Moyes on Everton form and performances ahead of Fulham trip
09/05/2025
Finch Farm Training centre, Liverpool, UK
09/05/2025
Finch Farm Training centre, Liverpool, UK
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00:00good afternoon everyone welcome to our pre-match press conference to preview again just a quick
00:17reminder again on the microphone to hold it as close to your mouth as possible if you're using
00:22the mic today so people can hear you at home we'll start off with vinnie from sky
00:27david we've obviously touched on the away form in recent weeks i just wonder what platform you
00:31feel you've given yourself with the wins at brighton palace forest the draws at brentford
00:36and wolves as well to to really build on now because that away form has been problematic
00:41for everton over a number of years yeah it's probably helped us greatly in in in securing
00:46the points total to make sure that we we weren't in the bottom three so what away form has been
00:50been good we've had some really good results but always there's another game around the corner and
00:56the ones that we've we've played and done well and have now gone but uh but the players have done
01:01well so hopefully we can try and keep that up obviously abdulillah de corey was missing last
01:04week is he available this week he's available this week yeah he had a personal issue so that was why
01:08he missed the game last week he's been making noises that he wants to stay beyond this summer obviously
01:13there's a number of contract situations are you able to give any updates at the moment as to what
01:17progress you're making no but it's good that they all want to stay because i think they're feeling that
01:21the the club's growing and we're getting good results and you know want to be part of it so
01:25you know that's good i'm i'm pleased he does and uh i have to say some of these games he's played very
01:30well in but uh he's also there's no spring chicken so we have to make sure that we've got
01:34other replacements when required at this stage have any of the out of contract players been offered
01:40new deals are you able to tell us who well you want to say you who you want to stay and make decisions
01:44well we're making lots of decisions behind the scenes and obviously we're not going to tell the media and let them know
01:49we'll always tell the players and and their agents before we would certainly let the the media know so
01:55any of that would remain private and i'm sure in time uh you media boys will get the information as
01:59well are you able to give us a time frame as to when you'd like it sorted because obviously there's
02:03that opportunity to not just say goodbye to goodison no well i wouldn't give you press minute before i
02:07would give the players that time frame so i would always i would always look after the players and make
02:12sure the players know things first what can you tell us if anything about interest in richarlison bringing him
02:17back yeah somebody told me asked me that story and uh look with carlson's a really good player
02:22and someone who i've liked but i can only tell you there's there's zero truth in that from my side
02:29unless somebody else is spinning the story it's certainly not for me targets though i'd imagine
02:32identified and ready to move as and when yeah it's easy said isn't it you know actually getting it done and
02:38and getting things uh in place isn't isn't quite as easy uh a lot of a lot of things takes time
02:46there's very little people talking about you're sort of asking me questions about contracts and
02:50players and stuff like that well there's people might be working on it and doing it but there's
02:54nothing happening because players are all in contract at the moment and managers are focusing
02:58on finishing the season and try to finish the season well so i would expect uh recruitment departments
03:03are probably working on it but uh i would think the managers are focusing on on the job what they've
03:08got to do you have got three games still to play so we kind of touched on it as well other than wins
03:13what else are you hoping for from these next three games that's three three wins i want us to finish
03:18strong i want us to uh as i said many times it doesn't seem important i know if you finish 17s it keeps
03:25you out the bottom three but uh i think i'd rather try and finish 13s i think that's about the best we
03:30could probably do we have to try and aim for that uh i think i think everything have been poor for a
03:37good chunk of the of the start of the season so they should be enjoying the this bit just now we
03:42want the players to keep the standards keep the levels up and they know what's required if they're
03:47going to going to keep winning games and uh hopefully we can try and show that marco obviously
03:51one of the managers that's been here in between your time here as well so what do you make of the
03:55the job that he's done at fulham he's done a brilliant job at fulham uh fulham don't look
04:01like i'm going to use a yo-yo club i remember when they they came up from the championship they've
04:07stayed up and i think they've looked a really really good solid club now i think marco's got
04:12got a good recruitment team behind them i think they've made good signings
