Another win today most likely.
Funny if Everton finish above us.
Funny if Everton finish above us.
David Moyes | Everton Manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
Everton 4:0 Leicester.
Everton needed to change manager or they would have been relegated.
Everton needed to change manager or they would have been relegated.
Delighted for him.
Never gets the credit he deserves
He’s a good mid table manager
Never gets the credit he deserves
He’s a good mid table manager
happy for him.
He's excellent at a certain level.
I wonder wil he ever have another crack at the big time or a biggish club even like Spurs or will Everton back him in the transfer market properly.
It would be funny if he finished above us and West Ham.
I think they will finish above us.
I doubt it, there is no way spurs would ever go for him. Plus he's 61 now, a few years at Everton before he can then sail off into the retirement sunset.
Thought West Ham did him proper dirty, and he seems like a genuinely nice bloke hearing him speak. Doesn’t really have a bad word to say about his time with us as well considering it was a bit of a cluster-whatsit.
Will stick around Everton and will probably do well until they get ideas bigger than their station like West Ham did.
Will stick around Everton and will probably do well until they get ideas bigger than their station like West Ham did.
Got the United job 13 years too early.
Have you seen the bottom 3? There was no way Everton were going down
West Ham did what a load of clubs in that sort of position end up doing. They concluded that he'd taken them as far as he could, taking gambling that he hadn't also taken them as far as they could go.
His record for them was 6th, 7th and Europa semi-finals, 14th and Conference League winners, 9th and Europa quarter-finals. They were 17th when they hired him.
We were making a good go of it. Dyche gaslit everyone into thinking this group of players couldn't play football.
Moyes has made a few simple tweaks and actually played players how they should be played and we are winning games, actually attacking teams and picking up points.
Brilliant result today!
Don't forget he was also one disgraceful decision away from getting Everton into the CL.
Some Irish bias but Jake O’Brien was clearly a very good defender and couldn’t get a game for Everton under Dyche, Moyes bringing him in was an easy win.
Jokes on you, pal, because SAF left 3, maybe 4 years ago max.
He's been good. Every Everton fan thought he should have been given a fairer chance under Dyche and I'm glad he's doing well and proving himself.
Him returning to Everton is like Fergie managing us again. Of course theyre gonna do better...
Just like he was one Welbeck’s foolish lob away from getting United to CL’s semi-final and potentially winning the Champions League right in his first year with us.
We would have entered that next summer as European winner, with Tony Kroos and Cavani joining us as boost.
Don't get me wrong, Moyes has improved Everton a lot and I think time had come for Dyche. But the 3 promoted teams look incapable of going on any run, and I'd be shocked if any of them stayed up. Similar story to last year.
That's some fantastical mind you've got.
I agree with you that nobody but the three promoted teams should be getting relegated but Dyche was making a really good go of it. By the end of his tenure we also looked very incapable of going on a run under him.
When he left the club and came to utd he'd hit the peak of his managerial career. He took Everton to a level they have never reached since. Also starting with utd his own career hasn't exactly been a bed of roses. Makes you wonder how much of the success he's having now is down to him coming back to the club where he can only have positive memories. The return of the prodigal son! Good luck to him he deserves the success and hope it lästs. (Just as long as they don't go above us)
He joined United too soon, think of what could have been if he'd joined us now.
His biggest problem for United is he’s Scottish. And he bought Fellaini.
They might go above us when we play them in a few weeks.
That was a 5 star performance against Leicester. If they play like that against Liverpool they've got a good chance of causing an upset.
Really happy for him. he is a solid manager and seem a very grounded person as well.
with right team, he can have his Everton team compete for top 8 finish regularly.
with right team, he can have his Everton team compete for top 8 finish regularly.
Very good.
Probably gained a lot of experience during his tough times leaving Everton.
I see the same with players. I think someone like Evans gained skills he didn't have and potentially wouldn't have learnt at UTD. Sometimes a player goes from an attacking team run by SAF and plays say for a Pulis and has to come out of his comfort zone and learn how to actually defend, because those teams do that for most of the match.
Similarly a manager like Moyes developed a reputation for being decent, got comfortable with a great relationship with the owners. Moved to a high profile job like UTD. Aged about 20 years, went abroad, came back did well and returns "home".
Probably learnt more in his failures than his time at Preston and Everton and I can't imagine he will ever be as pressurized even in a relegation battle.
Respect to Moyesy. Perhaps Goodison is just his spiritual home?
Uno dos tres quatro times a Manager
Done very well so far. Keep it up enough so we stay up please.
Thought these graphics were very telling.
https://theanalyst.com/2025/02/david-moyes-everton-improvement-premier-league-stats
Thought these graphics were very telling.
https://theanalyst.com/2025/02/david-moyes-everton-improvement-premier-league-stats
Done very well so far. Keep it up enough so we stay up please.
Thought these graphics were very telling.
https://theanalyst.com/2025/02/david-moyes-everton-improvement-premier-league-stats
He's an excellent manager.
I wonder will Everton back him in the summer to buy players.
Nothing to do with being Scottish. Busby was Scottish, as was the Doc. The problem was that Fergie appointed him manager and it was a call he shouldn't have made.
I think (assuming we stay up now), we keep him on for at least one more year to transition into the new stadium and era as a club and then assess him in the following summer depending where we are.
No matter who the manager is though we have to reinvest. Our squad situation is quite alarming.
I think Coleman and Young probably retire or are let go. Keane and DCL will probably leave. Doucoure is a 50/50 whether we give him one more year and I think we will try to get Gana to stay for one more year.
From the loan players I would send Broja and Harrison back. Lindstrom is currently a 50/50 whether to keep or not on another loan deal, same as Mangala. I think we might take up the permanent option with Alcaraz as the fee isn't too bad.
Saying all that and adding them to the core squad leaves us with around 15 players. I think Armstrong will come back after his Derby loan and be involved in the senior squad and Dixon might get promoted (RB) but we really need 5-10 players in this window and it's suggested we should have the funds to be able to do that. I don't think we will be making £50m signings but a bunch of £10-20m ones.
The one thing where Moyes can feel thoroughly vindicated is his criticism of our scouting and transfers. He inherited a team that was a bit more over the hill than we thought and some of the younger players signed to replace the aging stars turned out to be shitter than hoped. And that’s what did for him in the end.
The fact we continued to sign players who turned out shitter than hoped for another decade after Moyes had left really puts all the piss taking about him and his iPads into a very different light.
Coleman will move into coaching I think. Probably at Everton.
I think with PSR rules there's lots of bargains and good loans to be had.
I wonder with the increased match day revenue will it translate to money for transfers or just to service the debt.
In theory Everton should have a top 10 budget easily I think.
Great manager.
Everton could finish top 10.
Everton could finish top 10.
Took him 6 games to win more games than Dyche this season. 