2025/26 David Moyes

[micknick]

If there isn’t anything to do I’d much rather he spent it relaxing with his family, eating healthy and getting exercise rather than doing tv spots and going out to dinner in New York every night. He is 63 and being a manager is a stressful job at any age.

But I don’t think there is nothing to do, I think the fact we didn’t win a game in the last two months means there should be serious work done on improving our tactics and having a “Plan B” in games.

As a pundit he’ll also be watching a lot of players he will neither have a chance to buy nor play against and if he needs to watch them he can as easily do it on a tv at his own home rather than a studio. How many of our targets are at the tournament, I don’t think we really have that kind of money or appeal after our 13th place finish.

I don’t think he’ll even see any of the players at training camps, the two teams he is most likely to be doing any detailed reporting on are Scotland and England who are based in North Carolina and Kansas respectively.

The ones we genuinely do have as potential signings he should be working together with his recruitment team on all aspects of scouting such as data analytics and video analysis rather than complicating coordination by being in a different timezone. Our recruitment was hardly spectacular last year, spending even less time on it this year would seem to be unwise.

Mate. I think you can beat Moyes up about many things- being too reserved in last 7 games, picking O’Brien at right back, playing McNeil over George etc etc but doing a bit of punditry in his ‘down’ time when other managers will be watching the same games or led on a beach is a bit far IMO.

All opinions obviously but feel that’s a step too far to beat him with.

 

[Toffeepot]

Mate. I think you can beat Moyes up about many things- being too reserved in last 7 games, picking O’Brien at right back, playing McNeil over George etc etc but doing a bit of punditry in his ‘down’ time when other managers will be watching the same games or led on a beach is a bit far IMO.

All opinions obviously but feel that’s a step too far to beat him with.

He shouldnt have as much 'down time' as the players. They need the physical rest and he has a serious amount of fixing to do

 

[LinekersLegs]

Mate. I think you can beat Moyes up about many things- being too reserved in last 7 games, picking O’Brien at right back, playing McNeil over George etc etc but doing a bit of punditry in his ‘down’ time when other managers will be watching the same games or led on a beach is a bit far IMO.

All opinions obviously but feel that’s a step too far to beat him with.

We’ll have to agree to disagree. I think the time spent on punditry over a 5 week competition rather than taking a proper rest and then working on Everton tactics and transfers, especially given he refuses to work with a DOF, will be detrimental to Everton.

But as you say it is all opinions!

 

[Royal_Blue_Mersey_BMD]

I grew up watching the great team of 1970. I also had the privilege of witnessing our team of the 1980s which was one of the greatest teams in the history of world football, so I'm not an enormous fan of Moyes. But we were on the cusp of relegation when he came in.

Most of the games in which we fell short this season.... we were either the victim of poor refereeing decisions or we conceded late on due to tiredness.

 

[Bluebonic]

One more year. Fed up of changing managers, club having no identity. Get Europe, earns another year, doesn’t and is gone.
Lets see what stability gets us, yes we all want better, end of the season massive disappointment but sacking him and getting new manager in is a cost of a striker. A striker is more important than a new manager imo, but I guess most think glasner/irola would have our team in champions league (not a chance either would come) and believe if only they had more luck they would be millionaires.

Just out of interest mate (I’m not having a pop or anything) but what identity would another year of Moyes bring us, Because the only identifying factors since he came back are
1) dull and frustrating.
2) Good away from home atrocious at home.
3) a gradually degrading defensive solidity.

I genuinely am not seeing an identity I can buy into. With regards the Glasner / Iraola shouts, both would absolutely come here imo had Moyes been 10% more adventurous with his tactics and his team selection because we would have had European competition next season.

For what its worth, i don't think either appointment would see us in the champions league, but it would see us watching more exciting football than the horrible fare we have been subjected to this season that our club seems to think is acceptable.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

One more year. Fed up of changing managers, club having no identity. Get Europe, earns another year, doesn’t and is gone.
Lets see what stability gets us, yes we all want better, end of the season massive disappointment but sacking him and getting new manager in is a cost of a striker. A striker is more important than a new manager imo, but I guess most think glasner/irola would have our team in champions league (not a chance either would come) and believe if only they had more luck they would be millionaires.

So waste a year on a lame duck manager who will have no real authority because he'll likely be gone by the end of the season? How is that going to attract any players here? It also totally undermines the idea of stability to have a manager in that position. No, a decision has to be taken this summer. Even if we do fluke a Europa League Conference spot next season, is that really enough to justify Moyes and his anti-football for another season after that.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

If you're insisting in keeping Moyes then its because you've backed him to heavily and now feel like you can't go the other way. This is moronic. I backed Moyes to have this season, he earned it after coming in a doing a good job in 24-25. He deserved to have this season to win us over. Now he needs to go. There's no shame in changing your mind on someone. Its not admitting defeat. Things change, circumstances change. Moyes unfortunately doesn't change because he's a negative, cowardly, boring loser.

 

[Drico]

Next season could definitely be toxic very early on, but I think you underestimate how quickly people would be pacified by something like 2 wins and a draw in the first 3 games.

That pacification will only be temporary, though. Because Moyes isn't good enough to do what is demanded: drive the club to consistently better. Come the League Cup exit to Macclesfied, it'll be Moyes Out all over again - and this is with a good start.

If Moyes is known for one thing, it's slow starts. Go the first three games of the season without a win, and the reality is we will be winless in 10. Sack, sack, sack!

 

[Moomin]

I think we should sing his name to the Baby Shark song.

We should actually replace Z Cars with it and make the old aging players do a shark shape with their arms when they come out on the pitch with it.

FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS

 

[LeeCarsley]

He's been here over a decade he made three semifinals and lost two of them. He'll never win a trophy here, he'll never change, we're going to be right back where we started from, an old squad on high wages and having to shift all of them off for a new manager who can't use any of them

 

[hallamblue]

He's been here over a decade he made three semifinals and lost two of them. He'll never win a trophy here, he'll never change, we're going to be right back where we started from, an old squad on high wages and having to shift all of them off for a new manager who can't use any of them

That's what happens to clubs with absent owners who don't know about football. Contrast us with Brighton who have an owner who loves the club, is an analytics genius and has done immeasurable good to the point of being a legend. What I'd give for an owner like that. If Tony Bloom owned Everton we'd be winning the league inside 5 years.

 

[st.domingo]

I think we should sing his name to the Baby Shark song.

May actually have this stuck in my head now

 

[Lob]

Here's hoping TFG have had some internal meetings and assessed everything and do something positive and ambitious very soon. Going to be awfully boring next season if this fella is still in charge no matter how many new players you give him. He wont even play half of them especially if they are young.

 

[twoblue]

He's been here over a decade he made three semifinals and lost two of them. He'll never win a trophy here, he'll never change, we're going to be right back where we started from, an old squad on high wages and having to shift all of them off for a new manager who can't use any of them

To be honest, if the European Trophys were like they are now we would have likely qualified for Europa League (UEFA Cup) and Conference League consistently and won one of those trophies.

We had no money, we still aren't spending much money relative. Im not 100% sure Moyes is the right man for the job given the form since Easter but Im not sure a bright shiny manager comes in and improves dramatically with the squad the way it is now.

 

[Blue Smoke]

The irony that Moyes desperately tried to save his beloved west ham, by fielding the same worn out team that faultered over the last several matches, refusing to believe that fresh young legs like George and Alcaraz would do any better than ndiaye and KDH, shows me a lot about the man.
Basically the only way he could be successful, is having a group of top premier league attackers, that he trusts when he makes subs, and just let them conjure up the goals between them.