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The new owners have put a ‘footballing executive’ structure in place that intentionally limits the influence the manager has on transfers and instead demands that he focuses on coaching, tactics and improving players.

He’s a manager whose strength (at this stage of his career) is in being in total control of a club. In this new Everton structure you don’t get to buy players your own team has scouted, the club is going to rely on the analytics spat out from the company they’ve just bought, plus the co-input of the other football executives.

The manager Everton need (in this footballing structure) is a tactician and innovator. If you’re going to buy predominantly young players with a hopefully high future pedigree, then you need a coach who embraces that - not someone whose long, long-standing instinct is a preference for trusted (older) square pegs in round holes.

Moyes has 2 years left on his contract. They won’t want to leave him hanging through the 26/27 season and I doubt they would want to extend him, so my guess is we muddle through to 13th(ish) this season, hopefully blooding as many of the youngsters we have (or buy in the next week) and then he hands over to a much better-suited coach next summer.

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.....Im probably one who rushes to his defence, its not because I think he is infallible, but because I rightly or wrongly think that criticism quickly spirals into us doing a West Ham and hounding him out.
The way I see it, every manager has strengths and weaknesses, Moyes for me has shown again and again that his strengths out weigh his weaknesses.

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Apparently there seem to be some kind of cult of personality regarding Moyes.

We all are different, we all see things differently, but when it comes to Moyes it's a completely different ballgame on here.

For some he seems to be almost infallible, and when someone complains about him or something he does some people go almost apeshit. I haven't compared notes or anything, but if true to form the same people who takes offense when blame is laid on Moyes for a poor performance are the same people singing his praises after a good one.

My stance about Moyes is the same as always, in my eyes he's a poor manager tactics wise, but he DOES have a really good eye for talent and bargains.. so my hope is that he might be moved to a DoF-position and we get another manager in before it's too late.

But that's me, and I respect those whose opinions are totally different from mine, just please don't be so aggressive or even insulting when opinions differ.

Cheers!