2025/26 David Moyes

No, you misunderstand.

Stability itself is not the desired outcome. Trophies and success are the desired outcome.

But are we likely to do all that after the last five years of abject crap?

No.

So we need this period of stability to use a springboard for future success. I fail to see why some people cannot fathom this.

Thats exactly what Moyes has said, paraphrasing:

Everton is a club that needs gradual improvement.

After blowing £150mil on players.

He then states that 1 in 4 transfers are successful.

Where is the "springboard for future success"?

Is it the "good boys" who have been dropped no matter how they perform?

Or perhaps Dwight McNeil, Gana, Coleman and Keane are the springboard?
 
You make progress year after year. We had stability last season. Stopped the rot and finished comfortably above the relegation zone. Why do we need a prolonged period of it?

As for trophies, if Crystal Palace can win the FA Cup then so can Everton.

Last season we stopped the rot and survived easily.
This season we’ve been talking about Europe most of the year.

Is that not progression…
 
Thats exactly what Moyes has said, paraphrasing:

Everton is a club that needs gradual improvement.

After blowing £150mil on players.

He then states that 1 in 4 transfers are successful.

Where is the "springboard for future success"?

Is it the "good boys" who have been dropped no matter how they perform?

Or perhaps Dwight McNeil, Gana, Coleman and Keane are the springboard?
I despise the term "gradual improvement", sounds so smalltime.

Sounds like they want the fans to be happy to wait decades to get back anywhere near the top 6, when all the while we're seeing Crystal Palace get to a European final, and Nottingham Forest potentially a game away from playing Champions League next year winning a European competition that would rank alongside the most prestigious cup we've won in our their existence.

How can numerous other clubs achieve massive success while we're supposed to be happy going from relegation fights to 12th to mid-table to maybe thinking about challenging for 6th in a few years?

This guy had £100m in the summer and entered the season with Grealish, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall plus £40m of additional attacking talent (he chose Dibling over another striker).

It's pathetic and small time. But that's what we are.
 
He’s our manger.

Get over yourself and get behind him and the team.

Or maybe you enjoyed the last five years of total torture, I dunno…..
I’m sure most fans are behind the team even if they don’t think the manager will take us where we need to go.

This year is a natural time to part ways with a year left on a contract.

I imagine we have over £100m to spend again this year and some of us are terrified we’ll have another situation where we spend it on players that Moyes won’t play

How many years of stability do we need. Until Ndiaye and Branthwaite sod off. The league has been poor this year and we haven’t taken advantage

Get over yourself.
 
I’m sure most fans are behind the team even if they don’t think the manager will take us where we need to go.

This year is a natural time to part ways with a year left on a contract.

I imagine we have over £100m to spend again this year and some of us are terrified we’ll have another situation where we spend it on players that Moyes won’t play

How many years of stability do we need. Until Ndiaye and Branthwaite sod off. The league has been poor this year and we haven’t taken advantage

Get over yourself.
I'm more terrified he'll spend it on John McGinn, Ben White and Ollie Watkins because that guarantees a zero ROI.
 
I'm more terrified he'll spend it on John McGinn, Ben White and Ollie Watkins because that guarantees a zero ROI.
McGinn is a very good player and Watkins in a huge improvement on what we have.

However they are players you should only be signing on frees or very low amounts given their age and wages.

Can’t see either wanting to come to us luckily given how much they would cost.

Be more worried about Soucek or a permacrocked Stones. We must have more players return to the club for a second spell than any other team.
 
The problem is that in football there is a very fine line between stability and standing still. And if you are standing still then other teams will push away from you and your better players won't be interested in hanging around for a long term slow rebuild.

I think overall the club needs to show a lot more urgency to get better. We've waited long enough for them to start being competitive.
It’s not even been 1 full season and we are on the edges of Europe. It’s hardly standing around.

It was past the midway point of last season that we were still discussing relegation threat. We haven’t even had that as a thought at any point this year.
 
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Yes, we need at least another 2 years of getting knocked out at home in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.

By 2030 we can aim to be in the 5th round.
Exactly mate, we’ve had like 10 years of relegation concerns. 5 years to reach round 5 seems realistic
 

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