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Everton boss David Moyes previews their Premier League game with Crystal Palace and speaks on their summer transfer plans
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00:00Well, David, ultimately the result on Monday wasn't what you wanted, but that second half performance must have had every
00:06one up this week.
00:07Yeah, it was. We played really well in the second half, but football's still about two halves, so we have
00:13to play better in the first half as well.
00:15But I've got to say, I think I've been sore after it because obviously I'm disappointed that we were 3
00:21-1 up and we didn't win the game.
00:25So, I'm disappointed. I probably still am disappointed because we didn't see the game out.
00:31When you look at the performances in that game, as I say, in particular the second half, have Merlin Roll
00:36and Tim Irubina given you something to think about ahead of Sunday?
00:40I think both of them have given me something to think about most of the season, but for long parts
00:45of the season we've been relatively settled in some ways.
00:47There's no address of Ganna Gay, Jimmy Gardner have played very well in the middle of the pitch for long
00:52parts of the season.
00:55So, we've known their capabilities. Tim's probably a bit more than Merlin, but Merlin's also still trying to get used
01:02to the speed in the game in the Premier League as well.
01:05But they both played really well in midweek, I have to say.
01:08And just on injury news, how is Ganna Gay? Is he back?
01:11He's fine. He's not training yet, but he's fine. It's not a serious injury, so we hope he'll be back
01:16soon.
01:17Can I just ask you about Jack Greenwich? We've seen him around the club doing all kinds of things, the
01:21community and everything.
01:22He seems to be really embedded in what Everton is. Where are we at with him? Are there any talks
01:28taking place yet?
01:29No talks at the moment, because we're really waiting to see his foot's improving greatly.
01:35He's out, he's been wearing now and he's doing a lot more training.
01:39So, no, there's no further news on Jack at the moment, but I think everybody knows Jack.
01:45He's loved wherever he goes and he's certainly loved here.
01:48When you look at planning for next season, are the next three games, would that affect how you think with
01:56regards to recruitment?
01:58No, I don't think so. I think that I'm pretty set in my mind what I would like to do
02:03and what we should be doing.
02:06Obviously, if things went our way and we found ourselves with more games like Crystal Palace have had all year,
02:11then we might need to think slightly different.
02:14But I don't think so.
02:16I think the one thing that you do want is when you do get in a situation, you really need
02:20young players.
02:21You need young players who you can go to and have them on the bench and some games bring them
02:25through.
02:25We probably don't quite have that yet coming through enough.
02:28So, it's something we have to try and rebuild again.
02:32And for a number of years, we've said, we've had said here, you know, it's a big summer ahead.
02:37But this is quite an interesting one, isn't it, you know, with regards to the players you have and the
02:43players that you'd like to bring in.
02:45And World Cup as well, which probably complicates things.
02:47Yeah, I think the World Cup will complicate things a lot for a lot of clubs, not just us, you
02:51know, and maybe the transfer market.
02:54Certainly, in the early part, well, I might be wrong in saying that, but that's my thoughts.
02:59I think we want to continue building here.
03:01I think we have to.
03:02I think because we've sort of had a good year this year doesn't mean to say that.
03:06That naturally means that next year flows in and everything goes well.
03:10You know, you have to keep trying to challenge and improve.
03:14And I'm hoping that we're able to do that.
03:17Tom, looking ahead to Crystal Palace, I think when you played AZ Alkmaar in the semi-final of the Conference
03:24League and got to the final,
03:27I think the Saturday after you beat Leeds or the Sunday after you beat Leeds 3-1,
03:30I think that's an indication really that you can't take the fact that a team has been in Europe for
03:35granted.
03:35No, I mean, what people don't understand how difficult it is to play the amount of games that Crystal Palace
03:42have played.
03:42To play Thursday-Sunday football for a coach is really difficult because, you know, you've got such a big game
03:49in the Premier League coming up on the Sunday.
