Dear David Moyes...

[JobForTheMoyes]

Think Martinez first year team at its peak beats any moyes side tbh, the side we had the year fiorentina knocked us out of Europa league though was a hell of a team, definitely should've won a trophy

You mean the Moyes team with Lukaku up top

To be honest the FA Cup final season team were better in my opinion.

 

[mrb85]

Moyes thinks he was the sole pioneer of pressing football.

Even though the first pressing teams were the English sides of the 70's and 80's when England sides had that golden period of winning t European trophies annually.

Arrigo Sacchi at Milan was heavily influenced by the English game at the time, his milan side played 442 with a pressing game, Wolfgang Frank was another coach who was also who brought that style to germany and influenced a lot of coaches there like Favre Klopp Schmidt etc.

Teams in the 70s were certainly beginning to run more and mark tighter but it was Kendall who first applied the 100% press throughout the pitch. So much so that one particular journalist always referred to Everton as 'the pitch shrinkers', such was the limited time opposition players had upon receiving the ball before being harassed and tackled by a man in Blue.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Was over it following the Grim Reaper game at Goodison to be honest

Don't hate him at all

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

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Mousemat. LOL

 

[Coggy]

Did a great job for us during pretty difficult times. Good luck to him.

 

[big nev lookalike]

He created a team that we could be proud to support again after some dire predecessors. Some of his tactics frustrated me but he knew how to get the best out of his players.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

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5 years ago! the time flies

 

[Saint Domingo]

Singlehandedly responsible for our top flight existence and the fact we’re able to throw 30 million bids round like it’s nothing now.

Even Martinez and Koeman in full kopite mode couldn’t destroy the base he’d built.

Operated under the most incompetent board imaginable with ridiculous economic conditions imposed on him. Had to routinely sell his best players and for a period didn’t even see the money from their sales

Amidst all this he broke the top 4 once, delivered European football a few times, took us back to the latter stages of cups, finished ahead of Liverpool 3 times (still the last Everton manager to beat them), and signed most of the players that kept us economically afloat throughout that period.

I honestly dread to think where we’d be now without Moyes. Probably wound up in liquidation in all honesty.

 

[APN_EFC]

Definitely agree that he's helped us to stabilise as a consistently top 8 and 'best of the rest' team, from the depths of despair - we could have easily - especially with our owners - become like Leeds, Aston Villa, Newcastle or Man City of the 90s - still amazing to think that only us plus Man U, LIverpool, Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal are ever-presents in the Premier League. Not bad that record even though we desperately want to win things now.

 

[brigadier]

Still glad he's gone, I'm not disputing his so called success, best manager at finding a bargain for me, he is so negative it held us back, Martinez got 72 points by putting an ounce of positivity in his team.

 

[summerisle]

 

[alvinh]

I just came on to post this!

 

[paulbefc]

So much time for Moyes.

His achievement here was nothing short of miraculous and only looks better with time.

6 years on, we're still benefiting from arguably the best pound for pound signing ever made in Seamus Coleman.

Talented manager who unfortunately took the mother of all poisoned chalices in that utterly impossible United job and hasn't quite recovered from it yet.

 

[Death]

So much time for Moyes.

His achievement here was nothing short of miraculous and only looks better with time.

6 years on, we're still benefiting from arguably the best pound for pound signing ever made in Seamus Coleman.

Talented manager who unfortunately took the mother of all poisoned chalices in that utterly impossible United job and hasn't quite recovered from it yet.

He's in good company in terms of managers destroyed by United. We were knocking on the door for champions league on nothing. If he stayed with mosh coming in wed of having a lot more success than what we did with our last few managers without a doubt.