David Moyes wants to remain as the manager of West Ham for ten years or more as he looks to build a new strategy for the Hammers long term.
Last week the club dismissed a report by the Daily Star which suggested the board had an option to dismiss him after just six months insisting they hoped he would achieve great things for the club and be around for many years to come.
Moyes spent twelve years at Everton and he hopes to emulate a similar rapport with the board and the fans he achieved with the Toffees.
Everton’s Premier League positions in the six seasons prior to David Moyes’ arrival as manager had been awful.
Indeed in the decade before he was appointed Everton manager the Blues had managed one single top half finish, in 1996 under Joe Royle.
In the decade which followed his appointment, he reversed that trend spectacularly.
The 17th place finish in 2004 was the only time his teams finished outside of the top 11.
From two relegation escapes in 1994 and 1998 – and successive finishes of 15th, 17th, 14th, 13th, 16th and 15th – Moyes guided Everton to seventh, 17th, fourth, 11th, sixth, fifth, fifth, eighth, seventh, seventh, sixth and fifth.
We certainly could do with someone that has a long term plan but that will require money to be spent, it’s all well and good talking about RB Leipzig models but essentially that is saying we are going to take a punt on loads of players with the hope some make it. The odds on that are long imho. I remember probably 10 years ago there was a study about players that ever made it as pro’s and the percentage was said to be around 1% many people in the game thought that was an optimistic estimate. Rather than wasting £100’s of millions on punts in the hope some make it it makes more financial sense to buy elite talent. The models that are used in almost every club seem to be wrong in selecting youth players based upon evidential results, look at Ravel Morrison as an example, if you have all the talent in the world but just can’t be bothered, then you look at a James Milner who had some talent and maximised it, what should clubs be looking for ?
The other side of that coin is the flow of youngsters coming through at the likes of Man Utd , Chelsea and Arsenal. We aren’t a big money club so really should be looking to improve our youth set up so we vastly exceed that 1% success rate. The added bonus is that home grown players care about their parent club more than the mercenaries that are bought in. Especially when times get hard.