All true, but we are not talking about being champions, but actually getting 5th/6th. And with all due respect, Moyes himself spent 64 mil!
Let us not forget the talent of blackburn 1995 when they won the PL, next year they struggled big time. I just do not think any manager could have got far with the 2013/14 squad, when investment was tight, it needed a season like 2013/14 season to see the change in clubs policy to get up to date with everyone, and see the club wake up from this model that was holding us back. The new transfer policy could see us become a special team again in the next few years, not an average one that we have seen between 2009-14
Before blind di maria and falcao were signed up, we were still struggling, because of the problems in the current squad were still there, especially midfield, if carrick was injured we had a huge problem, and he is 32 or 33. No offence to some of the players that were playing, but in fletcher cleverley valencia young any team was not going to get far, at best those 4 are a bottom 10 standard of players, and all of fletcher cleverley valencia and young have started the first 3 games of the season with just 2 points from 9, there was no fear factor when these 4 were starting games, and they were the heart beat of our midfield and creativity leaving mata rooney and RVP isolated. Now blind di maria herrera and mata, possibly a different ball game. You want opposing teams looking back at us, and thinking you are going to get beat today when you who is coming onto that pitch wearing that red shirt
Now to Moyes inept decisions he bought the wrong player in the summer in fellaini, now the way VG has set the team up, even though it was against QPR, the signing of mata could still turn out to be a stunning signing by Moyes. If VG can get the best out of Di Maria herrera mata rooney with either VP or Falcao all at the same time, I see all of these guys ripping the double figure barrier, especially di maria mata rooney VP and falcao, if used in the right manner.
What ever we all think of Moyes, he shared the same opinion has the rest of us, the squad in its current state before august 2014, or in his time august 2013-may 2014, the squad was in huge need of an overhaul. The manner in how he wanted to sign the players was terrible, but in essence he knew this squad had hit the wall. Way too many players were all past their prime, vidic could have offered us maybe another year or 2, but ferdinand evra giggs were past their prime, anderson fletcher cleverley valencia nani zaha young and kagwa were clearly not good enough, and the likes of rooney carrick and RVP had below par seasons, and welbeck hernandez did not quiet make the step up. We had no pace, no identity in how we wanted to beat teams, even under fergie in the last few years of his reign, we lost our swagger and identity replacing quality with quantity, and in the end we were knocked out under Moyes. When you swim with the sharks, you got to be equipped to keep up, and we were not and we got ripped apart. Every support structure has a breaking point, and 2013/14 season time ran out for this squad
Look at who has left - ferdinand vidic evra butner cleverley giggs nani kagwa zaha hernandez kagwa, already I see fellaini anderson young leaving next summer, with nani zaha cleverley and hernandez loans being made permanently, valencia and fletcher will be the only ones I see surviving this firesale. So the evidence was there, there needed a major shakeup. Moyes was unlucky he joined the club at the wrong time, it was a time when investment was tight, and a squad needing major changes with huge changes in the boardroom, with woodward replacing Gill who was completely new to the job - so in all it was like a perfect storm that exploded in such a manner, that I do not think any of us would see a free-fall to this extent. But we got fully exposed for the dross taking over the squad, only now is the club trying to put it right. What summed up the last few years of fergie and Moyes, cleverley valencia and young, it does not get any worse than that