Moyes realising size of task in turning Everton around after Villa loss

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Moyes realising size of task in turning Everton around after Villa loss  15/01/2025  Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Thank you. David, not perhaps the return that you were hoping for, however, how did you

00:17rate the performance of your players tonight?

00:20I didn't think we played that well, but I've got to say, if you look at it, I don't think

00:23it was very little in the game. Obviously, they took a good chance, they had a couple

00:28of chances in the first half, we maybe had one, but I think in the second half we had

00:35a couple of bigger chances. They didn't really offer an awful lot in the second half, us

00:39and Villa, and I thought we were right in the game, but ultimately we couldn't quite

00:47score that goal which was required.

00:49Is that the biggest challenge, the second spell, getting your team, finding a way to

00:54score?

00:55I think all you boys in here and everybody who writes about it and people who watch will

00:59know probably more than me. I've had a day and a bit maybe with the players if I'm lucky,

01:06but obviously I could see signs today which were lacking. People to score were lacking,

01:14sometimes a little bit of the players to create the chances. We probably had two or three

01:19good chances tonight, or half chances if you want to call it that. Certainly, I thought

01:24Jesper had a great chance to score a wee head and I thought Dom had a chance at the end

01:28as well. We need to create even more than that, but what you do need, and when the games

01:36are really tight and there's very little between the teams on the right, you might need to

01:40take your moment, and we didn't quite take our moment tonight.

01:44Hi David, that Dom chance at the end, you need those to go in, don't you, in the position

01:53you're in?

01:53Yes, you do. When you're in a position you want, that goal goes in. I think if we'd come

01:59in here and said it was one each, I don't think many people would have said it wasn't

02:03far off the mark. It's just that clinical action, that clinical moment maybe to get

02:11us a goal. Ultimately, it's not just this one game tonight, there's been other games

02:17which have certainly been the case, so I think it's there for everybody to see. It's not

02:21something that I've just come in and said, we're not quite good enough at finishing.

02:27By the way, I can't magician all that to change, I just can't do it.

02:33Now that you've got a chance to see the side in action, what's the size of the job you've

02:38walked into here?

02:39By the way, it's a huge challenge at the moment, I can see that. I think the one thing, and

02:45I can see Sean's brought in a great group of players with their attitude and their commitment,

02:51great, great boys. We're desperately needing to add some quality in certain areas, mainly

02:58to create and craft goals. It looks like at times you don't know if they'll finish as

03:03well. We're needing to get those levels up, but again, you'll be writing about the club

03:10much more than me over the years and know the situation the club's been in and it's

03:13not probably been able to go to the level of a player in the market, which might be

03:19what I'm saying, that might make the difference.

03:23You've not scored in nine of the last 11 league games, how are you going to fix it?

03:27What's the plan?

03:29Well, I've been here one, and I've been here one just over a day, a couple of days,

03:35so as I said, I can't turn that around and make a huge difference in the title. We said

03:44we'd talk to them and we encouraged them, we'd worked on trying to get more in the

03:49box and get people in the box more often and get more shots, more crosses if we could.

03:55I thought we had a couple of crosses, Dukes had a chance of a cross from me in the first

04:00half, but obviously we need to double those numbers, we need to double the shots, double

04:08the crosses, double the actions in and around the box than what we're getting at the moment.

04:14David, you touched on it there about signings, did that, what you watched tonight,

04:18sharpen into the focus, the need to bring in players before the end of the window?

04:23I'm sure it's probably what Dicey has been talking about as well and this time as well.

04:28We do need to bring in, I think we need to try and add to the squad if we can,

04:34but we've just got to be careful that we don't go too much really,

04:39but we'll try and see what we can do indefinitely.

04:41Chris, David, it was a tough night for you at least, you could see the support that the

04:48players were getting from the crowd, how big is that going to be going forward for you?

04:52Well, I thought the crowd were great and I've got to say I was really thankful for

04:57my reception, but I'm sort of keeping my head down because I don't want to be at a team near

05:06the bottom of the league and I've lost tonight, so I'm not having great times with Everton

05:11supporters over the years and I hope to have more great times with them again.

