No, not his most recent teams. I think he gets into trouble when he tries to have his teams play in a more attacking style, hence not working out at all at a big club. His last few West Ham teams tried to open up a little, and they did…but more on their own end that the opponents’.
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We will see. Managers returning always make me concerned.
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Every manager will look to take their own coaches with them and the coaches are often not keen to stick around to work under a new guy they dont know. Especially if they have pretensions of managerial work, as all United coaches ultimately did.
At least according to Moyes he was interested in maintaining some continuity but among them they couldnt find an agreement. He thought the Dutch guy was going to stay, but then he backed out to join Hiddink in Russia. He has said had he known that he would have tried much harder to keep Phelan on, but by that time they had already parted ways and it wasnt viable to bring him back. That kinds of sums up who were United were at that point.
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Ah precious
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yeah, that is a different dynamic, and not usually a good one.
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I had forgotten they once finished 4th under him. I quite like the guy and it’s appropriate that he will be there when they play their first game at the new stadium.
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Aka the Valentine technique.
Given the record of the Friedkins, surely it’s a surer bet that he won’t be there?
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Moyes going back to the one club he wasn’t sacked to set the record straight.
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Yes, I have always had a lot of respect for him. Maybe that will rub off on their fans? Who am I kidding? Sweepstake on how long until he is booed off?
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They will stay up under him though they probably will have with Dyche.
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Everton need to start scoring goals.
Not sure appointing Moyes will achieve that.
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Well, he couldn’t be any worse up front than Calvert-Lewin…
Think earlier if Duncan Disorderly will be coming out of retirement
I had similar thoughts. First time at Everton saw his teams struggle more and more to score as time went on. It almost felt he was coaching his forwards how not to score.
But he might make them tougher to beat while finding a player or two who can pop up with the odd goal here and there, particularly if there is some cash available.
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I hope he wants to bring Maupay back from loan - play him up front :0)
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You give it that long?
And I can’t remember seeing a more deluded club/fanbase as in being still so dependant and hopeful that Calvert-Lewin is the same striker he was about 4-5 years ago.
Wake up and smell the coffee and ask yourself the question what did you do not to be still so reliant on Calvert-Lewin being your main source of goals in 2025.
I’ve lost count of the amount of other strikers and offensive options they bought, tried and failed to get something out from.
Maupay, Rondon, Tosun(?), Danjuma, Beto, Broja, Chermiti…
And that’s just strikers.
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