Moyes So Far!

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Yes...but did they all vastly improve their clubs' points return? On average a new manager only makes an improvement of 0.1 points. Sure it's just cold stats but I'd love to see how well the ones you mentioned actually did in the league.

In the cases of avram and hiddink, yes I think they improved their league positions as they were struggling quite badly when the two took over. For de matteo, he won them the CL. Doubt any chelsea fan would trade that for a better league position that season.
 
There's two things that annoyed me about him saying that. Firstly, the sheer egotistical stupidity to publicly criticise your manager, and secondly, suggesting that he tries harder in training or "ups his intensity" when he's told he's going to play.

The whole reason for not telling players the team until on the day is to try and keep EVERYONE's intensity and effort up and prevent people being lazy. Is Rio suggesting he should be above this? He has been our worst player this season, which is quite a fete.

I don't understand why he was given a new contract to be honest. If I was manager, at best he'd be told in no uncertain terms to keep his mouth completely shut and that he'd better be working harder than most in training from now on. Though given his performances this season I'd probably just tell him to feck off. He's causing all the problems I was worried would also come from Rooney (who's been the polar opposite).

Why pay to keep an aeging liability around if the only thing he brings to the table attitude wise is lazyness and disrespect?

I think the players egos are the main problem for him. Some obviously have no respect for him. The 'who does he think he is' attitude. He's the manager, that's who he is, your boss, chosen by SAF, that's who he is. You are footballers, that is all. Get over yourselves and play. If you can't follow instructions or change your game, you certainly aren't as good as you think you are. A lot of the trophies you won are down to the previous managers skills.
 
Yeah that's how I saw it at the time. His stint at Real must've put us off. That said he had the ego to take over at United.

I think it did put the board off. However I think Jose shows respect to people who deserve respect, not to people who think they deserve it.
 
Here's what I said about United potentialy appointing Moyes just as Fergie retired last season:

And here again just prior to him being appointed.

It's almost depressing how predictable some of you lot (and Rio Ferdinand) are.
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.

Have to agree he's getting stick for irrelevant shit like press conferences and interviews or blatantly made up stuff like us being horribly defensive and negative in every game we happen to play shite.

But it's not some fans on the internet that has made the job impossible. The job isn't impossible, it just takes a top manager to be successful in it, which Moyes isn't. He's being criticised because he's in 9th place, he's not in 9th place because he's being criticised.

The same would apply to Mourinho though. You're the leader of a rather large (and petty) anti-Mourinho movement on here, see how you've managed to deem Mourinho a failure so far for Chelsea for having them 3rd and in the CL knockouts. He'd be getting the same unwarranted stick Moyes but from different posters, hanging on every impassive comment he makes in a press conference in a desperate attempt to convince he's said something disgusting and disrespectful.
 
The whole reason for not telling players the team until on the day is to try and keep EVERYONE's intensity and effort up and prevent people being lazy. Is Rio suggesting he should be above this? He has been our worst player this season, which is quite a fete.
What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.

I think a while ago vs Chelsea in the UCL away SAF told Giggs he would be starting that game 4 weeks before it came around and told him to be ready for it. If my memory serves me correctly he was awesome that game.
 
Two of those ended up getting sacked midway through the very next season, and the other left before he was able to.
If we could find a manager to salvage a top 4 spot this season and appoint a proper replacement in the summer we've done the right thing.
 
None of the trio that I listed spent any of that money in their success though. So that point is invalid. And nope, just listing examples where sacking someone has had a positive impact.

How can you say it's had a positive impact when they literally all left within a year and someone new was brought in to have a positive impact?

And didn't Grant take over directly from Mourinho? Who's now ended up coming back and taking over a worse Chelsea side than the one he was originally sacked from?
 
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.

Have to agree he's getting stick for irrelevant shit like press conferences and interviews or blatantly made up stuff like us being horribly defensive and negative in every game we happen to play shite.

But it's not some fans on the internet that has made the job impossible. The job isn't impossible, it just takes a top manager to be successful in it, which Moyes isn't. He's being criticised because he's in 9th place, he's not in 9th place because he's being criticised.

