When David Moyes finally sits to compose the story of his life in football, the afternoon he took to Manchester United to Everton will surely appear, because it was his worst time. An experience, 11 years ago, which left him “destroyed,” he said at that time.
There were the donkeys of the Evertonians, angry at the way he returned as United's manager for some of the club's jewels. The frost reception of former colleagues. The thug dressed with a ungrotive costume waving a imitation scythe behind him on the united bench: a trick that seeks the attention of a betting house.
United fired Moyes a few days after the 2-0 defeat that had demolished the forces of hell raining, and when his career staggered by the seizures of true society and Sunderland, there was a prurient fascination in indignity much more unworthy could endure.
When he sat at an organized press conference to present it as West Ham's manager at London Stadium in 2017, the occasion quickly became an Inquisition of his professional abilities. Moyes, a proud man, took this with equanimity.
He was five days of his 51st birthday when United dispensed with him and football, a world where judgments come fast and good men are canceled, he concluded that it was done. He was consigned to the waste courtyard with those small vicious epithets such as 'cautious' and 'safe' and 'pragmatic', which damn is when 'young European' coaches 'brilliant' are arriving.
Except that Moyes, 61, was not made, of course, and this afternoon, almost 4,000 days from the Grim Reaper, he closed the circle, receiving United at Goodison Park as Everton manager.
David Moyes has returned the joy to Everton and could overcome Manchester United, his old side
He mocked while driving United and fired only a few days after being ridiculed by someone in a shadow mask.
Now, Moyes is thriving again, and demonstrating that detractors are wrong with their tactical imagination
Greater, wiser, more collegiate and reflective. It has more tactical imagination than at that time and has silently deconstructed the inherent prejudice against British soccer managers of a certain age.
Pragmatism? Well, that would have been useful for United at Tottenham on Sunday when Ruben Amorim, a 'brilliant European coach '221 years, young, not tested at the elite level, put Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes in the center of the central field of United with such a catastrophic effect.
No one will admit it, of course, but United could use a little Moyes, at this time. West Ham could also, another club that ruled out as an old rag, twice. They offered a new contract for a week and withdrew after some bad results a few weeks later, to hell with how that undermined him.
His alleged conservatism was unpopular. However, West Ham's gloomy back Julen Lopetegui and even the most gloomy football under Graham Potter, barely handling a shot in the goal in the defeats of Crystal Palace and Brentford, Dan Perspective. West Ham will not appreciate the idea of visiting Goodison in a few weeks.
Moyes has taken Everton over United and West Ham, with so many victories in six games since his return to Everton, since Amorim has achieved in 13 games and three months as United Manager. That feels like vindication.
Take a proportion of victories of 66.7 percent in this weekend, against the 28.5 of Amorim and the 20 of Potter. It has the Everton in the additional effort: 12 percent more of won duels and almost 50 percent more air duels per game, as shown by the Stats performing data.
But he has also taken more from the players in possession. Make striker Beto run to the balls, instead of simply using it. Deployment to the Danish loan Jesper Lindstrom to the right, instead of his less natural left, where Dyche used it.
The question of which flank feels that the player is the best thing is the first is the first thing he and Moyes discussed when they met. This meeting is captured in the invisible YouTube series of the Club, in which Moyes seems to be reached by the large scale of the expansion of Finch Far in the years elapsed since he left. 'The releases are better!' He comments.
People were willing to declare that Moyes ended when things did not go out in Old Trafford
Has been ridiculed for its alleged conservatism even when it has brought success
But United could use a little Moyes at this time, while they continue hesitation under Ruben Amorim
Under their tutelage, the toffees have won four of their six games and jumped into United
It has cut a more optimistic figure that is Dyche for the last season of the Toffee in Goodison Park this term
Against Liverpool, he made Everton cut the supply of Ryan Gravenber. In Open Play, Everton is beginning to pass sequences above in the field. It is soccer intelligence. If Amorim had played like this, we would be proclaiming a genius.
