2025/26 David Moyes

[Dyo1878]

Appointing a new manager does not change the players.

No it doesn't, but a new manager with ideas from the 21st century and not the 19th, like the last few of our managers, could maybe make our players play some form of football which doesn't resolve around sit back and nick one.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I'd call it lazy too if it wasn't happening nearly every game since he joined us again though? All those things you wrote are all true and have been so many times this season it's not even funny. We can add "no subs" and "favourites" in there and it's the perfect Moyes soup.

cough em up then...

 

[anton66]

European football qualification this season is so easily achieved by mid-table, mediocre teams. Unfortunately we don’t seem capable of reaching this stage of mediocrity. Very sad.

 

[DualityNSNO]

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None of those join us for Moyes, maybe other than Barry, who would've been a backup left back.

LOL indeed.

 

[DualityNSNO]

cough em up then...

You wrote them yourself, what should I cough up here?

 

[Rita_Poon]

It changes the mentality though - like for example how Moyes left all those years ago and Martinez instantly made the exact same squad perform WELL better.

It did fall apart for Boberto quickly due to his own stubbornness, but we don't have to pretend that his first season wasn't an instant change for us, after a decade of "knife to a gunfight".

 

[Rita_Poon]

None of those join us for Moyes, maybe other than Barry, who would've been a backup left back.

LOL indeed.

 

[Rita_Poon]

You wrote them yourself, what should I cough up here?

in quotes.

 

[jceverton]

Brighton dropped £250m in one transfer window last season, iriola has spent £400m+ at Bournemouth and brentford have spent near enough 300m in the last 3 years.

A decent striker costs 70m now. What Everton consider buge amounts of money and what the PL considers a huge amount of money to spend in a season are two very different things.

Bournemouth have negative net spend overall with Iraola. Sure they spent a fair bit initially but sold big last summer and he's still got them performing.

 

[Ruairi77]

We played better football in Moyes' last season than in Martinez's first.

we were playing well towards the end of the season around the time he put on his good pants to head over to fergusons for tea, poached eggs I think.
but we were consistently far better in Martinez's first season.

 

[Bluepablo]

Also uses Grok and ChatGPT a lot like yourself ! Next you'll be having an argument with it.

Too much credit, wouldn’t have the first clue how to use Grok or ChatGPT. Can use google though.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Too much credit, wouldn’t have the first clue how to use Grok or ChatGPT. Can use google though.

What do you think we should do? I'm not arsed if we move on from him in the summer (doesn't mean I don't appreciate him either like).

 

[Dublin blue 75]

The huge investment in players we can ill afford to leave on the bench and getting dumped out of both cups round 1 should be enough for a polite parting of the ways end of season.

No more of the Kenright sentiment in keeping ‘one of our own’ codology. He was hired to do a specific salvation job which he did. Thank you, next.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Yeah it was solely down to Lukaku, not the fact we actually attacked a lot more and looked like we have an idea other than "cross it in the box".

Alternatively, Lukaku doesn't join us and even if he does isn't as good for Moyes, and you know it - he was there to score goals, not run the channels for 90 min and hold off players.

Do you think Lukaku joined us because of an ex Wigan manager?

 

[DualityNSNO]

in quotes.

I don't have the time or patience for your incessant mini-davek impression here (in fact, it's weird he's not here to lick Martinez' arse, given the topic/thread), sorry mate.

We scored more goals, we conceded less goals, we played better football, none of those join us for Moyes, and even if by some long shot they do - they'd never play. Barkley made 1 mistake and was shipped out on loan the same day so he's in the lower leagues, Deulofeu at the time was 19 so he won't play (and Moyes wouldn't go for him anyway), Lukaku definitely doesn't join as we suit nothing about how he plays with Moyes as he can't get a tune out of forwards like him, Barry maybe joins but he's backup left back obviously, and so on.

I can't wait for the evidence to the contrary to be "but he played Rooney and Vaughan", while we have a 40m player playing once a month for 10 minutes this year, as proof he'd play Deulofeu.