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Everton boss David Moyes on facing his old club Manchester United and the injury update to Merlin Rohl
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00:00It's sold out now, isn't it?
00:16Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our press conference to preview our game against Manchester United.
00:21We'll start off with Vinny from Sky.
00:23David, you kind of touched on it there. Enjoyable international break with Scotland qualifying for the World Cup
00:28Obviously, Seamus and Jake getting through to the playoffs with the Republic.
00:32I've got to say, it was a great week for so many of the national teams, hopefully in the home nations as well.
00:39Republic, Northern Ireland and Scotland especially doing so well.
00:43Wales did brilliant results as well, so we're a bit of luck. They'll all qualify.
00:48Kind of still on a Scotland theme, I see you've been linked with Scott McTominay.
00:54I know you're not going to talk about individual players, but the figures being quoted are upwards of £60 million.
00:59What difference is there, if any, between that figure being quoted and the reality of what you can afford on an individual player?
01:06Well, I think the reality would be that, I'd never talk about other players, but if you're using the word 60s and those sort of numbers, I don't know if we're quite at that level yet.
01:15Hopefully, we're working towards it. We're trying to build ourselves back up.
01:19We've said many times about us trying to get on solid ground again.
01:25We've done that with the new owners, new stadium, staying up last year, so we have to try and make sure that we go steady.
01:33I don't think we'll be shooting for the stars right away.
01:36But that's not to say it might happen, but my gut feeling would be to say no, that wouldn't be where the market we'd be in.
01:42What stage are you at in terms of identifying targets for January?
01:47Well, first of all, you do most of your buying in the summer, all the clubs do.
01:51It's not to say that we wouldn't try and add to the squad in January. That's far from it.
01:56We didn't bring any players in last January. We may do so this window, but I think everybody mainly knows that January is never a great window.
02:07But hey, there's been some really good players bought in January and helped clubs at different times, so obviously we'll try and do the same.
02:14We've gone back to it before, I think we've spoken about it.
02:16Mickie Arteta in your first round.
02:17Yeah, of course.
02:18I mean, do you see that kind of value anywhere?
02:22Nah, well, I don't know if we'll get many more Mickie Artetas. I nearly said Mickie Antonios there.
02:29But no, Arteta was brilliant for us at the time and went on to become a great player.
02:36Obviously, AFCON does affect your squad. Have you got a definitive date yet as to when you're going to lose Garnagay and Illiman and Tra?
02:42No, we don't. I would be surprised if any of the Premier League teams have been given a date exactly at the moment.
02:50But look, it's part of the football. When you sign the players from Africa, it's part of the journey that they will go to the AFCON and they're entitled to have their competition.
03:02So how readily do you feel the likes of Merlin, Eubenton, Iribunum, Tyler Dibbling, Dwight McNeil to come back in as well to fill those kind of gaps?
03:11Well, that's partly the reason. They're all here to help and be part of the team. We're looking forward to getting Tyler more minutes as we go along now and get him featured in the games.
03:22Unfortunately, Merlin had an operation on Monday, a week last Monday on his hernia, which is going to keep him out for a few weeks.
03:30So, you know, but hopefully by the time we get round to December, he'll be pretty ready and hopefully fit to go again.
03:39Have you got an expected date for Merlin? No, we don't.
03:42No, for neither of them we've got dates, but Merlin got done. Not the Monday, just gone the Monday before, after we played Fulham.
03:49So we knew he had a bit of a problem and we got it sorted.
03:52So the last couple of weeks or so, have you noticed the difference in Tieno Barry with that reception you got from the fans?
03:58I have. I think there's very few people who don't sort of gain confidence from getting support and backing.
04:07Tieno got great support from the crowd. They've done amazing for him.
04:11And to be fair, he's working hard. He's someone who's trying to settle into the Premier League.
04:15He's got a very young family and, you know, all those things play a part in settling in at any football club.
04:22How encouraged are you by what he showed against Fulham as well? And maybe reading too much into it,
04:28but with him getting two consecutive starts like that, it feels like maybe you've made a decision to give him a run of starts. Is that the case?
04:34Well, maybe. But I think like anything else, we need them to score goals.
04:38You know, we're not here just to absolutely give them everything they want. They have to produce as well.
04:45And if they don't produce them, we can't give them it back. But hopefully we can give them the opportunities to show what they can do.
