I wasnt being a fanboy. That was a genuine question. I wasnt taking any sides. I just wanted to know your opinion.
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I've been very against Moyes' appointment. But I can see why they have hired him and to be honest I am coming around to the idea.
I wouldn't like it if he brought his Everton mentality and played 1 striker, but with the prospect of Fergie working close to him, we could breed him to manage the Manchester United way. The way Busby did for Fergie.
And the chances of Moyes ever leaving for a new challenge are pretty much zero. If he can, I think Moyes will be here until his retirement.
Good luck Moyes. Win us the league or Champions League in your first season and you will be a hero!
I wouldn't like it if he brought his Everton mentality and played 1 striker, but with the prospect of Fergie working close to him, we could breed him to manage the Manchester United way. The way Busby did for Fergie.
And the chances of Moyes ever leaving for a new challenge are pretty much zero. If he can, I think Moyes will be here until his retirement.
Good luck Moyes. Win us the league or Champions League in your first season and you will be a hero!
Ok, I'm sorry then. It's just that this subject is just doing my head in at the moment. The club has been in turmoil for what seems like forever now.
I'll always side with whoever I think has the best intentions for the club, and I have a very hard time thinking that's Mourinho at the moment. Brilliant tactician but even better shit stirrer, your club did good stearing clear, I really mean that.
Moyes better start wearing a suit at every game. No more of these Wenger-style anoraks please!! 
It was ever so slightly amusing to watch the board buzzing about the prospect of nicking Mourinho from us at the death as he romped home as the Caf's top choice, to horror at the thought of Moyes, to grinding to a halt about a phantom Mourinho PM, to collective acceptance that Moyes was the best man all along and Jose represents a bullet dodged.
It was almost like an emotional event had occurred impairing their judgement.
Not really, knee jerk reaction was it had to be Mourinho but considered opinion has changed their minds....
Now, don't you have some 'Rafa Out' bedsheets to paint? Or has that all calmed down since he's won a few games?
The Benitez antipathy was never based on results, it was based on him slagging off the fans and the club, claiming that he would never take the job and then going back on his word, without apologising for his slights.
Results are largely irrelevant. Anti-Rafa songs have been sung win, lose or draw. I think everyone is just looking forward to the end of this unseemly affair.
The press conference promises to be entertaining, can't imagine the press not mentioning United.
Anyone else who's noticed his slight resemblance to a certain Scottish character from the Thick of It?
Yet not a peep about the guy who decided to feck off someone like RDM and appoint Rafa, strange.
Anyway, I certainly thought Mourhino initally, but over the past few days I've changed my mind... imagine, changing your mind once you've had time to think something over.
Welcome to the new manager, can't say he was my first choice (I want European Cups now) but I think its probably the best for the long haul.
Not to mention the success rate of 'second comings'. Keegan at Newcastle?
Press conferance just started
David Moyes: "I'd really respect it today if you keep questions to Everton today. I'm manager of Everton Football Club."
David Moyes: "I'd really respect it today if you keep questions to Everton today. I'm manager of Everton Football Club."
Now he would be the perfect successor to Fergie when it came to press conferences.Anyone else who's noticed his slight resemblance to a certain Scottish character from the Thick of It?
Same character with better scriptwriters.
Heynckes at Bayern is on his third outing and seems to be doing alright.
The giddiness of opposition fans is amusing. Chelsea fans of all people should know that when you've a great squad and a winning mentality(as our team have) then managers doesn't matter much.
I'd also like to see how Jose performs there btw, he has been a failure at Madrid and destabilized their club.
I'd also like to see how Jose performs there btw, he has been a failure at Madrid and destabilized their club.
Moyessiah.
Dethroning the "mighty" Barcelona can hardly be called a failure.
Just giving an honest opinion. I was over the moon with the appointment, if you had appointed Jose I would have been absolutely shitting myself about the prospect.
Same as me. I can't imagine United fans being worried had we appointed Moyes.
