Football is too great a sport to be paralysed by fear and the longer it strangles our game and promotes safety-first appointments, and the accompanying arcane philosophy of football."

Safety-first managers will leave Premier League on the hard shoulder | Liam Rosenior

David Moyes to West Ham is merely the latest example of a roundhead appointment prevailing over more innovative, cavalier thinking

www.theguardian.com

It was a strange choice of analogy in the subheading as “Cavalier thinking” wasn’t much good against the Roundheads the first time round. No wonder Liam lost his head.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

It was a strange choice of analogy in the subheading as “Cavalier thinking” wasn’t much good against the Roundheads the first time round. No wonder Liam lost his head.

You're doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past if you don't understand it!

 

[BackRow PE6]

I can’t see any scenario where Moyes is replaced in the summer and I think it’s very highly likely he gets an extension to secure his position for next season.
Objectively speaking, if it was a different appointee to moyes who came in last season and secured safety quickly, revolutionised our away form, improved a number of underperforming players and kicked us on to be in the European hunt this year with a thin squad, there wouldn’t be this conversation going on. He’s hampered by people’s perspective of him for his first spell, which admittedly is on him.

 

[st.domingo]

I can’t see any scenario where Moyes is replaced in the summer and I think it’s very highly likely he gets an extension to secure his position for next season.
Objectively speaking, if it was a different appointee to moyes who came in last season and secured safety quickly, revolutionised our away form, improved a number of underperforming players and kicked us on to be in the European hunt this year with a thin squad, there wouldn’t be this conversation going on. He’s hampered by people’s perspective of him for his first spell, which admittedly is on him.

Totally. Dare I say it’s a little like getting back together with an ex. It doesn’t take long before you’re reminded of all the things that pissed you off about them the first time around.

 

[Moomin]

Think you might want to update the current manager in there or some spleens are going to pop

Just shows that AI makes mistakes. I made it correct itself

 

[Moomin]

Well thank god that’s completely inaccurate and our current manager isn’t him.

The stats are correct, just the name they had was incorrect for our current manager

 

[Drico]

I agree, he should probably go in the summer if we miss out on Europe. It would just be delaying the inevitable to keep him otherwise. In fairness to Moyes though, I've got to say that I have confidence that he'd be extremely professional regardless of it being his final season. I don't believe that he'd ever do a Dyche and down tools regardless of it being obvious that he was as good as gone.

He won't down tools. He might scurry off behind our backs and join United, but I'd not hold that against him if history repeated itself at, say, Spurs...

 

[Drico]

That is correct. Good leadership requires decisive decision making. Let's hope TFG are decisive

Until we have evidence to the contrary, best to assume they decisively want mid-table football to nurse their investment.

 

[BackRow PE6]

Totally. Dare I say it’s a little like getting back together with an ex. It doesn’t take long before you’re reminded of all the things that pissed you off about them the first time around.

Never had the pleasure

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

He won't down tools. He might scurry off behind our backs and join United, but I'd not hold that against him if history repeated itself at, say, Spurs...

It would make life much easier if he did. He probably won't though. He didn't do that back in 2013 after all. There was no "behind our backs" about it back then. His contract was expiring and every man and his dog knew he was going to Man Utd to replace whisky nonse. Well everyone apart from Kenwright, apparently.

 

[Bedfordblue]

It would make life much easier if he did. He probably won't though. He didn't do that back in 2013 after all. There was no "behind our backs" about it back then. His contract was expiring and every man and his dog knew he was going to Man Utd to replace whisky nonse. Well everyone apart from Kenwright, apparently.

You said that in the other thread, yet no one knew SAF was retiring.

Apparently Moyes was ‘told’ by whiskey chops he was replacing him on the 7th May before announcing his retirement next day.
Utd then announced Moyes as his replacement on the 9th. May.
This was all while we had a contract on the table for him apparently.
This was published on 10th May where Moyes says he was going to extend and was planning his Everton pre season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/22484074.

Glasner told Palace he wasn’t renewing in Oct last year.

So even if the true timeline started earlier than that, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say Moyes was a bit underhand, and certainly not as up front as Glasner was.

 

[The Littlest Yobo]

It sounds obvious but it all depends on where we finish. Get Europe and even I, who didn’t want him, would grudgingly admit he’s surpassed expectations this season and deserves another stab and an extension. But, we could finish bottom half. That, together with the tepid cup exits, the absolute squandering of almost £100m and some abysmal home performances alongside 2 Derby capitulations, would lean me to saying thanks and goodbye. What would be the point in keeping him on? My gut says that he will be offered a contract extension regardless of where we finish. TFG will pick up on the Moyes Stockholm Syndrome which exudes from the most forgiving and least demanding of our fanbase who thinks he deserves to get to 15 years of winning nothing and still dining out on 4th from over 2 decades ago. We certainly don’t owe him any loyalty. He forwent that when he was sweating nervously on Sir Alex’s path because he was wearing jeans for one of his sly secret meetings. Oh for an Emery like figure. Someone who actually can make that next step that we keep missing under this serial underachiever.