The return of David Moyes

[allen]

I’d rather David Moyes was our manager than Sean Dyche.

That’ll do for now.

 

[donny]

If it is moyes it's the worst decision in the clubs history. Worse than benitez. At least then you could argue an upside (ignoring the obvious disgust) that he had a winning background. Moyes has failed everywhere since he left us.

There is no possible positive here. At best he keeps us up with turgid football then hangs on and stinks out our new stadium whilst spewing negative bile along the way. But he has no more pedigree of keeping us up than any other random - he took Sunderland down and West ham a few points above us binned him off as clearly they felt anxiety in that regard.

Even Howard #3 had a ridiculous sentimentality about it.

Do one Moyes please

Nothing could be a worse appointment than Benitez.R u drunk.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

This is going to be like Kendall: The Aussie Whites Years.

 

[allen]

I was honestly surprised they got rid of him twice, considering how well he did both times

West Ham have delusions of grandeur.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I believe Moyes wasn't a very big fan of Barkley initially. Did he make the mistake for the goal? It's been 14 years, memory isn't great.

Did he start Vs QPR on opening day, and he didn't play great then was shipped out to Leeds under Warnock or Sheffield United to "toughen" up.

Don't think Moyes can take too much credit for Barkley. Did bring in someone good youngsters thiugh, he can have that.

My memory is not great But I seem to recall Barkley starting against QPR and being the best player on the pitch.

Do. Not. Trust. My. Memory.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

People (probably butters) will call him Moist or Moyles like it’s hilarious

I get electric shocks every time I read someone doing that

 

[polish]

He was absolutely desperate to come back to us. Hope he’s got something to prove.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

West Ham have delusions of grandeur.

“We won the World Cup!”

(Nothing to do with Alan Ball, the Charltons, etc)

 

[Tipp blue]

 

[Runub]

Moyes record against Aston Villa. 34 games losing just 7

 

[Bebeto]

If it is moyes it's the worst decision in the clubs history. Worse than benitez. At least then you could argue an upside (ignoring the obvious disgust) that he had a winning background. Moyes has failed everywhere since he left us.

There is no possible positive here. At best he keeps us up with turgid football then hangs on and stinks out our new stadium whilst spewing negative bile along the way. But he has no more pedigree of keeping us up than any other random - he took Sunderland down and West ham a few points above us binned him off as clearly they felt anxiety in that regard.

Even Howard #3 had a ridiculous sentimentality about it.

Do one Moyes please

Not the best out there of course, but probably one of the best of what's available to us unfortunately. To be fair to him he did a solid job with the hammers. Won the mickey mouse cup and has had decent finishes in the league with them. I
Personally I am not convinced he is much better than dyche, perhaps marginally better. One thing for sure he will be 100% motivated which we know wouldn't have been the case with dyche.

 

[PhilM]

I was honestly surprised they got rid of him twice, considering how well he did both times

They were in the relegation zone in 17-18, and he was able to get them to 13th. He helped them survive again in 19-20, 6th the year later, 7th, 14th and 9th.

You need to add a European trophy in the mixture too. Right now, I'd snap your hand off for a few years like that, so if it's him or Dyche then we know the answer.

Ideal choice? Far from it. A short-term stabilising figure? I'll take it.

 

[Davidoff]

Looking forward to him telling Guilia Bould that she needs a slap

 

[Toffeeback]

Just another thought on this, we aren't at the koeman, silva , ancelotti stage where we were trying to kick on...we arepretty much at the bottom of the barrel complete restart...so maybe this makes sense in that context

Having read the Athletic piece from today, that seems to be the Friedkins' view of things: looking for somebody to pick us up out of the dirt, solidify things so we're not trying to stave off relegation every year, and then go back to the kicking-on part of the plan from there, after a year or two.

Can't say that I won't be disappointed if that's the plan, as I had hoped that they would be more aggressive in the summer, and I still think they wanted to do that before Dyche forced their hand. But it sounds like they are in fact willing to give Moyes a year or two to get things fully under control. Don't love it, but I at least understand where they're coming from. Plus Moyes has a reputation for picking out players without breaking the bank, which they have to be looking at when needing to replace half a squad in basically one window or so.

 

[hoppy]