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!
I don't think he will be given that long. If performance are bad the next few weeks he will be given the chop.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
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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Giraffe_Baker
Player Valuation: £950k
You can have a dig at him for the starting XI he's ended up picking but the new LB is injured.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Oh yeah. *Injured*
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
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'..
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'..
Frenk
Player Valuation: £35m
Too much pressure on Grealish, a fella that has won it all?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'..
Grealish is fairly glamorous would you not agree?
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £80m
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
They're all gorgeous when we win ...
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's a dinosaur.
He'll have them all behind the ball and then bumping into each other when we have control of it.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
He doesn't know how too,imo.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Passback kings
Be lucky to see bommy night
