"We Are Looking At The Free Agent Market" | Everton V Manchester United | David Moyes' Preview

Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to our pre-match press conference to preview our game against Manchester United. We will start off with Vinnie from Sky. >> David, first of all, how do you feel now about how you've come out of the transfer window? >> Disappointed we didn't do more business. Uh disappointed things didn't go our way in the end. So, but h sometimes in football you have to have to live with disappointments and we will and we'll we'll move on. From your perspective, what happened on that final day with following Balagan? >> Uh, lot lots of different bits there, Vinnie. It wasn't uh MD's fault ultimately. You know, the it happens in football a lot that the the player had a problem in his medical and and that was that was simply it. So, you know, there's no other no other stories behind it really. That's that's exactly what happened. Obviously with it being late in the day, was it a case of being caught in a situation where once this a decision had been taken not to allow Harrison Armstrong to go that you needed money to come in from elsewhere to be able to trigger the deals that you wanted to do? >> Well, look, I don't do the I don't do the financials here. It's not me who does it, but uh but I think what you're saying is right. I think there was uh we were looking to get some money money in uh and ultimately, you know, those those things were getting talked about. know we we lost Ellie who was someone we definitely didn't want to lose. Uh but sometimes it's quite difficult when when the likes of a Man City come along looking for for your players. It has done I lost Wayne to Man United. I've lost Jack Jolen Lecott and Jack Rodwell to Man City over the years. So on this occasion unfortunately we lost Ellie and we didn't want to lose Ellie because we liked Ellie a lot. >> Obviously I was going to ask you about how you felt about that. Obviously Timmy Rabonham going as well. It feels like you're taking the kind of philosophical view about it that it's just one of those situations that comes along now and again. >> Uh, no, I'm not because I'm I'm know what I need and I know what I know what it looks like to build a squad for the Premier League and I know the sort of number of players you need and I know all those things. I've been in it long enough to do that. But, uh, some things went against us, some we could have done better. Uh but ultimately, you know, we we we didn't want to lose a lot of the players, but for different reasons that had to happen. >> Obviously, since the window shut, there's been talk of the owners looking for investment. I just wonder, have you had any conversations with them, and if so, what are they telling you? What points are you even making to them? >> No, I've had no no conversations with them, and certainly not on on investments or the or the club. It was probably outside my juris jurisdiction. >> Overall then, what the last few days done for your targets on the pitch this season? >> Well, I haven't really made huge targets, but no, behind the scenes, I speak to the players, tell them what we're expecting and where we want we want to go. I think the players have made a really good start to the season with a couple of wins in a draw. So, there's behind here there's a lot of positivity and a lot of confidence in how we've we've started the the season. Uh, I need to make sure I keep giving them all the support they need, all the backing they need so that we can keep that going. Thank you. >> Thanks, Finny. We'll go to Fraser at Premier League Studios. >> Just moving on from that then, David. Um, obviously you said last week that you like players who like to roll their sleeves up and and get involved and sometimes do jobs that they don't necessarily always do. But is there going to be more of an emphasis on that now given the the size of the squad that you've got? >> Absolutely. uh they're all going to have to be able to muck in. We'll get we've got a small a really small squad now. Uh and it sometimes gives people opportunities who, you know, maybe who haven't had them and you know when you get those opportunities in football and sometimes you need to be given that chance to show what you can do. So let's see if some of them can can do that. But let's be fair, they showed great last year getting so close to being where they were as a team. So, uh, I've got no concerns about that really. I'm I'm sure they'll they'll be fully at it. >> Um, and just looking at Manchester United this weekend, when you look back at your playing associations with Michael Carrick previously when he was playing, did he see qualities in him at that time that made you think he could be a a good manager? >> I say this quite often when I get asked the questions. It's sometimes difficult to to look and say these boys are going to turn into managers because sometimes it's ones who you don't expect. But uh I think Michael Carrick's probably the way he played and and the type of player he was was probably always made really to go into into football management if you ask me. I think he's done an amazing job to get Manchester United back in the Champions League. It's been really difficult for many managers and uh I think he's he's steadied them. I think he's he knows how the club runs, how it works. Uh he's got an idea in the past what's got them success. So I think he's had a he's had a really good good go and I don't know he been there six months just over six months something like that. Yeah. So he's had a very good six months. >> Thanks Fraser. We'll go to Julia at Radio M. >> Hi David. Um, with the striker options now being Tiero Barry, are you able to have you had conversations with the likes of Brennan Johnson, Tyreek George, Charlie Alcarez has also played up front in his career? >> Are you speaking to players about that they're probably going to have to shift roles a little bit? >> Not at the moment. I'm not. Uh, I'm concentrating in what we've got and what we're doing. uh we'll we'll come up with there'll be need to be solutions