This is the most depressing post i have ever read.
Sunny days are ahead. This season was always going to be a toughy. I doubt anybody envisaged the extremes of which we currently occupy, but i have seen enough of late to convince me that Moyes has got the ideas to take us forward. Did you see his face after the draw with Munich? whilst us fans were enjoying avoiding defeat against the best team in the world Moyes looked let down, because he knew how close he was to masterminding a win against them. The tactics were spot on and but for better finishing (Welbeck for example) we would have won.
I still think we will go through on Wednesday and if we dont go through, then im conviced that the team will not let us down and give us a performance to be proud of. There just feels like we have a focus right now that we didnt have 3 weeks ago.
I believe in Moyes and believe he knows exactly what is required this summer
Whilst i dont think we will land all the stellar names being suggested, i think we will have a good team going into next season.
I don't share your optimism about Moyes. He has looked as clueless as I have ever seen a manager looking clueless. Whatever kind of face he may have made against Munich doesn't change that. In fact I felt a bit disappointed after the game aswell, because we had the changes to get alot more out of that game, Bayern played far from brilliant and given Welbeck his chance and the fact we had some time left with 10 versus 11 you have to admit this was sorta a missed opportunity for us to set ourselves in a real good position. The display was good, the result was ok as most would have signed for a draw beforehand, but you know Bayern will come down on us like the hammer of god in Munich and if we had been one up our chances would look alot better. Because we can't win this game by simply parking the buss, we have to score atleast one goal to get through or to get extra time(and penalties). Moyes knows this, Moyes knows it was a missed opportunity, just the fact he knows this and realises this doesn't make him a great coach, I realised this and alot of other fans realised it aswell, you can be happy that it wasn't as bad as you thought, but you always have to look at the game and we didn't get everything out of it that was in it for us.
In the PL he has been tacitcally outclassed by the entire top 6 bar Wenger, who is also struggling massively with Arsenal, and might end up out of the top 4. He has made weird transfers, not brining in the required players in the summer, overpaying for Fellaini, I'am not even sure Mata is a good piece of business for us seeing as we paid £37.5M for him (good player but not much different kagawa, if you play him the correct psotion he'll repay u with good performances, put him on the wing and he isn't all that anymore). Moyes has had a good run against the lower teams, espeiclally in away games (but the Home games have been terrible). It gives me a bit of hope that if he can make us more solid at OT we'll scrap together enough points to have a decent challenge for top 4, but we lack everything to make a title run and we might have a one off game versus a Bayern side that didn't play their best football and underestimated us but I can't see us winning the CL (and next year we won't be in it). When the games were important, like FA-cup and League cup, Moyes was overbluffed by Swansea and Sunderland. Overall I have been massively let down by the results and the results are not even the worst bit, it is the general negative menaltity I see on the pitch, the players just don't seem to care unless they get a shocking wake up call from the opposition, we don't seem to be albe to play focussed for 90 minutes (which you need in the top games). When we get in front we just try to neutralize the game and defend our lead but we never show the desire to overun our opponenets and deliver a great performance. Moyes just looks clueless in the really difficult games, espeically when things aren't going for him, he looks compleltey clueless on how to deal with it. I still don't see a reall starting XI from him on the pitch, it is stop and go, sometimes Januzaj, than he prefers Young, than he puts Mata on the wing than on the center, still don't know what he thinks of Kagawa and how he is going to use him. What is he going to do when RVP gets back, play with 2 strikers again, its all so unbalanced and it looks like a complete mess, which is what happens if you put in charge somebody who doesn't have a clue what he is doing, that is Moyes and I don't see that changing too soon.
If he makes some good transfers, starts doing what he should have been doing last summer, than maybay we can start to evolve to a real team again and we can take it step by step to improve and rebuild United. But this has to happen this summer. The quality and balance in the team have been neglected for far too long now, its not just Moyes that is responsible for this mess, it is the atrosious transfers from SAF aswell over the last couple of years. If we want to get the engine starting again it is high time we start cleaning out the clutter. We have to put this in order, we have to start clearing alot of deadwood out and injecting the team with new fresh quality players. Else I'am afraid Moyes hasn't got a chance to fullfill whatever kind of potential he might have.