Manchester United manager David Moyes insists he is firmly focused on getting the club straight back into the Champions League. United bowed out of Europe on Wednesday evening going down 3-1 to Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena, which gave the reigning European champions a 4-2 aggregate win. The result means, that for the first time since 1995, United are highly unlikely to be present at Europe's top table next season. After the defeat in Munich, Moyes told Sky Sports: "We have not got Champions League football, that's the way it looks but I believe that it is not far away, and hopefully it will be one-year away. "We have got to rebuild and our focus is to get a team that can get back into this competition, it is a great competition we have really enjoyed it and there is no shame in going out to Bayern Munich. Moyes was asked whether he believed his job might be in some doubt, after his failure to get into the Champions League. "That is not question for me as my job is just to get on and do the job," he insisted. "I have found everyone at the club very good and my focus is to get a side that gets us back in the Champions League and that is the main objective." Moyes insists that the club's hierarchy are backing him and plans to rebuild the side are already in motion and he insists not being in the Champions League will not hamper their pursuit of any of their top targets. "The club have never had any problems, anything we have talked about, the club are looking to spend the right money on the right players that are available, it has nothing to do with the Champions League football," he said. "Any players that we have sort of quietly discussed with I think they are more than happy to join Manchester United. "The ones who quietly, someone might have had a word in their ear, have all been keen to come as it is a short thing and not a long thing and they are all very keen to join such a great club." Turning to the game and Moyes felt his side were unlucky, having actually taken the lead in the Allianz Arena through Patrice Evra's 57th minute. But United could not defend their lead, as Mario Mandzukic levelled just seconds after the re-start, before Thomas Muller and Arjen Robben settled the tie. "When your a schoolboy you get told make sure when you score you don't concede straight away, we conceded too quickly," he admitted. "It was always going to be a tough night and once we got the first goal we had to give ourselves five or ten minutes where we could stop them getting the ball but from the kick-off they went up the pitch and scored. "I don't know whether it was a bit of concentration, thrilled we got the goal but we have got enough experience on the pitch where we should have done it - but they didnt do an awful lot wrong tonight, I thought the players played over so well and I was pleased with the performance and just a couple of small errors that cost us in the end. "I never thought we were out the game, I always thought we were in with a chance and at 2-1 we needed just to get that goal to get back to 2-2, but that third goal killed us and that didnt go for, and I thought that was a bit of bad luck. "They are a really good side and they showed it, but I thought we did what we had to do tonight - I thought we came here made it difficult for them, tactically we tried to stifle them as much as possibly but if you lose a goal just after we score it makes things really difficult." http://www1.skysports.com/football/...focused-on-getting-back-into-champions-league ------------ Is that allowed? "Quiet word with", tapping up surely? You performed better against Bayern over the tie than I though you would, in fact I thought you might have gone through tonight. Will this give you more belief going forward? No shame losing to Bayern
He might not have, and might have shot himself in the foot, Moyes'y isn't at his brightest in front of the cameras.
You are very naive if you think players aren't tapped up before an offer is made. Every club does it , that's just the way things are. It's a lot easier to find out if a player is genuinely interested before you go to all the trouble of making formal bids for a player
EFC got fined over 50k for it, don't be so naive to think the manager of the club wasn't involved matth.
He was matth, unless you're saying that Bill Kenwright chose the players Everton FC spent their money on.
EFC accepted a breach of the rules as is well documented, Moyes was in sole charge of all football matters at the club including which players were targetted and signed, here's a link from your favourite newspaper. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...2/Everton-fined-45-000-tapping-Lascelles.html Now if Moyes wasn't involved who would have given the green light to tap him up? If EFC hadn't have been sussed and the lad had signed do you think they'd have done it without Moyes knowing?
Anyway matth managers are never or barely ever named and shamed in tapping up cases, as Shergar said its agents etc acting on behalf of clubs and players, but if a manager is solely responsible for signing players its rather obvious he'd be in the know before being pictured sitting next to his new p!ayer as the signature goes onto the contract, because its his choice if the player gets to pull the clubs shirt on or not.
