It would be interesting to hear an honest assessment from Moyes of what happened in his jobs after United. I never thought he was good enough for United but, post-United, he seemed to be phoning it in and barely PL standard. From a distance, it looks like he was traumatised by how his promotion to the top table turned into humiliation, and it has taken 7 years for him to regain his equilibrium.
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We love to banter & slander him but credit where it’s due, he’s having a fantastic season. Overachieving with top 10 clubs like Everton & West Ham seems to be his level.
Maybe Guardiola can hand pick him to be his successor & he can take big Thomas Soucek to City
Maybe Guardiola can hand pick him to be his successor & he can take big Thomas Soucek to City
Didn’t realize he did Jose today. Nice. Imagine if he actually gets top 4 with West Ham. I would say that would probably be the best achievement of his career in the context of what the league is like now.
Imagine if he gets a result against City as well.
Imagine if he gets a result against City as well.
That 2-2 draw with Fulham with a world record number of crosses will take some beating!
In all seriousness though, it would be a magnificent achievement. Weren’t they battling relegation when he took over?
He took the wrong jobs, to be fair to him.
He had no business being at a top Club, no other top club had a sniff at him in 10 years at Everton. If not for Fergie he would have never got the chance.
Sociedad was another terrible choice as he didn't speak a word of Spanish and didn't seem too rushed to learn either.
Sunderland were a team struggling for a few seasons and staged a few great escapes, but a personality like Moyes was unlikely to inspire them.
Now he's back at a mid-table club where workmanlike football that gets results and pushing for a European place is the best they can hope for he's doing ok again.
That's his level.
Qualifying for the CL for the 1st time after nearly 20 years managing in the PL would definitely be the biggest achievement of his career.
He qualified with Everton in 04-05.
they were very unfortunate to be drawn in the qualifiers against a very good Villarreal side who ended up making the semi finals. IIRC they were on the wrong end of a couple of ref howlers too.
They were. Moyes is at his level at West Ham. He’s doing good work there at the level he belongs at.
Well yes they lost the qualifier so they didn't actually qualify for the group stage then which is the champions league.
If a team loses a World Cup qualifier they haven't played in the World Cup, same thing.
But yeah they were robbed by Collina though. He was on a mission that night.
He's obviously a very good manager. Think he has served enough time in purgatory after his United debacle. Takes resilience to come back after the failures he's had in recent years, plus the ridicule from fans. I doth my cap to him. Well deserved.
He spoke "dos, tres, quatros" words I'll have you know!
Yeah and he would have learned to count all the way up to 10 in Spanish but Sociedad didn't give him enough time. If he'd known he was getting sacked after only 1 year he would have taken the advanced Spanish lessons. Which would have been more than 2 hours per week.
'Proud' Moyes 'can't promise Champions League football'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56224404
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56224404
They were very good today and extremely unlucky not to get at least a point. They restricted City to very little and West Ham had the better chances over the course of the 90 minutes.
What a terrific job Moyes has done with them over the last twelve months. Delighted for him.
What a terrific job Moyes has done with them over the last twelve months. Delighted for him.
Not so fast now!
It would quite literally be something that's beyond the realms of possibility.
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I’m not sure our fan base can handle another Moyes appointment RobbieHas a nice ring to it tbf
Imagine the meltdowns.
I’m not sure our fan base can handle another Moyes appointment Robbie
Imagine the meltdowns.
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MoyescafeThought it was a fairly spineless approach to the game, especially the first half. That was like an FA Cup game vs League 2 opposition in terms of sitting back.
I know he's never won at Old Trafford playing against United but he has a chance to make history with West Ham this season, should've been braver. Thankfully for us he wasn't.
I know he's never won at Old Trafford playing against United but he has a chance to make history with West Ham this season, should've been braver. Thankfully for us he wasn't.
Laughably negative approach from him.
It really isn't a surprise to see how appalling his record is away to the big clubs when you see the way he set his team up tonight.
He's doing a very good job overall but theres not many worse when it comes to these sorts of games.
It really isn't a surprise to see how appalling his record is away to the big clubs when you see the way he set his team up tonight.
He's doing a very good job overall but theres not many worse when it comes to these sorts of games.
I think he's done well at West Ham and deserves a shot at the big time. I wouldn't mind him taking over when Ole retires.
He’s a fecking coward. That game summed David Moyes up to a tee. How the hell was he ever Manchester United manager?
Some things are just unforgivable. Will never forgive Fergie for this mistake.
What?
Don't even fecking joke about it.
6-3-1? Wasn’t it how they played the game today? I get that he wanted their wing backs and three holding md players to dominate the midfield by numbers. But it fails miserably and they were pinned to their own third almost the whole game. The strategy to annoy the opponent as much as possible by this way is really negative approach. It’s simply too bad for the game overall.
He has at least remembered how to do the thing he can actually do, which is to get 10th-place type sides to become consistent 6th-place type sides with very pragmatic football.
But feck me if today didn't make me thankful he's not still here. Wretched thing for fans to have to watch for 90 minutes, whether or not it was the right decision strategically.
But feck me if today didn't make me thankful he's not still here. Wretched thing for fans to have to watch for 90 minutes, whether or not it was the right decision strategically.
He just played for 0-0 like in the cup. Performances like tonight do sum up his limitations as a manager as good a job as he's doing this season. Should've started Benrahma for instance to link up with Antonio for instance who barely had a kick all night.
Never thought I'd see the day where a West Ham manager is criticised for taking up a negative approach away at Old Trafford
The fact that United only won the game through an unfortunate own goal suggests to me that he got his tactics spot on. Had his team been more expansive they would almost certainly have gotten picked off by a United team that are lightning on the counter attack.
The fact that United only won the game through an unfortunate own goal suggests to me that he got his tactics spot on. Had his team been more expansive they would almost certainly have gotten picked off by a United team that are lightning on the counter attack.
Yeah in 25 years time, hey who knows.