He was on a hiding to nothing but his biggest error, IMHO, was dismantling Fergies incumbent backroom team in favour of his Everton one ... many of those had been with Fergie for many many years and the players had a lot of respect for what, collectively, had been achieved under those guys... you then replace them with a bunch from Everton who, both individually and collectively, have achieved next to nothing and are then telling a squad that contains Champions league winners that there is a new and, by inference, better way of doing things? ... huge error on Moyes part ...
Was out of his depth. Is a pity as we don't have enough British managers around - Man Utd will undoubtedly go for a big name foreigner.
Arguments for and against, Fosse. I actually agree with you, that he should have kept the previous staff. But, just playing devils advocate, I can see why he wanted to bring in his own. He wanted to do things his way, which is fair enough. I mean, if he had left all the previous staff, he would get a daily dose of "oh, that's not the way Ferguson used to do it". He wanted to start afresh, and do things his way, and I can see his point. IMO, his greatest error is not playing a consistent team. Ferguson could change his team weekly and get away with it, but thats Ferguson. Surely, joining any new club, you want to get off to a good start, by picking your best 11, and not changing it if it wins. He did just seem clueless, summed up by his reaction to that defeat by Liverpool, where he thought they had trained well all week and "did not see that coming". I do feel sorry for him though, he's a good manager. Shame he had to get sacked after a defeat upon his return to Everton too. Just one final kick in the crotch... Though saying that, it is perhaps cushioned by a £5m (?) payoff...
Why this is headline news I'll never know, frankly I couldn't care less and yet it's the first story on the news. Ukraine teetering on civil war but Man U being a well supported club in London means this is all we hear, pathetic.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing Jack but it does feel like he didn't really think it through properly .. clean sweep fine when you need to strip down an obviously underperforming business ... but they had won the league by eleven points just prior to him having taken over ... (and finished 26 points clear of Everton) ... is it therefore that surprising that his wholesale changes to training etc were met with some scepticism / even resentment?... I heard earlier that he even scrapped Robin Van Perse's individual training plan (which Fergie had instigated) - a striker with a history of injuries whose ever presence last season fired United to the title ... and how many games has RVP played this season?
... beautifullly succinct ... but the stark reality is that, throughout this planet, a 'game' where 22 men (quite often of below average intellect) dreessed in opposing attire, chase a fake substitute inflated animal bladder around a field, attempting to force it between a 3 pole construct more times than their opposition do, has assumed extraordinary importance within the existence of humanity ... and globally, more people on the planet feel an 'allegiance' to the red apparel team from Salford in Greater Manchester than to any other team...
I know, and those reasons you state above were the reason it was going to be difficult for any new manager coming in. Had Mourinho taken the job, would he have kept the same backroom staff? No, he would have bought his with him, and done things his way. Whoever it was, they were going to have different methods, and those methods were always going to be met with some resentment from the current crop of players who had just won the league. I always thought this job was a poisoned chalice.
It is scary/crazy how much football seems to have taken over the world. As you say, all it is, is 11 opposing players trying to kick a ball inbetween 3 sticks more than the opposition. Yet we are now at the stage where people are getting paid £300k per WEEK to do this. Where did it all go wrong, eh?
Yes you are both right, guess I should accept the fact that Man U are bigger than Russia, USA and just about anything!
Well Man U losing at home, how dare Sunderland turn up and score against the team who appointed Ryan Giggs and therefore have a given right to now win! Oh well they play us next season, at least they've beaten us 10 times in a row!
Bet the people who were touting him as the next permanent manager after Norwich last weekend feel like tits now.
