My theory of it is he knew he wasn't getting his contract renewed end of season and preferred to leave the club with a payoff, so left the club no option but to sack him. That would explain the nature of the statement the club put out yesterday
That's why a lot of us felt they should have sacked him on day one. He was a lame duck - and he knew it. And the results had fallen away. But they didn't have a plan ready and have ended up sacking him anyway and scrabbling around for another relic of the past.
They've done some good work behind-the-scenes on the finances, it seems, but everything about their on-field plan seems half-baked and naive.
I'll get behind
Moyes in that I admire much of the work he did in the past for us in straitened times. I also quite like him and his attitude to hard work. He's a competent manager. But we needed to move as quickly as possible from the culture that he sustained under Kenwright - and we haven't.
So, honestly, if he keeps us up, I'd sack him on the spot to ensure that fetid culture dies with the razing of Goodison. But I doubt that will happen and I think his return will prove to be a dreadful mistake. Nevertheless, I hope he proves me massively wrong and is a roaring success. That would be a wonderful coda to his, largely admirable, record at Everton.