04:16and look they're a very good side they've got lots of good players what kind of a test then do you
04:22feel they are well every game's a test for us at the moment you know everybody we play is is a
04:27challenge they're higher in the league than us uh so we go there probably as underdogs but we'll go
04:34there trying to show that the same spirit we're showing a lot of the other games away from home
04:38to try and get ourselves three points uh but it is it is a difficult game just to check no fresh injury
04:44no we'll get one or two knocks and niggles which uh we'll we'll look at so we'll just get a couple
04:49of things we need to uh sort of keep our eye on thanks david good luck cheers
04:57i think only arsenal have conceded fewer away goals in everton um this season i just wondered if
05:03that's something that you have worked on specifically to solidify things on the road
05:08no i can't say that i have i have to give sean dyche loads of
05:11loads of praise for for the the team he left and certainly the defensive unit has has been terrific
05:18so uh great praise i think we've not got the most clean sheets but jordan and the boys at the back
05:23have done so well defensively but it's nice to know that we're if you're good at one area and
05:29you're good defensively it gives you a great a great platform to try and build from so uh i think that's
05:35what i've tried to do i've tried to use the great defensive unit which in the in the numbers which
05:40have which they've had uh we've tried to add more chances more xgs of if that's a sexy enough word
05:48nowadays uh trying to score more goals and i think we've done that as well but uh but i have to say
05:53over over the season i think the defense is done very well and i just wondered in these sort of end
05:58of season games is it sometimes difficult to get the intensity that you obviously want as a manager
06:04uh i think all the premier league games have got intensity i think there's there can be games where
06:09it might not look as if it is but uh i think i think uh what the premier league is has got in
06:16abundance is intensity in the games but i take your point that maybe this time of the season you know
06:21you might think that maybe some of the games could go a little bit that way and and it possibly could
06:26but uh hopefully we can keep it up we're we're trying to build and we're trying to keep it going and
06:31try and get a bit of consistency and i think it's 15 15 draws in the premier league this season i know
06:37that's a big number that isn't it it's easier said than done but is the next step to i suppose turn
06:44as many of those into wins well we certainly don't want to turn them turn them into defeats that's for
06:50sure so uh so if you if you can't win then a draw is not a bad result a lot of the games will not be
06:56either quite good enough or done well enough to to get over the line
07:00possibly but then we've had some really good draws when maybe we were up against it and we
07:03were able to know pick a point up so i think through the season you get your your fair share
07:08of draws uh we've had we've had a few recently but we've been putting a lot of really good size
07:14recently uh so let's hope that uh let's hope that we can turn them into wins but if not then i'm
07:20more than happy to take the doors
07:29when you talk about picking up a point sometimes it feels like a battling point doesn't it if you've
07:33gone behind obviously against dip switch two nil up and then to draw that as it felt a different
07:39atmosphere in here this week and i know you were frustrated is it something you've all do you sit
07:43down do you watch it back do you or is it best sometimes not to watch it back yeah no we do we do all
07:48that we look we look back at bits which uh we actually thought we played well in lots of periods
07:54in the episodes game we've done a lot of good things but we couldn't quite shake it switch off
07:58but what we needed to do was get the third goal and we didn't and we had two or three opportunities
08:02we didn't take it uh but they scored a wonder goal always kept him in the game and it was and it was
08:08pretty close from that point so uh i was disappointed that we didn't win but i wasn't disappointed with
08:14with big parts of the game i was really disappointed with it with the second goal we lost
08:20two or three players didn't do do as well as they should have done but that happens in football and
08:25for every goal you can see there i'm sure you can always look for a problem but lots of good things
08:29and uh no we're scoring we're scoring goals i remember coming in here and everybody was telling
08:34me how are you going to score goals how are you going to make goals uh that that's uh that's been
08:40something i think we've done a lot better and uh we've just been talking about there as one of the
08:45best away records and in the premier league as far as conceding goals and i think we're one of the top
08:51teams in in not conceding so lots of that the team and the players have done really well are you getting
08:58closer to where you want to be then i remember when you came back i said to you what will david moyes
09:04everton 2.0 look like is it getting close to what you want it to look like i think we've got we've got a