we find for different things whether it be injuries suspensions you know uh fatigue all these things come into it. So we'll need to look for solutions and we'll we'll try and do it. You know, if we maybe had had it maybe a few weeks ago, then we could have maybe a couple of friendly games which we had where we could have tried a few things, but because of the lateness, then it means that I don't really get a chance to go out and really I think one of the games we've we've played Tyreek up front and we've we've had a look at one or two things. So, obviously, we'll we'll look really hard to see what we can do. >> Is the free agents market something you can do seeen as you have got such a small squad? Yeah, we're looking at the free agents market, but let's be fair, I'm trying to get a team which is going to be at the top end and I want them to challenge and uh you know if it's you know the disappointment would be that I want I want to keep uh I want to keep pressing on. I want to keep the club moving in the right direction and I want the players to believe we're moving in the right direction. For me it's really important we've retained people on contracts. Jared Branweight, you know, uh we've just brought in Hayden Hackne, Jimmy Gardner signed a contract. We're given Jordan Pikford. These boys could all go on to become full England internationals. So, they need a good platform to show that. So, we need to we need to show what we're about and hopefully help those boys get to the levels we want them to get to. >> You mentioned James Garner there. There were some claims there was a potential late bid from Chelsea for him, but also when you're saying, you know, that the owners were looking to bring money in before you were allowed to spend, is he someone going forward as well that you have concerns about holding on to? >> Uh, well, what you said was was completely untrue. So, I don't know where that's come from. There was no truth in that whatsoever. Uh look, if Jimmy keeps playing as well as he did last year, then obviously that that could happen. But you know at the moment at different times since I've been here in different managerial uh moments as I said I've had to sell MueL Art to Arsenal and I've had to sell I think sometimes when you're selling a player to one of those clubs who are challenging for trophies and Champions League regular uh and willing to pay big fees uh that could be that could be the situation. Probably the worst one was when I had to sell Wayne to Man United. I can think of that and I thought to myself, oh my goodness, the the world was going to end here if we don't keep winning. But we moved on and we actually done really well without him. So, uh, we have to keep doing that and believe if we're going to lose players, we want to we want to keep getting better. >> For you as a manager in that situation, you've got your own personal ambitions as a manager. When that happens and you are constructing a squad that you want to push up up the Premier League, >> you how do you deal with that personally? Uh well, not very well because I want I I'm getting too old now to be sitting around, you know, at the at the the bottom end. I've said that to the players here when I come in that the job is that we we challenge as close to the top end of the league as we can. We do that. And I've got to say they done a brilliant job of it last year and uh I don't think we were expected to do so well as what we done. So I've got to hope that we can do again. There might not be a great expectation on us at this moment in time, but behind the scenes, I'm rallying them. Uh, if ever, we needed the supporters at the club who are never in question. They showed their they showed their face at Bournemouth. They let everybody know that they are a big part of this club and they always will be and uh I hope they they show their face again when it comes uh Sunday afternoon. >> Sure they will. Finally for me, do you feel that yourself, the CEO, the committee and the owners are all on the same page right now? >> Well, I think if you want to have success, you need to all be aligned on the same things. All the all those parts are are so important. Uh I heard somebody tell me today that, you know, there should not be a a sort of piece of paper between any of the departments. Everything else should be aligned. I think we've got new owners in who are still finding their way at the club. Uh, I think as as we get to know each other a lot better and a bit more, I think it will get better. >> Thank you. Good luck. >> Thanks, Julia. We'll go to Ian at the press association. >> Um, David, just with the size of the squad, I suppose you'll be needing to rely on academy players and putting academy players on onto the bench. I just ask what your assessment is assessment is of the academy at the moment and which players you think might be ready to make that step up. >> Uh we've got we've got some academy players who who will obviously get involved in it. Uh are they ready to make a step up? I'm not sure about that. So we'll see how they go. Some of them might be pushed in and and as I said earlier about quite often when that happens, you know, you get the opportunity, can you take it and can you can you adapt it? Sometimes the players who maybe the ones who are ready to step up might be in the positions who we already have a couple of players in. A lot to do with it sometimes is this where we need the we need the players those young ones to to fill a position we've not got. >> If I can name one individual um because we're talking about strikers and maybe a shortage there. Braden Graham where where do you see him and and is is he a player that's ready? >> Well, I don't think he's a striker first of all. I think he's he's probably someone who would play off off the sides for us. We like Braden. He's trained with us quite a lot. He was in preseason with us. Uh he's certainly moving in the right direction. >> Is he a source of goals potentially? >> Are you talking about in the Premier League? >> Well, that would be a difficult ask for for any young player to come in and be a source of goals.