Bournemouth V Everton | David Moyes' Preview

Give them being ruthless. I seen that didn't turn up last week. Who else didn't turn up? Yeah, yeah, no. >> I thought they were going to win really well. >> You should probably have a full English. Else >> Good morning everyone. Welcome to our pre-match press conference to preview our game against Bournemouth. We'll start off with Vinnie from Sky. >> David, just a reminder >> of the away form last season. It was the seventh best away record in the Premier League. Seven wins, one of them came down at Bournemouth as well. I just wonder what that kind of record, what confidence that gives you going into your first away game of the season as well. >> Well, we hope that we can we can perform up and do as well as we did last year away from home. Uh the put the biggest pleasing part was you know we we always traveled with great away support, bigger away support and and they got some some really good days last year. So, I hope we can continue I mentioned last week in the in the press conference about you know can we improve our form at the Hull Dickinson and try and do better at home which hopefully would would get us a few more points as well, but obviously our away form last year was was very good. >> If you can improve on that away form even further from last year. >> Yeah, well, look, it's a big ask in this league to to win games away from home in this league is really difficult and uh you know, but we start and hopefully we can continue as well as we did last year. >> What do you expect from Bournemouth then under new management obviously? >> Uh well, I know Marcus slightly because I went to watch uh Red Bull Salzburg when he was a manager there for a little while. So, had a trip over and met him before. Uh I think he's a he's a really good career. He's got a lot of the the Red Bull uh sort of DNA in in in his work. And I think that uh Bournemouth overall have have been a side in recent seasons who've done a done amazing with what they've done. Uh whether it be the recruitment, whether it be you know, the way the team's played, the managers they've chosen, have done good. So, I think Marcus will I'll give them a a good go. Uh they performed well last week against Manchester City. They were unlucky not to take something from the game. So, yeah. Uh another new manager in the Premier League, but but Marcus has got got quite a bit of experience. >> With regard to your own recruitment, what hopes do you have now of Jack Grealish coming back? He obviously got the winner down there last season as well, but given it appears that this would be his preferred move as well. >> Well, we've not made any any final decisions on on that, but we are in the recruitment business at the moment, and we are looking to see if we can bring some some players in if possible. Uh but there's no guarantee, and and to name just one person would be wrong. >> Jack though, potentially coming back, is being linked with Iliman Ndiaye possibly going the other way. I I just wonder from your perspective, is there any kind of accuracy to that, or is it something that you'd even entertain particularly at this late stage of the window? >> Well, again, I wouldn't talk about players individual players at other clubs. Jack's not at at our club. He was brilliant for us, great boy, but it's wrong for me to talk about him. He's at another club. Uh we're most certainly not in a hurry to sell our best players, that's for sure. >> With regard to him, can you kind of put into context just how important he is, and almost how important it is to keep hold of him? >> Uh well, I've just said, I don't think we need to do anything. We've got nothing to be concerned about as far as I know. We've had no contact from from any club. We somebody told me we had contact from I think it was Al Hilal during the summer. We had nothing from them, so uh so, a lot of stuff that floats around is is not always true. Maybe this is true, but certainly the the stuff previous wasn't. >> How hopeful are you of getting some of at least some of your targets in before that deadline? >> Uh I'm not sure yet, but we'll we'll do our our very best to try and get get something here if we can. >> David, obviously Everton's not the only club that has not been able to get their targets in when they would like earlier in the window, for instance. What have you found has been the problem during this window from your experience? >> Probably not much different from any other window. I think it's much the same. I think the World Cup probably has played a part in things moving a bit later. I think the price is being so so large at the start probably has got a certain group of clubs unable to compete at that that level. And uh I think that's probably changed the market, you know. Everybody's interested. Sky talk a lot about the big big signings, but there's still quite a few smaller ones behind it. Uh at some clubs as well. But >> from the players that you've got, how positive are the signs that you're seeing on the pitch? Albeit very early days. >> Uh look, it's very early days and and uh look, we're we're really pleased with the opening two games. So, we need to try and continue to build that momentum and and get us in a position where we think that we're strong and we can do that. As I said before the other night, we're still we still need to get stronger than we what we are at the moment. >> What do you see as the most positive aspect of how things have have come together? >> I think the I think we've played well in the games. I think uh and and also, you know, we've been trying to create more chances. I think that's probably been uh certainly uh evident in the games against both Crystal Palace and against Preston. So, that's a positive for us that we're getting them. We've we've took some of the chances the other night. Uh we had some bigger ones against Crystal Palace we could have taken. So, uh I think that's positive that we're we're getting a few more attacking opportunities to score. >> Look. