David Moyes has revealed that the owners have made it clear that if he needs players in January they would support him.
But the manager believes is only focusing on those that are available to him saying: “I’m focusing on the players that are here, not the players that are elsewhere just now.
“I have to try and get a team from what we have in the squad. We want to get a team, a winning team, from what we’ve got. If we’re struggling we might have to look at other players to do that.”
He added: “I’ve only been here two or three weeks. To have done all that work, and be prepared, I don’t think anybody could do that in that short time.
“But I do expect the staff that work here and the people in that department will have me plenty of people to look at recommend, and if I think it’s needed nearer the time I’ll go and see them.”
Says Moyes ‘if we are struggling we MIGHT have to look at other players…’
This iconic statement is uttered by the coach who we are expecting to lead the team out of the ****e and into the promised land. What nonsense, what a downright silly thing to say. We are struggling.
We have three impossibly difficult games against top notch opposition with excellent coaching leadership and we will lose, possibly with humiliation.
We have an inadequate clutch of centre backs, most of whom are old, ageing and injury prone. We have (had) a club management that spent the summer transfer window in denial of the glaringly obvious: two solid centre backs were desperately required, and two, perhaps three, needed to be off loaded.
And, now we have Moyes ‘struggling’ to admit that we are threadbare of centre backs, have two willing but ordinary full backs and …oh well, let’s not extend this evaluation to strikers of the calibre of Ayew and Carroll.
Oh well, let’s all be reassured by this iconic statement: only IF we are ‘struggling’ Mr Moyes ‘might’ (his word) have to look at other players….maybe after three resounding defeats to three strong teams backed by excellent coaching and club leadership we might read a statement that Mr Moyes has conceded to the reality: the Irons have been struggling much of last season and all of this one to date. Listening to Moyes and the Dildo siblings is like listening to Trump talking about the bad guys.
Thanks for this iconic Moyes statement, Hugh.
Meanwhile, we are stuffed though not ‘struggling’….COYI’s
The manager we should have appointed would have known our players abilities and limitations and presented a plan to improve our position at the interview. Moyes is making excuses already, just like he did at Sunderland. Over the past few weeks we’ve seen Hart struggle while Adrian sits on the bench, we’ve seen why Man C let Zabaleta go, we’ve seen all the regular centre backs outpaced while Rice waits his chance and Burke and Oxford are making the numbers up for other teams. Noble’s been getting stick for months, Kouyate and Obiang haven’t reached the heights we know they’re capable of, and the new recruits, brought in on massive wages, have unsettled the rest of the team. Sakho and Antonio are worth more to us than Arnoutovic or Ayew. We’ve got Samuelson and Martinez treading water in the U23s. If they were at Man U or Chelsea they’d be getting serious game time by now.
Hegazi can be boutgh in Jan on loan at WBA been very good. Tall physical & 25 I would be buying him in Jan. To help our defense.
Holding also was very good for Arsenal last season & in Eurpoa this league but doesn’t make bench in League games
I might sound negative but I have lost hope in the owners buying any quality in January.Already in other papers the pundits are saying we are headed for the drop with Swansea.
Agree with many of the comments here. Alongside Swansea we are the worst in the league, the table shows us this, and by the end of the month there is every chance the gap between us and safety will be 6 points.
And we have to be realistic come Jan. clubs at the wrong end of the table can attract only loans, or pay stupid wages which include release clauses and the last thing we need is no future planning.
I like many others am close to writing off this season, and I would not be bothered if we started to make a few sensible decisions to build for the future. If that means selling a few “stars” early, and I use the term star loosely, because we will get far more for them in Jan than in the summer when we are down, then so be it. If that generates the war chest needed to buy top Championship players who will drag us up, and enables us to drive down our average age and introduce more mobility, then so be it. A cull sounds drastic and I can hear others screaming you’ve given up already, but no I haven’t. I do not think either Moyes or the current squad can keep us up, so I’m suggesting we take our medicine early as this gives us the best chance of getting back quickly. If anyone thinks Lanzini, Antonio, Arnie, Carroll, Hart, Chek or Reid will show any loyalty and hang around a season in the Championship then you’re sadly mistaken.
Are Reece Burke, Josh Cullen, Reece Oxford, Toni Martinez, Quina and Holland Of a quality good enough to get us out of the Championship? We will soon find out.