2025/26 David Moyes


kiss the crest said:
From my point of view, its not sack Moyes. But the post match comments are definitely not what the fans want to hear, we have been down for far too long, we now have new owners a new stadium and new players, we beat Newcastle last season when they were chasing champions league at their place with lesser players, Newcastle have been beaten this season by Brentford and West Ham and have not won away since April, so as I say his comments our disgraceful in a word.

Whats he going to say next week when Dyche & Forest come up with their lot?
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mate teams beat teams that’s what football is about

moyes says it how it is.

we will beat forest
 

Eggsyblueskin said:
The football is mosty turgid as it has been all season .
But if you’re enjoying it , fine.
It’s not something I’m willing to endorse for the amount of expenditure required to view it on a regular basis.
I see zero progression from one season to the next.
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you don’t see progression from years gone by? HOOOOF? i mean get some fullbacks and goals were a better side

and atleast the whole overall
bigger picture?
 
Duncan’s Pigeon Loft said:
Agree on Branthwaite and the lack of pace - really grinds my gears that we haven’t addressed the pace issue which has dogged us for going in for a decade! I thought Onana was just bang average though and we didn’t exactly pull up any trees with him in the team anyway. He might turn out to be the next Zidane but I just didn’t see it with us
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It’s more an Onana type rather than Onana himself who was inconsistent but I think back to when we won 4 in a row after the points deduction and also that end of season run and it came from having Onana and Doucoure in midfield and we just overpowered teams, we could run all over them. Now I’m not for a second wanting Doucoure back because we was abject on the ball but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an argument for having midfielders who can put one on the opposition.

Some Everton fans so weirdly die on hills like us not needing pace or Keane is a decent centre back. It’s honestly so so weird when literally any fan from any other club would tell you that Everton have a slow team and Keane is crap. Like there’s never been a good team in the history of football that didn’t have any pace but some Everton fans will tell you that bottom half Everton are going to be the exception to that golden rule and crack the da Vinci code on that one.
 

GrandOldTeam said:
In terms of last transfer fee and squad valuations - we were 19th with only Ipswich having less. That was even including the last fee paid for the likes of Lindstrom, Broja, Harrison. We went on with Sean Dyche to earned the points to finish 12th then in his only full season.

We've since spent a few bob and a £100m player in Grealish.

No excuses. If Newcastle are that much better than us, then setup accordingly.

The reality is, as has been the case for decades - Moyes will broadcast knife to a gunfight at every opportunity because it's to his benefit, at the detriment of the club.

Hes done it everywhere. It's who he is. He joined Man Utd, a team that just pissed the league and was saying a point at struggling Newcastle would be a good result. He joined Sunderland who had 10 years in the Prem and before a ball was kicked, declared it would be a miracle if he kept them up.

He is who he is - for me, he removes hope. I've accepted years of pragmatism and taking our medicine with Dyche - if we ever want to create genuine good times, some memories then he's not the man. Over a decade of watching Everton with him as manager has more that consolidated my opinion on the man.

We had the opportunity to send a real bolt through the club last summer - new owners, new stadium. Instead, we went with knife to a gunfight mentality.

Palace don't with an FA Cup with Roy Hodgson. He's our Roy Hodgson.

We need to change him this summer.
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Him being our Hodgson is absolutely spot on. I really wanted to be proved wrong but he'll never ever change
 
Curtis said:
Hey if his role as Everton manager doesn't work out , Moyes could always embark on a circuit as a motivational speaker, his words are so captivating and inspiring... If I was an Everton player I would be very appreciative towards moyes for highlighting how crap I was compared to the Newcastle squad , very enlightening stuff
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Maddening isn't it. Imagine in your own jobs, your manager is making statements that none of you are as good as the place down the road, you don't have the quality and so on.. you'd be looking to leave and only giving the minimal amount required. No chance you'd go the extra mile for someone talking like that. Woeful management, deserves being booted to the curb.
 
msb said:
The haters all quiet and hidden on Monday, out in force on Saturday.

No matter your vitriol, he is better than the previous few incumbents and is here for a limited time.
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The thing is I wouldn’t class myself as a Moyes hater. As you say he is better than the previous few incumbents and after dodging relegation for a few years, mid table mediocrity is a step up whilst the owners hopefully do the multi season job of improving the squad. And, at least at the start of his second tenure, he was talking about new beginnings and that the team should be looking ahead to good times.

And before his after match comments, although disappointed with the result, I wouldn’t have been in this thread saying anything about him - the squad was a bit stretched and Pickford had a mare just when we looked to be getting back into the game after a bad start and that knocked the stuffing out of us. It happens, so you move on.

But then, rather than just saying it was bad night and we need to work to improve, he goes on a bizarre praise fest of Newcastle - a team that although a better squad overall had started the game below us and was without an away win in 7 months.

It was totally unnecessary and indicated a pathetic mentality, lots of “lesser” teams beat better ones every week in the premier league, it is one of its major commercial sell points that it can be so unpredictable!

He comments had the affect of a dementor from Harry Potter, just sucking the last drops of any positively out of Monday’s lovely result. And I don’t see what benefit that attitude has for winning our next match.
 
matty1878 said:
you don’t see progression from years gone by? HOOOOF? i mean get some fullbacks and goals were a better side

and atleast the whole overall
bigger picture?
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No
I don’t see progress.
I see a mid table club struggling to maintain its position as a mid table club.
No adventure, no intent , no hazard.
A club attempting to sneak up on success without risking too much.
But if you see more than I do , so be it .
 
Eggsyblueskin said:
No
I don’t see progress.
I see a mid table club struggling to maintain its position as a mid table club.
No adventure, no intent , no hazard.
A club attempting to sneak up on success without risking too much.
But if you see more than I do , so be it .
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Compared to Dycheball last year it's night and day, even in the current state (no adventure, intent, etc. are spot on and very much Moyes).

This is a true transition season and we were apparently relegation fodder last year with much of the same squad - the point you've made is that we're a "midtable club" now, which is progress on its own if nothing else.
 

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