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Player Valuation: £80m
You make it sound as though most fans thought his reign was a disaster, and I'm sure the general feeling is far from it.All our permanent managers after Moyes have effectively stunk the place out. When Martinez, Koeman and Allardyce departed, they had all long outstayed their welcomes. I appreciate that a lot of people still feel animosity toward Moyes, but based on his performance as Everton manager, he was leagues better than any of his successors have been. He got us into the top 4 (which he still doesn't get enough credit for), led us to an FA Cup Final, and got us further in Europe than any manager since Kendall. He did this on a comparatively small budget. If Moyes had the money that Martinez and Koeman had, I reckon he would have spent it much more wisely. He also wouldn't have stood for transfer targets being dictated to him by a DOF, which has been a disaster for us thus far.
He brought us away from the perennial relegation battles and had us in and around 5/8th consistently. I don't think the club were actually as spend thrift as you suggest, but he did well compared to teams with higher wage bills and transfer budgets than we had. He also put together a couple of decent teams during his term playing very decent football at times.
But the fact is he took us probably as far as we could go under him, and probably should have left a couple of years earlier. The fact that we have made several poor, or at best average, managerial appointments since he left is no reflection on Moyes; they were just wrong decisions made by the board/owners. Moyes own managerial record since he left us just confirms this.