The same would apply to Mourinho though. You're the leader of a rather large (and petty) anti-Mourinho movement on here, see how you've managed to deem Mourinho a failure so far for Chelsea for having them 3rd and in the CL knockouts. He'd be getting the same unwarranted stick Moyes but from different posters, hanging on every impassive comment he makes in a press conference in a desperate attempt to convince he's said something disgusting and disrespectful.


They give footballers training on how to handle the media, do managers get the same or are they just thrown in the deep end, United is definitely the deep end. He actually talks sense, but there is always that negative slant with it. Maybe someone should just tell him to be more positive. That will come with time, if he is allowed to have it and his confidence grows.
 
I think it did put the board off. However I think Jose shows respect to people who deserve respect, not to people who think they deserve it.

Well...eye gouging opposition coaches, and generally acting like a loose canon was going to be very endearing! That said would his antics have had such a negative impact at United? But as I said in terms of ego and self confidence not many match him...it would've been an interesting experiment.
 
It would be quite difficult to see him getting sacked, unless he loses the dressing room, in which case the chances would increase.
 
It would be quite difficult to see him getting sacked, unless he loses the dressing room, in which case the chances would increase.
If results are still shit for the rest of December and no signs at all, I think they will make a move before the January window.
 
Interesting to see Noodle trying to defend Moyes at all costs after criticising SAF over the years for his line-ups. Just that Fergie actually won us things.
 
If we lose our next two games in the league (Villa and West Ham) making it four league defeats in a row, without a win in 6, then I think he'd be sacked.
 
What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.

I think a while ago vs Chelsea in the UCL away SAF told Giggs he would be starting that game 4 weeks before it came around and told him to be ready for it. If my memory serves me correctly he was awesome that game.

I don't get what you're issue is there. Unless you're implying that a player wouldn't want to play because they had a couple of bad training sessions?
 
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.

Have to agree he's getting stick for irrelevant shit like press conferences and interviews or blatantly made up stuff like us being horribly defensive and negative in every game we happen to play shite.

But it's not some fans on the internet that has made the job impossible. The job isn't impossible, it just takes a top manager to be successful in it, which Moyes isn't. He's being criticised because he's in 9th place, he's not in 9th place because he's being criticised.

The same would apply to Mourinho though. You're the leader of a rather large (and petty) anti-Mourinho movement on here, see how you've managed to deem Mourinho a failure so far for Chelsea for having them 3rd and in the CL knockouts. He'd be getting the same unwarranted stick Moyes but from different posters, hanging on every impassive comment he makes in a press conference in a desperate attempt to convince he's said something disgusting and disrespectful.

The problem is you're living in a fantasy land where there shuldn't be any dropping off post Ferguson, despite his unparallelled management skills and a severe lack of proper investment in the squad. It was always going to happen and at the moment the team is low on confidence. I very much doubt we'll finish in 9th place. In the meantime welcome to reality.

The only reason there would be an anti Mourinho movement on here (which as far as I'm aware I'm not a leader of), is if there was a pro Mourinho movement on here, which is extremely baffling and irrational since he is the manager of Chelsea.
 
If we lose our next two games in the league (Villa and West Ham) making it four league defeats in a row, without a win in 6, then I think he'd be sacked.

To be fair he's not going to get much joy, we've got some tough away fixtures coming up.
 
If someone brings him down it's going to be our own players. Rio's comments is the first sign. Seeing Fellaini text on his mobile under a game is another bad one. It doesn't matter what circumstances, people judge what they see and hear. So far media has been kind to him but I'm worried when they starts to smell blood, then it's just a matter of time.




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What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.

I think a while ago vs Chelsea in the UCL away SAF told Giggs he would be starting that game 4 weeks before it came around and told him to be ready for it. If my memory serves me correctly he was awesome that game.

Huh? Surely unless you're a complete spastic you prepare for each game as if you're going to play, in which case having a bad cuple of training sessions makes no difference to if you'd been told you were playing a few days prior?

What happens if a week before a game, Moyes tells Rio he's not playing because Smalling is, then the day before the game, Smalling gets injured and Rio hasn't bothered to prepare himself properly?
 
