FlexWheeler wrote:
The way United's season has turned out, I guess it's not suprising.
The only surprise is why now and why did they do it in such a nasty fashion.
Though It's suprising in the sense you expected United to stick by their supposed principles and give him time.
It was deluded Man United nonsense that they backed managers. They had the most successful manager in British history who delivered pretty much constant success for 20 years. They didn't need to back him because he was always delivering success.
I expected a summer of transfers and then another crack next year, then if things were going tits up I expected they would pull the plug.
That's an expensive gamble on a manager who has shown absolutely nothing this season worthy of backing. He got the job solely because he was Ferguson's choice. He's offered nothing this season to justify that decision. So why gamble 100m on his new players when the probability is that someone new will have to be coming in anyway? He probably overspent on Mata, who might not be a title winning player but purely a cup winner and overspent on Fellaini. Neither signing has helped MU this season.
The timing makes sense. Gives time for the dust to settle and a replacement installed well in time for a summer of spending and a good pre season.
The timing makes sense because they are finally out of the running for Europe and that seems to have limited the pay out he gets. But sacking him on Tuesday and leaking it on the Monday is nasty.
It also means, for any new man coming in, theres a partition between fergusons reign now, which, I know it's only a season but it does take alot of pressure off the new guy than if they had been coming in straight after ferguson. Now that the first one after fergie is over and done with, it feels like it lifts some of his overbearing shadow from the club.
Fergie's achievements are still there. Fergie will still be at the club. I think the pressure is just as much. In fact the fact that United are missing out on CL money means there's even more pressure. The new guy could have had this season as his transition season and probably kept them in the CL, now he's got to get them back into the CL and cope with having Fellaini and Rooney in his side on massive wages.
LGJM got it spot on when I think he posted earlier Moyes was the sacrificial lamb. The first one after fergie was always on a hiding to nothing.
I don't know what I wrote that makes you think that, but that's not my opinion.
I think Fergie appointed him mainly because he thought Moyes could become successful. But I think the biggest driver was the fact Moyes would be earning 4.5m a year while Mourinho or Guardiola would probably be on at least 8. Fergie was said to be on 6m a year. Walking out the door the most successful manager in British history and seeing someone walk in on 8m? I don't think he could do it.
IMO the major problem with those figures are that Fergie was chronically underpaid compared to what he did for MU. But that was caused because he was there 25 years and not really prepared to go anywhere else or use other offers to drive his wages up. He chose trophies over cash, IMO the polar opposite to that French git in north London.
Moyes' career is going to stagnate now. He will not get a chance at a top club ever again. Mid table and relegation stragglers are where he will be confined to now, for the rest of his career. He'll do a really good job when he takes over these level of teams but i doubt he'll be adding any honours to his CV anytime soon.
The geordies or Spurs are both likely to have vacancies. Moyes as Newcastle manager and Kevin Keegan as his assistant manager to offer attacking ideas he struggles with.
He will need to change his moronic attitude to the cups though.
