2025/26 David Moyes

[jceverton]

Whats Hammond doing if Cox is negotiating?

Ha sorry my mistake got the two mixed up! Hammond is doing negotiating, Cox is overseeing academy and technical side.

 

[steve]

This man for another year is going to destroy my mental health

 

[JLW]

You’d think so right. There’s no noises of him being under pressure though so have a feeling he’ll still be manager come august.

Couple of losses and the crowd will turn then a new manager will come in with none of the players they want.

If he starts here next season he 100% wont finish with us.

 

[JLW]

The football is absolutely terrible. It’s one thing doing this when you have Doucoure Harrison Lindstrom McNeil and no money to replace any of them.

What’s the excuse when you have Grealish KDH Ndiaye Dibling Alcaraz George Rohl

We’ve controlled possession in a game about three times from what I remember this season, Fulham at home, Forest at home, and we played well v Chelsea even though they probably had much more of the ball.

Every other game this season we’ve sat back and let the opposition dictate the game no matter how poor they are.

There’s no excuse for it now, it’s just terrible tactics.

There are no tactics its just just formation, no tactics inside the formation.
'Keep it tight'

Just like Dyche what do we do on the training ground Monday to Friday?

 

[micknick]

Seems the tide has well and truly turned against Moyes.

Wonder how the general feeling would have been if we had won the last two games and finished 7th…

 

[Davideeyore]

We actually gave Keane a pay rise?!

Better than Van Dyke.

He's the future. Embrace it.

Keano.

 

[Bluepablo]

If he starts here next season he 100% wont finish with us.

Currently 18th place based on the last 10 games. Think we are heading for trouble with Moyes.

Moyes record
24/25 H2 19 games 31 points ppg 1.63
25/26 H1 19 games 28 points ppg 1.47
25/26 H2 19 games 21 points ppg 1.11

For reference:
Dyche
23/24 FY 38 games 48 points ppg 1.26

 

[jazzy]

1 point more than last season is pretty funny, technically progress

Yeah only cost £130 million to make that "progress"

 

[pfim]

Seems the tide has well and truly turned against Moyes.

Wonder how the general feeling would have been if we had won the last two games and finished 7th…

If he plays for the results and gets them, fair play. We'd be in Europe and we'd be able to cast a wider net in recruitment.

But he didn't.

 

[summerisle]

Back him or sack him!

Cack him - sack him!

 

[Saint Domingo]

Currently 18th place based on the last 10 games. Think we are heading for trouble with Moyes.

Moyes record
24/25 H2 19 games 31 points ppg 1.63
25/26 H1 19 games 28 points ppg 1.47
25/26 H2 19 games 21 points ppg 1.11

For reference:
Dyche
23/24 FY 38 games 48 points ppg 1.26

It’s almost as if, if you keep playing the same players, over the long term they’ll keep returning the same results.

There’s no new era whilst the majority of every line up under any manager reads Mykolenko Keane Tarkwoski OBrien (at RB) Gueye McNeil Beto

We’ve compounded it by adding Barry who looks no better than Beto to that group.

 

[ValBlue]

Seems the tide has well and truly turned against Moyes.

Wonder how the general feeling would have been if we had won the last two games and finished 7th…

The general feeling would have been good, but he didn’t win any in our last 7. He fumbled every opportunity he had, so it’s moot.

 

[widnesblue]

The previous two seasons we had a squad that got us to 49 & 48 points (removing point deductions) in the league. Clearly that's a functional squad to build on. The first eleven that played for most of this season were basically here before Moyes. The key was to build on it, in the summer. Moyes hasn't.

That’s all well and good getting them points in previous seasons but if you don’t add to those squads and add really quality. Players get older and age. You aren’t going to go anywhere in the league. 12th highest spenders last summer, 12th highest wages in the season.

Saying that the players were here before Moyes is where it lays a major problem. A major problem. Them players here before Moyes have had us in a right mess, spending anything less than 300milion in this window, will have us in the same place next season.

 

[widnesblue]

I think that’s a nonsense

People can see the bigger picture, the flaw is the divisive choice of manager

You don’t start out a rebuild which requires patience with somebody so polarising, it’s just a patently flawed idea.

He’s not Allardyce/Benitez levels of dumb/divisive, but out of the choices out there he is the next level down in terms of bad ideas. Only part of the fanbase sat in the love/hate brackets, the majority were no better than tolerant of it which was just waiting for a bad run to flip to outrage

That was built-in from day one.

We need a manager that can shift the tolerance and patience upwards, and god forbid that can actually inspire us a bit

I can agree on points with that. Moyes isn’t the man to build a team to take us forward.

Any manager is gonna struggle here unless they get major funds to spend in the windows. The days of spending £113m isn’t gonna move that squad any further up the league.

 

[blulouie]

See I disagree with a bit of this, we spent £113m in the summer, it wasn’t all about improving the team, it was about having a squad in the first place. Losing 12 players last summer was a massive loss to any squad.

Sunderland signed 15 new players plus a loan. ( most played agst us last week )
They seem to cope fine , with a mid tier French manager thats never managed in the Premier league.
Plus they had a raft of players away for the AFCON.
They have Europe next season.

Replacing players that have had us in a dogfight for years was a blessing in disguise.
Cut the deadwood and progress .

It didnt work ....Spectacular fail.