2025/26 David Moyes

[davek]

I don't think losing to Arsenal is upsetting too many. It was the manner of the performance. We never laid a glove on them. Losing 0-1 is "respectable" but we barely had a shot. Grim. The key now, however, is we win at Burnley. Four points mimimum from the next two. My worry is we are so bereft without the missing Ndiaye and KDH that I don't see where the next goal is coming from. In that sense, winning at Burnley doesn't look quite as straightforward as it should be. And needs to be. With Moyes, the utter lack of fantasy against the likes of Arsenal at home can only be balanced by a good win at places like Burnley. If he plays the "they're better than us" card against the top sides, the flipside is we need to deliver against the relegation fodder. In the absence of being entertained by a "have-a-go" side, we have to be winning at places we should be winning.

What upset me most was that he satthere in that dugout with it all turning to and never once gave the impression he knew that the midfield needed an extra body in there...and that's for one very good reason: he cant see the problems on the pitch in-game. He just doesn't see it; and even if he did see it he'd be unwilling to change shape in order to get another body into midfield, v=because that wukld require aa Plans B when he only has Plan A and Plan A.

An utter 'kin duffer of a manager.