Woeful is way off the mark.

Beattie scored at very close to a goal every 2 games in the 2+ seasons (approx 100 games) leading up to Everton signing him. At that time Dean Ashton had played a handful of games in the PL and was pretty unproven. He ultimately only played 62 PL games in total with a poor injury record.

Beattie was proven and an understandable signing that didn't turn out for whatever reason. Ashton was unproven and basically a bullet dodged. Ashton is the last player I'd beat Moyes up with over not signing.

Over the years it's probably fair to say Moyes has been in the top handful of managers in the league for getting relative value for money from his transfer fund. Feel free to disagree but I'm interested to know who has been significantly better off a similar level of funding.