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Nuno. We'll go to Fraser up from the League studio. >> I'll just lead it on from that to only David. Um you talked about Teemu Pukki the night and the and the positives of of him picking up the goals, but obviously there are chances there that you'd like him to maybe see scoring more. It's often said by managers that that strikers tend to thrive on confidence. Is that an area that you're looking at specifically with him or or somewhere you're trying to nurture that? >> Uh I think he's looked at himself, so to give the boy uh a lot of credit, you know, I think he's tried to improve himself and and these those things are things what you need to sort of sometimes do yourself. Of course, we'll give them confidence. We we do in every game. But ultimately, you you have to sort of get it yourself, you know, and what it does by you know, for a striker, you certainly scoring goals and getting in the right position and and playing well if you can. I think all players are the same. They want to make sure they have a good pass, good first touch, you know, good challenge. So, center forwards, I think, judge a lot of their confidence maybe by the goals they score. >> Uh and mentioning the the support that you've had away from home, obviously Bournemouth is a a long, long way to go from here for anybody. Does that make you appreciate it all the more when you see uh regular faces down there at a stadium like that, knowing that the fans have traveled so far and and have put so much effort into getting there? >> Well, I've been in the game long enough. I'm a football supporter myself. Uh and I think that people who follow their club for years and all over the country, it takes a a lot to do, a lot of effort, uh costly as well nowadays with train fares, etc. Uh all changing. So, it's uh it's difficult for supporters, so we're we don't take it for granted. And I think that our away support over over certainly last season since I've been back was was fantastic. >> Thanks, Fraser. We'll go to Julia at Radio Merseyside. >> Hi, David. >> Hi, Julia. >> Um when you say you're not sure if the targets will come in, do you feel supported right now at the club with those transfer targets and how is it working? >> Well, I think all managers are always looking for more. Uh I'm trying to give Evertonians the best I possibly can and and push for everything. So, that's my job to try and get get them the best team, best players I can. >> How does it operate then? Are are you I think the CEO had said there was other people looking for targets cuz you can't be across all the clubs around the world. Do you get the the final say? Are they presented to you? >> Yeah, mostly mostly I do. Uh we have uh we have lots of scouts who are out working which are doing and so they're the people who bring maybe people in which we wouldn't know so well maybe from South America etc. I've certainly got an idea of of a lot of the players whether throughout Europe and in the UK. Uh so getting the right ones bring them to the table uh at the right price uh players who we're interested in uh it sort of gets it it gets through the recruitment team who break it down and bring it in there's two or three players here who we'll we'll look at and we make decisions on them. >> I know you don't want to speak about individual players. There are reports about Jack O'Connell Michael Keane at the moment. It sounds like then that that you don't want any outgoings if you can't get those incomings. Is that the case and can you keep hold of people if they're wanting starting places and you can't offer that right now? >> Well, we can only we can only answer that if somebody made an offer. So any stories you hear we're not going to If you're talking about offers for any of those players we've not had no offers for any of those players. >> I I just wanted to ask about Merlin Rolle as well. Obviously he played right back. If you can't get a right back, would he be happy to play there? And how do you manage that with players when they're playing out of position cuz do they want to play in their usual position? >> does. Merlin's thrilled that he's getting the opportunity to start playing the games. He's He's desperate to play. He's desperate to show what he can do. And uh by the way, I think he's shown up really well in what he's done. I think that uh you know, it's made a few people maybe question us talking about bringing in another right back. I think they've seen Merlin Rolle play really well. So he's uh he's done well and he he's not a player who's questioning being out of position. So we're really happy for him. >> Do you like that from your players if they're they're willing to go I'll I'll up and and I'll have a go at that? >> Well, I think when you've got small squads like we have, we need players who are going to be flexible and play different positions and and accept that they may have to do different jobs at different times. Great example was was how Jimmy Garner played when he went right back and actually I think maybe the first game of last season he might have to play left back because we didn't have Miko. So, we want players who are going to be not going to question it, want to do the job. And uh and we've had to do that a couple of times now. So, now Armstrong had to play a bit wider last year in a couple of games for us at different times. So, with the small squad what we've got, we have to try and make the players flexible and and thankfully we've got a few who who are certainly doing that. >> Can I just check on injuries? Um have you got a time frame for Kristy Norgard? Did Hayden Hackney have a slight Not >> Hayden Hackney did it it it rolled his ankle. Rolled his ankle in midweek at it last week, so that's why he didn't play in midweek. Uh we'll see. It'll be touch and go for Hayden, I think. Uh what's the other one? Uh Christian [clears throat] is still not He's not making great progress at the moment, so it's not something which we're we're probably going to get him back quickly. Uh so we'll just need to see how that develops. >> And James Garner fine as well after the other day? >> Well, he's not fine because he's not played any games in preseason, so we we probably if we hadn't had the injury to to Hayden, we wouldn't have we wouldn't have started him in the game certainly against uh Preston. But he's made a remarkably quick recovery from a from his hernia, which is great. The player you don't see it very often that the player's pushing to get back quicker and and and in time. Jimmy done that. I think he he done great in the game. I still think he's off his levels at the moment, but it's the minutes he needs in the games and these these sort of game bits of the games which hopefully he'll he'll soon pick up. >> Thank you. Good luck. >> Thanks, Julia. Any further questions?