Thought I'd bump this thread because Moyes has given his first interview since he was sacked, in the Sunday paper:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ster-United-never-gave-time-succeed-fail.html
Some Everton mentions:
‘The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.'
‘It was not easy to begin with at Everton either. We had a couple of tough years before we had the club the way we wanted it.'
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I saw what I thought were important similarities between United and Everton. Like the focus on developing young players. Look at the players we brought through at Everton. As well as the ones we brought in. You go back to Wayne Rooney and all the other lads. Ross Barkley, Pienaar, Coleman, Jagielka, Baines and Lescott. We signed John Stones. We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.’
By accident I (the journo writing the piece) met Moyes in London the night he got the United job. He had travelled down to complete the formalities with Bill Kenwright, the Everton chairman he admired so much. Moyes was with his brother and adviser, Kenny, and was clearly excited by the prospect of succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson. It was the job he had always craved.
I’d been at Everton for more than 11 years. We’d qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final, I’d been voted manager of the season three times. I was among the most experienced managers in the Premier League.
He is candid enough to admit that, in hindsight, he might have done certain things differently at United. ‘If there was one thing I would have changed I would have started the day after I finished the season with Everton,’ he says. ‘Instead of waiting until July 1, I’d have started immediately.’ An Everton contract that ran until June 30 meant he couldn’t. ‘And within a few days of starting I was off on tour all around Asia,’ he says.
‘I also went into the job thinking I want to do exactly what I did at Everton. I want to be the same person. I want to manage in the same style. Because why would I change when I had success working that way? But now, looking back, I think there might have to have been a slightly different approach. I might have altered the style in which I managed.’
Moyes responds to certain accusations that were levelled at him. For instance, had he encouraged Rio Ferdinand to study a video of Phil Jagielka? ‘That’s nonsense,’ he says. ‘I would never do that.’
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Still very surprised at how little Everton seemed to have touched him, despite being manager for 11 years. After everything that has happened, he still seems very reverent towards Man Utd ('If you're a Man Utd player, this is how you act' etc).
It doesn't seem to have put his Everton career into an improved light in his eyes, which I'm surprised about. I wasn't expecting him to say 'I should have never left Everton' but he's still saying nice stuff about United, stuff he never really said about us. He seems to put United on a higher pedestal than us, which proves to me that he shockingly never truly 'got us'. You never get people like Royle, Southall, etc saying stuff like that. Everton are always the special club in their eyes.
