In this speech, parts of which appeared in today's Sunday Mirror, David Moyes clearly identifies his goals for becoming a good manager — without relying on pots of money — and he has the perfect role-models in Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho...
"I stick by the People's Club statement I made when I joined, definitely. I said the people in the streets of Liverpool support Everton, and I stand by that. If that ruffled a few feathers at Liverpool, it wasn't meant to. It's what I believe. We could easily say there have been things said by Liverpool recently that have ruffled our feathers. We think of ourselves as one of the big clubs in this country.
"Admittedly, we are behind other clubs at the moment but we are trying everything to get back. I certainly don't think I am an underclass to anybody as a manager. We are below where we want to be because we can't quite get to the top. But if you asked people at the start of the season where Everton would be now, it wouldn't be far away from our present position.
"If Everton can't go anywhere, who else can? Middlesbrough have Steve Gibson and Villa might come good, but is spending money still all the difference? Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho both won European trophies at Aberdeen and Porto without pots of money. So I have to believe you don't need money to succeed — even though it is getting more difficult. That's why I'm trying to do it like Alex and Jose did. We don't want to be like Leeds United where you spend and if it doesn't work you're in big trouble. I want more money but I will always know where the limits are.
"Our Chairman, Bill Kenwright, has given every penny he's got and somehow found the money to buy Andy Johnson and Joleon Lescott last summer. He is out looking for investors but no-one suitable has been found yet. Our main issue is that we desperately need a new stadium. We have very little corporate hospitality, fans still have to watch from behind pillars and we don't have the modern trappings people require. It is imperative we change — and I think if Everton had a 50,000-seater stadium, then people would fill it whether we played in Liverpool city centre or 10 miles down the road."
Has this daft, deluded ******* ever set foot in town?
"I stick by the People's Club statement I made when I joined, definitely. I said the people in the streets of Liverpool support Everton, and I stand by that. If that ruffled a few feathers at Liverpool, it wasn't meant to. It's what I believe. We could easily say there have been things said by Liverpool recently that have ruffled our feathers. We think of ourselves as one of the big clubs in this country.
"Admittedly, we are behind other clubs at the moment but we are trying everything to get back. I certainly don't think I am an underclass to anybody as a manager. We are below where we want to be because we can't quite get to the top. But if you asked people at the start of the season where Everton would be now, it wouldn't be far away from our present position.
"If Everton can't go anywhere, who else can? Middlesbrough have Steve Gibson and Villa might come good, but is spending money still all the difference? Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho both won European trophies at Aberdeen and Porto without pots of money. So I have to believe you don't need money to succeed — even though it is getting more difficult. That's why I'm trying to do it like Alex and Jose did. We don't want to be like Leeds United where you spend and if it doesn't work you're in big trouble. I want more money but I will always know where the limits are.
"Our Chairman, Bill Kenwright, has given every penny he's got and somehow found the money to buy Andy Johnson and Joleon Lescott last summer. He is out looking for investors but no-one suitable has been found yet. Our main issue is that we desperately need a new stadium. We have very little corporate hospitality, fans still have to watch from behind pillars and we don't have the modern trappings people require. It is imperative we change — and I think if Everton had a 50,000-seater stadium, then people would fill it whether we played in Liverpool city centre or 10 miles down the road."
Has this daft, deluded ******* ever set foot in town?
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