Moyes is afraid of everything that gets in the way of his easy achievable target of mid-table: he talks down the stadium seeing it as more of a hindrance than a help; he talks up late arrivals rather than being thankful £100M was spent in the end; he looks at the LC as a competition that crowds out preparation for PL games.
He's a horrendously negative manger who's acting like a dead weight on this club.
He may have suited the previous period he was here when we were in the doldrums and needing solid percentage decisions; but he is way out of step with this new era for the club.
I said last night that ultimately the owners are to blame here for not having the balls to tell him to sling his hook this summer and go with their own first choice. I think that's right and they need to start planning now for Iraola or Glasner or similar for next summer if we dont get a European spot.
This cant go on for two seasons. No chance. It'll stop our evolution from where we are to where we're destined to go in its tracks. Moyes must be replaced at the end of this season.
He’ll hit the targets for this year in my opinion but the big challenge will be the next one which is my contention.
From what Kinnear has said he’s mentioned top half and a deep cup run. I think that’s the bar for this year. Can
Moyes do it? I’m sure he might be able to get us into the top 10, who knows what will happen with the FA cup. There’ll probably be a view on the type of finish also e.g did we push Europe all season or did we do an Allardyce and make it thanks to some final results at end of the season.
The problem comes after that though because I imagine the target for the next season would be European football and targeting trophy wins. To do this Everton need to start winning away at top teams, winning derbies, going for wins when opportunity is there rather than draws, getting close to 2 points per game.
That’s the challenge in my view that
Moyes will have to face if he achieves the first year targets. That’s a level he’s never reached at any team and it’s not contentious to say that. As you know I argued the toss with you for years over Moyes’ first spell but people need to recognise the landscape has changed. It’s also the reason why comparisons to Dyche or other managers under Moshiri is completely redundant. There’s no PS&R concerns, there’s no debt issues, there’s no sell to profit, there’s no absentee owner. The Friedkins will have targets, they will expect them to be met, if they’re not there’ll be no sentimentality. That’s the reality
