2025/26 David Moyes

LiamMadrid · 2025-11-29T21:52:50+0000

He did a good job til end of last season. The team needs more pace, consistency and ability to create chances and open up space and creativity and goals of course

Lanolin · 2025-11-29T21:53:21+0000

Daytripper said:
Internally it probably is

I’ll be very disappointed in the new owners if they think that type of thing is ok. We were at home to a team below us in the league, we absolutely cannot be saying that type of game is unwinnable or we might as well just pack in.

BigBeto1 · 2025-11-29T21:53:40+0000

Go into any of the threads on this forum titled by a players name other than maybe4 of them. You all agree the players are rubbish

banno · 2025-11-29T21:54:00+0000

BigBeto1 said:
Is he wrong ?

Yes because he has told his players that they are not good enough to beat Newcastle at home despite them not being great away from home. He should be instilling confidence by bigging them up even if it is an untruth

Daveysgingerlovechild · 2025-11-29T21:55:51+0000

BigBeto1 said:
Really don’t mind the quote it’s just defending the players. Individual performances lost us it today

Yeah, I can't get wound up by it. Feels like a "just say something to the media" quote. I don't imagine for a minute he's telling them it's okay to play like that.

Let's face it, we've got part of an alright team:

Pickford (tonight was his worst game in a very long time)
JoB.
Branthwaite (when fit)
Grealish
Illy
KDH
Garner
Gana (one day he'll retire abd we need a replacement/competition

The rest of them I'd happily skip. Thats a lot of gaps for a decent team. However, there's questions about why we signed some players over the summer that look skip-worthy.

Wat Tyler · 2025-11-29T21:56:00+0000

GrandOldTeam said:
A spoon to a gunfight.

I didn’t think that I would be saying this but he is absolutely cooked.

Accepting a humiliating defeat to a non entity of a club like Newcastle like Mbappe has just scored a hat trick.

He should be apologising to us.

blueboy72 · 2025-11-29T21:56:10+0000

dannyboy said:
Which is probably a very popular comment tonight but a couple of wins on the bounce would change things quickly.

Moyes is a very good manager at this level. Bad post match comments tonight definitely but I don't think we're at that point where we say we don't need him. In fact, I think we're a decent way away from it.

TFG won’t

JobForTheMoyes · 2025-11-29T21:56:20+0000

The league is tighter than Kenneth Williams’ backside at the moment!

LinekersLegs · 2025-11-29T21:57:37+0000

BigBeto1 said:
Is he wrong ?

“They would have had to have probably an off night and we'd have probably had to have a really good night to get a result.'”

Very, absolutely he is wrong! They aren’t peak Barcelona ffs. Even if you think they are overall a better team, you see poorer teams turn over better teams every week.

Efcjake · 2025-11-29T21:58:47+0000

davek said:
Where have I EVER said I KNOW that failure to get top 10 will see Moyes being sacked?

You're creating a straw man.

I don't know if you have but the way you're speaking posts like this one below it comes across as if you've personally been told Top 10 is a minimum target for the team.

davek said:
...well Brentford, Bournemouth and Forest finished there last season.

People need to stop making excuses in advance for a manager who should be securing top 10.

If he doesn't at least secure that he should be sacked in the summer.

davek said:
Top ten is about minimum for people backing this club financially.

I said loads of time I'd hold my nose and accept Moyes staying if he can get that low hanging fruit. If not...

Its a target you made up yourself. You've no clue what the minimum expected by our financial backers is.

Daytripper · 2025-11-29T21:58:55+0000

Lanolin said:
I’ll be very disappointed in the new owners if they think that type of thing is ok. We were at home to a team below us in the league, we absolutely cannot be saying that type of game is unwinnable or we might as well just pack in.

I agree but for years there has been a massive culture problem here . Unhappy fans are seen as moaners and negative and it’s not been set up to be successful. Didn’t matter who the manager was.

I also suspect some personal relationships between club and media/some fan groups and fans to defend or say little to nothing about this kind of stuff.

It’s annoying and tedious because Monday night was a real nice surprise how their heads never dropped and played well and deserved to win . Once again we revert to type and Hes coming out with small time crap like that again.

BigBeto1 · 2025-11-29T21:58:58+0000

LinekersLegs said:
“They would have had to have probably an off night and we'd have probably had to have a really good night to get a result.'”

Very, absolutely he is wrong! They aren’t peak Barcelona ffs

They’ve got a lot more genuine champions league standard players than us I’ll tell you that

Drico · 2025-11-29T21:59:30+0000

banno said:
Saying the players are not good enough against a great team like Newcastle is not defending the players......it is quite the opposite.. He has just said we are not on the same level as a team below us in the league

Yeah, it's the opposite of defending the players. It's saying "know your lane, lads, you're not in the same class as these boys." And this against a side we were ahead of in the table after 12 games...and who we beat last time we played them.

Expectation management at its best, right on the back of beating United.

It's basically Moyes saying "Just because we beat United, don't be expecting me to give Eddie Howe a game." It deflects from his abject failure to rouse his players after that great win.

Comfort zone Moyes, much happier taking a tooth pick to a dinner party where he refuses the top table and is happy to eat with the help downstairs. Man of the people, you see. Man of the People's Club, in fact.

Titus Shambles · 2025-11-29T21:59:36+0000

HowitzerThe5th said:
It’s absolutely inevitable Moyes will be replaced and not because of age or time. The Friedkin’s like any reputable organisation will look to protect their investment and but at any cost. Sackings are inevitable. They have given moyes summer funds. Dibling was very expensive with nothing of any note to refer to so far this season. Nothing. No striker. No full backs. No cover for Gana. His loss, even at 36 is immeasurable. Play a Newcastle team with no away win and without Gana at home we are wiped out. This is abject. Grealish has been a ridiculous acquisition. Garner and Keane are holding their own. Most others aren’t.

Protect their investment? We aren't getting relegated and highly doubt we'll be in any danger of it at any point during the season, so if anything, the "Moyes stability" actually helps their investment by keeping their asset perfectly comfortable in the richest league in the world. Whether or how much TFG want to go beyond that, is a whole other question.