The return of David Moyes

[BloodOnTheTrax]

Can he find this generation's versions of Pienaar,, Arteta, Coleman, Baines and Cahill? Will settle for three of them.

Those days are over unfortunatly.

 

[Eidean]

No manager was taking a 6 month contract in 2025 & in reality it’s irrelevant.

 

[Milkman]

Back to square 1, the last 9 years have been a complete waste of everyone's time and money.

You knew this already though. Moyes coming back doesn't change that.

 

[Eidean]

Those days are over unfortunatly.

Plenty of talent in the Championship that we’ve decided we didn’t want to go for anymore.

Hopefully we can go back to that under him.

 

[Kev The Rat]

I suspect Moyes is better as a builder of clubs than a short term fix, I believe he thinks that as well.

 

[longers]

This is the start of a new moyes cycle init.

He'll come in, steady the ship, we'll then get too big for our boots and want 'exciting football' so we'll replace with him Martinez mk2, realise we are getting worse then spend the following 8 or so years fumbling about with other managers before ultimately hiring Moyes son in the year 2035 and repeating the cycle.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Welcome back Cardiola.

 

[BloodOnTheTrax]

Plenty of talent in the Championship that we’ve decided we didn’t want to go for anymore.

Hopefully we can go back to that under him.

I was talking in terms of bargains. The 2.5 millions and 60k are a dream.

 

[Victus]

Those days are over unfortunatly.

Bowen was a Moyes signing. I could see Tom Fellows coming now, seems like a very Moyes signing to me that.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

No manager was taking a 6 month contract in 2025 & in reality it’s irrelevant.

Could be a lucrative contract for 6 months mate, we will pay X amount in wages and a massive bonus if X manager kept us up.

 

[BloodOnTheTrax]

Welcome back Cardiola.
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Wasnt that when we made Champions League?

 

[f.t.r.s]

Can he find this generation's versions of Pienaar,, Arteta, Coleman, Baines and Cahill? Will settle for three of them.

Could argue he's already got some of them with ndiaye and Patterson

 

[ganistuk]

And if the Manager is prepared to take that responsibility then all the better. I can never get why a 'Director of Football' can call the shots with players and not be responsible week to week for the outcome.

Thelwell seems to have quite a broad remit related to football operations, so maybe he is the kind of bloke who would be happy for Moyes to dictate who he wants and then try and get them for him. My hunch is TFG will put their own structure in place around Moyes if he signs for 2.5 years, which will not include Kev.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Wasnt that when we made Champions League?

Yes after our best player was to United.

 

[Lanolin]

This is pretty much the conflict between the fans of younger and older generations.

People that started following Everton in the bitter 90s think, I'd take that again the Moyes years again instead of being 16th, 15th, 12th, 17th or whatever.

People that witnessed Everton in the 70s and 80s winning multiple titles, think the best of the rest mentality doesn't do credit to one of the biggest clubs in the country.

I'm not sure it's quite that simple to be honest. Anecdotally, I often find the older generations are a bit more relaxed about it, possibly because they've seen us win stuff and are content with that. It's often the younger fans who by rights should have absolutely no expectation of success whatsoever who are the most vocal about 'NSNO', because they've heard stories of how good we used to be (a long, long, time ago now) and believe that they have a divine right to see the same as their parents/grandparents saw.