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• Brendan @ 109, is there really a world of difference? rnrn- 2023/24 season: 15th under Dyche (12th if points deducted are excluded).rn- 2024/25 season: 13th under Dyche/Moyesrn- 2025/26 season: 13th under Moyes.rnrnWhere there is a world of difference is on net spend on transfers. rnrn- Under Dyche, we made a net profit of £79.7 million and he still kept us up. rn- Under Moyes, we have a net spend of £155 million (and counting).rn- That is a spend variation of £235 million rounded.rnrnSo who has really delivered when you factor in performance and transfer spend? To be honest, Dyche has out-performed Moyes to date. That is why Moyes has not been offered a deal extension to date....
  Steve Brown in Moyes bristles at ‘stupid’ cup questions but suggests Premier League trumps trophy dreams for Everton
• A domestic cup has been won by Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Wigan Athletic, Portsmouth, Newcastle United, Swansea City, Birmingham City, Spurs, Middlesbrough and Blackburn Rovers in the last 25 years.rnrnWinning a domestic cup qualifies you for Europe, and regular qualification for Europe increases revenue. rnrnAs Stu @ 43 says “Why does staying in the Premier League and winning a cup have to be mutually exclusive?”. The reason that it seems that way to many Everton fans is 30 years of dumbing down expectations. rnrnNow we see avoiding relegation as success and breaking into the top 10 as a triumph.rn ...
  Steve Brown in Moyes bristles at ‘stupid’ cup questions but suggests Premier League trumps trophy dreams for Everton
• I’d play almost an entirely different first 11 for this with:rnrnTraversrnPatto Jakey Keano AznournDibling Charlie Hackney GeorgernKDH rnBeto...
  Phil Smith in Moyes bristles at ‘stupid’ cup questions but suggests Premier League trumps trophy dreams for Everton
• I don't mean this as a defence or an attack on David Moyes but....Win a Cup?!? What do you think this is the 70's or 80's when a run in Cups competitions meant a sizeable increase in revenue but since the inception of the Premier League, of which we were supposedly one of the five driving clubs, and present day TV revenue they are just a fixture filler to, at best, test the strength and depth of your squad and younger players which may have started with Wenger, and I don't know if this is proved or disproved by the winners coming from what seems mostly the likes of Arsenal and Man City, a long way from the winners or finalists in the '60s, your Birminghams and Shrewsburys(?). Personally, I don't think it does your reputation any good going out early or the European competitions they qualify you for are the biggest money spinners but I do think winning becomes a habit and perhaps marks you as something more than also-rans. Would I put my strongest team out in the early rounds against...
  Alan J Thompson in Moyes bristles at ‘stupid’ cup questions but suggests Premier League trumps trophy dreams for Everton
• I had genuinely thought that putting together an expensively assembled ace recruitment team and the dosh invested in crack diagnostics was precisely to put an end to the need we have had for so long to go shopping - somewhat desperately - in the last week/day of the window, Silly me, I thought that we would now be doing some relatively long-term planning and research over the near year since the middle of September 2025, that we would be isolating and selecting targets based on super recruiting and diagnostics. It could well be us, I thought, who would unearth a couple of gems on the cheap from South America or in the lower half of some European league. I dared to dream: we might be Brighton, Bournemouth, or Brentford. And here we are, 71 days since the window opened, and we have not bought a single player who was not already based in England. No one from over the channel, sea, or water. As I have said before, we at Everton do not do water. Not one of the five deals that we have ma...
  Paul Griffiths in One week to go: Everton's transfer window checklist
• Stu Gre (43): \'Why does staying in the Premier League and winning a cup have to be mutually exclusive?\'rnrnThank you Stu for the best and most important sentence on this thread by a country mile. It\'s like Moyes wants to make it one or another. My God, he might actually be coming to terms with his very real limitations.rnrnSean Kearns (34): \'A lot of replies to my comment most likely coming from people who are fortunate enough to have seen us win something\'.rnrnSorry fella like, there were precisely no replies directly addressed to your comment before #34. One after was shall we say, rather critical. rnrnJohn Williams (11): \'Just think how the families of the two Police Men are going through that have died in the North East\'.rnrnYour post is pretty disgusting on a number of levels.rnrnJamie Gentry (92): So I bought a Volkswagen Polo brand new last year. I didn’t drive it much because compared to my other cars rnrnYou clearly are a me...
  Paul Griffiths in Moyes bristles at ‘stupid’ cup questions but suggests Premier League trumps trophy dreams for Everton