03:50And, you know, but yeah, all your focus is on winning a game on a Thursday night and then trying
03:55to quickly change over and be ready for it again on the Sundays.
04:00So difficult.
04:01Sounds strange because, you know, people would say, well, what's the difference between Saturday and Tuesday, for example.
04:05But I just think in the way footballers and football managers work, it's quite difficult.
04:12But Crystal Palace have done brilliant. To get to a European final is sensational for them. It really is. It's
04:16such a big thing.
04:19You tend to find you have effects after the games. You've just said that we didn't after a BTA's Ed
04:25Altmar.
04:26So I'm hoping that Crystal Palace have found that they have some effects.
04:41Well, I was going to say it was a Britishman who won or got to a final. It's not. He's
04:46obviously Austrian and, you know, prior to that, I think Mareska won it last year, didn't he, as well?
04:52So we need to get more Brits winning or getting to the finals, that's for sure. But I think it's
04:58a big congratulations to him and his team.
05:00I think they've done remarkable. Winning the FA Cup last year was unbelievable. It really was.
05:05And I think especially how they won the final as well was so good.
05:09So they've got good players, good team, good manager. And they've found themselves in another final, which is a European
05:17finals incredibly special.
05:19Thank you. Thanks, Al. We'll go to Simon at Premier League Productions.
05:23Hi, Simon. Hello again. Can I just ask you about what happens at the end of matches?
05:27I've just been talking to one of your players there. You just put it down to English football, essentially, with
05:31the last four matches now being a goal in stoppage time and it changing the eventual result.
05:38Have you identified yourself here what exactly changes or is it just that's the way that the Premier League goes?
05:45Because we've lost a goal late on. Yeah, I think sometimes. But most of the time, it'll be some decision
05:53making. Some from the manager as well, I've got to say.
05:56But mainly from the players. I think if you look back, I could look back at the goals recently and
05:59think poor choices, poor decisions in final moments.
06:06You know, we could have seen the ball out in the game against Man City the other night. We chose
06:11not to. So quite often, you know, you're a manager, you're hoping that all the decisions and the picks, they
06:18make more right than wrong.
06:20And a couple of late decisions in games, of course, there's a little bit. And it's hard to take because
06:25we've, you know, really, we should have been picking up three points in midweek.
06:29We should have been. Not necessarily because we deserved it more than Man City, but just because we got ourselves
06:34in such a good position and we weren't able to follow it through.
06:38And have you got a big decision to make in terms of who starts up front now? Tiena's got eight
06:44goals this season.
06:46Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. I think when somebody scores two goals, but I think Beto's, you know,
06:51been quite consistent in the last month or so, certainly the last...
06:54Five, eight, seven.
06:55Yeah. So from that point of view, there's another argument to that. So, yeah. But I think really all season
07:03have we had a decision to make.
07:04You know, we've chopped and changed a little bit with them and found who's in form, who's scoring, who looks
07:09good in training, who's scoring a bit more. So, yeah, we have.
07:14And I know we have touched on it before, but is there ever going to be a situation that you
07:18can imagine where they might actually both start together?
07:22Maybe. Maybe. But it would probably be something we're saying, you know, you need to change quite a few bits
07:28and pieces for that to happen with the team.
07:32We've done it before. We've tried it before in the odd game.
07:36But, you know, if I get to a point where I have to do it to try and win, if
07:38it's a must-win situation, then obviously I would try and get the most attacking players on the pitch as
07:43I can.
07:44And just finally, for me, then, you talk about attacking players. It's the first time, I believe, in Premier League
07:48history that Everton have had three players who've scored eight goals or more in the same season.
07:54So that's got to be a positive tick in the book, hasn't it?
07:57It's a great tick in the book. But it's telling you that we need to get more goals for us
08:02and we need to find more over that time.
08:04If it's only three eights, you know, I would have been hoping that we had already done that quite easily.
