David Moyes Sacked!

[Joshirin]

http://news.sky.com/story/1246894/da...er-united-boss

David Moyes has been sacked as Manchester United manager, with Ryan Giggs taking over until the end of the season.

A statement on the club's website said: "Manchester United has announced that David Moyes has left the club.

Manchester United Training Session
Manchester United veteran Giggs will take the reins for the remaining games
"The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role."

Shortly after, it released another statement, saying: "Ryan Giggs, the club's most decorated player, will assume responsibility for the first team until a permanent appointment can be made."

Moyes was informed of the decision to let him go this morning at the club's Carrington training ground, said Sky News' Paul Kelso.

Chief executive Ed Woodward is said to have told Moyes the news face to face.

Speculation over his sacking started yesterday, after United's 2-0 weekend defeat to Moyes' former club Everton.

The result left the Premier League champions in seventh place and meant it was mathematically impossible for them to qualify for next season's Champions League - the first time they have failed to do so since 1991.
The team has lost 11 times this season, six of them at home, and also endured defeats to bitter rivals Manchester City and Liverpool.

There has reportedly been discontent among some of the club's top players during Moyes' brief time at Old Trafford.

Moyes was handpicked by Sir Alex Ferguson after 11 years at Everton where he guided the team to five top-six finishes.

Good riddance, 10 months is long enough to prove yourself, he's not a bad manager, but he's not on level to handle a big club like Manchester United. Disappointed in Ferguson in picking him when we could of gotten Jose Mourinho

[Samantha]

What I don't get was why pick someone who hasn't really won anything? Yeah top 6, that's not the winner or the best or even close to first. Glad he's gone, I haven't really kept up to date with the matches this season as I've always known it as the club I support is managed by Sir Alex Ferguson, and not someone else. I hope they improve next season, they need to.

[Shar]

I was waiting for this. Replaced by Ryan Giggs until the end of the season, this will be interesting!

[Matthew]

a great shame for the rest of the league

[Ozzinator$]

Man Utd fans expected the transition to be smooth, but the fact of the matter is [as hard as it is for a Liverpool fan to say] Sir Alex was an amazing manager, however he did it, he managed to get a substandard Utd team to win the league last year, but the current squad isn't that brilliant, no matter if they are/were the current champions. Utd won ugly last season, winning the games in what has been dubbed as "Fergie time". The team is not good enough but some of his purchases he made in the summer wasn't much good, however if you look at Everton, they haven't made many changes to that squad which he had built.

The thing with Moyes is, he just doesn't have the ambition to be anything more than a manager of a team with low expectations, he is not a top 4 standard of manager, very much like Hodgeson when he was Liverpool manager. Both do okay with teams such as Fulham and Everton [Though it also pains me to say it, Everton was actually a better team than Moyes' ambitions too]. Moyes is good at finding and building a squad, but he can't push them to become the players they COULD be.

That's my thoughts on the matter.

[j0rd]

You wouldn't have got Jose, there was no chance of that happening.

Honestly you can't blame Moyes, he is actually a top manager and could have succeeded at United. He was just given a team at the end of their game. It needs a complete revamp for them to do anything next season..

[Joshirin]

You wouldn't have got Jose, there was no chance of that happening.

Honestly you can't blame Moyes, he is actually a top manager and could have succeeded at United. He was just given a team at the end of their game. It needs a complete revamp for them to do anything next season..

Jose only went to chelsea because Moyes came to Manchester United.
Moyes is awful, he's got ridden of chances in the summer to buy some fantastic players that Manchester United were keen to buy, but he ruled them off. He's changed the squad nearly every game (or even every game, not sure). Moyes is ntohing more than a bottom half manager of the premier league.

[j0rd]

Jose only went to chelsea because Moyes came to Manchester United.
Moyes is awful, he's got ridden of chances in the summer to buy some fantastic players that Manchester United were keen to buy, but he ruled them off. He's changed the squad nearly every game (or even every game, not sure). Moyes is ntohing more than a bottom half manager of the premier league.

No, Jose was never going to United..
He's definitely not awful, what a load of wet you talk. You have to do rotations in the team, that actually proves he's a good manager. He would be rotating to see who works well with each other which will help build a stronger team.

So you say he is awful then says he is a bottom half table manager, so in other words bottom half managers are awful. Which is also a load of ****.
Brendan come from Swansea, which is probably a bottom half team to you. Liverpool scooped him up and he looks likely to go on to win the league.

You are a typical United fan...

[FlyingJesus]

Jose had no plans to go to Man U ever lol

And Moyes might not be a superstar but the blame doesn't lie solely with him - he has the exact same players as last year pretty much and they failed to perform week in week out. Yes he's supposed to give them tactical advice and all that but footballers are not robots, they know how to play and blaming someone who isn't on the pitch for their dire performances on it is ridiculous

[David]

cant be the only one who seen this situation coming as soon as old man river retired
the next guy will probably get the can in a season or two

can see gary neville taking over at some point