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Has Everton boss' comments summed up everything that is wrong with the modern game?
Posted by: Rob Facey, Mon 13th Oct 2008
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Football FanCast columnist Rob Facey wonders if David Moyes is talking sense, or
whether his comments sum up everything that is wrong with the modern game?
Everton manager David Moyes
has admitted that he was close to leaving Goodison Park
because he thought he had been in the job too long.
Moyes, who took over in 2002, has enjoyed
great success at Everton, having led them to the UEFA Cup and the Champions
League after impressive finishes in the Premier League. However, he is yet to
sign a new contract and has now revealed that it was a moral dilemma holding
him back.
Moyes has explained that he considered walking, only to alter his feelings following a talk from Sir Bobby Robson at an LMA meeting.
"Bobby got up to speak about his time in management and said he had been at Ipswich for more than 12 years. Then he mentioned that Brian Clough was with Forest for 13," Moyes said, as reported on Sky Sports.
"And it made me think how lucky I was to have been at Everton for six-and-a-half years in a period when managers may get one or two years in a job.
"It had been going through my head that to be at one club for six-and-a-half years was a long time, possibly too long."
How worrying is this for fans to hear? The manager of a top Premier League club to say that he only expects two years in a job and that at six years he feels he has been there too long?
How else can chairmen and club's boards explain the amazing turnover of managers since the Premier Leagues inception?
With regards to Everton, has Moyes' moral dilemma as to whether or not he should leave been the main factor in the clubs stuttering start to the season?
Do fans think he has spent too long at the club? Has he taken Everton as far as he can? Could any manager have achieved what he has with the limited finances available to him over the years?
On a more general note, if the managers feel like they should be packing their bags every few seasons, is it any wonder that players are swapping clubs every other year? Is this conveyer belt, business-like mentality ruining our game?
Whatever happened to loyalty, and who is to be blame?
I think Moysey is spot on
I think Moysey is spot on and loyalty is now rare in the game and so it does seem strange. I do feel Moyes is the right man to take the club forward and with investment can create big things for us.
Moyes is just being honest
Moyes is just being honest and there is nothing wrong with that at all. I personally feel that he has had it tougher than any other manager in England with what he has had toput up with at Everton.
Moyes has done a brilliant
Moyes has done a brilliant job at Everton over the last six seasons - on a shoestring budget (net spend of c.£2m this year for example), despite boardroom turmoil and with a success-starved group of supporters. To even be competing with the likes of Tottenham and Villa with the money such clubs have spent is an achievement in itself and he can honestly say that he has improved the team each year. Of course we have had a bad start to this season - and whilst the non-replacement of Carsley must be attributed in some part to Moyes, there are several other well publicised elements contributing to the poor season so far. These elements are out of Moyes' control and it must be incredibly frustrating for him to have worked so hard, for so long only to see things apparently unravel in front of him. I believe this is the reason Moyes questioned his continued loyalty - not to Everton, but to the Board. DM is the best manager in the premiership after Ferguson and Wenger - we'd have a difficult job replacing him.
You took moyes's quote out
You took moyes's quote out of context, immediately after that, he said that robson made him realize that 6 years was in fact not long enough. the exact quote is:
"But what Bobby said made me think the opposite - that, in fact, it's not long enough and I still have a job to do. It's a dream and he inspired with me with his words."
i agree that the business like mentality is ruining the game, but i think everton have been probably the most resistant to it of any top english club, they haven't spent loads of cash on mediocre players, and still rely heavily on their youth system for tomorrow's talent.
there's your answer for what happened to loyalty, its still alive and well at everton football club. COYB
Six and half years in a
Six and half years in a small club is a long time.
typical RS..talking out of
typical RS..talking out of your *rse once again.
Better than that fat spanish waiter / yank you've got - and he's off to Juve soon anyhow...
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