2025/26 David Moyes

[Swartzy]

It makes it that much harder that he insulted the club, the fanbase and our greatest ever player and manager, yes.

But let's have it right: he's a dinosaur and nowhere near what we need in the dugout.

Laughing at people who believe that circus tonight is proof of his stature as a manager when it was a freak show.

Tonight was most 'Anti Moyes' posters biggest complaint, not winning away to the big boys.

He served it up on a plate with 10 men..

 

[Swartzy]

There shouldn’t be!

Don't be greedy, plenty to share around..

 

[Axlswhk]

Why?

What tactical move did he make?

We went down to 10 men and it was just 10 behind the ball for most of the remainder of the game.

I'll give him credit when we see a tight game against class opposition won with an astute substitution or tactical change.

Post like this deserves the receiving end of Gana slap.

 

[WilliamBoo]

Playing with 10 men justified Moyes' usual conservative approach. KDH's brilliant contribution to the goal and a tremendous effort from everyone. A perfect performance from Pickford. However, there's a big difference between that and saying Moyes' tactics were excellent. The substitutions were again too late, we were lucky, and besides, Manchester United is a pretty mediocre team.

 

[Efcjake]

There shouldn’t be!

A win for Moyes and a KDH goal has you miserable

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

everyone knows it.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

This 'kin divvy post match saying he likes to see Everton players fighting each other.

Un'kin real.

 

[TheBigIguana]

A win for Moyes and a KDH goal has you miserable

I jumped up when the goal went in but I'll be honest the second half did little for me. Backs to the wall scraping a result to move us from 14th to 11th? I've done that enough. I get the circumstances were what they were, but I go back to what I said. What is the goal here? And then I guess following on from that, how are we going to achieve that? I don't see it right now even a little bit.

 

[Efcjake]

I jumped up when the goal went in but I'll be honest the second half did little for me. Backs to the wall scraping a result to move us from 14th to 11th? I've done that enough. I get the circumstances were what they were, but I go back to what I said. What is the goal here? And then I guess following on from that, how are we going to achieve that? I don't see it right now even a little bit.

What do you expect from a team a man down for 70+ minutes? Backs to the wall is what you get. And we still won.

The goal here is stabilizing the reputation of the club in the eyes of potential signings. People honestly need a wake up call to the fact that our reputation as a Premier League team is in the gutter. Bournemouth and Brentford have regularly been beating us and finishing above us these last few years while we've become constant favourites for relegation.

We were headed to a FOURTH consecutive relegation battle before Moyes had turned up and brought us up to a comfortable midtable team and now he's getting us our first win at Old Trafford for 12 years. We finished 12th last year and sit 11th now. Much improved from three years of 17th.

Ridding ourselves of the stink of being a relegation favourite is the first step towards being able to attract the players of quality we need to aim for more. At the moment we are bottom of the list for the players we want to sign like Fofana and having to take gambles on players willing to see the move as a step up like Barry and Dibling (or KDH for regular game time).

He's had one window of replacing half the squad while the reputation of the club has been at its lowest in the eyes of players we want to attract since the time he rocked up after Walter Smith had us the same way at the start of the millennium.

This is what you don't see.

 

[Ruairi77]

I jumped up when the goal went in but I'll be honest the second half did little for me. Backs to the wall scraping a result to move us from 14th to 11th? I've done that enough. I get the circumstances were what they were, but I go back to what I said. What is the goal here? And then I guess following on from that, how are we going to achieve that? I don't see it right now even a little bit.

for years managers like Lampard, Dyche, Benitez were tasked with bringing some stability to the club. So was Moyes.
It looks like Moyes will actually do it.
He's a 7th place manager even with money in my book.
But given what's happened since he left, I'd gladly take 7th over the next couple of seasons, and so would the owners I'd imagine.
Then they'll push on.
They've picked the right man for Roma.

 

[TheBigIguana]

What do you expect from a team a man down for 70+ minutes? Backs to the wall is what you get. And we still won.

The goal here is stabilizing the reputation of the club in the eyes of potential signings. People honestly need a wake up call to the fact that our reputation as a Premier League team is in the gutter. Bournemouth and Brentford have regularly been beating us and finishing above us these last few years while we've become constant favourites for relegation.

We were headed to a FOURTH consecutive relegation battle before Moyes had turned up and brought us up to a comfortable midtable team and now he's getting us our first win at Old Trafford for 12 years. We finished 12th last year and sit 11th now. Much improved from three years of 17th.

Ridding ourselves of the stink of being a relegation favourite is the first step towards being able to attract the players of quality we need to aim for more. At the moment we are bottom of the list for the players we want to sign like Fofana and having to take gambles on players willing to see the move as a step up like Barry and Dibling (or KDH for regular game time).

He's had one window of replacing half the squad while the reputation of the club has been at its lowest in the eyes of players we want to attract since the time he rocked up after Walter Smith had us the same way at the start of the millennium.

This is what you don't see.

I just see this as a complete misunderstanding of how a club like ours needs to go about building a better squad. We don’t need to spend years “rebuilding our reputation.” We need to find players with the right profiles interested in playing in the best league in the world and making more money in the mean time while they position themselves to play for even more money and prestige after that. Once we have that pipeline established we can work on turning it into consistent European places and hopefully trophies.

Bournemouth were in the championship 3 seasons ago. Gary O’Neil kept them up. And they sacked him because he’s not good enough. They’ve bought a whole host of players and sold a bunch more. That’s how it works. You aren’t going to make 100% good signings. It’s a volume game to some extent. You can’t be afraid of failures. Target the profiles for what you want the team to be and hope you find enough successes to get it together. We have the advantage over a lot of clubs in that if we do get a talented team together we have the support to actually keep it together maybe. Palace did similar with Roy. They could’ve rode that until the end of time. But what’s the goal?

 

[TheBigIguana]

for years managers like Lampard, Dyche, Benitez were tasked with bringing some stability to the club. So was Moyes.
It looks like Moyes will actually do it.
He's a 7th place manager even with money in my book.
But given what's happened since he left, I'd gladly take 7th over the next couple of seasons, and so would the owners I'd imagine.
Then they'll push on.
They've picked the right man for Roma.

It really is possible to find “stability” without striving for stagnation. You can both become a more stable outfit and realize significant improvement at the same time!

 

[Ruairi77]

It really is possible to find “stability” without striving for stagnation. You can both become a more stable outfit and realize significant improvement at the same time!

but they are doing that.
To go from perennial relegation fodder to chasing europe is a significant improvement.
If moyes finishes in the top half this season and Europe next, that's significant improvement.
I think he's the right man for now.

 

[TheBigIguana]

but they are doing that.
To go from perennial relegation fodder to chasing europe is a significant improvement.
If moyes finishes in the top half this season and Europe next, that's significant improvement.
I think he's the right man for now.

We are not playing at a top half level. We also have the oldest team in the division. It’s going to be hard to take a step forward next season. That’s really the issue I have. It’s not bad right now.

 

[Rook]

Playing with 10 men justified Moyes' usual conservative approach. KDH's brilliant contribution to the goal and a tremendous effort from everyone. A perfect performance from Pickford. However, there's a big difference between that and saying Moyes' tactics were excellent. The substitutions were again too late, we were lucky, and besides, Manchester United is a pretty mediocre team.

He's not really conserative, he just likes counterattacking football. WH scored boatloads of goals under moyes, it was their defense that kept them out of the top 4.

Unfortunately his system needs a Saha, Yak, Antonio at CF that can knock it down for the midfield and is just a generally [Poor language removed] to play against which we don't have yet.