08:10Well, you have with maybe a couple of players, but it's never been three or more.
08:13No, I think in years going by, I think they've done it prior to, you know, prior to the Premier
08:18League getting started.
08:19The last time, I think, was it the couple of seasons before where it was, I've written it down actually,
08:24Tony Cotty, Kevin Sheedy and Norman Pites.
08:27That was the last time that Everton did it.
08:28It's more than a few seasons back then, I think.
08:31Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
08:33So, no, you're right. But when I heard that, I thought, for us not to have got goal scorers that
08:39just show you, you know, I think to be successful or really successful,
08:42you need to get, you know, quite a few players getting up to ten goals and certainly centre forwards, you're
08:48hoping you can possibly get more.
08:50Thank you. Thanks, Simon. We'll go to Julia at Radio Merseyside.
08:54Hi, David.
08:55When you are talking about the likes of Merlin and Tim and they're all knocking on your door wanting these
09:00chances and you're saying, you know,
09:02actually we have this balance and it was working, is that one of the more complicated things as a manager?
09:07How do you balance that in here to, you know, I just wondered, how do you go about,
09:12how do you change it and what makes you make that choice?
09:14It is. It's a big part of being a football manager and a big part of how you have to
09:20work.
09:20You have to find a way of, you know, giving over bad news well, which sometimes can mean that, you
09:28know, you're not starting, you're not playing.
09:31But you've also got to understand that, you know, the manager's there to make the decisions.
09:36We're not doing it because, you know, we don't like you or something like that.
09:39We're doing it because we either think there's a reason for it.
09:42And I think most players do understand that.
09:45But it's a big part of the job.
09:47And, you know, then I have to keep these players ready and able, you know, that when they do get
09:51the opportunity that they're in the right frame of mind to play and come on and make the difference.
09:56And I have to say they've been great.
09:57Both the boys you talk about are terrific boys, really are.
10:00And, you know, I'm pleased because Tim's actually done quite well most of the season.
10:05He's been in and out a little bit, but he's still had quite a big number of games this year.
10:09Merlin, as I said, is getting used to it.
10:12I think people are just beginning to see maybe what Merlin can be or what he is.
10:16We're still trying to find out exactly what the usage for him.
10:22We're trying to use that great sort of running style he's got and gait in the right areas and see
10:28if we can use it to our advantage.
10:30You mentioned the decision making there late on in games.
10:35You know, you've said you're still not really over what happened on Monday because you actually had more shots on
10:39time.
10:39Target than Manchester City as well.
10:41So that shows the quality that you had on the pitch.
10:43That decision making, though, late on when you're tired in a game, is that just experience?
10:48Is that anything you can replicate in Finch Farm?
10:50No, well, the first person I'd look at would, I would always say, you know, what can I have done
10:54different?
10:55I very rarely through my career would make substitutions when we're going to injury time.
11:00I don't normally do it because I know that the referees can add on 30 seconds and you're trying to
11:04see things out.
11:06So you're better saying, well, we'll just stick with what we've got.
11:09But Harrison couldn't go on anymore.
11:11You know, we had to, Harrison, Tim couldn't go on any longer.
11:18I'd just seen them running past Kiernan a little bit at the end.
11:21And I thought, oh, my goodness, I don't want us to lose out on this.
11:24So you try to make those decisions and then actually you get done with the minute extra time over the
11:2996, went to 97,
11:30which the referee was in his right to do so.
11:34So I always look at myself first to see if I could have done it better, if I could have
11:38done it different.
11:39Maybe one of them I could have made a different choice, but one of them was a must.
11:44I had to do it.
11:46But I do think that the players have got to take a bit more concentration and, you know,
11:52we broke away in the last minute against Man City, three players go chasing up the pitch.
11:56I'm thinking to myself, was that required?
12:00It wasn't required.
12:02You know, one of them, maybe, two, certainly not three of them.