04:51I appreciate you've been back to Old Trafford before, but is there any difference going back as the Everton manager?
04:56It's a great football club. I've been back many times with West Ham and different teams all through.
05:03Never been easy the whole time to go back to Old Trafford and get results.
05:08It's always been a tough place to go. My early years here when we were up against Alex's team
05:14was always really difficult, the teams they had. So I'm looking forward to going back.
05:20I'm always treated well. I think Manchester United are getting an incredible support inside the stadium.
05:26I think they really get behind their manager and their players and, you know, I'm looking forward to it.
05:34They're beating in five, three wins in that time. What difference are you seeing in them from the first six games
05:39where they obviously lost three, drew one and won two?
05:45Well, probably the wrong man to ask those questions to because I'm not studying Manchester United all the time.
05:50I'm watching Everton and making sure that we try and improve on our results and get better results and keep winning.
05:56But no, obviously the news would tell you that Manchester United are certainly improving on a pretty good run.
06:03And finally from May, does that performance against Fulham kind of set the tone for what you want moving forward?
06:09Well, I think we set the tone with performances against the likes of Brighton and, you know, teams at home, Crystal Palace, we get a good result.
06:15So I think we have to keep it up. I think what I'm looking for now is our away form, which was very good last year at times,
06:22just to turn the corner again and hopefully start getting those wins, which we picked up quite a few, certainly at the end of last season.
06:29Thanks, David. Cheers.
06:30Thanks, Vinny. We'll go on to Fraser.
06:32Just a quick one for me, carrying on from the Internationals.
06:34Seamus Coleman got himself out a bit of game time over the last couple of weeks.
06:38How important is it to see a player like that getting some time so that he's still going to be there and you know you can call on him whenever he's needed?
06:45For me, it was really, really good to see Seamus get the minutes and get the time because it's not been easy to get Seamus back into it.
06:54No, obviously, he's come back. He'd quit a few injuries last year, especially when I arrived at the club and even going through most of the season.
07:01He only sort of returned to the team right at the end and then picked up another injury at the end of the season.
07:05So it's great that he's getting the minutes. I've got to say, he's been training terrific.
07:09His attitude, as always, is impeccable. So, good. No, he's certainly in my thoughts, that's for sure.
07:16Thanks, Fraser. We'll go to Julia.
07:19Hi, David. How different of a manager or are you different from the manager that left here to become Manchester United manager?
07:29I hope I'm a bit wiser, possibly. I think age sometimes does that.
07:35Yeah, but I think when I was leaving at that time at Everton, I'd done 11 years here and maybe it seems a long time in management.
07:48But, you know, you look back in hindsight, maybe we could have done things differently.
07:52We'd have been different. We had developed a great team over that period because we'd been given time to build it.
07:58I think the one thing about any manager, I think, given an opportunity to sort of build things.
08:04I used to always look at the sort of the real managers, probably from eras before me, who I looked up to, you know, even Sir Bobby Robson, Brian Clough, Don Reedy.
08:15All those ones had been given long periods at their clubs. And if you look at the success, it tended to work better that way.
08:22We're suddenly working through eras now where managers lose their jobs quite regularly.
08:27I was really fortunate here at Everton. We were able to build and have such a good side over 11 years, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
08:34So how have I changed? Probably meld a little bit with age, but still out there fighting, trying to win every game and preparing as well as I've ever done.
08:45On that time then that managers quite often need to have to make changes.
08:49There's some stats have been collated that say Everton have used fewer players this season, which has been 19, than any other Premier League side and an oldest average side.
08:58Does that still show that you're, despite the fact the aspirations are being raised, quite rightly, but are you still quite early in this rebuild at Everton?
09:07No, absolutely. If anybody thought that we were going to completely switch everything around, then they were off their head.
09:13When I came back in, I was thinking, could I just keep them up? Was there a way I could keep them up?
09:20I wasn't even thinking of what was going to happen next until I'd done the job.
09:24But then when we did stay up, then we were obviously looking to see how we could sort of make it better.
09:31I think it's much better. I really do. It might not be at the levels which every Evertonian would like.
09:38We hope that we can continue to improve it, keep progressing it.
09:42I feel my job is to try and do that and get us on safe ground and in a place where we think that we can know we're not always looking over our shoulder at trouble.
09:52So, you know, a couple of more points we might have been getting looked at a little bit differently.
09:59A couple of less points we might have been getting looked at what we've done in the past.
