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Has Moyes lost the Changing Room?

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Maybe the saddest thing about Everton today is not the poor recent displays of the team but the level of distrust of the club by its fans.

I am hearing a number of disturbing rumours about problems with several key members of the current playing squad and David Moyes. I do not intend to repeat these here but can anybody re-assure me that the changing room is more in accord with the manager than recent displays have suggested?

The last six games have presented a team that is completely flat... WHY? Can anybody explain?
Glen Strachan, Oaxaca , Mexico     Posted 24/09/2007 at 19:02:36

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Michael Kenrick
Come on, Glen, if it's common knowledge in the depest jungles of Mexico, there should be noproblem you letting loose with a little of the scuttlebutt for our benefit. Let's hear what you got, hombre!
Mark Pendleton
1   Posted 24/09/2007 at 22:30:38

AJ bust up as (if Mikel had been passed fit) he’d have ben dropped for the EURO game. Arteta not really injured just refusing to play after the assurances we were going to sign some top quality midfielders failed to materialise. Lescott bust up because Moyes sees him as a right back not central defender?

AJ - nonsense. Moyes always backs him (rightly, as even if not scoring he offers so much more).

Arteta - nonsense. The guy wouldn’t have signed a new deal had he not been happy with things.

Lescott - nonsense. Moyes wouldn’t have spent all that cash on Baines if he saw Joleon as a left back.
Blue Swede
2   Posted 24/09/2007 at 23:21:37

Moyes has lost a few a few other things aside,marbals etc. that blank stare still worries me!!! He has taken us as far as he can. Now its time for someone to take us further. Is there a coach out there who will work for the money we could pay? Apart from Howard that is!!!
Kieran Kinsella
3   Posted 24/09/2007 at 23:59:51

I hope Arteta stays but all this talk makes me think there could be some truth in the rumours about the supposed Makelele deal.
glen strachan
4   Posted 24/09/2007 at 23:31:07

Hi Michael

No jungle ......sorry..... we live up in the Mexican mountains and a great consolation in that is when we go outside after watching another scandalous performance from a team that I have followed for well over fifty years the sun is always shining.

My question was genuine and I hope my information is wrong but I really doubt that.

The reason I won’t say more is that while we are thousands of miles away from Goodison
I still have some friends from the old days around the Premier League and I hear from several that there is a problem at Everton and that it surrounds the manager and current relationships with his players.

I will say no more than that for one simple reason........it is many years since I first came across David Moyes when he was an aspiring apprentice along with some of my old pals in Jock Stein’s youth team at Celtic and I like the guy as a person but I’m afraid not as a coach where I have long suspected that he has already done all he can for our beloved Blues.

He has done a decent job at Everton and should not be disrespected but I strongly believe his time has passed.

I have not spoken to DM in many years and if I had to advise him now , my recommendation would be that he leaves Everton on good terms and joins Man U as an assistant coach if Fergie’s present assistant leaves as has been suggested recently.

He could watch and learn and while I believe his future hopes are firmly centred on Glasgow , there is nothing to suggest that he could not return as a far better manager to Everton in different days ’under new ownership’

I very much doubt that he would do this but let’s see what happens if the situation arises.

Don’t know about you folks but I cannot see BK sacking Moyes and indeed there has even been speculation in the press about a new five year deal that would buy out the 20 months left on DMs current contract .

A sale of the club will possibly hold the key to when Moyes leaves.

Probably no trophies at Goodison this season but I think this could be the most important year in the history of our beloved Blues.

The offer to Riquelme may have started much of this problem for David Moyes but you guys are back there in town - you must be hearing something surely !

Dig out the tapes of the last six games.

We have been completely flat throughout (OK Tommy Boy did get us out of jail at woeful Bolton) - do you not feel that something is far wrong at our club that perhaps rather flukily led the Premier after taking 6 points from the opening pair of matches and scoring 5 goals.

Then six games - 1 win and 4 goals scored to 7 conceded.........................this is no knee jerk reaction.

Sunday at boring Villa was a new low in recent times.

Something went badly wrong towards the end of that last transfer window and if relationships can be mended , I hope like hell that they are soon .

Sorry to write such a gloomy post but it is hard to be happy seeing a more than decent squad producing close to nowt !

Yeah..........’things can only get better’ as the old song says.

Best wishes to all my fellow sufferers back there and here’s to better times !
Marc R
5   Posted 25/09/2007 at 09:19:36

I heard through my mate in Kazakstan that everyones in the dressing room is pissed off because Moyes keeps playing Neville even though everyone else thinks he’s the worst player at the club. He is the equivalent of a teachers pet in PE who always gets to pick the teams. And if you dont like it you can do 3 laps around bellefield instead. There are also ’a number’ of other rumours about what Moyes and Neville were doing last Friday which I’m not going to tell you as they are completely made up but it makes me seem like im as important as glen.
John Audsley
6   Posted 25/09/2007 at 10:09:17

The only way forward is "More hard work on the training ground"

Maybe rehire Archie Knox and his big stick!!
GB
7   Posted 25/09/2007 at 12:45:30

Makele rumours ?...You must be the only one who’s heard that. The sooner Neville is thrown out the team get Arteta in the middle o park when fit and AJ might then get a sniff. Time to fuck Osman off and surely its worth ago puttin Baines wide left wit Nuno full back, Baines plays both positions anyway so nowt lost !

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