Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
That's a Dyche level of points return. 21 points from 18 games, just over a point per game. Losing yesterday to a side that was even below that for the second half of the season tells you that we are still sinking.
Yep. Here's the second half of the season table. He's tanked completely at the wrong time, while other clubs have ascended at the right time (Brighton, Bournemouth).
Get rid of him before he takes us back into a relegation dogfight.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Moves style was never exciting.
But recently it's been worse than some of the late 70s ,early 80s,were we would openly laugh at players and spend time counting away fans.
Possession doesn't win games but as Brian clough once said 'if you have the ball,the other team can't score '.
Not going to get any better under this fella...we stick or twist?
But recently it's been worse than some of the late 70s ,early 80s,were we would openly laugh at players and spend time counting away fans.
Possession doesn't win games but as Brian clough once said 'if you have the ball,the other team can't score '.
Not going to get any better under this fella...we stick or twist?
Worryingly that's my take on it too.
Along with the signings you mention all being done with three minutes to go before the window closes.
A depressing summer to look forward to unless TFG shock us with some masterplan.
On top of that i am now convinced we don't even have a nucleus of a squad to build around and add to.
Feels like days of Tosun,Gomes and Davies again and that we are trapped in a very expensive viscious circle
WilliamBoo
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Moyes' biggest flaw on the pitch is his inability to manage five substitutions. He's truly the worst in the Premier League. Aways reacts after the opposition has already made a move, and his response is either too late or inaccurate. His hesitant thinking leaves us vulnerable to those injury time goals. And I think this rigid thinking will only be worsen in the next season.
I think this season has exposed a fundamental uncertainty about what Everton wants to be.
For all the talk of progression, there still appears to be no clear alignment between the leadership, manager and supporter expectations.
A month ago there were genuine conversations about whether Everton could push towards the Champions League places; now there is a realistic chance the season ends in 14th.
All the internal narrative has been about pushing onwards and a Moyes has talked up (somewhat reluctantly) the possibility of Europe and it's been within reach for a good portion of the year (it still was yesterday despite a month of poor results). The manager has voiced his frustration about recent results. So european football must have been be the expectation at some stage this year and certainly should be for next year, even if it wasn't at the beginning of this season.
The media narrative around the club has been that Moyes has done a great job moving us from relegation candidates to mid table. Ultimately though, this season should be looked on as a series of wasted opportunities in results and squad management.
Players we spent months courting for high fees have been poorly integrated, publicly talked down and pushed down the pecking order in favour of players playing out of their natural positions and in McNeills case, a player we were actively trying to sell.
Understandable if the plan is to use a year of development to mould youngersters into 1st team ready players - but the emphasis appears to be that the skills and attributes that made the club spend heavily on them last summer, are now considered liabilities to a manager with a tactical system that requires discipline and collective effort over individual skill and attacking intent.
Dibling, Aznou, George, Rohl, all bought with exciting profiles, have barely featured in a team that, despite being within touching distance of European football for months, may well finish 14th. Some may look at midtable as progress, but 14th where we have underutilised younger players feels like underwhelming stability at the expense of long term planning.
That reflects poorly against the manager and, if that is unaddressed, is a failure of the club leadership, because we are approaching a summer where we must get recruitment right, we cannot afford expensive signings recruited without a clear plan for how they fit the manager’s system.
If, as is reported, Moyes has final say and signs off on all these players, then he should shoulder responsibility for poor recruitment last summer and if he's allowed more money this summer, the club needs stronger recruitment oversight and clearer alignment between recruitment and manager.
Because among fans, ambitious rhetoric will not tolerate conservative execution.
There is little point in the club recruiting exciting young talent if the manager neither trusts their profiles or plays a style that suits them and if the club wants to talk like an ambitious project, it cannot have a manager who manages like survival is still the primary objective.
For all the talk of progression, there still appears to be no clear alignment between the leadership, manager and supporter expectations.
A month ago there were genuine conversations about whether Everton could push towards the Champions League places; now there is a realistic chance the season ends in 14th.
All the internal narrative has been about pushing onwards and a Moyes has talked up (somewhat reluctantly) the possibility of Europe and it's been within reach for a good portion of the year (it still was yesterday despite a month of poor results). The manager has voiced his frustration about recent results. So european football must have been be the expectation at some stage this year and certainly should be for next year, even if it wasn't at the beginning of this season.
The media narrative around the club has been that Moyes has done a great job moving us from relegation candidates to mid table. Ultimately though, this season should be looked on as a series of wasted opportunities in results and squad management.
Players we spent months courting for high fees have been poorly integrated, publicly talked down and pushed down the pecking order in favour of players playing out of their natural positions and in McNeills case, a player we were actively trying to sell.
