Moyes concedes that his replacement Roberto Martinez has done a good job – Everton sit three places above United in the current league table – and went on to talk about his memories of the club and how he left for Old Trafford, report Sky Sports.
“He is doing a very good job”, said Moyes of Martinez. “He has very good players there. I always told them they could play without a manager because they are very well organised.”
“But Roberto is doing a really good job keeping it going.”
“I had a great time at Everton, it was a great club for me at the time in my career when I left Preston North End. They were fabulous to me – they gave me a chance to succeed the best I could at the club.”
“We had one or two early years at the start when it was a bit up and down but overall we had a pretty good level of consistency after that and tended to finish pretty well in the division.”
“I don’t think it’s any advantage there’s a new manager there and he’s got his own players in as well.”
“I do know a lot of them, I probably brought most of them to Goodison, if not them all, except for the recent ones. They’re all really good players and I’ve got a lot to thank them for because they helped me to win games.”
Moyes went on to discuss the whirlwind nature of his move to Manchester United, and his hopes for a good reception from the Everton faithful:
“I was running out of contract. I only found out about this Manchester United job about four weeks before the end of the season. If someone said ‘how would you leave a club?’ I don’t know if I could have done it better – I don’t know if anyone could have done it any better. At the first right opportunity I spoke to Bill Kenwright and that’s how we handled it.”
“I think [the reaction ] could be mixed at times but I think they know their football and they know where the club’s gone. I think more importantly they’ll understand the players in the team, the majority I brought in and I think they’ll understand there were a lot of good players brought in. But it’s football and you just never know.”
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