Everton Transfer Banter

25 Oct 2026 10:11:12
Alright lads, well what can I say after that. As usual you go with the hope the team will have a go despite the opposition. Have to say I was disappointed again with the team selection. Johnson in my opinion offers nothing and the lad spent most of the game watching. Jimmy G is clearly out of form so leaving Hackney on the bench was another mystery.

Once Arsenal scored (another calamity goal) they barely bothered trying, and the opportunity was there for us to have a go. But apart from George, Armstrong and KDH nobody seemed to interested. Even our corners when we got them were awful.

Changes should have been made at half time, but no he decided to try and keep it tight and hopefully Nick a goal. This was clearly the wrong approach so when we conceded the second it was no surprise to see the changes being made then.
And this is what is so frustrating, once Hackney and Dibling came on you could see the attitude of the team change.

Armstrong looked a lot happier having Hackney alongside him, and Dibling just looked so calm on the ball and brought Rohl and the others into the game more. We have a good core of young players but they are not being played because Moyes prefers the old pros and doesn't appear to trust young players.

So were we confident of a win on Saturday. Not really given our history, yet strangely enough once they scored we looked like we could have gotten a result but tactics and team selection killed us. My only positive would be that near the end we had a peek into what we could be, with a lot of talented young players who are Premiership ready despite what the manager tells us.

As for Barry well I think enough has been said on that subject, but honestly playing Charlie up there is not the answer not the way we play anyway.
UTFT!

25 Oct 2026 12:00:34
Pretty much sums it up for me AW. I'm just being passive for the rest of the season and waiting for May. Moyes will be gone hopefully and fingers crossed we get someone who is more tactically dynamic.

You'd think after something close to 130 games against the so called big 6, it'd click with him that his defensive tactics don't work with 12 wins, 29 draws and 85 losses.

I have no enthusiasm for the rest of the season. I'm going to enjoy the food and drink at the stadium. I've had probably 30% of the food on offer, so going to try and sample as much as I can. I do like the Indian food and the woodfire pizzas are okay. Haven't had the fish and chips yet and I saw a new BBQ outlet which looks good. I'll take a few photos, watch the paint dry, but I can't even be bothered getting angry anymore.

Roll on May anyway.

{Ed025's Note - amen to that John..

25 Oct 2026 12:03:21
Agree - it seems so simple it just baffles me how he's not willing in the slightest to just try something different.

25 Oct 2026 14:33:37
Keep us posted on what's nice and what to avoid BJU. I would much rather read about the new food at HD than watch that dire excuse for football that we serve up every week.

25 Oct 2026 15:08:19
My goodness. We've gone from MOTD to ruddy Masterchef!

25 Oct 2026 09:55:51
I'm not a Moyes out, Moyes hater but i'd love Unai Emery to be our manager one day. He is an excellent manager.

I would like Moyes to start Dibbling and Hackney though, and give Alcaraz more minutes.

25 Oct 2026 12:25:08
I'm not a hater either mate, but I now want him gone before it's too late to stay up.

26 Oct 2026 00:21:05
I would love unai as well but his stock is so high we have norfolk n chance!
Realistically any of the following:
Glasner
Keith andrews
Thomas frank

All i think would be realistic targets and probably push the club forward.

25 Oct 2026 08:47:59
1. Truth behind TFG strategy .

2. In Moyes We Trust? Or no?

3. The Everton team "spine"

Been tracking you guys on here for a while and I'm enjoying ?

Those three topics above ? are most on my mind lately when I check in here.

25 Oct 2026 10:06:53
Will we ever know the truth behind their initial intentions? Now we know they want out, best to move on quickly so we can plan for the future.

That future needs to be with a more progressive manager. We actually have the makings of a talented young squad, but we rarely get to see them all play. Someone like Howe would change that in a heartbeat. No one doubts Moyes affection for the club, but that's not enough.

{Ed025's Note - im with you JB..

