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Doing what you say you will do?

The basic premise of this point is "what is achievement relative to Everton football club." I have deliberated on this myself and no doubt there will be dissenters, however, I look at it this way. At the beginning of the season or even as part of the so called 5 year plan, what did Moyes say he would achieve? One thing is for certain he would not have promised anything he could not deliver.

Take this season: we paid £11 million for Yakubu and brought in some decent players, Pienaar, Jags, Baines and some promising young talent. The cost of that investment was in the region of £17 to 20 million, with the intention of, in my opinion finishing 5th, baring in mind Tottenham, Villa, Newcastle, West Ham and Man City would all be investing in players far more than we could afford or in fact at the time needed.

Champions League would no doubt in the discussions at board level have been nice to achieve but you would not raise money on the strength of that happening. Rafael Benitez has spent 140 million on his current team, he bought 16 players to Liverpool pre season with no doubt the promise of the Premier League title or the Champions League and he has delivered nothing by way of winning them, indeed the league performance alone based on that outlay is a disgrace.

Everton this season have played 52 games winning 29 losing 14 and drawing 9, by comparison Liverpool have played 52 games winning 28 losing 8 and drawing 16.

Now I know tactically this season we could have done a bit more: we lost the Fiorentina game based on the team selection in the first leg, but that's history now and we will learn from that. Back to the headline Moyes has delivered (If we finish 5th). We are top of the rest of the Premier League which is realistic as we are financed today and if he does get more money to spend then we should judge him on his deliverables versus his ability both from a finincialoutlay perspective and then as a coach.

You can't argue that really as we have said Chelsea are what they are because they have the money. Time will only tell if Moyes has that luxury, pound for pound though this man has achieved miracles for Everton and it will be tougher again next season with all the others, Tottenham have already started spending a fortune.

For me and for any one in any business, doing what you say you're going to do is testament to how good or bad you are at your job, and therefore David Moyes is good at what he does and we should be thankful we have him as our manager. After all Benitez promises but does not deliver, then blames everyone but himself for his failure, including the Americans who have nothing to do with his team's failure on the pitch this season.

I have harped on enough here but its time we realise we are where we are because of good management.

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