2025/26 David Moyes

[Drico]

I didn’t want Moyes back as it felt like a regressive step but did think he did well last season & played some decent stuff. Unfortunately he seems to have reverted to type this season.

I particularly don’t like the way some of the more recent acquisitions have been managed.

I’d hope TFG look at who is available & talk to those interested.

Maybe Moyes is the best we can attract at that level but if he stays I wouldn’t expect anything too much different next season.

If TFG are happy to make up the numbers then Moyes can be relied upon to keep us around mid table.

I am hoping they have higher ambitions as the fans deserve better than 30 years without winning anything of note except for the occasional derby.

We'll be having the same conversations this time next year, having lost another derby and gone out of both cups.

Tune in next April to hear somebody say: "He has us 10th this season - an improvement on last season's 11th. Contract extension, Dan!"

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Moyes is like a dog who always returns to have a go at his own vomit.

FFS Dave

 

[Bluewolf]

Brighton spent 280 mil a couple of seasons ago and brought in 50mil the previous 2 summers they made a profit of 160mil and last summer they made 60mil from sales, so in 4 yrs they have a 10mil debt on spending
Bournemouth brought in 300mil just this season from sales. Brentford over 180 on 3 forwards in the last 2 summers. They have spent money, but They’re bringing big money back in.

If you go back 5 yrs on them 3 clubs, buying and selling. The debt on spending fir all 3 will not be huge imo

The whole league buys and sells players. Brighton have spent near 500m in the last 3 seasons.

Just because you sell doesnt mean you dont buy players. Liverpool made over £200m in sales last summer.

If you want to go that way we have one of the lowest net spends over the last 5 years in the PL.

Chelsea have net spend of 260m over the last 3 years but they've spent over a billion in that time. Everyone sells in this league but if youve spent money youve still spent money.

 

[KevMirallas]

Chickens have come home to roost this season unfortunately. Can only run from it for so long.

I don’t agree that “mentality” is the issue. We score a lot of late goals, and in fact our whole season has been built on scrappy points won away from home. The spirit in the team is the difference between being mid-table and being Spurs right now.

The problem is the team has too many poor players within it. This is due to poor recruitment and poor squad management through the season. Both are at the feet of the manager.

We don’t buy a right back, so a promising CB in O’Brien has to play there and a fading Tarkowski plays every minute. Or our best midfielder Garner gets pulled out of that spot to fill in.

We botch the RW signing and Moyes refuses to try to bring Dibling along through the year. So when we’re chasing a goal the only attacking player he fancies to bring on is George (who has barely shown more than Dibling) and so our best attacking player Ndiaye is moved out of position and neutered.

It also means McNeil, who was supposed to be sold four months ago, starts every game and struggles horribly.

We don’t sign a first team LB and Moyes refuses to try to bring Aznou along so the worst player in the league Mykolenko plays every minute, and costs us points every other week.

We botch the striker signing and expect someone like Barry to play in the exact same way as Beto, when they are completely different players.

Rohl can’t get a look in, Armstrong has disappeared. Alcaraz is thrown the odd bone when he is fit. Gueye plays every single game at 47 years old regardless of form or fitness.

Every little mistake made since July has added up and caused a ripple effect across the pitch. We are now relying on our handful of remaining good players to do it almost single-handedly (KDH is doing his best on that front) while relying on miraculous late winners and equalisers. It’s not sustainable, and it has flipped.

Either Moyes needs to approach this summer and next season entirely differently, or we’ll need a different manager. Because the same thing will happen if we do the same things again.

 

[Bluewolf]

Has he won anything with us though? I wasn’t talking about West Ham

West Ham are in trouble because their dildo of a chairman keeps selling all their best players and owes loads to rights and media funding

A bit like blue bill!!

Well neither did Ancelotti by that reasoning.

Is he crap as well?

because he may of won the CL 5 time but it wasnt with everton

 

[davek]

Think even Freud himself would just call you a basket case with the over dramatic, 5hite, borderline disturbed anecdotes you churn out.

It's not an 'anecdote'; it's a proverb from the bible.

*sigh*

 

[Bluewolf]

Bournemouth have negative net spend overall with Iraola. Sure they spent a fair bit initially but sold big last summer and he's still got them performing.

And what if they do?

Hes still spent money.

If you spend money you get from work, do you count that as not spending it because you didnt have it before you got paid?

 

[Thomasc]

It's not an 'anecdote'; it's a proverb from the bible.

*sigh*

In that case get your own material. Regurgitating the words of others in an attempt to shock makes you look even further unhinged.

 

[Neiler]

No complaints really, I said at the start of the season my expectation was to be competitive for Euroape and we have been/are.

Expectations have been raised.

We’ve some good players, but also some pretty poor ones still and the first team is still balanced poorly in my opinion.

 

[Cels]

It's not an 'anecdote'; it's a proverb from the bible.

*sigh*

So you don't see him as the prodigal son then

 

[Bob Elstone]

Another shocking performance.

 

[sd_1992]

No complaints really, I said at the start of the season my expectation was to be competitive for Euroape and we have been/are.

Expectations have been raised.

We’ve some good players, but also some pretty poor ones still and the first team is still balanced poorly in my opinion.

We haven’t ever really seriously threatened Europe despite being close points wise, the positions and teams getting Europe this season mean it is a real wasted opportunity.

Expectations have been dampened all season both by Moyes and his supporters which is exactly why we haven’t ever been serious about Europe.

 

[Neiler]

We haven’t ever really seriously threatened Europe despite being close points wise, the positions and teams getting Europe this season mean it is a real wasted opportunity.

Expectations have been dampened all season both by Moyes and his supporters which is exactly why we haven’t ever been serious about Europe.

Disagree mate.

 

[AndyP94]

Overall he's done well since he came back.

We were in trouble last season and mid table obscurity is ok after the trauma of last few years.

But if there was a blueprint of a Moyes season, it's this.

Joyless, cautious football. Knocked out of both cups. Bottled every chance to get a European place.

It's the hope that kills you. He's done well to quickly see us safe, but if we end up in the bottom half, we've not really progressed from last season, even with better players.

 

[Fonzy]

Well neither did Ancelotti by that reasoning.

Is he crap as well?

because he may of won the CL 5 time but it wasnt with everton

Are you seriously comparing Carlo with Moyes?!?

Your crazy