I think palace had a banner from that 'James' song... "If I hadnt seen such riches I could live with being poor'.
I feel that way about everton managers after Ancelotti.
I just look at how he played DCL and how all the managers after played him did, till he went to leeds, fark was paying attention.
I look at the way he took James in knowing his injury record but also his ability to create magic.
He took players like Godfrey and Davies and made them look like real footballers.
He changed formations, made subs when needed.
Yea, it dropped off at the end of his full season but I'd imagine his head was elsewhere.
Now when I look at Moyes, yeah, he's doing fine. Boring, stable, fine.
Grealish has been foundout on the wing in recent games but Moyes wont move him.
No tactical changes.
Even today. 2 subs at 60 mins, no wait, Beto and Alcaraz both did something just there. Make the subs 68 mins
I'm grateful he's brought stability and he'a a gazillion times better than dyche but I'd love a new manager next season.
Great points well made.
I'd have a Fabregas, Iraola or Glasner end of the season - if i cant see young players developing on the pitch or Europe.
Fabregas as he has the name to attact players and seems to be doing very well at Como. Glasner mainly because so many decent posters rate him. Iraola because Bournemouth spend money but frequently sell as well and he develops and plays young players.
Which manager would you have?
I agree, I'm not advocating for sacking Moyes, that makes no sense. I'm just saying that when he gets things wrong he should be criticised and that shouldn't be a big deal. I'm also saying that if an opportunity to appoint a better manager emerges before the end of Moyes' contract then we should be all over it. Every manager we've appointed since Koeman (maybe Silva, I suppose) has been an emergency appointment. I'd like to see us target a specific manager, to a specific style of play and with a specific player recruitment strategy for once and if summer 26 is a possible time to do that then we should go for it.
Who would you go for? As above, mine would be Iraola, Glasner, Fabregas.
I think you have to give a manager an actual extended period to build the squad they want.. that's the thing. I'm sure Moyes knows that we're still 3,4,5 players short at least of having a squad to challenge the way he wants. But it was impossible to do all in one season.
I think most would struggle to argue against the fact that we are vastly improved from before Moyes came in.
For me, he deserves the time to actually build his squad aslong as improvement is visible year on year, which so far it is.
Thats fair to say he needs time. Does he 'deserve' time?
What makes him deserve time? Whats improving? What patterns of play and player development are you seeing?
For me its limited.
Nowhere near full strength for the Leeds and Burnley games but this is still pretty shocking
Take Garner or
Iroegbunam out of our team yesterday and we'd have lost.
Not one of their players would get in ours. Not a single one.
Scott Parkers side looked way more up for it than ours. Theyve been losing most weeks and yet seemed to want to attack quickly and pass the ball.
They were of course dreadful but werent sleepwalking like most of ours.
