2025/26 David Moyes

[Zatara]

Interesting listen if you have the time.

Great listening to them underline what ive (and many more) been saying for months.

Frightening on recruitment setup.

Stupidity on Moyes part to not develop talented young very highly rated players

 

[LinekersLegs]

So he failed their conservative target of 12th?

 

[tommytowne]

TBF I think its still possible, even now, to get a tune out of Moyes.

Just prevent him having anything to do with recruitment and get someone decent, ideally Thelwell, to do it instead. That will quickly result in a better squad that is less likely to sabotage itself and his tactics.

Just prevent him having anything to do with recruitment.
Im sure it wasn't him that signed off on Dibling so where does that leave us.
Irrespective who it was, it wasn't the smartest of decisions.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[jceverton]

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.

The main issue is he changed the style of play this season. Last season 2nd fastest to get ball forward, from turnover high percentages of shots on goal, this season 2nd slowest getting ball forward, much lower percentage of shots from turnovers.

 

[jceverton]

Just prevent him having anything to do with recruitment.
Im sure it wasn't him that signed off on Dibling so where does that leave us.
Irrespective who it was, it wasn't the smartest of decisions.

He signed off on Dibling, he signed off on them all.

 

[JJK]

Are we no longer a sleeping giant ?

More like a dead one.

 

[crusade]

Been great value for money in that last 5 years

 

[jceverton]

He used to be good.

Let's get Nigel Mansell out of retirement and back into F1

His record even at Everton was hit and miss, the more he spent the more he missed.

 

[Azza]

New stadium curse!

 

[ValBlue]

More and more people starting to realise now that the chance to finish in the European spots was part of a freak season with multiple underperformers leaving the door open for teams like us.

We’ve missed our chance, no way we finish anywhere close next season. Happy progress everyone!!

We’ll need a miracle manager just to get close, never mind Moyes (who will almost certainly relegate us next season with his slow, old players)

 

[blueboy72]

New stadium curse!

Crap manager curse

 

[Seathestars]

In both his stints at the club he has had too much power for me.

That was fine while Kenwright was around as bumbling Bill seemed to like the weight off his own shoulders.

But TFG need to knock him down a peg or two. It's obvious he agreed to manage us as long as he had control. It's obvious that getting rid of Thellwell was one of his conditions. He needs remindinding he's not as good as he thinks he is.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Just musing on this point, focusing on the last seven games isn’t really unfair or recency bias as it demonstrates weaknesses in planning and motivation - it highlights that your “plan b”, both squad and tactics, isn’t working.

It is like conceding in the final minutes of a game, which coincidentally we did quite a bit recently too.

We’re 18th in the form table, even Wolves are ahead of us and they had far more reason to lack motivation and longer injury list.

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Clearly the last 7 games were extremely poor and should not be ignored, but I do think they’ve become disproportionate in how the entire season is being judged - which I alluded to in my original post.

Unfortunately, for those willing to persist with Moyes, poor form at the end of the season absolutely raises questions about squad depth, the managers adaptability and game management. Compounded by the number of late goals conceded.

But I’m not convinced it automatically invalidates the other games where we were broadly tracking toward a much more respectable finish than most expected in August. There lies the frustration.

Frustratingly once we were safe, the intensity clearly dropped (again the manager shoulders blame for not rotating) which isn’t unique to this group of players. But I can understand it given recent seasons battling relegation - a 'collective relax' perhaps.

For me, the more important issue is whether the club actually has a coherent football strategy. If the recruitment team is targeting younger profile players while the manager either doesn’t trust or doesn’t use them, then that disconnect is the real problem for next year; because that’s exactly the sort of thing that caused stagnation under previous regimes.

 

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