on February 8, 2026, 4:49 pm, in reply to "He built exactly the team you want to see in his first spell with us…"
Although maybe I'm overly influenced by the Distin semi final in 2012 and then the debacle quarter final against Wigan in 2013. And we were rotten then away from home whereas the Yakubu side did alright away I think.
Incidentally the away form this season is interesting in that in terms of scoring there are only five teams that have scored fewer than us but then we have conceded fewer goals than anyone away apart from Arsenal.
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People remember the pragmatic, safer side to Moyes because that’s his start point for building foundations. He then layers on the flair when he feels the team is ready for it.
At the end of his first tenure we had two of the finest attacking full backs in the game, plus Pienaar, Osman, Arteta, Cahill, Saha…we weren’t just digging in and grinding out results; we were as good to watch as anyone.
But he’s taken over a shitshow and a squad of mediocre footballers. You can’t turn that into 70s Brazil overnight. He’s doing the perfect job of building strong foundations, again; a team that is mentally more solid than we’ve seen in the past and which knows how to grind out results when it has to. I doubt he’d want to play O’Brien at right back if he had a primo Coleman ready to step in, for example. He’ll keep adding the strong building blocks before he adds the flourishes - and that’s the slightly more boring but sustainable way to do it in this era.
We need (as a society, let alone a fanbase) to get back to not expecting everything now.
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limited spending, injuries and afcon.
I am not his greatest fan, but I have to hand it to him... he knows how to get results.
The big question is can he develop an attacking team that delivers success rather than a workman like side that is hard to beat and grinds out results.
I hope he does, but I'm not sure its in his nature to go all out attack unless it's desperation time.
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