I felt exactly the same when he was recently being linked with Chelsea. There were rumours sweeping a Chelsea site that he'd bought a place in London in anticipation of the job and I thought he was dull, had never won anything and wasn't experienced enough in Europe.
As such, I'm delighted that he has gone to a rival - especially given how potent I believe Mourinho would have been there.
I agree with your point, but I'd hardly say he's "dethroned" them. They're 8 points ahead of Madrid with a game in hand. They've effectively won 2 league titles, the CL, and a Copa del Rey in the 3 years Jose has been at Madrid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/10/david-moyes-press-conference-live
updates from the everton presser.
updates from the everton presser.
So Mancini dethroned Manchester United then?
Ok.
Talking about second comings, Kenny Dalglish.
Get ready for another year of putting up with him. He'll get the sack alright but the year after his departure he also makes a point of throwing cheap shots back, undermining the new manager and other shit-stirring. At least here he has alienated so many they may be completely galvanised against that.
I hope it'll be stipulated in his contract that he must never wear a tracksuit on the touchline on matchdays
I'm sure someone has already posted this, but I was thinking about the average length of a Premiership manager's career and just worked out the following:
As of today, the average career length of Premiership managers is 4.08 years. When Ferguson retires, and Moyes moves to United, that will instantly drop to approximately 2.2 years.
As of today, the average career length of Premiership managers is 4.08 years. When Ferguson retires, and Moyes moves to United, that will instantly drop to approximately 2.2 years.
No, he wouldn't have been worrying indeed, you still have Roman to ensure anything going gets ripped apart. The only manager I was ever concerned about with you was Hiddink because they did seem to get on. Mourinho? That won't end well, it won't even start well.
Okay, so after the initial disappointment of not signing someone who could have possibly brought the sexy back to united's play, I've started coming round and begun to see the positives of this appointment.
For one, is IS a good manager who Fergie has deemed fit for United, which means he probably has the right character for the job. Secondly, his Everton side have suddenly gotten a lot more entertaining to watch this season. They've had physicality and fluidity in equal measure which has been impressive. Yes, it's one season out of loads but it's the most recent one. Finally, I can see us being a very "tough" side. It's an aspect a lot of people have moaned about in recent years and Everton always impress me with their aggression so I can see him installing some of that.
All in all, while he isn't the man I wanted to take over at united, he's a good manager who fergie saw a lot in. So I look forward to seeing how he puts his imprint on this united side and what his ideas and philosophies for it are.
For one, is IS a good manager who Fergie has deemed fit for United, which means he probably has the right character for the job. Secondly, his Everton side have suddenly gotten a lot more entertaining to watch this season. They've had physicality and fluidity in equal measure which has been impressive. Yes, it's one season out of loads but it's the most recent one. Finally, I can see us being a very "tough" side. It's an aspect a lot of people have moaned about in recent years and Everton always impress me with their aggression so I can see him installing some of that.
All in all, while he isn't the man I wanted to take over at united, he's a good manager who fergie saw a lot in. So I look forward to seeing how he puts his imprint on this united side and what his ideas and philosophies for it are.
According to you he didn't even for one minute consider the United job as being worthy of his majestic presence, so is this potency given some kind of totally hypothetical scenario where he'd want to manage us, then?
Well, as long as he does that from long distance, I don't give a feck.
I'm pulling this from my arse, but I can see us getting a lot more cards this season.
You really are... all this Fergie Association stuff is crap. Soon it will be the Moyes Ministry or some bollocks from RAWK
I think we'll be OK.
It was nothing to do with any FA influence at all. I meant that Moyes has his players playing a more physical brand of football, pressing higher up the pitch thus conceding more free's and possibly more cards.
Edit: But Cunto has shown that I was talking shite.
Remember, he had his heart set on that United job! Honest!
I couldn't give a shit. I'm truly delighted that Mourinho didn't take the job if he was offered it.