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I would also say in defence of Moyes, he immediately followed SAF which would have been an uphill task for any but maybe Ancellotti, Klopp, Pep?He’s significantly worse than Moyes, and I never thought a day would come where I would say that.
We finished lower in the league than we did under Moyes with a goal difference I would not have thought possible.
We’ve spent significantly more money under him, with two of his signings being contenders for our worst signings ever (Felliani and Mata were useful now and then)
Our style of play manages to simultaneously look less potent when attacking while also more open and vulnerable in defense which makes us just awful to watch.
We didn’t regularly get hammered by our rivals and teams vaguely close to us.
Moyes was actually able to make it out of the CL group stage.
And lastly, Moyes was nowhere near as arrogant and insufferable to watch or listen to as ETH is, and I thought Moyes came across as undeservedly arrogant at United.
Two domestic cups don’t elevate ETH above Moyes. ETH is comfortably the worst United manager I’ve seen in my lifetime. Bald f raud doesn’t even begin to describe him. I’m actually seething while typing this. I dislike ETH as much as I’ve ever disliked anyone associated with football and as much as you can dislike a man you’ve never met.
Not only that the previous season SAF managed to get a league winning performance out of what was a squad that had pretty much come to an end and needed a massive overhaul, not sure anyone other than SAF could have got that squad to win anything (at that stage, ages etc.)
Ultimately the players really let Moyes down, they pretty much downed tools with a 3rd of the season left, (just like they did with Mou and Ole), not saying Moyes was great, that he was good enough or wouldn't have failed regardless, but I think he faced factors that none of the other post SAF managers had to face, I am confident that given £600m to spend and 3 seasons grace that we would be a better team under Moyes than we are under ETH