I agree that Moyes has been fantastic for Everton, he has brought consistency, bought well, bought conservitivly..(possibly more to do with quality chairman imposing realistic fiscal constraints) but as for the old "how good would he be if he had half of Rafa's budget" argument......We (City) are seeing that right now...Can a manager who has reasonable success by buying well, creating a team of grafters in his own image, being the cock of the club, answering to nobody like Moyes, like Hughes at Blackburn, like Fat Sam did, like Phil Brown is doing (for now) and whisper it quietly, like (Arsen Wenger as done over the years) Can they convert that when the stakes, the money, the sise of the team, the expectation, the ego's, the pressure generally gets cranked up? It would be easy for Mark Hughes for instance to say all I have to do is build a team like i did at Blackburn, but add to it some real quality, but adding that quality ruins the moral, ruins the work ethic, ruins the pay structure, ruins the manager is the best footballing brain at the club mind set.
So would David moyes do better than Rafa if he hard half the budget? Well, when your are used to buying you kecks in ASDA, you don't always know where to go in Selfridges....
I believe Moyes is a fitness fanatic and instills that onto his players, Hughes is similar and has found out the fancy Dans don't like it up em!!! Stephen Ireland has obviously benefited from a good fitness regime...Elano hates it....
So yes he maybe a good manager but possibly at his Level..We are about to find out whether Hughes can hack it at this level, he will have HIS team by the end of today..It could go one way or the other in two months time!!!!