12:05Before, you know, we get caught in, we end up, it leads to, we end up, we get beaten, we
12:09lead to a corner kit where the score from.
12:11So, pure decision making, really.
12:14And that's not, and that's on the pitch, that's not off the pitch.
12:18How long, when you say you think about that, how long as a manager or as a person do you
12:22mull over those results for?
12:26I think that one stuck quite badly because even though, like I think people said we drew it, drawn against
12:31Man City folk,
12:32especially the way they are playing and where they're at.
12:36But I came away really disappointed because I thought, what an opportunity.
12:40You know, we'd let one go at West Ham, I felt, as well, which we shouldn't have done.
12:45And even against Liverpool here, we got ourselves in a situation where I didn't think we deserved to lose the
12:49game.
12:49So, we've come away from three pretty good performances generally and not doing a huge amount wrong,
12:58but lapses late in the game have caused me.
13:03Three games left.
13:04What do you feel you would need for you to be satisfied with the season, whether it's Europe or not?
13:10What would you want from that?
13:11Well, I want us to play well and I think we have done for most of the season.
13:15I think we've been a more progressive team, trying to play better football,
13:20trying to stamp something down which suits us as a team.
13:27We're a long way off.
13:29Man City, for example, in the first half of the other night were outstanding.
13:33So, we need to find out how it works for us.
13:36We need to work hard and do all those things.
13:38But, well, while we're doing that, we're trying to improve on the ball
13:41and try to be a bit more exciting with the football we play.
13:46So, I want that, really.
13:47I want us to keep getting better at all those things, nudging along every game if we can.
13:53But there's also, winning's the biggest thing for me and always has been, always will be.
13:57So, winning the last three games would be the ideal solution.
14:01Just finally, for me, taking on Palace, they're in a European final.
14:05Villa last night as well, I'm sure you watched it.
14:07How much has seeing what they've done this season make you want to bring European football
14:13to Hill Dickinson Stadium, to Everton and have that run?
14:18It's only a couple of years I did do that.
14:20I got a chance to do it with West Ham and it was amazing for the football club,
14:25amazing for the supporters, the players, myself, staff.
14:29You know, it's very hard to put in words what it feels like.
14:36Man, I've been sort of dreaming all the year that I could get it for the Everton supporters.
14:39That would be what I'd really want to do because I think that we finished last season at Goodison on
14:44a high.
14:44You know, and I mean by that, we avoided relegation, relatively comfortable.
14:50We finished the season well, we moved to the new stadium.
14:53For most of the season, we've been probably talking positive about it.
14:57So, I'd love to be able to finish it because I want to keep the momentum and the progress going
15:03because we need to do it again next year and we'll need to look to continue to improve what we've
15:09got.
15:10Thanks, Julian. We'll go to Ian at the press association.
15:17Geo Job.
15:21Just wanted to clarify on Addressi.
15:23Say he's not trained, but it's also a small injury.
15:26Is he definitely out for the weekend?
15:28Yes, he is.
15:29What's the latest on his contract situation?
15:33We're not really discussing too much at the moment regarding any of the players' contracts at the moment.
15:39We've been tending to do our work behind the scenes quite quietly and nudge things along.
15:44When we've got something to tell you, we'll certainly let you know.
15:47One other player I wanted to check on, you said Tim obviously came off with an issue on Monday night.
15:51Is he fit?
15:53Tim came off with cramp.
15:54Right.
15:55Yeah.
15:56You also talked a little bit about younger players coming through.
15:59Can you talk about Tyler Dibbling and where he's at in his development and where you see him going next?
16:04Well, if you're in here, we talk quite often about him in the room here.
16:09He's a young player with a lot of potential.
16:12Probably found it a little bit difficult settling, getting game time, especially at the start when it was in a
16:18way Jack Grealish in the team.
16:21We like him a lot.
16:22We think he's got a lot of talent.
16:23So he'll have a lot to show next year and hopefully he'll show that when he gets the opportunities.
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