What if Moyes had today's budgets?

[canuckblue]

All I know is he would have had a better quality of cardigan in his wardrobe.

 

[Hibbo]

Moyes just struck it lucky with Arteta and Cahill. There were a fair few hit and misses.

 

[ilikecheese]

Christ guys. 3 posts in a row all with spelling mistakes. My eyes ffs.

Ben bizzy with werk so owt uv praktis.

 

[Dylan]

Might have somthing to do with Moyes's decision to make us sit back on the 1-0 lead. Pure negativity, had we not scored that early goal, his tactics would of been to play for 0-0. We had all the momentum going into that cup final and Moyes was directly responsible for us losing it.

Que??

Momentum? We eeked out a 0-0 bore draw with Utd and won on penalties. Then we snatched the lead in the final in a bit of a fluke goal (don't think Chelski had actually started the game yet).

We were not 'better' than United or Chelsea.

Our support was the best 'team' on semi-final day.

 

[Dylan]

Moyes cant be denied some credit

HOLD THE PHONE!!!! CHECK HELL HASN'T FROZEN OVER!!!!!! @davek HAS SAID SOMETHING THAT ISN'T 100% CRITICAL OF THE MOYESIAH!!!!!!

 

[Dylan]

Lol. Ok. 5 goals across 3 world cups, leading goal scorer for Australia, our highest scoring prem midfielder and third on all time prem scorers. Away goals at Anfield, Emirates, Etihad, Stamford Bridge, White Hart Lane. Yet the best he gets is ‘useless with the ball at his feet’. Half of Martinez’s players that you worshipped won’t get anywhere near what Cahill has done.

Come on now, he was a very limited footballer. Very, very good at what he did well, but lets not be silly about his actual technical ability. He was poor, but fitted our team extremely well. Until teams figured him out, then they took that away from him.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Que??

Momentum? We eeked out a 0-0 bore draw with Utd and won on penalties. Then we snatched the lead in the final in a bit of a fluke goal (don't think Chelski had actually started the game yet).

We were not 'better' than United or Chelsea.

Our support was the best 'team' on semi-final day.

We derservedly won on pens after a hard earned draw in the semi-final and showed uncharacteristic bottle in the shootout that I'd never of thought that side would had in them.

Our goal in the final wasn't a fluke at all. Tjat description gets well overused for unexpected goals these days. We went 1-0 up and rather then go for it. Sat back for the 1-0 after less then a min!

 

[Saint Domingo]

Come on now, he was a very limited footballer. Very, very good at what he did well, but lets not be silly about his actual technical ability. He was poor, but fitted our team extremely well. Until teams figured him out, then they took that away from him.

He’s better on the ball now than most of our current midfield are. Moyes chose to exploit his goal scoring prowess up front but he did drop back into midfield at times and could also dictate from there. He changed the cup quarter final in 09 by doing that. His first touch was great, his finishing exquisite, great in the air, strong on the ball, link up play was good....’rubbish on the ball Cahill’ ‘extremely limited’ etc. All the same people who worshipped at the high altar of crabs like Fellaini and Barry because they drew praise from the patronising sky media.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We derservedly won on pens after a hard earned draw in the semi-final and showed uncharacteristic bottle in the shootout that I'd never of thought that side would had in them.

Our goal in the final wasn't a fluke at all. Tjat description gets well overused for unexpected goals these days. We went 1-0 up and rather then go for it. Sat back for the 1-0 after less then a min!

We didn’t sit back, we got pinned back by one of the best sides in Europe who we struggled to deal with without the whole spine of our team.

 

[Dave Higgs]

Notable transfers after 2008

Date Player Club Fee
31 Jan 2013 John Stones Barnsley £500k
19 Aug 2012 Thomas Hitzlsperger [Free Agent] No Fee
31 Aug 2012 Matthew Kennedy Kilmarnock £250k
31 Aug 2012 Bryan Oviedo FC Copenhagen £1.2m
19 Aug 2012 Kevin Mirallas Olympiakos £6m
12 Aug 2012 Jack Rodwell Manchester City £12m
31 Jul 2012 Steven Pienaar Tottenham Hotspur £4.5m
4 Jul 2012 Steven Naismith Glasgow Rangers No Fee
31 Jan 2012 Steven Pienaar Tottenham Hotspur Loan
31 Jan 2012 Nikica Jelavic Glasgow Rangers £5.5m
13 Jan 2012 Darron Gibson Manchaester United £2.0m
30 Dec 2011 Landon Donovan LA Galaxy Loan In
31 Aug 2011 Royston Drenthe Real Madrid (Spa) Loan In
31 Aug 2011 Denis Stracqualursi Tigre (Arg) Loan In
31 Aug 2011 Jermaine Beckford Leicester City £1.5m
4 Jul 2011 Eric Dier Sporting Lisbon Loan In
31 Jan 2011 Apostolos Vellios Iraklis Thessaloniki £250k
20 Jan 2011 Eric Dier Sporting Lisbon Loan In
30 Jun 2010 Mageye Gueye Strasbourg ~£900k
28 May 2010 Jermaine Beckford Leeds Utd No Fee
23 Jan 2010 Philippe Senderos Arsenal Loan
12 Jan 2010 Landon Donovan LA Galaxy Loan
1 Sep 2009 John Heitinga Atletico Madrid £6.1m
28 Aug 2009 Sylvain Distin Portsmouth £5m
25 Aug 2009 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Lokomotiv Moscow £9m
25 Aug 2009 Joleon Lescott Manchester City £24m
1 Jul 2009 Shkodran Mustafi SV Hamburg (Ger) No Fee
1 Jul 2009 Luke Garbutt Leeds United Nominal Fee
29 Jun 2009 Lars Jacobsen Blackburn Rovers No Fee
1 Sep 2008 Louis Saha Manchester United Undisclosed
22 Apr 2008 Steven Pienaar Borussia Dortmund (Ger) £2.05m
14 Jan 2008 Daniel Gosling Plymouth Argyle £1m
11 Jan 2008 Manuel Fernandes Valencia CF (Spa) Loan

Stones was closer to 3 million from Barnsley

 

[marcus]

What could have been....

Moyes is still a blue....

IMWT.....