A new sense of expectation.

[formerly manx toffee]

Kenwright got fortunate with Moyes as he let him virtually run the club and Moyes was competent enough to do that...I really doubt he'll be so lucky for a second time. Personally, I am absolutely crapping myself about who he'll entrust with the future of the club. Would rather have someone other than Kenwright making this decision

Perhaps Moyes will choose. Seem to remember Walter recommended Moyes.

 

[Timak]

There is no hope.

Sorry to sound so negative but it is true.

We will be significantly worse with another manager in charge.

 

[Hadders]

Don't want Hughes (spends money and not much to show for it), O'Neil (same as Hughes) or Lennon (dour character and football). Please none of these.

 

[joseph]

We all know Bill won't spend anything he hasn't got and I don't blame him. Look at Leeds 10+ years ago mortgaging the club in the hope of getting into Europe and failing.

In all honesty I would take top 8 for the next few years playing attractive football under Martinez while hoping a tycoon can be found to pump money onto the club and move us up.

He doesn't have to spend money he doesn't have but let's say, for example, Fellaini goes (which a lot of people think will happen) and we get £20-£30 million for him plus some of the new tv money...how about giving a decent chunk of that to the new manager to spend?
Would love to see us playing attractive football-even if it means finishing 8th or 9th. Better than playing boring football and finishing 7th. Football should be about entertainment...Why else would people pay to watch it?

 

[Timak]

In all honesty I would take top 8 for the next few years playing attractive football under Martinez while hoping a tycoon can be found to pump money onto the club and move us up.

If finishing top 8 every season whilst playing attractive football is that easy why has no other manager got their club to do it?

 

[swordsman]

I would be interested to know the age profile of the people posting in this thread.
I have been a supporter since the days of Harry Catterick,so I have seen a lot of managers,good and bad.

I think that a lot of younger supporters have grown up with the security of having Dvid Moyes in charge,have never known anybody else and are afraid of what change may bring....In truth we will all be on tenterhooks until the new manager is named.

I have supported the blues since 1986 so i have seen the end of the good times and the full collapse and then the recovery under moyes. I have to say I am optimistic for the future with the right man

 

[Hadders]

He doesn't have to spend money he doesn't have but let's say, for example, Fellaini goes (which a lot of people think will happen) and we get £20-£30 million for him plus some of the new tv money...how about giving a decent chunk of that to the new manager to spend?
Would love to see us playing attractive football-even if it means finishing 8th or 9th. Better than playing boring football and finishing 7th. Football should be about entertainment...Why else would people pay to watch it?

What I said mate. Attractive football and top 8 would do me.

I'm sure Kenwright will get Martinez and offer him a bigger budget then Whelan, rather than risk getting his wallet out.

I think Martinez will be the man. MON and Hughes will spunk all the money up the wall. Lennon wouldn't have a clue. Laudrup will leave England for a top job abroad in the next 3 years (Kenwright wants continuity). No other options.

 

[potato]

we are going to be fighting for the 12th place trophy next year arent we

 

[boki]

Would love to have Bielsa as our next manager, hard working guy, but great tactician, and he could bring a few cheaper players from Spain(ala Michu) like Laudrup did.
Laudrup would be my first choice but I expect him staying with Swanse for now

 

[broders]

You seriously believe we have a better squad than Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal? Wow.

Fair enough; maybe "under-perform" was the wrong expression to use. But you can't deny that expectations were very much metered come the middle of the season. Certainly we could have challenged a little harder than we inevitably did. I guess that was the point I was trying to make.

 

[rbm]

Just imagine waking up to read that Big Eck was in.......I mean just imagine it.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

we are going to be fighting for the 12th place trophy next year arent we

Depends on how many others decide to jump ship...

 

[Royal Blue Jersey]

Just imagine waking up to read that Big Eck was in.......I mean just imagine it.

I wouldn't want to wake up

 

[dannyboy]

Fair enough; maybe "under-perform" was the wrong expression to use. But you can't deny that expectations were very much metered come the middle of the season. Certainly we could have challenged a little harder than we inevitably did. I guess that was the point I was trying to make.

I know it's easy to look back at the points spurned against the likes of Norwich and Fulham but every team in the league will have had similar games this year. I think we've finished about where we should have with this team.

When it came down to it we had Mirallas missing through injury for quite a while and it was Naismith waiting in the wings to take his place. The squad just wasn't good enough to sustain that top 4 challenge.

 

[mezzrow]

Anything that can't continue, won't continue. Anybody here surprised? Moyes got this job on the strength of what SAF thought about the job he did at Everton. There's something there. Does it have anything to do with what is to come? Well, we have what he left behind, so let's see what another man does with it. How about let's be men about this and face the future with a bit of hope. I'm going to find a glass, some good ice, and that bottle of Woodford Reserve and think about this for awhile.

David Moyes will go on and be David Moyes, and Everton will go on being Everton. In the fullness of time, we will reach a more balanced view of what Moyes has done, filtered through the reality of what the coming years bring. Stable is good, but there are more glorious things in life than stable. Life is filled with possibilities.