on November 10, 2025, 7:09 pm, in reply to "After a decade+ of being a basket case of a club, we finally seem to be righting the ship…"
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How many managers have we been through to even start to get back to that?
Martinez
Allardyce
Ancelotti
Koeman
Benitez
Lampard
Dyche
Ask West Ham fans; the grass isn’t always greener. Everyone loved Potter, not that long ago - now he’s bombed at Chelsea and West Ham. Even if you run through the exercise you suggest, would every manager be as good a ‘fit’ for us? Would they be able to replicate their success in a new environment? Would they be guaranteed to stick around if we see success, or jump at the first opportunity to move on to bigger things?
The job Moyes did, last season, was remarkable. We’re clearly building on that but the squad issues were never going to be solved in a single window. That said, if we’d added a right back and the right forward, last summer, then we’re probably top five right now.
So, yes - right now - I think he’s absolutely the right man for the job. That might be different in a couple of years, but this club needs to rebuild the kind of foundations that we haven’t had in place since the last time he was with us.
If he wasn’t David Moyes, ex-Everton manager, but e.g. Oliver Glasner / Thomas Frank, there wouldn’t be half the noise about him. Some fans just can’t leave that mental baggage behind.
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That’s quite a statement.
Thought exercise - how many teams in the Premier League would rather have him, than their current manager?
If your answer is more than 3, you’re lying (or deluded)
Second thought exercise, how many current managers in the Premier League, would you swap into our Manager’s seat (if you could magically flick a switch)?
If your answer isn’t more than 8, then again, you’re lying (or deluded). Previous Message
My biggest worry with him coming back was that too many of our fans never forgave him for either leaving or how he acted when trying for Fellaini and Baines (the latter point I have more sympathy with). The second we have any kind of downturn - and ALL managers have them - it was always going to result in the mega moaning. He brings too much baggage.
I’m happy as heck that he’s here and wouldn’t swap him. Lots were / are just waiting to knife him at the first / next opportunity, however.
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Many think we should go from relegation battlers to champions league contenders in one transfer window
My new gripe is the wifi in the stadium is that good, the family in front of me spend 80% of the match on mobiles looking at Insta, Snapchat, Facebook etc !!
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