05:14But at the moment, I've got to find a way of getting the team a result and I've only been

05:20here a couple of days and I'm nearly burnt out looking at how we can score more goals,

05:25how we're going to get players who can do that. With the squad we have,

05:33you know, everybody's just got to say, well, how are you going to find that? If we get something

05:37different, that's not, but we have to keep finding ways with the squad we've got at the moment to

05:42make goals, score goals and improve our attacking play.

05:47Hi David, you said the other day how you needed the players to show they were up for the fight,

05:53with you coming in, have you seen enough tonight and in the last few days

05:56of training that they are up for what's going to be a big fight?

06:00I definitely have. I think they've been great in training. I think they've been really good in

06:05the couple of days. In fact, we've been really surprised how good they've been.

06:11But I think they are a really good group of lads and they're trying not to play well.

06:21Maybe they're just needing somebody to give them a lift or a little bit of quality which

06:25might make the difference and they're just lacking a little bit of that at the moment.

06:32I was just wondering if there was an update on Browser following the test the other day?

06:39Well, we think he's going to be out for somewhere between 10 and 12 weeks, we think.

06:45So it would probably mean that there's a possibility and it's not done yet. I'm just saying I'm using

07:00the word possibility, they would have to go back to Chelsea because we can't get loans in as well,

07:12we're full, our loans are full as well.

07:19You were always very good in terms of moments like this, in terms of getting

07:24the group together, in terms of taking them away or doing things to engender a spirit between them

07:32to find ways of getting results. Is that something you might think about doing next

07:36week just to get to know the players a bit better? I might do something, I hadn't thought about it

07:39yet really in that way. I was looking at it and thinking that at least I've got a week to get,

07:45because obviously we've come in and we've got Aston Villa on Wednesday night, now we've got

07:48Tottenham, we're nearly hardly able to breathe really with what's going on and trying to find

07:54out how the players work. Even coming back here, as I said in the press conference the other day,

08:01it's a different Everton than I left and how things work and actually probably a different

08:07David Moyes as well in some ways. So really just getting in, but what happens is we're right in it

08:15and we're right in the mid and we need to win the games and we need to get the points. I have to

08:20find a way of getting something which is going to get us a result. I think if we had scored tonight

08:28it would have been one each, I don't know if we would have said too much, but they had the better

08:33of it. They're a really good side as you know, they've been spending probably over £100 million

08:38a year I think for the last five or six years at Aston Villa. They've spent it brilliantly well,

08:42they're a great manager and I think you can see. So they were the levels we were up against tonight,

08:47they're a well-drilled team.

08:54Hi David, I know you spoke about this a bit on Monday, but are you confident with the resources

08:58you've got for this month that you are going to be able to strengthen the squad in the way

09:02you need really? Again, yous might know more than me because of the PSR and the financial fair play.

09:11I do know that we've still got a bit to do, but we'll definitely need to do something. We'll need

09:19to find ways and try and act in some way if we can. But in the same breath, I don't think

09:29if it's not going to improve it, we could buy something to make the squad look better and

09:33yous boys write a few stories for a few days about it. But the truth is,

09:37if it's not going to be something which makes the team better then there's no point in wasting your

09:41money. So we have to try and get that option where we think there's somebody who could be

09:46better than what we've got. David, can I ask you about a player that you brought to the club in

09:51your last spell in Seamus Coleman? How important is he going to be on and off the pitch for

09:58the remaining part of the season? Seamus was huge. I've had plenty of conversations with Seamus

10:03since I've come back. Unfortunately, Seamus had a bit of a calf strain and he got picked up in

10:08training. I'll have him close to me and he'll be around. Whereas when I brought Seamus here,

10:16I was telling Seamus all about the club and what was happening and him settling in. He's now the

10:21one who's doing that to me. He's shown me the way back and what's going on. He's very good in the

10:27dressing room with the players, as everybody will probably know. I'm sure you're not surprised

10:30the way it's turned out for him here at Everton? No, I'm not surprised. The best £60,000 probably

10:36spent for a long time, that's for sure.

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