09:10long way to go i think i've been really pleased with the way players have i've done they have
09:15worked and handed themselves brilliantly well there's an incredible spirit amongst the players
09:20i have to say uh they're they're good for each other because they they make sure everybody's
09:27fully engaged in the when you play for everton which is great but obviously we want to try and
09:31make it better if we can and we want to keep building on it i hope we can build it quickly but
09:35if we can't then we need to go through the the process and start building bit by bit you brought
09:41dominic back on to the pitch at the weekend which was good to see him back in action does this now
09:47give you sort of a choice i guess going forward because it's been better really because he was the
09:52only fit striker when you arrived is is that better having some competition up front well it's much better
09:58having competition i mean the the truth was my plan was not to really play dom last week but i just felt
10:03that the way the game was going we might have just needed something with a bit of quality at the end
10:07of it possible to get us a goal and uh that's why we gave dom the last 15 minutes or so uh so he's
10:13making his way back from what was a three-month injury uh so we want him back we want competition
10:19beto gets a goal last week so he's doing not bad the big fella and finally for me um harrison armstrong
10:26back with you back in training as well with the first team here um just sort of have you seen him
10:32come back a different player now you've actually got him back into finch farm yeah well he's back
10:36a different player because he's probably got i don't know 25 championship games under his belt
10:41for a young boy which is very good uh his only train was two days this week uh he said a little
10:46bit of time off we're expecting him probably to be involved with either england under 19s or under 18s
10:52possibly in the in the coming weeks so we've just got to make sure that we get him some some holiday
10:57time some time off but also keep him ready for for that as well uh we'll involve him uh in the summer
11:04series and we'll involve him in the pre-season and you'll get an opportunity but uh we're really
11:09pleased they've done well at derby thanks julia we'll go to carl at the press association hi carol
11:16quick one from me um you said you go to follow him as underdogs i'm just i'm assuming that that's a word
11:23you want to be using less frequently next season yeah i'm only saying probably factual the league
11:28position would be the reason why we think that uh it was a great point about our away records been very
11:34good recently so so we go with lots of confidence and belief that we can get a result but uh i think
11:39it's fulham's uh results this season and how they've done i've of put them probably in that strong
11:44position i mean in terms of the actual word underdog i mean for a time in your first spell here that was
11:52what you were built as when you came against the bigger side but that's when you were ahead of all
11:57the you know you were sort of six seven eight oh yeah so that's i guess the next step to make is
12:03it is to make it to stop being underdog against teams like fulham and yeah yeah well i think the
12:10the position the club have been in over recent years have probably always been the underdog so it's not
12:14not just me uh but i think that just saying that i probably think i want the games that everton
12:20are getting into other teams would probably looked as if they were favorites to win but i think that
12:25what the players have done here we've gotten one at brighton uh with a great result at crystal palace
12:30on the road we've no we were we lost to chelsea but it was a narrow defeat so we've actually uh we've
12:36actually had some some really good performances maybe not always getting the results but uh yeah
12:42still think we'll probably go as underdog but hoping that we can we can show what we can do
12:46thanks carl any further questions in the open section before we move on yep hi there better was
12:56the man that got the goal in the reverse fixture back in october um just how important is he as a
13:02player to your side in terms of the physical attributes that he can bring i think he's become
13:06a much more important player as uh as the season's going on i think when we we put him in the team
13:13initially it was mainly down to dom getting an injury so sometimes in football you need a bit
13:18of luck you need an opening as well and they got it with that situation and so did i because he was
13:22he was so good scored against tottenham uh scored in the other games he's been a real handful i think
13:29it was good i think he's he's looking a lot more assured than a lot of things he's doing there's things
13:34which he obviously we know he can do better but uh it's not for the one of trying for from beto and
13:39it's not for the the effort he puts in in training or the effort he puts in with extra work he's really
13:45trying to make a mark and let's be fair he probably has in in quite a few of the games this season
13:50thanks very much we'll now move on to the embargo section thanks david