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Confirmed: Moyes sacked.
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whinging that the club's shut of the defeatist prick who's dragged the club from champions to 7th in 10 months, because it "isn't the united way."
f**k me. the club could've hired a plane towing "pick up your ipads, you're gone, dickhead" and flown it above his house for all i care.
This and the iPads
Elvis has left the building
Not even a word in that statement wishing him luck
David Moyes, I sympathize with you as a person getting sacked
Unfortunately you were found wanting so it was the right decision
All the best for your future endeavours
Mixed emotions with this. I'm somewhat disappointed that after years of bleating about how different we are to the likes of other clubs for hiring and firing managers without giving them time (time being in every other clubs case years but when it's us it's months) that we've shown it to mean nothing and that we're just the same as everyone else, but on the other hand I'm also looking forward to the possibility of exciting football again.
Let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens.
If some of those players have not been giving their all they might end up regretting it.
Let's dream again!
I think we gave him more time than any other club would have.
He never should have got the job in the first place. I think most of us knew that this time last year.
LOLZY
Totally the right thing for the club to do. We were sliding down a very slippery slope since Christmas and it's bloody hard to get back up the further you fall. Now for a top winning manager to get to grips with what will still be a tough gig. Those players need to see that leader enter the room and think...'yeah...respect...a winner'
So all's well now then. MU become just like every other club as they go down the road of sacking managers when things get tough. God help the next guy.
Easy to talk patience when it's not your club he's wrecking.
We're really not the same as everyone else. Any other top club would have fired him long ago. We're still different.
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Maybe fans will start saying that to make themselves feel better and to try and restore that pedestal but let's face it we didn't. He got less than a year.
But what's done is done so hopefully we can kick on to playing attractive football again.
Nah we didn't.
When we were beating the drum about how different we were, it was always years as the amount of time under fire managers should get to build their teams. When push comes to shove we're just the same. If we're not successful immediately then get rid. No time to build anything for the future.
Feel bad for him, he's a decent and hard working bloke. Just not good enough for United.
What is Sergio Canales up to these days, by the way?
It was inevitable, so now what?
Man sui! Diw Moyes!
Banzai! Dete-ike Moyes!
Yesssssssssssss! feck off Moyes!
Banzai! Dete-ike Moyes!
Yesssssssssssss! feck off Moyes!
If anyone thought that MU weren't going to finish around where they are now they were living in cloud cuckoo land. There has never been such a monumental change at a club and there were always going to be a time when you were out of Europe and off the pace. The squad is old, tired and not up for the fight anymore. None of that is Moyes fault. IMO he deserved next season. He also deserves some players that put 100% into a game and are not happy to live on past glories.
Manager of MU must be the hardest job in football and I hope the owners give the next guy a fair crack at the whip.
Happy days! Neville has to stop being so diplomatic.
Neil Custis said on Talksport last night that it wasn't an official announcement, so who leaked it. They should be ashamed. It could have been handled better.
The last 24 hours haven't been handled well but this was the correct decision for everyone involved, including moyes. He did have a 6 year contract and was only here for 10 months but to let him continue in the job would have been a terrible decision by the club. The teams results and performances since January have shown no signs of hope or improvement and moyes has nothing on his cv to show he could take utd to the level they deserves to be at.
Appallingly handled yesterday by the glazers, so many leaks get the fecking club in order!!! What a circus.
First time in a long time I feel positive.
Now we start afresh, once more to knock Liverpool of their perch.
Piss off with this shite
If he was at Bayern, Barca or Real he would have been sacked in January.
It is never nice to see someone get sacked but this decision is what is best for the club, the fans, the players and most of all David Moyes. Its best to cut our losses, put him out his and our misery and move on.
I think we can safely say that united will never offer another 6 year contract again...no matter who it is!
I honestly think that's a little unfair. It's not like we sacked him after doing fairly well - like Ancelotti or Di Matteo or Mourinho or Mancini, we sacked him after he had honestly failed to meet any reasonable expectation. As much as I like the guy he gave the club every reason to sack him imaginable.
