Everton banter 5

08 Jan 2026 21:19:16
Just seen a reel which states David Moyes is 3rd highest paid manager in PL and 5th in world on a staggering 12.5 million per season! WTF?
Does anyone know if this is true?

08 Jan 2026 23:38:27
Just done a quick search and according to footballfancast ( whatever that is ) Moyes is ranked 7th in the Premier League on £5m a year, £12.5m over the duration of his contract. Couldn't have slept if I hadn't checked!

09 Jan 2026 10:41:47
This is how insane football has become. What’s even crazier is if they do a bad job and get their contract terminated they get a huge payoff. Allegedly Amorim got 10m, how insane is that. In my business if you didn’t reach your targets you got binned with severance pay and a bit of holiday pay if you were lucky.

09 Jan 2026 12:42:53
The ref who sent off Keane and Grealish was paid £1116 for the game as well crazy money.

09 Jan 2026 15:03:41
I said it then that turning referees professional would lead to poorer standards.

08 Jan 2026 18:38:55
Yeah thanks, force 12 imminent over here so will be wild stay safe all.

08 Jan 2026 19:03:02
Batten down the hatches GB!

Hope you and your family stay safe. 99mph winds in Cornwall - rare red warning issued.

08 Jan 2026 19:30:58
Stay safe Guernsey mate and everyone else on here aswell.

08 Jan 2026 19:36:47
Keep safe GB, have lived through a hurricane in Florida and it is no fun. Makes you realize that life and health is the most important thing.
Mike.

08 Jan 2026 20:00:43
Cheers all it’s just starting to crank up now.

08 Jan 2026 21:54:48
Stay safe my friend and keep posting.

08 Jan 2026 22:55:45
Good kite surfing weather GB.

09 Jan 2026 10:43:41
Well up in the Peak District I woke up to 6 inches of snow. My wife said it’s only 4 inches and to stop exaggerating.

09 Jan 2026 12:43:21
Good one mate.

08 Jan 2026 18:41:29
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 20 - Quick Round Up

08 Jan 2026 27:40:03
Moyes is not the sort of manager that would try to win from a draw he would rather hold what he has sometimes you have to be brave put those subs on and try and take all three points ???.

09 Jan 2026 00:33:20
The tragic thing is that all games start 0-0, and I agree that I don't think he's too bothered about changing that!

08 Jan 2026 17:37:59
It goes to show football has become woke and referees are scared of being called a racist. Keane red card was an example of it.

08 Jan 2026 18:58:54
I’m not sure I get what you mean Luke.

Keane pulled the lads hair. Whether he was white, black, yellow, brown, red, orange, it was a red card.

If someone pulled Grealish’s hair I’d expect them to get a red.

Keane shouldn’t have done what he did. It was childish and stupid.

{Ed025's Note - im with you BR..

08 Jan 2026 19:08:14
What a daft post, Luke.

08 Jan 2026 20:16:01
1928 arrived and everything was fine then Mary Whitehouse arrived and messed our World up. 1970's I was called a white honkey, a quick kick in the nuts sorted that out while my future wife and best mate laughed in the blokes face.

All gone to pot now a days, but it has nothing to do with Keane pulling a blokes hair and a pro like Grealish being stupid, Refs second game and did okay.

08 Jan 2026 21:01:07
Had to look up what a "white honkey" meant dms. It was bad enough being brought up in West Derby in the 1940's, then you were either a papist or a proddy. Stupid really, the Catholic kids walked on one side of Leyfield Road and the Protestants on the other throwing insults at each other and quite often stones.


However a mixed marriage meant one of the families followed Everton and the other Liverpool. My Dad's were Evertonians and my Mum's followed Liverpool. Had some interesting family parties.

09 Jan 2026 00:35:12
I, personally, think a yellow card and an apology from Keane would have sufficed, but i think to suggest that the race of the players involved had Anything to do with it is mad.

As BR said, I would expect the exact same result if it had happened to Jack.

08 Jan 2026 16:43:04
Can the club appeal against Keanes red card, even getting it reduced to one or two match suspension I’d something. There was no nasty intent.

As regards Grealish the ref got it all spot on. Players like him need to set the example on the pitch. Pity the ref hasn’t got the power to send him back to city. His better playing days are behind him and I don’t expect him to still be an Everton player next season. Sent off and a boozy night out around Christmas, that’s enough.

So assume McNeil will be left wing, Dibling right wing, Patterson right back with O’Brien and Tarks centre backs for next matches.
Keep Armstrong in the team he is needed.

Barnes from Newcastle would be good replacement got Grealish but assume not available and out of financial reach. Harry Wilson the same on the right.

{Ed025's Note - i hope we dont appeal Keane,s card Brian, pulling someones hair belongs in a 5 year olds girls playground...not on a football pitch, these players need to realize that they are professionals and should behave so, fine him 2 weeks wages and get Idrissa to give him another belt for being a gobshite..

08 Jan 2026 17:16:16
Send Grealish back? We really have lost the ability to apply any logic or reason to the situation haven’t we? One of our players of the season, wearing his heart on his sleeve, went too far yesterday and let himself down. He’ll want to come back strong.

{Ed025's Note - if the deal is right i would love to keep him JB, his signing has really lifted the profile of the club mate..

08 Jan 2026 17:50:02
Jack lost his head, but only because he was one of the few players on the pitch who was desperate for us to win. Wanting to send him back when he's arguably been our player of the season is wild.

08 Jan 2026 17:53:07
Mcneil can't control a football either can the 2 forwards grealish can he's a great outlet for when we're under the cosh pickford boots it long and only grealish can control and hold up the ball without him and mcneil on the left it's back to dyche tactics 10 men behind the ball with no outball terrible football.