25 Oct 2026 00:19:32
People taking the p out of Spurs, but by next week, they will be above us.

25 Oct 2026 01:10:48
Same with Fulham, all but sacked their manager and were in crisis are 2 pts behind us.

25 Oct 2026 04:32:34
They have spent over £350 million so they should be well up.

25 Oct 2026 04:34:11
If this carries on then we will be in another relegation battle. People say to leave Moyes until his contract runs out but by then it may be too late.
We need a total change in mindset, we have had enough boring garbage served up in the last 20 years. Tfg need to get out asap, take Kinnear with them & do us one last favour. sack Moyes tonight. I'd take fat Sam back over what we're watching atm, utter dross & no way forward with the current regime

UTFT NSNO ? ?.

24 Oct 2026 19:49:43
A lot of my fellow evertonians on the forums were getting excited about our first six games I told them this season we would be just trying to keep ourselves above the relegation zone and my opinion has never changed regardless of the results when we get injuries and we will we could be on the bottom four or five er need the promoted sides to carry on losing.

24 Oct 2026 20:58:08
Where doing the same things over and over but expecting different results, same team same late subs same tactics, and it's been this way for years, and as for buying players why bother we won't play them till the 80th minute anyway, I'm almost convinced Moyes is taking the pee at this point but previous managers have also been like this.

24 Oct 2026 20:59:54
What we need is a coach who is aware that there's another half of the pitch beyond the halfway line. Every team knows how to play against us. We are an absolute disaster of a club with this twerp in charge. Absolutely no desire to attack and as usual invite the opposition to attack us. "Oh but they have so many good players" the guys devoid of any knowledge on how to win a game.

Constantly says we have a weaker team, even against teams we should be schooling.
We've been ever present in the PL and should be strutting against at least 13 other teams. But instead we roll over week in week out.
Enough now Enough!

24 Oct 2026 23:23:14
We should all have expected to lose today. I thought we gave them a good game. Still a striker away from a decent side. We'll win enough games playing as we did today against other teams. Or we can all just dive into the abyss of negativity.

24 Oct 2026 23:32:40
JB, there isn't much I disagree with you on mate but whether we expected to lose today or not I'd besides the point. If we were going to lose anyway, why not at least have a go from an attacking aspect. At least the fans travelling down would have had some level of getting their monies worth.

I don't see how we gave them a good game. Just like Chelsea, they didn't have to get out of first gear. We didn't push them whatsoever today. The first goal was pathetic and the 2nd was another case of basic dreadful defending. Leaving the most dangerous man in the air alone at the backstick. Yet again Tarkowski marking absolutely nobody, forcing O'Brian across.

Just an utter s***e approach to any game of football. The only lad who can come out of that game today with any self respect is Armstrong.

25 Oct 2026 04:35:45
I thought Rohl had a good game ss well BN mate. the others not up to standard at all.

25 Oct 2026 08:20:34
Well I watched the match with my lad in Gran Canaria and was 7 or 8 Malaga beers deep when we kicked off. Very slow off the mark, and a poor first goal but I did think we improved after that.

Put them under pressures for parts of the second half, but should have made subs sooner. Win the Newcastle game midweek and we may feel a bit more positive.

25 Oct 2026 10:35:21
I am with BlueNose 100% here.

The Einstein definition of 'madness' has been alluded to since yesterday's match, and I am inclined to think David Moyes has never heard of Einstein.

24 Oct 2026 19:08:16
I said before we kicked a ball this season that Moyes would be gone by Christmas & I'm sticking to it!

24 Oct 2026 19:13:10
I agree with you there Elvis mate, not changing the Team around and constantly playing out of form players will be his downfall, best all round quicker he's gone the better mate.

24 Oct 2026 20:49:47
He won't be gone any earlier than the end of his contract. There is no logic to TFG paying out compo when they want to sell. They are not for spending we can see that, so getting a new coach will be the most unlikely outcome in my opinion.

