Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

Time For A Change

By Ryan   Rosenberg  ::  20/12/2011   46 Comments (»Last) About seven months ago I wrote a piece on my beloved ToffeeWeb about losing my passion for this club. Not only have I lost passion, I have lost any remaining faith I had in the board, coaches, and especially David Moyes.

I turn sweet sixteen in two months, so what do I want for my birthday? A new owner, board, manager and striker. I get a lot of abuse about Everton at school, my fellow classmates taunt me with the old "Everton are shit" and "You will always be a small club". I should take their lack of football or general intelligence into account (I live in Melbourne); however, now I reluctantly agree with them. I used to stand up for myself, saying "We have no money, yet we are always top finish in the top eight" and "We have beaten the big clubs in the past", but no longer will I stick up for David Moyes.

Why should I accept that Moyes gets a £65k weekly cheque in his 'Dundee bank account' for not playing a team capable of acquiring three points? Why should Doddy? Einstein defines 'insanity' as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Well, his 4-5-1 never worked against QPR, and it didn't work against Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Newcastle either.

Moyes should never be allowed to approach a match by going for a draw. That pisses me off, a lot, when I see the same formation every week. But starting Phil Neville, a 35-year-old right back, instead of the most exciting 18-year-old in England, Ross Barkley, makes me sick. Ross came on against Bolton and did more than Osman did for the whole match in ten minutes.

But credit's due for you giving Gueye a go, even though it should've been done a long time ago. "Tolis, I just decided he looked a little bit below it in training", yeah fair enough Davey, but Cahill, Osman and Saha can keep their spot for their consistently shit performances during the last year...

Why does Moyes have any right to complain about our lack of quality forwards? "We have been saying for a while now we need a striker, and that is obvious from our performances ? but they are the ones who cost the money". Very complex analysis... I mean, who was the one that agreed to sell Beckford and Yakubu without replacing them? We certainly got our value for Becks, but there was no need to sell him.

And Yakubu? I don't know how you could sell a "natural goalscorer" for such a nominal fee. Their is no excuse for you to say we need a striker, because you sold two of them, one who scored 10 last season and had a very high goal-per-minute ratio, and another who already has nine this season. "We were interested in him. He's done terrific" and more importantly "He scores goals". These quotes about the free-agent Demba Ba just shows how poorly managed we are.

You cannot sell arguably you're two best players (Pienaar and Arteta) and not replace them. Players like that need to be replaced, but what is so disgraceful is how their transfers were managed. Our reigning 'Player of the Season', gone for about five times less of what we should of got, and Arteta, our only creative source gone on the last day without a replacement ? no excuses.

Dare I mention Dan Gosling, a promising youngster gone for nothing. These are vital mistakes. There was no need for Arteta to go, we sold him in the dying minutes so Moyes and Kenwright could say "We wanted to keep him but we had no time to replace him". Arteta never wanted to leave. Pienaar? If you knew he wouldn't sign, you should've made him available 6 months earlier so we could get a decent fee. This might've happened a while ago, but we are nothing without these two.

No creativity, no quality, no approach, no Plan B... same line-up... WE SHOULD NOT STAND FOR THIS.

I would take the 'Blue Union' seriously if they wanted Moyes out as well, because he is just as bad as Kenwright. We will never be stable with Moyes at helm, his errors are too costly. Stop saying after every game "We were unlucky" and play a team that's going to fucking go for it. Moyes, pull your finger out, play Barkley, play the world-class Drenthe, play a team that will score, play football ? not hoofball.

I am honestly sick to death of Moyes, he is the most overrated and overpaid manager in the EPL and, although I will still get up in the early hours of the morning to watch us, I do not care anymore. The media no nothing, "Moyes has done well on a shoe string budget", please just no. You should be stripped of any Journalism qualification if you truly believe that. Watch the games please, and understand how the majority of us feel. The sad thing is, nothing will change.

MOYES OUT!!!

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