2025/26 David Moyes

[OlDirtyBluenose]

Sees out his contact at best, no extensions past next season.

 

[maccavennie]

If you look at the January window I and others berated Moyes & the club for not strengthening the squad .
It was as bad as any decision he & the club have made this season.

Pretty much away from the relegation places with a rapidly depleting squad.
Massive , massive missed opportunity to really push on for europe , but of course Moyes knows better .

tbf he signed George.....


and given him about 110 minutes of football in 3 months.

 

[Andy Gray Diving Headers]

It was a long time time ago, and my memory isn't great, but I always thought in his first time with us, his best buys were low-cost bargains (Cahill, Martyn, Bent, Arteta etc), and his more expensive buys were average at best.
Reading West Ham fans comments, they are often along the same kind of lines.
I'm certainly not anti-Moyes but giving him a few quid in the summer could be interesting.

 

[Blue peter]

It just feels like with some supporters it’s always next season and next season etc. Last season it was ‘just let’s get to the new stadium (which short term was never going to be a game changer) but now that’s done….its ‘wait to next season again’.

Stability is fine (due to our recent history) but we are currently only one point better off than where we finished last season so my question is for some supporters, how long should stability last?

Currently the only difference really between this season and last has been where the points have been distributed throughout the season.

 

[windymiller]

I think it's just more down to realism. Mid table squad doing mid table things. Relive the 80s in our heads all we want - it doesn't get us anywhere.

Neither does doing what we've been doing, which is what you're advocating more of.

 

[windymiller]

Maupay probably who's signing based on the scorers he had a Brighton made sense, but it's probably more about getting rid of the costly deadwood like Mina, Gomes, Tosun, Gylfi as we were forced to reduce the wage bill significantly in that time too

Forwards were a big blind spot for Thelwell. I think he did well in most other areas of the pitch under difficult circumstances but Broja, Chermiti, Maupay and even Beto were pretty weak signings. I do acknowledge, however, that there is a premium on forwards that makes it difficult to do well on a budget, not impossible though.

 

[windymiller]

How does the mentality of a section of the fanbase stop us progressing? Serious question.

The owners are ambitious or they aren’t.

For me it's what the fans let the owners get away with. As much as I hate to give any credit to that other mob in the city but they let their ownership when they think standards have fallen. We have become pretty apathetic overall.

 

[MACCA75]

For me it's what the fans let the owners get away with. As much as I hate to give any credit to that other mob in the city but they let their ownership when they think standards have fallen. We have become pretty apathetic overall.

I just think they will make their own decisions about how the season has gone.

 

[windymiller]

I just think they will make their own decisions about how the season has gone.

Yeah, probably but I would still like our fans to be more demanding.

 

[davek]

What if we play the best football ever but aren’t winning? What’s the point in that?

Do Arsenal play the best football? No they are terrible to watch. But in the end, they win and are 3 games away from winning the league and champions league playing some of the most dreadful, dull and boring football you’ll ever see. If Arteta wasn’t Spanish and was English, they’d be labelling his style that of Allardyce, Pulis and Dyche standard.

Said I'd be wiling to wait a few seasons, not that I'd like t see decent football with no end product.

 

[davek]

I wouldn't be surprised if we dont reach 50 points this season.

We're currently 1 point ahead of Dyche's highest points total when he had to deal with the world against Everton.

£110M spent and 12,000 more fans to cheer us to victory in a new stadium and he's barely surpassed Dyche.

No one can defend that.


He came in here 18 months ago and was ever so humble and all zen and inspired and stuff.

Now he's back to being an angry clueless no mark leading us to nowhere.

 

[COYBL25]

Now I’m back to being an angry clueless no mark

I agree with you there mate.

 

[duncs pigeon]

Good to hear the fans singing his name today, cple times during the 2nd half.

 

[matty1878]

Sees out his contact at best, no extensions past next season.

it will be this unless we slide

 

[matty1878]

Good to hear the fans singing his name today, cple times during the 2nd half.

Yup dave Will say it's fake background noise