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• Ian @ 234, you tried this “failed at” line on another thread about managers who have won English domestic trophies. It proved to be a bit silly, as you branded Roberto Martinez as a “failure” after winning the FA Cup with Wigan. You seemed to miss him winning the Nations League with Portugal and reaching the World Cup semi-final with Belgium. Harry Redknapp was also a “failure” at Spurs, despite taking them to consecutive Champions League campaigns and achieving a win ratio of 49.49% in his time there. By your own definition of success for Everton, that would be a MASSIVE achievement for David Moyes. On the manager thread, you also screened out all the trophies that managers won before achieving that domestic trophy - by that definition you could also call Alex McLeish and Juanse Ramos (serial trophy winners) “failures”. Now you are trying the same angle with the players on your post, carefully screening out the multiple trophies they won before they join...
  Steve Brown in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• But if we finish top four Paul don't we automatically qualify for the much more lucrative Champions League? It also makes us more attractive to better players. After all, anyone can win an F.A Cup and fall into obscurity, Portsmouth say....
  Eric Myles in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• Kevin M: I'd rather qualify for Europe than win a cup.Last time I looked winning either cup does qualify us for a shot at Europe. I'd take the FA Cup thank you very much and a shot at the Europa League any day above a top-4 finish.I think that say 96.4899% of our fans born in 1990 or after would agree with me. (I'm not one of them, I bought 'Ceremony' by New Order a couple of days after it came out (along with 'We don't need this Fascist Groove Thang' by Heaven 17) and, alas, remember the Rubettes.)Tony is running rings round you KM. Cease and desist mate. ...
  Paul Griffiths in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• Moyes took advantage of Kenwright, as Kenwright did of him and the fans. The two of them personally profited massively as a duo allegedly involved in advancing our club to where history for well over a hundred years has pronounced us to be. Both failed. But Moyes was a mere, but very willing and knowing, pawn of Kenwright until Ferguson at MU anointed him with greater wealth and expected opportunity. Moyes has concocted a prolific management career over decades whilst being a serial failure in trophy winning. No other manager in England has taken so much from football for so little return to the fans. Aged 71 I am more confident of finding a previously unexplored erogenous zone on my withering body than I am in expecting Moyes to win a trophy for us, and his WHU "triumph" merely exposed the limitations of the celebrating Hammers' fans who joined in with him. So I'm well and truly seeking to describe his previous decades as ultimate failures, whilst he with us fo...
  Don Alexander in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• I'm very glad Jay (239) that we no longer play in a stadium with a stand named after Carter. ...
  Paul Griffiths in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• Also, Darren, don’t want to disturb you while your making your lists, but I’m confused as to why, when you’re asked about what Jelavic won after he left Everton, you said he won trophies in Scotland. In your own time, mate....
  Philip Devlin in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?