There is also a human intelligence. After Dyche's depressing depressing about Everton's ambitions for his last good season that does not count at all, Moyes' hug for the historical resonance of this season has been like a warm breeze that moves away from Mersey. He gave Everton the name of 'The People's Club', the first time. Now he has restored his dignity.
That ambition is reaching its players. The young Irish defender Jake O'Brien, strangely ignored by Dyche but flourishing under Moyes, said after the victory in Brighton last month: 'He has done things, not easy, but much clearer. There is more trust now. Union, just to know that we are not going to sit down.
Defender Jarrad Branthwaite feels the same, explaining that, while under Dyche there was no attack plan and the feeling that “if we attack, it is an advantage”, now there is an approach in attack situations.
It seems that Moyes Management is more university, 12 years after its departure to Old Trafford. The promotion of Leighton Baines from the manager under 18 to the configuration of the first team was one of its first appointments. Taken with the elevation of David Lucas to the senior configuration of a role as head of goalkeepers of the Academy, the links between the youth and senior configurations have been strengthened.
The coach of the piece, Charlie Adam, recruited after he left Fleetwood, has given an impact, although knee surgery this month to Dwight McNeil and Unliman Ndiaye, have deprived Moyes of specialists in piece. Branthwaite's free kick for Beto's goal in the derby came from the mental presence of the defender, instead of any plan.
Moyes' collegiality, also evidenced in West Ham, looks like a product of UEFA ambassador, identifying tactical trends and meeting with continental clubs, which has been important for him for many years.
Certainly, there is light and shadow in the methods of a manager who has always demanded an immense commitment of the players and is still doing the daily trip from Lytham to Finch Farm, a round trip of two and a half hours. The team was given until Wednesday of this week. The United players also enjoyed the inactivity time on Wednesday, with a junction junction trip to the bowling altrincham.
The Scotsman has a melody of Beto, making him pursue balls instead of simply competing aerial
The young Irish defender Jake O'Brien is flourishing under the 61 -year -old university manager
JAARRAD BRANTHWAITE Enjoy how Moyes has a plan to attack instead of simply sitting back
He called Everton 'The People's Club' when he arrived for the first time and is now restoring his dignity
Moyes refuses to visit the new Bramley-More spring stadium until they have secured survival
A measure of respect Moyes Command of strangers occurred after that Goodison derby. When a melee fight was developed in the tunnel at the end, Virgil Van Dijk and Curtis Jones stopped to shake hands.
Which, before this weekend the difference between the Moyes who handle Everton again was requested, and the one who went to United? “Maybe a little quieter,” he replied.
A little of that comes as you aged. You can't be so full. It is very difficult for me to go to all games under 21 and now under 18 games, what I have done in the past. I am also using more people to help me, so everything does not stay to the manager. Most teams have that now.
'So, have I changed? Maybe a little. Things change and you have to try to change with them. Sometimes, a little more experience helps. Sometimes you can calm down. Maybe I don't have to fight the world all the time now, that when you enter for the first time you feel you need.
When asked about the test event of the Bramley-More Stadium of this week, Moyes replied: “I have said that I will not go there until confirmed that we are a premier league club.” It is not allowing you to rest in laurels.
We dare to think that “what could have been?” Had United had given Moyes a little more? Maybe not. There were also some unbearable press conferences at that time. He felt as if he were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
However, his proportion of United victories was only marginally worse than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and not the worlds away from Louis Van Gaal, who took United to Goodison and were beaten. The difference is that they gave him 34 games, much less than any of them.
If Moyes had worked for David Gill, who as an executive director helped guide United through the great years of Sir Alex Ferguson, instead of the chaotic Ed Woodward, he could have given him more time to build something.
IFS, but and Maybes. What matters is that Moyes has found its place again. The 'Moyesiah' leads the appearance of a man who has returned home. It deserves that.