I don't get what you're issue is there. Unless you're implying that a player wouldn't want to play because they had a couple of bad training sessions?
That's exactly what I'm implying. If a player doesn't expect to play then he's handed a start I don't think he would be as prepared had known about it earlier.

Sure in a ideal world the players would work their socks off and when the team sheets are posted they are at the same level they would have been all week but it doesn't work like that. With all the chopping and changing this season you could understand if certain players didn't expect to play only to be given a start and be unprepared for it.
 
How can you say it's had a positive impact when they literally all left within a year and someone new was brought in to have a positive impact?

And didn't Grant take over directly from Mourinho? Who's now ended up coming back and taking over a worse Chelsea side than the one he was originally sacked from?

When hiddink took over, they were going out of the top four under scolari and looked clueless. He steadied the ship, delivered a good league campaign and won them a trophy. Di matteo overturned a 3-1 deficit after taking over, something that looked beyond AVB, won them champions league and made sure they CL football for the next season as well.Grant tookover when chelsea were in fifth, and given the relationship between ambra. and mou it isnt hard to imagine that it would have derailed that season. Still he took them to a CL final and was one kick away from winning it while finishing as runner up in the league.

In each case, it was short term improvement.
 
Well our top two transfer targets were Thiago and Fabregas going by the rumours. Moyes also tried to sign a LB's in Baines and Coentrao and going by Evra's form this season you can see why.

But yes the Fellaini transfer was concerning. Was clearly a panic signing

Moyes rejected Thiago - didn't want him and didn't think he was right.
 
Rio's statement had much more to it then just criticisng that he doesnt tell the players beforehand whether they play or not. That he comes out and criticises him publically is the main thing. It's a cnutish thing to do but shows what the players are currently thinking of Moyes.
Rio is a leader and well respected by the other players. If he thinks that way he's certainly no the only one.
 
What happens if a week before a game, Moyes tells Rio he's not playing because Smalling is, then the day before the game, Smalling gets injured and Rio hasn't bothered to prepare himself properly?
I didn't say tell all the player a week before training but SAF and SMB used to tell players 1-2 days before a game for them to get ready for it.

I said that example of Giggs to highlight being mentally ready is just as important as being physically fit and I question whether being told on the day of a game is the best way to go about it.
 
If we lose our next two games in the league (Villa and West Ham) making it four league defeats in a row, without a win in 6, then I think he'd be sacked.

I think he'd be more likely to resign than be sacked. Really can't see us ever sacking him while Ferguson is on the board. I genuinely think we could finish 10th and he'd still be in the job, we'd just roll out some more ex players to say he needs time like Ferguson had.
 
Huh? Surely unless you're a complete spastic you prepare for each game as if you're going to play, in which case having a bad cuple of training sessions makes no difference to if you'd been told you were playing a few days prior?

What happens if a week before a game, Moyes tells Rio he's not playing because Smalling is, then the day before the game, Smalling gets injured and Rio hasn't bothered to prepare himself properly?

This is probably more about being stuck in the habits of the Fergie era. They are going to have to learn to change. If not then bugger off. Surely it's not that earth shattering for them.
 
Have I missed something? Seen rio mentioned a couple of times on here today
Pretty much this:
This manager’s a bit different in that he doesn’t name the team beforehand,’ said the United centre back in a BT Sport interview.
‘You don’t really get to know the team. The old manager used to give you a little bit of an idea if you’d be playing and stuff.
‘When you know you’re playing, the intensity goes up a little bit more on matchday. Even if you’re not sure you are playing, you still need to try and get to that level of intensity you’d be at if you knew you were in the team, but it’s hard.
'You spend a lot of nervous energy thinking, “Am I playing?” or “Am I not playing?” and you’re just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman.
 
If results are still shit for the rest of December and no signs at all, I think they will make a move before the January window.

I don't. We will persist with him for at least a season, unless he has lost the dressing room.
 
I didn't say tell all the player a week before training but SAF and SMB used to tell players 1-2 days before a game for them to get ready for it.

I said that example of Giggs to highlight being mentally ready is just as important as being physically fit and I question whether being told on the day of a game is the best way to go about it.


Maybe they did, but this is a different manager. They are grown men surely they can adapt to different methods, is it they can, but they don't want to?
 
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