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Will longevity guarantee success?
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The Kenwright PR machine known as TalkSport carried a piece this morning in which David Moyes was quoted as saying that comments by Sir Bobby Robson had persuaded him to put pen to paper on THAT contract. Apparently, money had nothing to do with it and love for his "People's Club" wasn`t mentioned. No, it was the noble knight's assertion that longevity alone could guarantee success.
As ever, Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger were trotted out as the exemplars of this creed alongside Sir Bobby's ten years with Ipswich. Ability, nouse, foresight, tactical awareness didn't get a mention for apparently it's all about "sticking with your man." After all, look what other long-serving managers such as Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and even dear old Dario Gradi achieved during their decade or more in the same job!
So as we look forward to another five years with `The Moyesiah`(don't hear him called that these days!), can we be certain that success is just around the corner? Will Our Davey turn out to be a Fergie and conquer the Prem and Europe or just a Big Sam who "does well with what he's got to work with"?
I guess, under the present ownership, it has to be the latter and however critical we are about Davey, we find it difficult to come up with a replacement who would do any better. On the other hand, he bores me rigid, has all the tactical insight of Walter Smith and the charisma of a kitchen top. But in the present circumstances he's a safe pair of hands who will have everybody's hero, Captain Phil, alongside him throughout his extended tenure!
But will time-serving alone transmute him into a managerial genius? I think not... But then, it depends what you mean by success. I suspect it will require both a change of ownership and a very different manager to bring that back to Everton!
Brian Noble, Posted 06/10/2008 at 10:57:09
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I fear that DM has failed in the majority of his big buys - Beattie? Johnson? Krøldrup? Yak seems to be going downhill (please let me be wrong), Fellaini is far from impressive, though has time to settle yet. Moyes has had money and only used it with sporadic wisdom.
If any investor trusts Moyes with vast sums of money I sadly do not believe he will buy players that will fit into his way of playing, and they will end up as shadows of their previous selves.
Our manager has done well in the lower range of purchases (Cahill, Lescott, Jagielka) but has not inspired any belief that he can mould better players into his ethos.
Moyes did well to get us through the early years of this century, but, we need better players to progress so either DM should change his ethos or find another club. I believe Mr Moyes is incapable of changing his ethos and hence I no longer believe DM can take us to the next level.
Yours, a saddened former believer.
Sounds really exciting.... so much so I will have to sit down..... I have this vision of the pair of them, Moyes and Neville, running, hand in hand, through sunlit summer fields extolling each others virtues and the pleasure they experience from avoiding relegation by one point... it?s quite sick isn?t it?? Some success... they don?t ?arf talk bollocks at Everton. I agree entirely with your last sentence.
Moyes out
Neville out
Kenwrong out
Who are his ?big money? buys? Johnson? Hardly a disaster... And he was sold for a profit. Yakubu? top-drawer striker. The best finisher at the club for years (I realise you ?excepted? him. but that?s a little convenient isn?t it ?).
Fellaini. The biggest of the lot? Is he a disaster? After half a dozen games? That is patently not true and shows a complete lack of understanding of the game. The lad needs time.
Who are the others? Beattie and Krøldrup. Both poor buys, but name a manager who hasn?t made a bad buy in his career. Richard Wright? Yep, a piss poor player, but no less than Arsene Wenger paid £5m plus for him, so he must be a shite manager as well.
Never mind the likes of Cahill, Arteta, Howard, Lescott, Jagielka, Yobo, Pienaar.....
Just accentuate the negatives, eh? Why bother.
So when Moyes signs his contract then that?s when our season really starts!! Or does our season start at Arsenal? Or at home to Manchester United? That cunning duo of Kenwright and Moyes! Lulling other clubs into a false sense of security with no clean sheets since playing Derby last season and letting the other teams win in two ?worthless? Cup competitions.
Now I know that we will be guaranteed a top 4 place after giving all the other teams a head start otherwise why would we have started so badly. Watch the replays again and see our trusty defenders deliberately watch the ball rather than the opposing players, our midfield misplace passes to allow the opposition to take advantage and how our forwards don?t get into goalscoring positions often enough. Arteta has perfected the corner not clearing the first defender. Genius!! A masterstroke of tactics from Moyes.
When we cruise up the league, to the astonishment of all around us, Kenwright and Moyes will be carried on a wave of emotion from Goodison to Kirkby by the joyful and faithful masses that will be whipped into a frenzy by Richard Dodd and his cohorts. All hail the conquering Moyes and cast down the dissenters.......
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Until then, yawn...yawn....