10:02So we've got to keep ahead of it.
10:04Yeah, three points off fifth going into this. It's a really tight table this time.
10:09What do you put it down to, I guess, really, that the teams seem a lot closer?
10:13I think the Premier League, I think the levels of the teams and the quality that the teams now have is getting stronger.
10:20I think the middle ground teams we've all had to try and catch up, you know, as I've been at West Ham,
10:26where you're trying to catch the top teams, which is very difficult in recent years, whether it be Man City or Liverpool, Chelsea, whoever it may have been.
10:33It's been difficult to probably touch them, but I think there's a lot of teams now thinking that they can, you know, if we take them on, we might get a result on a day.
10:43But I think when you're going to play the teams now, I can't think of an easy game in the Premier League.
10:48I can't think of a game which you could turn up and say, we've got this one, we should get this one. They're really hard.
10:54And finally for me, there are a lot of reports and claims around James Garner at the moment and other teams allegedly watching him.
11:01Is he a player, though, that you would want to go from Everton?
11:05Absolutely not. I've got no intention of letting him go.
11:09And let me tell you, I don't know where the news comes from, but if I said that the phone's been ringing here and it's been phoning about Jimmy Garner,
11:15then I would be telling you absolute lies. So there's been no phone calls into my phone or MD that I know of at the club,
11:22but anyway, regarding Jimmy Garner, we'll obviously look to renew Jimmy's contract when we're ready to do so.
11:30And did that, then. Thank you.
11:34I'll go to Carl at the Press Association.
11:37Hi, David.
11:38Hi there.
11:39You spoke briefly about the time that the managers get.
11:42And it seems only a couple of months ago that Reuben Amarin was being scrutinised as being,
11:47has he gone much longer left after bad results, but he's turned it around in two months.
11:53I'm going to say, we're going back a bit, but you probably didn't afford that luxury that maybe he's had,
11:59but is, is the, I'm saying that do you need, you obviously, you've advised that people want to stick with their managers,
12:06but do you sense that there's a change in maybe the way people view the managers in terms of giving them,
12:13maybe getting a bit more extra time?
12:15Yeah. Well, I think if you were at some of the other managers at some of the other clubs,
12:18you might say no, talking about some other teams of managers have lost their jobs.
12:22But it is part of our life and our industry that we can lose our jobs if we don't win enough games.
12:30I think when you're at the big clubs, I think you, you have to win.
12:35You have to win with style.
12:37You have to win with all the things that go with it.
12:40I think it's changed.
12:42I lost my job when we couldn't qualify for the Champions League at Manchester United.
12:46So it's certainly a different, maybe a different standard of different levels, which maybe, but that can happen at football clubs at Everton over recent seasons.
12:55You know, we were never in the early time here trying to avoid relegation.
13:00Maybe, maybe the odd time there might have been a dip, but very rarely recently it's been quite regular.
13:06So I see now that these things can happen at football.
13:09You know, you look at some of the clubs who've been in the top division, Sheffield Wednesdays and how they're dropping down and different clubs.
13:15So you've got, you've got to do your business well.
13:18You've got to manage the club well.
13:19You need good ownership, good managers, whoever they may be.
13:24So I do.
13:26I'm always sort of supporting managers to get the time to do the job, because I think the history would tell you managers, given the time, tend to do better.
13:33But there's also history where clubs like I think Chelsea for many years changed their manager quite regularly.
13:39If they didn't work out and they might have said that worked under the ownership they had at the time.
13:45So, yeah, I always hope that managers are given that time to see if they can make it work.
13:51And just to go back to Tyler Dibley.
13:54Has the plan for him gone to plan so far?
13:59Have you had to adapt things with how he looked for going or how have you seen it going and has he gone to plan?
14:05Yeah, we want, we want Tyler. We're, you know, Tyler's hugely part of the future, what we're going to do when we go to the next stage.
14:13At the moment, he's at Elian Jai who played on the right and we hadn't seen him play much on the right.
14:17He's done terrifically well.
14:19Jack Grealish has played so well on the left.
14:23So it's been quite difficult for him to get, to get in in front of those boys at the moment.
14:27But it's someone we like a lot. I think he's still getting to terms with, with us as well.
14:33So all those things he has to do, but I'm looking forward to getting them one minute as we, as we go on.
14:39Thanks, Carl. Any further questions in the open section before we move on to the newspaper section?
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