Manchester United have sacked David Moyes less than one season into the six-year contract he signed on replacing Sir Alex Ferguson last summer. United confirmed the news on their Twitter feed around 8:30am on Tuesday, although reports of his imminent exit had been circulating for almost 24 hours amid silence from the club. A short statement thanked Moyes for "the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role" during his time in charge. Ferguson's successor has overseen a slump from Premier League champions to seventh in the table, and United will not play Champions League football next season. United are also guaranteed their lowest points total in the Premier League era, and Sunday's comprehensive defeat at Everton - the club Moyes left for Old Trafford - was a final humiliation. Moyes took just six points from 12 games against the six teams above United in the table, but as recently as Sunday he appeared confident he would be given time and money to reshape the club's playing squad. He did sanction deals worth more than £60m for Marouane Fellaini and Juan Mata, but the task of spending a summer transfer fund reported to be in the region of £150m will now fall to his successor. Speaking on Monday Night Football, United great Gary Neville argued Moyes that should be given more time to make a mark at Old Trafford, a policy which paid rich dividends with Ferguson. English football's most successful manager went three seasons without winning a trophy before leading United to 13 Premier League titles and two European Cups. Neville said: "Alex Ferguson himself got time in the early years when it was difficult for him. So I genuinely believe that when you give a man a six-year contract he deserves the opportunity and the time both professionally and out of respect. "I've always felt Manchester United should be different and hold themselves up as a club that stands against what is happening in the game. "I don't like it when professional people come out with statements that a manager should be sacked. It's not something that you'll ever hear from me because it's a difficult job and something that I've never done." Sky Bet have already made Dutchman Louis van Gaal favourite to take over at Old Trafford with Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp second in the list. Ryan Giggs - tipped to take charge until the end of the season - is 11/2 to get the job permanently.
Think this will be met with mixed reactions from the true Man United fans this. Poor Lun Ping Yun from the Anhui province of China spent a fortune on his official David Moyes Nun-Chucks and now there gonna have to go in the bin. Can see a few burning Moyes effigies springing up round India & Pakistan as well.
Wonder if Moyes would take the Norwich job? He's not going to go straight to another top job after his performance at Man U, is he.
If we go down and Gus leaves I would have him straight away. A rebuild is what we would need almost from scratch and he would be good for that. I think he would do really well at Norwich. Man U was just a step to far for him, it does not mean he is a bad manager.
Most interestingly the MUFC twitter decided to wish Dion Dublin a happy birthday before they said Moyes had left... please log in to view this image
Hahahahahahhahaha, this got my inner child. They've blatantly approached Klopp, as he's ruled it out already, so it's gonna be van Gaal, surely? As close to SAF as you can get. The could go for Jupp Heynckes like, whether he'd be tempted out of retirement I dunno, but **** me that'd be an appointment, surprised he hasn't been mentioned anywhere. On Moyes, I'd take him in a blink if Gus chose to walk, in a ****ing instant.
If I was a Glazer I'd have ten grand on that, appoint him then sack him the following day. Swift £10m to pay for any manager's compo if needs be!
I think manure have made an horrendous error of judgement personally as Moyes is a class act. Anyone following SAF after 26 years was going to struggle to find his own identity and the first year was always going to be tough. I reckon in his 2nd season he would have been up and running, with a team of his own not the leftovers of Ferguson. Unlike us with pdc, who had no class and no particular pedigree and had to go to save the very fabric of the club, Moyes has class, experience and ability in abundence and would have been a great Utd manager. That said, I couldn't give a flying f**k about Manure at all and if their fall from grace continues even further now I'd not shed one tear or sleepless night over it. I love Gus and hope he keeps us up but if he doesn't I still want him to stay and build us back a club but if he walkers, Moyes is top of the list to replace him without doubt. I don't think he would work for Ashley but if he did he would transform the draws as well. There is no doubt that he will be managing in the EPL before the 2014/15 season commences. Foolish move Man Utd and no guarantees that a big name foreign coach is the answer either.
I never thought Moyes was the right pick for ManU, they have a huge pitch and play run run run football. Moyes is a good manager who has been very good in he transfer market with the players he bought for Everton (Arteta, Baines, Jagielka, Distin, Coleman, Pienaar etc etc etc). But Everton under Moyes never played expensive fast football. Instead they played contesting, physical football. When Stoke was at it's worst they beat all sorts of teams but got bullied to death by Everton about 4 times in a row, including Phil Neville putting in Delap-esque long throws and Everton scoring from them. That style of football doesn't work on the large old Trafford pitch. Under that light, is it really all that surprising that MUFCs homeform has been so poor this season?
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, Cest but on this occasion yours is wrong. The fact is, he knew it would be tough and he went ahead and made it even tougher for himself by clearing out probably the best set of coaches in the country, to bring in his nodding dog and a very under qualified Phil Neville. Not only this, his tactics are all wrong for our club, we'd have never adapted to playing that way, we cannot sit back with two DM's, it's not in our DNA to invite pressure and sit deep, he wasn't addressing this, despite every top (Neville) and gutter (Redknapp) pundit pointing it out from the beginning of his tenure. His philosophy will work at another club, like I said he's a good manager and a great person. He'll be a success somewhere but for him to be a success here, he needed to change his game, he didn't, he tried to bring Everton to United and that was never going to work.
Surely only time, the next appointment and results will determine if I'm wrong though terry? What happens if van Gaal or someone 'bigger' comes in and after 6 months his results are worse or no better? How long will they get before being sacked? Like I said,the situation with us and do canio was different as PDC carried no real substance to his management whereas Moyes has. I think if the same scenario was put to SAF initial 3.5 years of failure he would have been sacked after 18 months as well. If you get a good manager keep him and support him, don't shelve him after 5 mins. If you have a bad manager then peddle them accordingly. Moyes is a class act IMO. He deserved better than 8 months. PDCdidnt deserve 8 minutes.
I was always on your side ref Di Canio, his ultra-unorthadox methods, although I agreed with them in principle (in that professionals should give blood, sweat and tears at all times) they were never going to work on the modern sissy-girl footballers. Moyes would still be in a job now in my opinion if he didn't clear out the backroom staff, it's really all his own undoing. As for another manager doing worse, maybe we won't find the right person straight away, maybe Moyes would have been successful if he sacked Steve Round and replaced him with a real coach, it's all ifs and buts for now. It's no secret what's happened, we mathematically cannot reach the CL spots now and immediately after that Moyes is sacked, he's failed to reach his objective and in any other position you'd be released for that. He was given a warchest last summer and between his obsession with Fabregas and Woodward ending up paying more than Fellaini's release clause to get Fellaini, the pair of them failed miserably and have paid the price.
All I know is that you don't become a bad manager in less than a year. You have to put some blame on the MUFC Board, though. You'd think they'd have interviewed the f*** out of him to make sure he knew what was expected of him and to make sure he could explain how he was going to set about achieving it. Anyway, after 13 titles in 26 years they're entitled to a nice long blank patch. We're approaching 80 years with ours!
