2025/26 David Moyes

GrandOldTeam · Sunday at 4:28 PM

Efcjake said:
That summer spend was wasted massively though.

What improvement did it produce?

Give me Grealish over Harrison, and Dewsbury-Hall over Doucoure all day. And twice of a weekend.

We spent it. Something we hadn't done the previous 4 or 5 seasons.

Thomasc · Sunday at 4:29 PM

About the 5th time this season I’ve turned off during the first half.

Don’t think I’ve ever been less interested in watching Everton that I am now.

Wouldn’t turn up to a home game if it was free and I was guaranteed a half time tug off Margot Robbie.

Efcjake · Sunday at 4:29 PM

GrandOldTeam said:
Give me Grealish over Harrison, and Dewsbury-Hall over Doucoure all day. And twice of a weekend.

Right, you can have those two.

And the other 5 useless bodies we've signed who've improved nothing?

grandjoeblue · Sunday at 4:29 PM

GrandOldTeam said:
See what you're saying mate but objectively - points dictate league rankings and we're currently ranked 13th.

That's no better than the past few seasons and so maybe the improvement isn't considerable- especially factoring in the summer spend.

We're on track for 53 points this season, only a slight improvement on 48 points for the last two seasons

Bulgarian toffee · Sunday at 4:31 PM

I watched Forest yesterday. As grateful as I am to Dyche for keeping us up under those circumstances, by God his football is appaling. The same goes with Moyes. He has steadied the ship undoubtedly but his flaws are there for everyone to see.

BlueAmigo · Sunday at 4:31 PM

Ruairi77 said:
I cant forgive the set up.
He had 2 clean sheets and changed his back line.
JoB offered no Support to Dibbling so he got stranded
It's clear as day that McNeil is best on the left but we never try grealish at 10.
absolute mess of an initial set up.

100%. As I posted in the match thread, oldest addage in football - don't change a winning team. He completely destroyed the momentum in the cup vs Wolves early in the season, he never learns anything.

GrandOldTeam · Sunday at 4:32 PM

Efcjake said:
Right, you can have those two.

And the other 5 useless bodies we've signed who've improved nothing?

Still a big improvement. We spent a club record amount before even factoring in Grealish, or even Rohls obligation to buy which isn't cheap.

The point was in comparisons to previous seasons. We spent something like £120m not including Rohl so Id expect us to climb a couple if positions. Including a more capable manager too and feel good factor of stadium.

Toffeelover · Sunday at 4:32 PM

skumar55 said:
Should've kept the same back 4

Shows how incompetent he is.

Efcjake · Sunday at 4:41 PM

GrandOldTeam said:
Still a big improvement. We spent a club record amount before even factoring in Grealish, or even Rohls obligation to buy which isn't cheap.

The point was in comparisons to previous seasons. We spent something like £120m not including Rohl so Id expect us to climb a couple if positions. Including a more capable manager too and feel good factor of stadium.

A big improvement? I don't think they are.

Would you buy Barry, Dibling, Aznou, and Rohl again? Based off of what they've done for us so far? You wouldn't dare.

Ok we spent money, but we spent it incredibly poorly and nobody knows exactly how involved Moyes was.

blueblood · Sunday at 4:41 PM

Back 4 was rock solid v Forest. Absolutely no need to bring Keane back in with the knock on effect of O’Brien having to play right back. Awful decision making.

GrandOldTeam · Sunday at 4:43 PM

Efcjake said:
A big improvement? I don't think they are.

Would you buy Barry, Dibling, Aznou, and Rohl again? Based off of what they've done for us so far? You wouldn't dare.

Ok we spent money, but we spent it incredibly poorly and nobody knows exactly how involved Moyes was.

I was in a minority in the summer saying our recruitment wasn't the best as we didn't address what I felt we needed, pace and balance at full back.

You? Hmm.

Efcjake said:
It's an 8 for me.

Grealish is a massive coup.

KDH has fit in well. Charly was a must at that price.

Some great youngsters in Dibling, Aznou, and Barry for reasonable prices.

Just missing that right back which I can't wrap my head around us not getting one in but overall you can't say it's not been improvements to both the first 11 and the squad profile/age.

Anyway the point is in terms of expectation, it goes up with a club record spend. We spent it, Moyes spent it and it improved on who we had last season or two.

GlosBlue · Sunday at 4:43 PM

blueblood said:
Back 4 was rock solid v Forest. Absolutely no need to bring Keane back in with the knock on effect of O’Brien having to play right back. Awful decision making.

Exactly this. Change for changes's sake.

Rudolf Hucker · Sunday at 4:45 PM

Dinosaur of a manager. The Scottish Mike Basset.

Taifi gorm · Sunday at 4:46 PM

Can't wait to set up for a draw at home Vs Wolves

Efcjake · Sunday at 4:46 PM

GrandOldTeam said:
I was in a minority in the summer saying our recruitment wasn't the best as we didn't address what I felt we needed, pace and balance at full back.

You? Hmm.

Anyway the point is in terms of expectation, it goes up with a club record spend. We spent it, Moyes spent it and it improved on who we had last season or two.

Oh trust me. I was unbelievably optimistic that the young players were going to be good.

Not a single one of them has made an impact in half of the season.... I can admit that rather than pretend the amount of money we spent matters more than the players we spent it on.

The window did not improve us beyond KDH. Even Grealish I have massive question marks on right now, he hasn't turned up here for months imo.