Take this how you want I’ve been told from someone close to the club Moyes officially told the players after yesterdays game he will be leaving at the end of the season and it will be announced when we exit Europa league. If this is true it's smart to announce it now, and hopefully gee up the playe...

If we are to change managers this summer, the new man must be young, pragmatic, and be given time to build slowly. He also has to try to play on the front foot or the fans won’t abide him, and he needs to be given enough money to buy a squad that has no chance to go down. I think it's more importan...

Also, this top 6 or thereabouts Which two clubs of Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham & Newcastle with their resources & spending power do we feel we have a divine right to finish ahead of, to the point where it's considered a failure of the manager to...

Tezza65 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:36 pm Going back 2 years(from April 22 after being knocked out of the Europa League),apart from the Conference League win

Going back 2 years, apart from the matches we've lost, we've gone undefeated.

In my opinion this is due to the managers rigid style which discourages players moving out of what he sees as their optimum position Hmm I'm not entirely sure, I think our attackers are pretty fluid and switch around a lot. I've also seen our CM press really high (sometimes ahead of strikers) and d...

I think there really is a reasonable middle ground view on our last game. Playing compact and trying to hit Bayer on the break was probably a smart game plan away from home. However, at the same time, under Moyes and other managers we have set up like that to frustrate even better sides than Bayer,...

Tiresome Likewise. I thought it was the "Moyes In" crowd who shoot down discussion? My entire point is that our bench does not have quality, our game plan worked for 80 minutes and then they brought on Boniface and Hofmann. David Moyes looked at his bench and half of them are still school...

Halstead wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:18 am Have you forgotten Arsenal away already?

The win or the loss?

Worked for the first goal, eh? Then Moyes makes changes that were late, and out of desperation, and they go and score a second! But it’s not Moyes fault though is it? Leaving 11 players knackered on the pitch when he could have introduced gradual changes? Nah, that’s not his fault is it……..? This. ...

All of them are in our price level. Wirtz is a Leverkusen product. We have recently spent more money for players than Leverkusen did for Frimpong (Celtic), Homann (Glacbach) or Boniface (Union SG), so calm down! OK I apologize I thought you meant that nobody had heard of them before this season - b...

Leverkusen and Xabi Alonso demonstrate what kind of football is possible with an almost no name squad. Nobody has known Grimaldo, Wirtz, Adli, Frimpong, Andrich, Hofmann or Boniface before. They show that an attractive and successful football is possible without having a capital like Manchester Uni...

Crouchend_Hammer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:49 am We treated them with far too much respect IMHO

What level of respect should we give the team top of Bundesliga by 16 points, unbeaten in 40 without Alvarez, Bowen and Phillips and a threadbare squad?

It isn't as simple as "More strikers = more goals" unfortunately.

So all of the successes that I’m sure yourself and other pro Moyes posters like to throw out, did he not create the environment for those too? Or is it just the bad ones? Yes because we have a strong starting 11, when it works Sullivan deserves credit for that for bringing in the likes of Paqueta, ...

David Sullivan doesn’t ask Moyes to try and draw games 0 - 0, he doesn’t ask Moyes to play that daft low block every game from City away to Bristol City at home, he doesn’t ask Moyes to continually disregard having any kind of possession to relieve the strain on the defenders and actually let the l...

I genuinely really like to get opposing views from my own to try and level my opinions. But I’m just flabbergasted that anyone can come away from that thinking we’d done well. I doubt Leverkusen have had many easier games this season. Not only was their goal not threatened, their entire final third...

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HammerPDC wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:06 pm Quite obvious that only one side was going to score. Tactically only 1 team was trying to.

Careful you've already said that. Or is it only you who's allowed the repeat the same thing?

Playing for a 0 - 0 is embarrassing. Openly accepting we will pose them no problems in our game plan is effectively waving the white flag. It’s humiliating. Our match vs Bayer Leverkusen is 180 minutes long. That's why I accept that we go for the draw for the 90 mins they have the advantage. Humili...

… you’re second effort at that comment Tell me at what point did we try and do anything other than play for 0 - 0 One in the match thread, one in the Moyes thread I think is totally reasonable. We tried to play for 0-0. I'm not disputing that in the slightest. Where we differ is where that's seen a...

HammerPDC wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:49 pm I’m ready now, time to go at the end of the season.

That style is putrid, he should be ashamed

Agreed. That tactic only worked as intended for 80 minutes. He should have done the tactic all the other teams that beat Bayer Leverkusen this season did.

Moyes should have done the tactic all the other teams that beat them this season did.