Understandable if the plan is to use a year of development to mould youngersters into 1st team ready players - but the emphasis appears to be that the skills and attributes that made the club spend heavily on them last summer, are now considered liabilities to a manager with a tactical system that requires discipline and collective effort over individual skill and attacking intent.
Dibling, Aznou, George, Rohl, all bought with exciting profiles, have barely featured in a team that, despite being within touching distance of European football for months, may well finish 14th. Some may look at midtable as progress, but 14th where we have underutilised younger players feels like underwhelming stability at the expense of long term planning.
That reflects poorly against the manager and, if that is unaddressed, is a failure of the club leadership, because we are approaching a summer where we must get recruitment right, we cannot afford expensive signings recruited without a clear plan for how they fit the manager’s system.
If, as is reported, Moyes has final say and signs off on all these players, then he should shoulder responsibility for poor recruitment last summer and if he's allowed more money this summer, the club needs stronger recruitment oversight and clearer alignment between recruitment and manager.
Because among fans, ambitious rhetoric will not tolerate conservative execution.
There is little point in the club recruiting exciting young talent if the manager neither trusts their profiles or plays a style that suits them and if the club wants to talk like an ambitious project, it cannot have a manager who manages like survival is still the primary objective.
IV(AC)
Player Valuation: £6m
We played safe to have a year of relative stability while we bedded in with our new owners and stadium.
We now need to move forward from Moyes and his stultifying selections, tactical rigidity and failure to help young players progress. Progress with the manager and team needs to be the focus and evident from now on. The majority of our fan base are deeply frustrated by Moyes’ failure to seize the initiative when in reach of Europe. Standing still while all around are charging forward seems safe but it is actually falling dangerously behind.
Time to roll the dice. Moyes Out.
This window, when elite players refuse to come to a bottom half team without Europe he will need to take a long look in the mirror instead of acting suprisedA year ago just prior to the move he was talking about elite players for an elite stadium.
Another wasted opportunity with more to come if he stays.
MondayHater
Player Valuation: £8m
This a big summer for Everton and we see where the owners want them to be.
We had a load of new back room staff which would of effected our transfers and the winter transfer window is always less busy unless your Man City, Utd or Chelsea.
But now the problems have shown themselves, we all know the players we need, and a decision to be made for the manager will be stay or go it will show now the staff have had a year to speak to agents, see the positions that need filling, it’s the summer for them to act.
We had a load of new back room staff which would of effected our transfers and the winter transfer window is always less busy unless your Man City, Utd or Chelsea.
But now the problems have shown themselves, we all know the players we need, and a decision to be made for the manager will be stay or go it will show now the staff have had a year to speak to agents, see the positions that need filling, it’s the summer for them to act.
MondayHater
Player Valuation: £8m
This a big summer for Everton and we see where the owners want them to be.
We had a load of new back room staff which would of effected our transfers and the winter transfer window is always less busy unless your Man City, Utd or Chelsea.
But now the problems have shown themselves, we all know the players we need, and a decision to be made for the manager will be stay or go it will show now the staff have had a year to speak to agents, see the positions that need filling, it’s the summer for them to act.
We had a load of new back room staff which would of effected our transfers and the winter transfer window is always less busy unless your Man City, Utd or Chelsea.
But now the problems have shown themselves, we all know the players we need, and a decision to be made for the manager will be stay or go it will show now the staff have had a year to speak to agents, see the positions that need filling, it’s the summer for them to act.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Elite players for an elite stadium.
Proceeds to play all the former managers players rather than the ones he invested 100 mill in.
Proceeds to play all the former managers players rather than the ones he invested 100 mill in.
I see the red echo was touting a new contract for Moyes before yesterday's game.
I guess the fact we've not heard of a contract offer might mean TFG are assessing the situation?
I guess the fact we've not heard of a contract offer might mean TFG are assessing the situation?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
If he’d have put the back end of last season with the front end of this one in a single campaign we’d be in the champions league now. But he never ever does. There was always brilliant 12 month stats in his first tenure but he doesn’t do them over the months that matter in the same season.
Furey1878
Player Valuation: £70m
Come on, mate. Obviously we were well clear in the end, but you have to take the context of that season into account, we didn't win a game between December and April, we got walloped 6-0 by Chelsea with a few games to go and it very much felt like we were in big trouble. We then went on a great run of results and got well clear.
Basically you can't just look at the table and say we were safe as houses, the game to game feel was very much a relegation battle.
I got told £100m is “chump change”, so I’m sure we can afford to spend even more on players he won’t give any minutes to. Definitely a sensible strategy.
