The David Moyes Thread

yoyo

3 people out if touch with the modern game. Duck if you're sitting in row Z

Pearces_Left_Foot

Moyes did beat Chelsea , won away at Huddersfield 4-1 and beat Leicester away 2-0 from memory so we did have some decent performances under him , the frustrating thing for me this season is we know the team can play better , we have decent players yet we can’t seem to transfer it into performances and results .

MrsGrey

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/29/west-ham-david-moyes-manuel-pellegrini

Suggestion here is that Gold always wanted to keep Moyes (I think I remember that from discussions at the time). It was Sullivan who wanted to 'go in a different direction' and get a manager who had more 'cachet' in order to attract better players and implement an attractive playing style.

MrsGrey

OldCastleSwift said:

They basically said he wasn't good enough by employing Pellegrini. Just because he turned out to be awful doesn't make Moyes any better.

Not necessarily - that's one interpretation, but as I pointed out in an earlier comment, opting for one type of manager over another doesn't mean the one you rejected is 'no good'. Just not right for what you want to do at the time.

The situation has changed. Now he IS (presumably, if all the rumours are to be believed) right for what they want to do at this time.

(I'm not that keen on Moyes, and he definitely expressed his disgruntlement publicly last time so I'd be interested to see what gloss he puts on it if he comes back now.)

buffybegood

I also seem to remember that Pellegrini was basically a done deal for the summer following Slav's departure, and that Moyes was brought in as a short term fix to tide us over. Obviously Moyes might not have been told this at the time, but that is certainly what was said by many once Pellegrini arrived, so it doesn't necessarily mean that Moyes was let go because he wasn't doing a good enough job, just that he (as far as Sullivan was concerned) was only ever a stop gap.

Cuz1

That article said yarmo up for sale I didn’t know that

SuzanneClaret

Hamstew said:

I'm getting so much stick from mates :weep:

Suck it up.

You should be used to it by now.

Bazshuayi

thick skin = west ham requirement

Colchester_Iron

#NextLevel

PrestonHammer

I'm lucky, I work with virtually all City fans, we're so far down the table, we're not seen as a threat...

yoyo

I'm down the boozer being torn to shreds by Palace and Brighton fans. I need skin as thick as an Elephant

Hamstew

Just remind them that they are Palace fans.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Why does anybody care what other fans think?

grey_til_I_dye

Jorderz :ok: personally, I left that kind of worry back in my primary school playground.

jay_in_cpt

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes said:

Why does anybody care what other fans think?

Easier said than done, especially when perhaps half ( I know people will say I'm wrong ) it's fine, don't even want the incoming one...

grey_til_I_dye

jay

Still don't get shy we should care what other fans think. If they aren't West Ham fans, they clearly know nothing about football...

Hamstew

Well personally because it's up to me how I feel.

jay_in_cpt

I've been waiting for a stat person to work out what our points will be at the end of the season basing it on his last stint-
P31
W9
D10L12

This time he he has only 19 games to work with ( forget cup matches )...

:ok:

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Hamstew said:

Well personally because it's up to me how I feel.

Sure, and I wasn’t trying to say otherwise or dig anybody out.

It’s just something I don’t really get. It’s obvious people are taking shots to get a reaction and nothing more. Why give them one?

SuzanneClaret

Cotten on Soccer Sunday thinks Moyes should be given the job on a permanent basis.

Hamstew

Jorderz I'm not really that bothered what people think it was just a comment on a forum. My mates are just trying to dig me out the same as when Jose joined spurs I did the same to them. Unless it's someone else you are referring to as being bothered :ok:

SuzanneClaret

I gave my Spurs mates hell when Jose got the job :devil:

I’m currently getting in back in spades

I love it :wahoo:

grey_til_I_dye

Hamstew said:

Well personally because it's up to me how I feel.

Who said it wasn't? By the same token, I'm free to feel how I want, including not getting why you feel as you do.

Hamstew

SuzanneClaret said:

Cotten on Soccer Sunday thinks Moyes should be given the job on a permanent basis.

Nick or Dot?

SuzanneClaret

I might have meant Cottee :biggrin:

alderz

Someone asked who we beat when he was here before:

Chelsea 1-0 H
Stoke 3-0 A
WBA 2-1 H
Huddersfield 4-1 A
Shrewsbury 1-0 H
Watford 2-0 H
Southampton 3-0 H
Leicester 2-0 A
Everton 3-1 H

alderz

Now, I don't believe that Ancelotti will be a great appointment for Everton. BUT, IMO, it isn't a good look for our owners that they dithered to make a change, and two very sought after highly respected potential appointments have been snapped up by clubs that acted swiftly, and we are having to go back to someone we deemed not ambitious enough 18 months ago.

Yeoldhammer

I get the feeling Moyes is going to do a nice Sunderland job on us. Championship derby with Millwall incoming

SuzanneClaret

Ald

I’m gutted that Ancelotti went to Everton.

I want him, have wanted him, to manage us.

jay_in_cpt

Guess the 1 candidate was Carlo, so the 2nd candidate Alderz, are you referring to Jose, Nigel,or Mikel ? :hmm: