Moyes signs contract extension

[King Gizzard]

All over my twitter right now from a few papers...don't think he's actually been sacked as of yet

[King Gizzard]

Ogden reporting it too. United fans relax

[jackc1806]

ITV have done an article too

[King Gizzard]

Looks like it's at the end of the season, but probably now. There isn't one paper that hasn't gone with it

[Crimson Dynamo]

On talksport too. will be sacked not resign sources say

[Brother Leon]

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/oprah-free-car.gif

Where is Ryan? Hug me bro..it's almost over.

[Crimson Dynamo]

it clears the way for Pulis...

[jackc1806]

I think the dressing room has just lost it, no way the Glazers will give him the cash he wants either.

[Black Dagger]

Ah yes, that one poor season from the most successful English club around, that pain, that suffering.

[King Gizzard]

I don't see how you can tell him now that he's getting sacked at the end of the season so I reckon it'll probably be today. Unless it leaked and no one was meant to know

[jackc1806]

I don't see how you can tell him now that he's getting sacked at the end of the season so I reckon it'll probably be today. Unless it leaked and no one was meant to know

I'm highly surprised though

[Brother Leon]

Ah yes, that one poor season from the most successful English club around, that pain, that suffering.

What you on about? No one is implying such levels of pain.

He's been supported non stop by match goers and our fans have never stopped singing despite being ripped by pretty much every team. Your team is contending for a title and either silent or not even going lolz x

[jackc1806]

Mirror journalist on talksport confirming the story now. Saying they can't give him the money, dressing room has gone

[jackc1806]

Ryan Giggs caretaker to end of season

[Drew.]

My twitter is full of this, looks like a certainty now. Was quite excited about Moyes having all that money to spend, He could have had Vermaelen for £60m.

[Drew.]

If united get Klopp i will be so pissed

[jackc1806]

@MENnewsdesk: BREAKING: Manchester United refuse to deny reports that David Moyes is to be sacked as manager. More soon

[Brother Leon]

It will be Van Gaal. I don't like him, but can't be any worse.

[Black Dagger]

What you on about? No one is implying such levels of pain.

He's been supported non stop by match goers and our fans have never stopped singing despite being ripped by pretty much every team. Your team is contending for a title and either silent or not even going lolz x

I've said numerous times that are home support is ****ing dreadful, same tonight too.

I wasn't insinuating that you were implying 'such levels of pain' but the way twitter are revelling in his sacking you'd think you'd not have 20 league titles and had always been in a poor situation.

[GiRTh]

If united get Klopp i will be so pissedMe too.

I havent seen anything official yet

[Headie]

Nothing on Sky Sports News... thought they would've mentioned it by now seeing how they always talk about football and never any of the other sports.

[Brother Leon]

InB4McLeish.

[Drew.]

Henry Winter ‏@henrywinter 25m
End of the road for Moyes at #mufc: if you lose the dressing-room, you either sell the players or sack the manager. Cheaper to sack manager

These guys don't tweet things they aren't 100% sure on, especially nothing this big. This is like when Fergie retired, every single journalist on twitter came out with the story and the club stayed silent. It was always going to happen.

[GiRTh]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10777985/David-Moyes-to-be-sacked-as-Manchester-United-manager-after-losing-support-of-the-clubs-Glazer-family-owners.html

Looks like its true

[Headie]

Just been mentioned on SSN now

[AnnieK]

Please god.....

[Brother Leon]

He obviously had a European football clause. As soon as CL was made impossible he was sacked.

[jackc1806]

@ESPNFC: Sources have told @ESPNFC that the sacking of David Moyes as Manchester United manager is "imminent."

Today, bet you

[Drew.]

:laugh: all these people claiming they have 'sources'... they are just getting the same info from journalists on twitter as us

[Stu]

:(

I was looking forward to the Difficult Second Album.

[GiRTh]

31 reasons David Moyes should leave Manchester United (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/managers/david-moyes/10709107/31-reasons-David-Moyes-should-leave-Manchester-United.html)

LMAO at number 7. Ross Barkley saying Martinez is more tactical than Moyes and not knowing how that sounds. Its death by a thousand cuts for Moyes. :joker:

EDIT: Number 9
In the 2-2 home draw against Fulham, pictured above, United became a laughing stock as they put in 81 crosses, to little effect with only 18 finding a team-mate. Fulham defender Dan Burn said he had "not headed that many balls since the Conference". :joker:

[jackc1806]

:laugh: all these people claiming they have 'sources'... they are just getting the same info from journalists on twitter as us

http://www.thecrossedcow.com/wp-content/images/2013/04/Tomato-Ketchup.jpg

Sources :joker:

[Brother Leon]

Ryan turns on the sports news...


http://i.imgur.com/10yYfSv.gif

[King Gizzard]

More like

http://i.imgur.com/cHJUM.gif

[Ryan57]

Yes, i am so excited. It's unbelievable. This feels like Moscow '08.

Tibb removes caps if there's a lot, this whole message would be in caps. I am over the moon. This could be the best day ever.

[Ryan57]

zHzMLGH1Rfs

I am both cheering and close to wanking myself into a coma if it happens.

[Ryan57]

http://i.minus.com/iXmIOlyhHv6Pc.gif

[Alf]

I wish the Liverpool board would have pushed the panic button and got rid of Rodgers when they didn't make the top 4, now look whats happened the bas*ards are gonna win the league.

[Shaun]

all united fans rn

sxbX-z5-QHs

[Stu]

G5A3Blt1Ipw

[arista]

All over my twitter right now from a few papers...don't think he's actually been sacked as of yet


Yes the Daggers are all ready

[Ryan57]

Seems NYSE (stock exchange) is the reason it hasn't been announced yet. They have to be given official confirmation first. Rumours that we could have to wait until after it closes at 9pm. I'm not sure I can hold on that long.

[jackc1806]

http://i.imgur.com/D42Tcyfl.jpg

Official Man Utd forum silencing all the threads about Moyes :laugh:

[Locke.]

**** sakes, I really did expect them to give him at least until the midway point of next season

[AnnieK]

Utd saying he has not been sacked....but failing to confirm anything else

[Brother Leon]

I wish the Liverpool board would have pushed the panic button and got rid of Rodgers when they didn't make the top 4, now look whats happened the bas*ards are gonna win the league.

They pushed the panic button on Hodgson..I don't think they win the league if they didn't.


Poor comparison.

[arista]

Seems NYSE (stock exchange) is the reason it hasn't been announced yet. They have to be given official confirmation first. Rumours that we could have to wait until after it closes at 9pm. I'm not sure I can hold on that long.


Yes
USA owners

[Ryan57]

David May suspended from MUTV for saying Moyes is out of his depth and appearing to suggest he's not good enough tactically. <3

[King Gizzard]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlwqrSfIMAAXvYw.jpg

The first Moyes picture that's actually slightly amused me #savemoyes

[Drew.]

:joker: i saw that on twitter but i didn't notice Moyes hiding down there in the middle

[King Gizzard]

Might have actually been Locke that retweeted it onto my timeline

[Brother Leon]

Would be funny how the Rooney/RVP dynamic changes fully under Van Gaal.

[King Gizzard]

Rooney transfer listed first day

[Stu]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlwqrSfIMAAXvYw.jpg

The first Moyes picture that's actually slightly amused me #savemoyes
Jose and Pellegrini are dead ringers for DeNiro and Pacino there.

Who else have we got?

http://www.jamesindigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BoardWalk-Empire-Stephen-Graham.jpg

Edit : There's Rodgers, obvs.

[Redway]

Would've thought they'd have seen him through to at least the end of this season.

[Ryan57]

http://giant.gfycat.com/RaggedFlawlessDachshund.gif

Leon's sig sums up United fans' reaction.

[Cherie]

In fairness it would be a kindness to let him go, he looks so haunted by it all, and the players haven't stepped up since day 1, (with a few notable exceptions!) not a big enough signing for their egos.

[MTVN]

458299479599636480

Heh

[Ryan57]

eBay one. :joker:

[King Gizzard]

****ing hate sport humour and sport bible always stealing tweets without credit

[MTVN]

Yeah you can tell they are run by very annoying people, Sport bible facebook is incredibly spammy as well but posts the occasional decent stuff

[Ryan57]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlsjneGIYAEru1P.jpg

[Ryan57]

Gary Neville still spouting crap. Pathetic. Surprised he's on MNF tonight, thought he'd be tossing off Moyes.

This whole 'different to other clubs' is so pathetic. The smugness is disgusting. No wonder United are hated with crap like that spouted.

[Ryan57]

"I have to accept the criticism," Guardiola said. "I tell myself 'Pep, calm down'. You are here to work as well as possible, and my best talent is work, work, work. I am here to help the club, and if the club do not want me, a handshake and no problem for me.”

Bayern should get rid of him. Tripe manager. We'll take him out of pity.

[Brother Leon]

Since the stupid Gerrard and Lampard>Scholes argument, Carragher has been better than Neville.

[King Gizzard]

Neville's a bit of a bellend when it comes to his criticism of the media. Guy forgets Rupert Murdoch pays his wages, and he had a column at the mail. Yet he still pretends he doesn't get how the press work

[Brother Leon]

458324192149385216

:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

man u are a joke club this season along with newcastle

[GiRTh]

Gary Neville still spouting crap. Pathetic. Surprised he's on MNF tonight, thought he'd be tossing off Moyes.

This whole 'different to other clubs' is so pathetic. The smugness is disgusting. No wonder United are hated with crap like that spouted.Damn I turned it off. What did Gary say?

[MTVN]

Lets hope the United fans give Moyes a great show of support on Saturday after all these vicious rumours

[Ryan57]

Damn I turned it off. What did Gary say?

Fou9tqepNA4

[GiRTh]

Thanks

[Ryan57]

This is killing me inside. Desperate for an announcement from Malc and the boys to say he's off.

I've been desperate for this day since the 9th May last year.

[Brother Leon]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/400xY/2014/1/23153225.jpg

Tempt him with the 200m budget and give him a contract he can't refuse. Chop chop.

[Ryan57]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/4a6cf6db3877e152f6d125494b08a04f/tumblr_mz7ikoMugI1t0s0b1o1_1280.jpg

This is the man to thank if this goes through. He should be given the captaincy and guaranteed starting spot every week. I'd suck his cock for this, tbh.

We are forever in your debt, if this happens, Sir Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah "Danny" Welbeck. :worship:

[BBfanUSA]

11 minutes before the NYSE closes.

We'll might find out then.

[Ryan57]

I sure hope so.

[Ryan57]

No hard feelings, Dave. Here's a Dube on us to sooth the blow.

http://socalmusictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IMG_0802.jpg

Dion's face. http://i.imgur.com/Kob3HIJ.gif

[Brother Leon]

http://i62.tinypic.com/6st5y1.jpg

Tweet of the day :joker:

[Ryan57]

Just seen that. I think it was a Photoshop. Couldn't find the account, unfortunately. :(

[Brother Leon]

The 5* Twitter handle was too good to be true :(

[Ryan57]

The only thing I'll miss about Moyes' tenure is the legendary https://twitter.com/DavidWillyMoyes account.

[Ryan57]

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/mario-gotze-has-told-friends-he-s-off-to-manchester-united-40m-fe

Gotze, Reus and Klopp.

[King Gizzard]

Lol sports witness

[King Gizzard]

And no ones put their name to the story which tells you all you need to know

[AnnieK]

The only thing I'll miss about Moyes' tenure is the legendary https://twitter.com/DavidWillyMoyes account.

:laugh:

[Ryan57]

It's Sport Witness looking at a story from a Spanish publication called Fichajes.

[Ryan57]

Lol at these ITK's.

https://twitter.com/MrUjustgotkille/status/458343985312841728/photo/1

Deeming CaughtOffside to be confirmation his 'friend', who is probably himself, is correct.

[Brother Leon]

Gotze :joker:..... it was "Kroos told me he is going to United" the other week.


Strootman with Van Gaal hopefully. Carvalho won't be bad either and then Ricardo Rodriquez is my realistic transfers I would like to see. Reus would be my wet dream addition.

[Ryan57]

The Glazer family, who will be in Manchester next week to help oversee a managerial recruitment process in which Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp is a front-runner, appear to have sanctioned the removal of Moyes as far back as the Champions League defeat at Olympiakos on 25 February. The decision to get rid of the 50-year-old was discussed and possibly ratified at a recent United board meeting but there is a financial motive behind delaying removing him until now.

The mathematical impossibility of United finishing in the top four this season, following their 11th Premier League defeat of the season at Goodison Park on Sunday, means that United need only give Moyes a one-year pay-off under the terms of his five-year deal, rather than honour the full four years left on that contract. Ryan Giggs could then take over as caretaker manager for the final four games of the season

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02487/glazer_2487814b.jpg

Take a bow, Malcolm. Take a bow.

[King Gizzard]

Kroos follows Olly Murs..so random


Think his brother follows Man Utd on twitter, and Olly too

[Ryan57]

Imagine if a new manager gets rid of Fellaini. :flutter:

[Brother Leon]

The Glazer family, who will be in Manchester next week to help oversee a managerial recruitment process in which Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp is a front-runner, appear to have sanctioned the removal of Moyes as far back as the Champions League defeat at Olympiakos on 25 February. The decision to get rid of the 50-year-old was discussed and possibly ratified at a recent United board meeting but there is a financial motive behind delaying removing him until now.

The mathematical impossibility of United finishing in the top four this season, following their 11th Premier League defeat of the season at Goodison Park on Sunday, means that United need only give Moyes a one-year pay-off under the terms of his five-year deal, rather than honour the full four years left on that contract. Ryan Giggs could then take over as caretaker manager for the final four games of the season

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02487/glazer_2487814b.jpg

Take a bow, Malcolm. Take a bow.

GLAZERNOMICS!!!!

For real though. I hate them, but thank **** they are cut throat Americans :laugh:

[Ryan57]

Good article about Giggs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10778690/Manchester-United-should-turn-to-Ryan-Giggs-and-Rene-Meulensteen-as-short-term-replacements-for-David-Moyes.html

The emphasis would be on attack, on adventure, on taking on opponents, on raging against the ticking clock and unflattering scorelines, on never giving up. On reverting to the Ferguson way, the United way, after the timidity of Moyes. There would be no deference to rivals from Giggs in his pre-match utterances, a Moyes weakness that has infuriated United followers.

Sir Ryan Giggs.

Van Gaal with Giggs as assistant and then taking charge. Could be amazing.

[Brother Leon]

Giggs,Gary,Phil(Coaching under 10s or getting the food ready for First team) and Scholes coaching team for last 3 matches tbh. Would at least be exciting when losing :laugh:


Fly Beckham over as "Ambassador" or some **** too :joker:

[Ryan57]

Wish we'd of gone with Giggs over pissing Moyes judging from that article. He'd gain respect instantly from every player. No doubt better tactically as well.

[King Gizzard]

4.5m pay off. Jesus

[Drew.]

Feel a bit sorry for Moyes, No man would turn that job down and his whole reputation has been destroyed in less than a year. This moment will be bought up in discussions for the rest of his life too, he is doomed.

[Ryan57]

I don't think his reputation is wrecked, tbh. He just showed he's out of his depth at a big team. A mid table team will happily take him.

Also, hard to feel sorry for a man who's done a crap job and will get £9.5 million for it.

[King Gizzard]

Yeah, don't think it's wrecked really. He will still get a top job just not at Uniteds level. Bet we try go for him

[Drew.]

His reputation has been what hes achieved with Everton in the past 10 years, His old club have gone a step further than where he had them within 10 months and they are finishing above his side which won the league less than a year ago.. Everton fans are even happy he left now, His reputation has been ruined.

[Ryan57]

I think he'll get offered jobs this summer.

[Drew.]

Yeah he will, Wouldn't surprise me if Spurs went for him.. But people will view all of his previous work as a bit of a joke now.

[Ryan57]

Somewhere like Norwich is more his level.

[Drew.]

The Championship then

[King Gizzard]

Newcastle. It's nailed on

[King Gizzard]

Or us..which I'm not sure how I feel about. I've had enough of dour Scotsmen

[Brother Leon]

No one will seriously write off what he done for Everton unless they are fickle or bitter Everton fans. Martinez doesn't do this if it wasn't for what Moyes left behind. Stones,Coleman and Barkley all signed for combined 3.5m...that's their future.

United just wasn't for him. I could see him doing well at Newcastle. I genuinely felt bad for him until the Man City line and continuously attempting to slyly blame Sir Alex for his shortcomings. I just grew sick of the sight of him after that.

[Ryan57]

Or us..which I'm not sure how I feel about. I've had enough of dour Scotsmen

Would probably get you to finish higher. Don't expect good football, mind. And never expect to win away to a big team.

[Drew.]

Wenger to leave too and Klopp have both clubs fighting for him.

[Locke.]

He'll do fine. Everton are doing better without him now but they were a real mess when he took over them all those years back and they wouldn't be anywhere near what they are now without him. Martinez will take them further than Moyes could but that just means Martinez is better, rather than Moyes being poor (he's poor when it comes to expected title challenges obviously, but I mean in general). Give him any team below Southampton in the table and he'll improve them.

Not sure why I'm sticking up for him actually. I'll stop now.

[Ryan57]

Found it impossible to feel sorry for a man who blames everyone/everything but himself. That and the fact it took me seven weeks to get over his appointment and this season has made me hate him.

[Cherie]

Moyes will definately work in the Premiership again, most Clubs outside of the top 6 (apart from MU this year :laugh: would be happy to have him, he did a lot with Everton with very little money, I think the amount he had to spend at United did him no favours really, it went to his head.

[Brother Leon]

I'm worried about Van Gaal due to the World Cup. I would prefer alot of the work to preferably be done during or even before it. He's going to be busy getting Holland knocked out in the groupstage when we should be getting ready for the new season. It's why I think the board may well push real hard for Klopp or Simeone.

[Ryan57]

I bet Woodward is crapping himself if Van Gaal gets the job. If he messes up again Van Gaal will twat him. This man once got his bollocks out in the Bayern dressing room. Probably do the same to Edward.

[Ryan57]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/26/article-2284652-16FA409A000005DC-51_634x470.jpg

It could of been glorious had this man gotten the job.

[Locke.]

Think you both need to lower your expectations

https://31.media.tumblr.com/e0c221db31df27a2e46ee46804c77c71/tumblr_inline_n38gk65KHR1qfjhv2.jpg

[Ryan57]

Probably get Steve Bruce. :smug:

[Drew.]

Stevie is still in need of a new job

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02149/steve-kean_pa_2149180b.jpg

[Ryan57]

BCFNeEw-sCs

Could laugh and cry.

[Cherie]

Probably get Steve Bruce. :smug:

why has no body mentioned 'Arry, only a matter of time before his name is mentioned :laugh:

[GiRTh]

Stevie is still in need of a new job

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02149/steve-kean_pa_2149180b.jpg
:joker:

[Ryan57]

Be fantastic on transfer deadline day. 'arry winding down his window saying we're looking to tie up deals for Niko Kranjcar and Pascal Chimbonda.

[Ryan57]

Also being told he's a wheeler dealer and winding his window up and off to get some Betamax systems.

[Alf]

He's going nowhere. He'll still be Man Utd manager this time next year, no matter how hard the media try to get him sacked.

[Ryan57]

Alright, Steve Round.

[Alf]

Alright, Steve Round.
Don't know who he is, so that means nothing to me.

[Ryan57]

Shows how good Steve Round was at Everton.

[Alf]

So he's Moyes number 2?

[Ryan57]

Unfortunately, yes.

[Brother Leon]

Shows how good Steve Round was at Everton.

:joker:

[Alf]

I always thought Chris Woods was the number 2 to Moyes at Everton

[Ryan57]

Goalkeeping coach. Wouldn't mind him staying on.

[jackc1806]

Goalkeeping coach.

I read reports he's the only one staying on

[Drew.]

Cheers Geoff

[Ryan57]

Where have you been, Jack? Not seen you in the Football section for a while. The Moyes effect.

[Ryan57]

Each time we've lost or drawn to some wank team, I've woken up the next day hoping against all odds that Dave would have been sacked. Tomorrow, it may just, finally, happen.

[jackc1806]

Cheers Geoff

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Geoff+Shreeves+Birmingham+City+v+West+Ham+GTsKjMWT kNll.jpg

[Ryan57]

Probably wake up and he's staying with a big smile on his face.

[jackc1806]

Where have you been, Jack? Not seen you in the Football section for a while. The Moyes effect.

Expected to lose to Everton yesterday. That isn't right surely?

Back now :laugh:

[King Gizzard]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/26/article-2284652-16FA409A000005DC-51_634x470.jpg

It could of been glorious had this man gotten the job.

Stevie is still in need of a new job

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02149/steve-kean_pa_2149180b.jpg

Its like the before and after of a mental breakdown/midlife crisis

[Ryan57]

How dare you. Pep will forever have those dashing good looks. Bet that bald head is silky smooth.

[jackc1806]

:laugh:

[MTVN]

Would surely cost Newcastle a fortune if they were to get rid of Pards with over six years left on that contract of his, don't think he's been bad enough to get the boot yet either, problem there is more with their owners

[King Gizzard]

Apparently though the contract is long his payoff Is still quite cheap, Pardew

[Ryan57]

£10 million.

[Brother Leon]

Yeah. Chris Woods doesn't deserve to be tarred with the same brush as the others. He's done great with DDG and even Lindegaard.

[Brother Leon]

Come On Jurgen Klopp
Take us to the top(?)
We go wild,wild,wild.
We go wild,wild,wild.
--

The chant will live on god damnit.

[BBfanUSA]

That's why I don't get this at all.

I think the most oppoturnistic time would be if this continues next season.

Firing him now would get Man U nowhere.

[Ryan57]

We'll get nowhere anyway. This way we put Giggs in as interim and actively pursue a new manager. Not having to deal with Moyes still in charge, and the media reports about us contacting X manager, club needs to make a statement etc.

[Brother Leon]

That's why I don't get this at all.

I think the most oppoturnistic time would be if this continues next season.

Firing him now would get Man U nowhere.

Why give him 200m to spend when he would just be sacked if it continues next season? You get rid now and give the money to the right person to spend or give Moyes the full 6 years....I know which is the smarter choice :laugh:

[Ryan57]

Think I crapped myself about 2% with that thread title change.

[Alf]

So what players would you like to see at Man Utd next season.

[Brother Leon]

So what players would you like to see at Man Utd next season.

Realistic options..

Carvalho
Strootman(If Van Gaal takes over). If not Van Gaal then the best CM from the Manager's team :laugh:
Ricardo Rodriquz(better than Shaw, while still young and probably cheaper)
and a Pacey winger just to add a different element to the Mata/Kagawa/Januzaj combo. Maybe Antoine Griezmann

If I was going full on wet dream scenario then Reus,Carvalho and Kroos and Rodriquez.

[Alf]

Realistic options..

Carvalho
Strootman(If Van Gaal takes over). If not Van Gaal then the best CM from the Manager's team :laugh:
Ricardo Rodriquz(better than Shaw, while still young and probably cheaper)
and a Pacey winger just to add a different element to the Mata/Kagawa/Januzaj combo. Maybe Antoine Griezmann

If I was going full on wet dream scenario then Reus,Carvalho and Kroos and Rodriquez.
For me an Experienced centre back who can organize to play alongside Jones or Smalling should be top priority, keep Rio for one more year to cover for injury's and suspensions, get rid of Evans (he's not good enough), I think your likely to get Shaw and you really should be trying to get Coleman (hope you don't like)

Agree you need a good wide player and you need a leader in the middle of the park, if Fabregas is available then you should go out and get him (he's a proven qualtity player in this league).

[King Gizzard]

Andddd he's sacked

[Ryan57]

YES! GET IN!

[Ryan57]

http://37.media.tumblr.com/8eb11ddd88183e9970e1db6f5776aa23/tumblr_n35ofzhhBn1t0s0b1o1_1280.jpg

[AnnieK]

08:41


Here is how Manchester United broke the news on Twitter:

Man Utd: Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club. The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.

[AnnieK]

Thank god.......

[Jemal]

Yessssss ddont even sorry for him aswell.
Hes getting 30 pdd million compensation:laugh:

[arista]

Yes at last

[MTVN]

Thanks for the laughs Moysey, you shall be missed

[Crimson Dynamo]

Big Sam for Man U

[Ryan57]

Yessssss ddont even sorry for him aswell.
Hes getting 30 pdd million compensation:laugh:

He's only getting £4.5 million. The Glazers' business sense has worked out again. Him not finishing in the Top 4 triggered a clause in which if he's sacked they only have to pay one year.

[Ryan57]

Klopp has ruled himself out.

Van Gaal it is.

[Ryan57]

Apparently Fergie is isolated on the board and has very few friends. He's not happy about it.

That's what happens when you make such a disgraceful choice.

[Black Dagger]

Oh well, was fun while it lasted, still think you're in for another season of mediocrity even with a competent manager, although maybe not since you'll only have to focus on the league while us top clubs are swanning around Europe :idc:

[Marcus.]

well it looks like it was too bigger boots to fill

[Drew.]

Yurrr job now is to get behind our nurrr manager

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2013/5/12/1368379787081/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-address-008.jpg

[James]

This picture is on the Daily Mail website. Eh?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/22/article-2610099-1D43443300000578-162_636x382.jpg

[Ryan57]

Yurrr job now is to get behind our nurrr manager

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2013/5/12/1368379787081/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-address-008.jpg

And your job now is to never have a say again. Along with Charlton.

[Alf]

Football games are won and lost on a piece of grass, it doesn't matter what manager comes in.

With Scholes gone there was absolutely no leadership in the middle of the park, no one on the pitch to show a bit of fighting spirit when times got tough, they had to call on a 40 year old to do that job for them.

Unless they bring in World class leaders in the centre of defence and centre midfield then your not improving and your gonna get in to the manager merry go round.

What's the certainty that Van Gaal is gonna be successful? for a start he's never managed in the Premier League which is quite different to any other league with two cups that can involve two legs and replays, fixture pile ups especially over Christmas and the speed and style of play is different to what you get on the continent. Also Van Gaal has won most things in the game, is he still hungry and enthusiastic for whats a huge challenge? or is just gonna come for one last big pay day?

Carlos Queiroz is my tip for the job.


The media are wan*ing themselves into a coma, they got what they want, ammo to feed the baying animals.

[Brother Leon]

Get off with all the media bs. Even now the radio stations are all "poor Dave, players let him down"..you want to blame the media for a dismissal then it is AVB's..not Moyes. Also Moyes had 2 windows to get a midfielder...two windows. He rejected two quality Spanish midfielders and bought Fellaini..that alone is sack worthy.


Van Gaal may be no better, but he will at least do much better in the market and won't stand for any of this bs. You think Van Gaal keeps Rooney on the pitch even when he's stinking it up?

[BBfanUSA]

Football games are won and lost on a piece of grass, it doesn't matter what manager comes in.


Exactly, all they're doing is rebooting the transistional period from the beginning.

I will lose my mind if they turn out they're not "good" next year and people call for the sacking of the next manager and no one else *cough* Glazer Family *cough*

[Alf]

Also Moyes had 2 windows to get a midfielder...two windows. He rejected two quality Spanish midfielders and bought Fellaini..that alone is sack worthy.
If you believe that any manager play's any part in doing the deals to bring players in then your deluded. He would have given the guy who does the deals names of who he wanted and then it would be that guys job to go out and deliver them to the manager, and by all accounts Moyes wanted Baines and Fabregas bringing in and the guy failed to land them for him.

Your now in the manager merry go round and the team you have are not good enough to make the top 4, it could be ten years and ten different managers before you get back there. So sit back and enjoy watching Man City and Liverpool being successful for the next ten years.

[Alf]

Get off with all the media bs. What's BS about it? The guy has worked hard throughout is career to get where he was, he was just doing his job trying to earn a living to pay the bills just like everybody else does.

Would you like people to be hounding you out of your job? would you like people to go on these social network sites saying that your daughter is shag*ing half of your work colleagues?

Funny that back in the day before huge amounts of money came in to the game that football wasn't that huge a topic to the media and managers lasted in their jobs, but now the media tells you what's what managers are sacked in their droves, ten just in the Premier League this season (that's half of the teams)

[Ryan57]

Football games are won and lost on a piece of grass, it doesn't matter what manager comes in.

Total nonsense. Manager makes no difference then? I'll apply for the job right now.

Edit: I've just seen your other posts. Even more nonsense. We all know your Moyes' biggest fan so any criticism is of course redirected from yourself to that awful squad of players that have won things when Moyes has won nothing. Terrible squad. All the players' fault.

[Brother Leon]

If you believe that any manager play's any part in doing the deals to bring players in then your deluded. He would have given the guy who does the deals names of who he wanted and then it would be that guys job to go out and deliver them to the manager, and by all accounts Moyes wanted Baines and Fabregas bringing in and the guy failed to land them for him.

Your now in the manager merry go round and the team you have are not good enough to make the top 4, it could be ten years and ten different managers before you get back there. So sit back and enjoy watching Man City and Liverpool being successful for the next ten years.

Cesc was never realistic. There is no excuse deeming Thiago and Herrera not good enough though.



Also. 10 years to get back in the top 4 must be one of the worst comments on this forum. No one before the season expected the squad to be outside the top 4. All the talk was how great a young squad has been left behind. It wasn't until Moyes proved inept that all the "weak squad" rubbish started as an excuse.

An attack of Rooney,Mata,Kagawa,Adnan,RVP,Nani,Welbz,Hernandez. ..it's the best attacking talent we have had since CR7 left. No excuse to be playing such clueless attacking football.

[Jesus.]

A8gO0Z818j4

The peoples prince.

[Ryan57]

Duncan Castles generally talks BS, right?

Roberto Di Matteo has also been included on United's short list.

:facepalm:

[Alf]

Duncan Castles generally talks BS, right?

Roberto Di Matteo has also been included on United's short list.

:facepalm:
Won more European cups in less attempts then Klopp

[MTVN]

Di Matteo's CL win must be the biggest slice of managerial luck of all time

[Brother Leon]

****ing paywall. The article was getting juicy.....



Sacked Manchester United manager was scorned during loss to Olympiacos

Piraeus, February 25. There were only seconds left of Manchester United’s wretched 2-0 defeat by Olympiacos in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie when David Moyes began remonstrating with the fourth official. Out of the United manager’s earshot, but loud enough it seemed for Steve Round, Moyes’s assistant, to hear, came a shout from a disgruntled player — “Send him off, we’d be better off." On the substitutes’ bench, there were astonished glances. Had they really just heard that?

About 20 minutes earlier, his team trailing and flailing, Moyes had signalled his intention to bring on Marouane Fellaini...


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article4070202.ece



Ducker is usually dead on...

On the bench at that time were...

11 Giggs
13 Lindegaard
14 Hernández
23 Cleverley
25 Antonio Valencia
28 Büttner
31 Fellaini
---

Has to be Giggs or Cleverley :laugh:

[Drew.]

Giggs surely

[Drew.]

Cleverley wouldn't have the balls to come out with that

[Ryan57]

'effin paywall. FFS.

[Ryan57]

No worries. Ian Ladyman has the same story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2610713/David-Moyes-openly-sneered-sniggered-Manchester-United-stars.html

A management self-help guide called Good to Great was Moyes’s choice after his team’s 2-0 defeat by Olympiacos that we now know was the tipping point of the Scot’s dismal reign at Old Trafford.

Deary me. :facepalm:

[MTVN]

Piraeus, February 25. There were only seconds left of Manchester United’s wretched 2-0 defeat by Olympiacos in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie when David Moyes began remonstrating with the fourth official. Out of the United manager’s earshot, but loud enough it seemed for Steve Round, Moyes’s assistant, to hear, came a shout from a disgruntled player — “Send him off, we’d be better off”. On the substitutes’ bench, there were astonished glances. Had they really just heard that?

About 20 minutes earlier, his team trailing and flailing, Moyes had signalled his intention to bring on Marouane Fellaini up front, a final, desperate throw of the dice to salvage something from the game and avert more acute embarrassment. It was a gut instinct, yet one that was met with immediate concern from Ryan Giggs, the player-coach, who felt that hoofing the ball long to the Belgium midfielder was not the way to go about trying to rescue things. Moyes relented.

The pressure that night must have been intense — indeed, it was the moment that signalled the beginning of the end for Moyes — but the incidents are instructive, the first for underlining the extent of the dressing-room discontent, the second for highlighting the indecision that was a recurring theme during the manager’s miserable ten months in charge.

It has been said that Moyes lost the dressing room, but that is not strictly true. He never really had it, and as the weeks turned into months, the misgivings and dissatisfaction only grew. The overwhelming feeling, which took hold long before that chastening night in Greece, was that he was a decent man who was out of his depth.

The irony is that it required him to lose his job before he found his true voice — Moyes was said to have cut an impressive, forthright figure in his farewell address to the players at the club’s Carrington headquarters yesterday.
There had been moments before when he had caught the players’ full attention, notably when telling them during a furious tirade after the FA Cup third-round defeat at home to Swansea City in January that they were “not fit to wear the shirt”, but not enough. Tellingly, the mood was vastly more upbeat during the first post-Moyes training session, which was led by Giggs and Nicky *.

For all the frustration with the one-dimensional tactics and the inherent caution, little dismayed the players as much as Moyes’s poor squad management and mixed messages. Some were overused to the point of fatigue and then barely seen again for weeks, others chronically under-used only suddenly to be hurried in from the cold in emergency situations.

Nor was there any consistency of selection. Rio Ferdinand started seven of United’s opening eight matches of the season then hardly featured for the next 4½ months. The defender’s appearance on that night against Olympiacos was only his third start in 17 matches, and how it showed. Danny Welbeck, Shinji Kagawa, Ashley Young, Javier Hernández and Darren Fletcher all encountered similar treatment.

Tom Cleverley started eight games in just 24 days from mid-December, but when tired legs contributed to him giving away a penalty in the last of those matches — against Sunderland in the Capital One Cup — the England midfielder was barely seen for another 3½ weeks.

At least two players went to see Moyes to complain about a lacking of playing time. They were told if they didn’t like it he would not stand in their way this summer. Others felt he was unable to restore their confidence or ensure those on the periphery felt included.

Under Sir Alex Ferguson, players were accustomed to being told the team the night before a game. Moyes tended to wait until the pre-match meeting three hours before kick-off before naming his and the substitutes only 90 minutes before the game. Mentally, the players felt they needed longer to prepare, a frustration articulated by Ferdinand. “You spend a lot of nervous energy thinking, ‘Am I playing, am I not playing?’ ” he said. “Keep just going round in circles in your head, enough to turn you into a madman.”

Moyes would be the first to reject suggestions that he was harder on the younger players than the senior ones. Yet the decision to discipline Welbeck, Young and Cleverley for a late night out in Manchester — 24 hours after the club’s elimination by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals — even though the players had been granted four days off and not broken any rules, seemed strange given what had transpired only a few weeks earlier.

On that occasion, a player turned up about an hour late for training looking worse for wear, but no punishment was believed to have been forthcoming. Was there also an overindulgence of Robin van Persie, with whom there were rumours — always denied — of fallouts and disagreements?

Dressing rooms are no different to offices — some colleagues get on, others don’t — but by the end it was noted that certain potentially divisive cliques were beginning to develop.

Back to Piraeus. On the plane home, Moyes was spotted with a copy of Good to Great — Why Some Companies Make The Leap . . . And Others Don’t, a management book by Jim Collins. It was fitting — a good manager trying yet failing to make the jump to becoming a great one.

Once at Manchester airport, a posse of photographers were waiting to take Moyes’s picture. The colour seemed to drain instantly from his face once he spotted them and, motioning to his father, David Sr, next to him, he could not disappear from view quickly enough. Ultimately, the immensity of it all was just too much.


Giggsy

[Drew.]

"At training, United’s players soon became disenchanted with his sessions.
They found them boring. One coach appointed by Moyes was referred to as ‘******* Off (insert name here)’, simply because that was what some players felt like saying when he started talking.
Nor was the disaffection and the disloyalty restricted to the training ground. Towards the end of that game in Athens, for example, Moyes found himself arguing with the fourth official.
‘Send him off,’ came one voice from among the substitutes. ‘We would be better off without him.’ A clear act of insubordination, it astonished those who heard it — but it was not an isolated incident."

:joker:

[Brother Leon]

Thanks Matthew.


"**** off Round"....Imagine calling your assistant manager that ffs :joker:


God bless Giggsy though. The one person who wanted us to play football from the coaching staff it seems :laugh:

[Ryan57]

All pundits need to see this. Giving him more time would of been pointless. The dressing room was lost and numerous players will of wanted out this summer.

[Brother Leon]

Btw. Moyes is going to make a ****load of money if he released a "tell all book" about his time at United. Would be a cool read tbh.

[Ryan57]

Btw. Moyes is going to make a ****load of money if he released a "tell all book" about his time at United. Would be a cool read tbh.

It'd be about 90% scathing of the players, 10% him blaming himself.

[Ryan57]

I wish him luck in future endeavours.

As everyone will know, I wasn't his biggest fan (understatement of the century), and he did piss me off basically every week. Infact, just seeing him smile pissed me off. Hearing him talk, pissed me off. Him smiling after defeats, pissed me off.

However, he's a decent man. Just one that severely pissed me off.

[Ryan57]

He didn't help himself, however. Criticising players who had actually won something, when he's done sweet FA.

[Locke.]

Sir Alex Ferguson will play a key role in selecting David Moyes's replacement as Manchester United manager.

:joker:

[Ryan57]

Luckily, it seems it's between Van Gaal and Ancelotti. Although I'd prefer him to never have a say again as he is woeful at choosing managers.

[Kate!]

I'm confused by this thread title, is Nathan being humorous?

[Crimson Dynamo]

giggs, a man who shagged his own brother wife

what a guy

[Ryan57]

And Imogen Thomas. Legend.

[Cherie]

It has been said that Moyes lost the dressing room, but that is not strictly true. He never really had it, and as the weeks turned into months, the misgivings and dissatisfaction only grew. The overwhelming feeling, which took hold long before that chastening night in Greece, was that he was a decent man who was out of his depth.

Always been my view, he was never a big enough name for some. I think Fergie should have directed his "get behind the new manager" to some of his ex players rather than the fans.

[Ryan57]

Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann claims Rafa Benitez is the ideal candidate to replace David Moyes at Manchester United.

That'd go down well.

[Ryan57]

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