08 Jan 2026 20:21:19
In prem standards McNeil is slower than a dead slug. Problem is we have nobody to replace him. Would love replacements this Window but almost impossible to find quality.

08 Jan 2026 20:30:42
Posts like this are so funny to me. I can't wait for next season with no Grealish and we either have McNeil or Jack Harrison starting every game. See how we fare then, and see how many times you even get a hint of excitement from a game.

08 Jan 2026 20:57:36
I’m not convinced Keane pulled the Wolves players hair on purpose. He has a grip of the players shirt with his left hand and looks, to me that he thought he was grabbing the shirt with his right hand too. Only Keane knows the truth but I don’t believe it was violent conduct (if accidental) .

Grealishs 2nd yellow was out of petulance from being so frustrated with how poor the ref was. But fully deserved 2nd yellow.

The refereeing in the self proclaimed best league in the world is atrocious, the standard is the worst I have seen in all my years playing and watching football.

09 Jan 2026 08:30:19
Highlighting a player because he can control a ball from a long kick. Our expectations and standards have dropped somewhat and for £50m lol.

08 Jan 2026 16:42:23
Silver lining is we only need another 11 points. ???.

08 Jan 2026 19:01:01
I was thinking the same thing. 3 wins and a few draws and we are there.

08 Jan 2026 19:08:15
How sad is it that we look at our season as a successful when we get to so many points. And what’s worse is we all do it.

08 Jan 2026 21:20:53
BMD. You don't speak for me mate.

08 Jan 2026 16:15:49
Just seen the weather warning for Guernsey. Stay safe GB and stay indoors mate. Looks a bad one.

{Ed025's Note - lets hope its not as bad as the storm we seen at our ground yesterday Reg.. :)

08 Jan 2026 17:24:04
Guernsey will probably say it won't happen and everything will be ok and it will be the best winter on record ?? only joking Guernsey.

{Ed025's Note - nice one mate..

08 Jan 2026 18:39:38
Cheers all getting windy now.

08 Jan 2026 19:05:48
That will be the curry mate ?.

08 Jan 2026 12:47:00
What do we think will need to happen before Moyes goes?

I could write a VERY long post about how terrible and predictable his tactics are, how even I could set up a league 2 side to exploit the glaring faults in our defensive phases, and how completely, pathetically incapable he is of changing things when things aren't going well, but i'll spare you all that and just question 'when is enough, enough'?

If you're the owners and you're quite detached from things, the league position isn't bad, and the results are inconsistent but mostly fine. Do we need to wait until the good players leave and the teams around us improve, so we slip towards relegation, before they actually act?

Personally, I would actually love if DM was shifted into DoF and someone young and with some understanding of tactics (Carsley? ) came in as manager, but i think we're stuck with DM for the next few years at least.

{Ed025's Note - i think he was brought in to do a job Alex, stabilize us, get us clear of relegation and consolidate the team making us a viable entity in the prem, i dont think the owners see him as the long term solution unless things change and we head up the table into possible European place contenders, to be fair he has managed his brief but he is very pragmatic and some of his selections are baffling as well as his inability to adapt to other teams formation changes, its not great to watch at times and so frustrating when he fails to use substitutes early enough to effect the game, thats just how i see things though mate..

08 Jan 2026 16:50:52
Don’t expect him to leave until the summer at tbe earliest. He’s doing the job he was employed to do.

08 Jan 2026 18:01:57
The worrying thing for me is that I don't see him leaving until he's asked to, and i think that, on paper, he's doing a good enough job that there's a good chance the owners won't be doing that any time soon.

08 Jan 2026 21:37:02
Moyes was brought in to do a job. Given a 2 1/2 year contract, to stabilise the club and stop the decline. Although it's not pretty, he's currently achieving that target. Cut the guy some slack .

08 Jan 2026 12:44:46
One good point from last night was Harrison Armstrong he played well and more than held his own in the Team.

{Ed025's Note - i thought so too GB..

08 Jan 2026 14:06:45
Judging by Moyes comments he will send him back to PNE once our AFCON and injuries are back. I like Moyes, really do but I have to admit, I do wonder at some of his logic.

08 Jan 2026 15:28:06
Armstrong has played his way into the team now. You can't as a manager complain about having a small squad and then loan out one of your young players who has shown he is good enough.

{Ed025's Note - dont bank on it Brass..

08 Jan 2026 15:33:49
Was that before last night's game, dm? If so, that might have been the plan but he has the opportunity to play himself into our team, make himself an important player.

08 Jan 2026 16:17:06
Keep Armstrong send dibbling to Preston.

{Ed025's Note - and send McNeil to Coventry.. :)

08 Jan 2026 16:40:17
Good call.

08 Jan 2026 16:41:15
Love child is going nowhere.

08 Jan 2026 11:05:25
See our next league game is Villa away. Presume suspensions for Grealish and Keane start then, AFCO N players may not be back either.
Could be real bare bones of a squad.

{Ed025's Note - it could be a real mess FG..

08 Jan 2026 12:37:35
Grealish will be banned for fa cup game won’t he?

08 Jan 2026 13:23:38
You are absolutely right.
Just read up Grealish misses cup match this weekend, presume Keane does as well.
Will probably have to play both Patterson and Dibling down the right hand side against Sunderland.

08 Jan 2026 15:29:12
Lose to Sunderland and that's it another season over.

08 Jan 2026 15:54:32
The only shining light is that he has to play a rb rather than sticking a 6’6 centre back there and making space for our 4th choice centre back and also get to have an actual right winger on the right rather than again using his slow one footed waste of space McNeil there
Obviously that will put him out on the left but atleast that’s his actual position
Same team that beat forest for me with Armstrong instead of Patterson and put Jimmy behind dibling to atleast try and help him out.

08 Jan 2026 16:30:01
Sounds a good plan to me.