25 Oct 2026 11:11:27
We need wins in sufficient quantity, Ace, and unless this starts to happen soon, this playing for a draw and getting the occasional win will mean we will have short betting odds on getting the drop sooner than later.
TFG want someone to pay for a PL club.

24 Oct 2026 18:37:01
I reckon the next three games will decide where we end up.

24 Oct 2026 18:39:22
And with that i'm done.

24 Oct 2026 20:54:08
No GB they won't. It's too early to say. We won't even be 2 thirds through the season. We have a transfer window in January where we can perhaps improve matters.
Don't get me wrong I'm not too positive right now but no clubs fate has ever been decided after such few games.

25 Oct 2026 00:12:36
Will the owners be willing to spend in January though. Or will they gamble on us staying up.

24 Oct 2026 18:18:42
FFS 2nd best Team in the prem, a decent striker and we would have at least held our own. Moan moan moan. We will not get relegated we will finish top 10.

24 Oct 2026 18:28:05
DMS you are deluded mate - sorry to say it - Brighton put 3 past them last week.

We haven't got a half decent striker as Moyes signed an absolute dud and plays him week in week out.

We are one dimensional and boring with no plan Back.

24 Oct 2026 19:48:39
Barry the flop is on Moyes; he knows it. That's why his name is first on the sheet.
Pure obstinacy and nothing to do with calculative decisions.

{Ed025's Note - listen guys i dont want anyone leaving because of the views of others, but you have to admit its not good, there are a few Moyes apologists out there and tend to be glass half full and thats fine by me, but i do think the consensus is that he is doing a poor job and this is not just on this site, some of his player choices are abysmal and baffling to say the least imo, although i would have preferred someone else to come in i was prepared to bite the bullet because i hoped he would take us to safety but im doubting that now i must admit, we dont have much about us and carry little threat and it seems every game is one of attrition, i so want us to do well and have always stood my corner with my Red mates but its getting harder to defend this team and the managers tactics, its a bit depressing because we all hoped the FSG takeover was the start of our salvation but now it seems that may be a white elephant which puts us back to square one, sorry for the rant but i had to get it off my chest..

24 Oct 2026 19:54:41
Sobs realistic not deluded. Been around a long time. We are probably amongst the most miserable moaning lot with most on here basing their knowledge on TV from couch, in the Prem.

24 Oct 2026 20:27:02
Perfectly rational ED imo, this is just a continuation of the previous season.
Winning is now an abnormality and not a reasonable assumption against any PL team. That is where we are, mate. Let's face it.

{Ed025's Note - i wish you were wrong PRH...but i dont think you are mate..

25 Oct 2026 00:17:54
I think we will stay up because as usual there will be three teams worse than us. But top ten not a chance.

25 Oct 2026 08:13:13
There's a hell of a long way to go until the end of the season, but my worry is that we have ten league games until the transfer window even opens and the way we have bought in the summer, with TFG wanting out as well. I worry what we'd even get in as reinforcements upfront.

Moyes needs a plan B and quickly upfront.

24 Oct 2026 18:18:06
TFG, want to sell, and make a profit. Selling a Premier League club, for their target range 80000, mill to a billion, might be possible, they would have a much bigger task selling a championship club, be lucky to get back what they have put in, so the imperative, for them, and us, is to make sure that does not happen.


All we can do is turn up and support, but if TFG, want to avoid that outcome, they will have to put their hands into their pocket, warm words from the mouth piece, Kinera, will not cut it.

24 Oct 2026 21:49:16
DMS people won't be moaning if played decent football where we played for a win - which should be a minimum start for any sporting team.
See you in 10yrs when we are exactly the same - stop accepting mediocrity - we have 3rd best paid manager in world football -.

24 Oct 2026 17:48:28
Most on here want Moyes out yet the pundits all like him. If he is to be sacked who will do it? I doubt the Friedkins.