Oh aye, it's all done to promote his book. Yeah, right.
Good job nobody else is criticising Moyes at the moment... oh, hang on...
The book is a massive red herring. It is convenient timing for sure, but the stories about Moyes ignoring the youth set up have been around for ages and ages.
Part of Martinez' remit when he came into the club - besides the obvious of keeping all the plates spinning, so to speak, was to improve the link between the youth team and the first team. The obvious implied subtext was that things COULD BE IMPROVED, which after 11 years of Moyes, you'd think would already be sorted out if everything was fine and dandy.
This was well documented in the transcript of Martinez meeting the fans websites late last year.
I think writing off what Sheedy has said as a publicity stunt for his book is a) inaccurate; b) disrespectful to an Everton legend still at the club and in a key role; c) ignoring that he was somebody who was responding to fans questions on Twitter; d) ignoring that what was said is based in fact; and e) is ignoring that it is no different to many other people's criticisms of Moyes both at Everton and currently at United.
I know there is a tendency from some Evertonians to not appear to be bitter towards Moyes because he stablised the club and did improve it, but I do not believe this is all something being said to disregard the good he did. Yes, we know he did a lot of good stuff. But he also suppressed a lot of stuff getting out of the club. People were afraid of him, because he basically had near total autonomy towards the end - which led to him basically taking the proverbial out of the club when it came to contract talks and basic lies about his knowledge of Man Utd's interest and offer to him, as confirmed in Ferguson's book, stated as being many months before the end of the season and at odds with Moyes own public words.
Who can forget the ultra-arrogant:
We're long past the point of giving Moyes a dignified benefit of the doubt. He burnt his bridges in the summer and the gloves are off. They've been off for months.