Okay, so Moyes has gone. His nightmare is over. Our isnt yet though
As a United fan for over 40yrs I can hold my head up and say I gave Moyes my full support right to the end. As I would with any manager of our great club.
I'm reading that if the league started in January (after signing such a fabulous player as Mata) we would be 10th. We were getting worse! Thats incredible, and very damming of Moyes efforts. Losing to Everton was a new low. Seeing all the top sides do the double over us, seeing long standing records tumble. Its been a nightmare.
Following Fergie was always going to be tough, but he messed up from the off. No decent summer signings, starting too late, losing the backroom staff, doing god knows what damage to the training plan. Even getting Rooney to stay seems to have backfired, alienating other players by showing favoritism.
He just got it wrong from day one.
Where was the late fight backs, where was the response to defeats (ie we seemed to follow a bad defeat - with another one!)
Where was the pace in attack, where was the fight, the belief, the plan ???
Its still an extremely tough job for any new manager, and Moyes will never be welcomed back to Old Trafford. Its very sad. I desperately wanted him to succeed. I desperately wanted him to be the one to turn it around. Could he have been given more time. Could he have been trusted with the re-build. Sadly we saw no "yes" evidence. He had to go.
NOW the new, post Sir Alex era, can be begin! And how ironic that its the new man's job to knock Liverpoo off their perch!
As a United fan for over 40yrs I can hold my head up and say I gave Moyes my full support right to the end. As I would with any manager of our great club.
I'm reading that if the league started in January (after signing such a fabulous player as Mata) we would be 10th. We were getting worse! Thats incredible, and very damming of Moyes efforts. Losing to Everton was a new low. Seeing all the top sides do the double over us, seeing long standing records tumble. Its been a nightmare.
Following Fergie was always going to be tough, but he messed up from the off. No decent summer signings, starting too late, losing the backroom staff, doing god knows what damage to the training plan. Even getting Rooney to stay seems to have backfired, alienating other players by showing favoritism.
He just got it wrong from day one.
Where was the late fight backs, where was the response to defeats (ie we seemed to follow a bad defeat - with another one!)
Where was the pace in attack, where was the fight, the belief, the plan ???
Its still an extremely tough job for any new manager, and Moyes will never be welcomed back to Old Trafford. Its very sad. I desperately wanted him to succeed. I desperately wanted him to be the one to turn it around. Could he have been given more time. Could he have been trusted with the re-build. Sadly we saw no "yes" evidence. He had to go.
NOW the new, post Sir Alex era, can be begin! And how ironic that its the new man's job to knock Liverpoo off their perch!
His contract and what's stipulating in it, most likely. They were fair enough to let him have a go at all of his and the club's goals for the season, which ended after the Everton game as we were mathematically unable to qualify for CL. The contract has a clause (source: Ian Herbert) which enables him only 1 year of compensation should he get sacked, instead of compensation for the remaining five years should he fail to meet the goals.
In all seriousness, Im delighted that Moyes is gone. He was a disaster for this club and he should by no means be given another season, 6 year contract or no.
But its really bad handling by the club if its really true that he was informed of his sacking through the media. Incredibly unprofessional and if its true that the leak wasnt official then some more heads should roll for handling the situation so poorly.
But its really bad handling by the club if its really true that he was informed of his sacking through the media. Incredibly unprofessional and if its true that the leak wasnt official then some more heads should roll for handling the situation so poorly.
The lesson has hopefully been learned once and for all at Old Trafford - just because a man can drive a Fiat 500 for 10 years without crashing it doesn't mean he can fly what is currently a F-35A.
It really doesn't matter. We've always said about other clubs that managers should get years. That's what's important. We said years. That it's impossible to instantly win and the instant success mantra is bullshit and they should have years to build their squad before they can make their mark. As soon as push comes to shove we do the same because we can't handle losing for a season.
Obviously some players are aging, but it's not as bad as 7th place - we should have been challenging Arsenal at least. He lost the dressing room and was tactically useless. He couldn't motivate the players and he was in danger of making United a far elss attractive proposition for the world's better players to come and play for.
What a horrific first season it's turned out to be, I never thought it would be this bad after SAF retired !
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