If mercenaries want to leave let them. Our priority should be MOYES.

[Summerskin]

Moyes will sign, why would he leave a job where he's paid an obscene amount of money to placate a vast majority of fans who think that being "better than we were in the 90s" is seen as an achievement?

Next.

 

[thebluefox]

whos going to take him???

 

[Summerskin]

whos going to take him???

Man United mate, haven't you heard?

He's destined to bring his trophy winning nouse to Old Trafford any day now...

 

[bluejock]

We should offer him a 5 year contract on £4.5m a year, should tempt him to stay.

 

[thebluefox]

Man United mate, haven't you heard?

He's destined to bring his trophy winning nouse to Old Trafford any day now...

on a 1 week contract

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

I'm not sure Moyes will go to United!

I think he will end up managing Scotland or another national side.

 

[Summerskin]

on a 1 week contract

Haha .

 

[nigelcoyb]

"The grass isn't always greener"

Dispare at the people who seriously think we can do better than moyes at the moment. Why would u want to take that gamble.. Nigel Adkins... Are you for real!!

Whilst he's not perfect, most of the assumptions made of moyes bad points come against judging him against others with far better squads and resources than moyes has got.

We should be gratefully for what we'v got. I remember the times before moyes... That was Awfull, truly awful and were lucky not to be in the lower leagues now as apposed to the semi-finals and European challenges.

Yes there were times before when we were great but seriously... Them times are impossible without major investment whoever the **** manages us.

To win things mate, our history didn't start when you saw us have a couple of sh1t seasons.

 

[sheeds]

I'm not sure Moyes will go to United!

I think he will end up managing Scotland or another national side.

Not convinced myself united will ever appoint a manager whose never won a trophy nor ever played in the champions league.

I'm also fairly confident Craig Levein's salary is probably less than half of moyes' so I can't see that being a job for him in the next decade or so of not longer

 

[sheeds]

"The grass isn't always greener"

Dispare at the people who seriously think we can do better than moyes at the moment. Why would u want to take that gamble.. Nigel Adkins... Are you for real!!

Whilst he's not perfect, most of the assumptions made of moyes bad points come against judging him against others with far better squads and resources than moyes has got.

We should be gratefully for what we'v got. I remember the times before moyes... That was Awfull, truly awful and were lucky not to be in the lower leagues now as apposed to the semi-finals and European challenges.

Yes there were times before when we were great but seriously... Them times are impossible without major investment whoever the **** manages us.

I wouldnt necessarily fancy either one of them but somebody asked the question and the poster answered it .

So in moyes we appointed a manager who missed promotion to the premier league but a manager who had managed that is immediately dismissed as totally unsuitable ?

 

[MapleLeafEvertonian]

They're people with careers, not bloody volunteers mate. If they get a better paying job they're not mercenaries, they're intelligent people with ambitions.

We're not living in the romantic 1950s anymore, I wish more people would get used to it, football is a business, not a Sunday kick around.

Do love this phrase. Not saying I disagree or anything with you bud. But that phrase is used often, yet it seems to me that football is the only business where businesses are quite alright with losing millions of pounds every year.

Its just quite silly using that phrase, because if football is a business, its a business that stinks.

 

[MACCA75]

I've read the OP a couple of times and I really can't understand what point you are trying to make. Sell players who want to leave and try and make Moyes stay? Surely the best way of keeping Moyes is to simply let him have final say on what players he sells and when.

Other than that I think you are suggesting that we basically do nothing and hope that all the other clubs around us collapse with financial problems. Well that seems to have been club policy for years.

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

If you are a footballer whose career is over by mid 30's you want to make sure you're set for life so as in any other career you want the best possible pay that you feel you deserve, these guys don't get a pension when they retire and it's not the footballers fault that it's all silly money now.

You call them mercenary because you feel they should be loyal to our beloved club but they have no affinity with Everton. Everton are their employers simple as, as employers we are not providing the workforce with the means to move forward, progress and grow. Footballers want to win trophies and everton haven't been giving them a platform to achieve this, so they go to a club that can.

Moyes however is a very well paid manager and if he leaves to any other club apart from one of the big guns who play CL footy regular then he can surely only be moving for monetary gain. As it stands we are the best of the rest, all the 'big' teams have managers, none of whom appear close to being sacked so where exactly has he to go????? So in my opinion 'IF' he leaves for monetary gain from his already massive contract then he is a mercenary!!

 

[mkrudden]

I think he misreads vital games, a sign of pressure clouding the simple judgements and he relies too much on the same systems. I always remember Baines hitting some absolute crackers for the Latics outside the box, but that all but seems to have been ironed out of his game.

So Baines doesnt take pot shots anymore...which was due to the fact that Wigan had/have zero creativity forcing him to have a crack...and that is a negative characteristic of Moyes?!

Our manager has help shaped Leighton Baines into, for me currently, the best LB in the Premier League. His distribution, crossing, one-on-ones both offensively and defensively are nothing short of superb.

I cannot understand fellow blues such as Davek having a pop at David Moyes. We can speculate all day long on why he does/doesnt do things in matches, why he has/hasnt signed such a player. The fact of the matter is that no-one outside the club knows exactly what is going on inside the club. The somewhat abusive nature of opinions directed at Moyes is out of order.

This isnt football manager. You, I, we, do not know better than David Moyes. Yes we can have our opinions on who would do a better job but to turn a blind eye now to what he has achieved is ridiculous.

When we reached the Champions League, no-one was complaining about the brand of football because in the end we achieved the near impossible. But now, even though we play a better brand of football, because of the spending of the teams above we cannot achieve the same feat. But...for some strange reason...certain blues blame our MANAGER for that. Blame the board fine, but how can we blame the ginger man because he hasnt got cash to buy flair players and other teams have.

Absurd.

 

[bflefc]

I wouldnt necessarily fancy either one of them but somebody asked the question and the poster answered it .

So in moyes we appointed a manager who missed promotion to the premier league but a manager who had managed that is immediately dismissed as totally unsuitable ?

Cheers, Sheeds.

I did just throw 2 names into the mix as "possible" gaffers who might be able to do a job.

EXACTLY the same kind of risk we took back in 2012 with Moyes, who was hitherto unproven and tested only in the lwoer leagues.

I honestly despair at not just the mindset of some of our fans who honestly can't see past Moyes, but them very same fans who decry any notion of possible replacements as "taking a risk", when that was the case with their 'messiah'.