2025/26 David Moyes

smileychap said:
Yeah , I feel Moyes stuck in his ways. No fresh talent, at least v1 Moyes played a young Rooney, Barkley.

They've utterly f&&$d up the summer. Utter arrogance/ incompetence and wastefulness after the good run last Jan and Feb.

Are we really spending 250k a week on Grealish. That's the level of imagination we had when needing to fix our entire right side and 2 x CMs.

Thanks for the pin in the balloon bottom 6-7 season.

Just rinse the everton faithful AGAIN to instead make BMD a place to be - in the absence of a well managed football team.
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Mate he binned off Barkley as soon as he made one mistake and shipped him off to Warnock FFS. His record for developing young players from within a club is basically non existent. You can't include Rooney, he was a generational talent that even Moyes couldn't not play!
 

roy vernon said:
I think Moyes may well be in trouble soon. Either he gets a right wing and a right back, in which case our American overlords will expect him to be winning games and we've all seen how quick to sack a coach they can be. Or he gets a few squad fillers in and TFG still expect him to get results, as they have spent nearly £100 million.

So basically he gets the players he wants and quickly turns us into a winning side or there is every chance that TFG pull the trigger.
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I said it months ago that we'll be looking for a new manager by November. Last season, the only thing that mattered was survival. Moyes, to his credit, secured that within a month - just as Big Sam did in 2017. However, when the panic abates, owners want something more progressive and forward-looking. Managers are no longer prized for fire fighting, but are judged on ability to attract talent (glamour) and image (do they represent what the owners see in themselves and their "asset"?). Vanity. Moyes, for all his many attributes, is a stubborn old-school pragmatist. These are attributes in the right circumstances - like last season when fighting for our lives. They become obstacles in a calmer environment where possibilities expand and limits are less onerous as the spectre of relegation recedes.

I was suprised they had no "glamour" manager to come in and continue the job. I didn't see the status quo as a pragmatic choice from them (where they believed in Moyes as their man for the big job ahead). I saw it as evidence of lack of a plan. Since then, nothing they've done since has convinced me they are anything other than unprepared for the football side of the club.

It's quite clear that the cracks are now showing as Moyes pulls one way and the "competent professionals" pull the other way. There will be collateral damage to both sides along the way, but in the end the owners always win and we'll be plunged into mid-season instability as winter approaches rather than having an executable plan last May. See? Unprepared again...
 
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davek said:
And the pre-season was a disaster because he made it so. He's not fit to be the manager of this club. He underlined that again at Leeds when he played Garner at LB when we've just bought one. He wrecked the whole shape of the team to make *a point*.

He's pathetic.
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You can have a dig at him for the starting XI he's ended up picking but the new LB is injured.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2025/august/18/leeds-report/ : With Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitalii Mykolenko, Nathan Patterson and summer signing Adam Aznou all injured
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At the risk of sounding too much like Dave with his tinfoil hat on... I'm not quite buying that Aznou was 'injured' either..

He played 70 minutes against Roma (much more than he had likely anticipated given Myko's early sub) and walked off the field fine having put a decent shift in. There was absolutely no update from the club, Bobble etc. on Monday that he didnt travel due to an injury, nor did Moyes even allude to the fact that he was injured over his several interviews before & after the game. Now, literally the first we're hearing of it is a line in an article 24 hours after the fact?

Na. Moyes didnt take him because he just does weird stuff like that. Just like he admitted that Grealish could've started but he didnt because he didnt want to 'put too much pressure on him to perform'.. :confused:
 
Toffe3m4n said:
At the risk of sounding too much like Dave with his tinfoil hat on... I'm not quite buying that Aznou was 'injured' either..

He played 70 minutes against Roma (much more than he had likely anticipated given Myko's early sub) and walked off the field fine having put a decent shift in. There was absolutely no update from the club, Bobble etc. on Monday that he didnt travel due to an injury, nor did Moyes even allude to the fact that he was injured over his several interviews before & after the game. Now, literally the first we're hearing of it is a line in an article 24 hours after the fact?

Na. Moyes didnt take him because he just does weird stuff like that. Just like he admitted that Grealish could've started but he didnt because he didnt want to 'put too much pressure on him to perform'.. :confused:
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Too much pressure on Grealish, a fella that has won it all?
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