In an interview with Matt Lawton for the Mail On Sunday, David Moyes has finally spoken about his time at Manchester United. Moyes believes that taking over Fergie at Old Trafford was a ‘near enough impossible job’ He would have made Wayne Rooney his captain and that the club failed to sign his transfer targets such as Cesc Fabregas, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo. Below I have listed some of the key points in the article.
- The reports that Moyes did not know he was getting sacked my Manchester United until he read it online is true. Moyes said to Matt Lawton on Easter Monday (the day the news broke out) ‘There’s no way you guys would know before me… This is Manchester United we’re talking about.’ He could not have been more wrong.
- David Moyes also said that he did not make any changes immediately because he thought he ‘was joining a club that would give me time… I didn’t want to change anything immediately. I wanted to take my time working out what I thought was needed’, which sounds understandable. Furthermore, Moyes says ‘I was devastated to lose the job because it was something I felt I could make a real success of. We knew it was going to take time to make the necessary changes. It was going to take time to evolve. But we were in the process of making other important changes. In the end, I don’t feel I was given time to succeed or fail’.
- On the day of his sacking, Moyes called the players into the dressing room to inform them that he was leaving. He told them ‘that they were playing for a great club. I told them that they should all embrace it and realise how fortunate they are’.
- He admits that he should have done some things differently such as starting the United job earlier than July 1st 2013 and managing United differently to how he managed Everton.
- With regards to trying to bring players in, Moyes says ‘We tried to bring players in during the summer transfer window but they didn’t materialise. It certainly wasn’t for the lack of trying. It wasn’t indecision. The complete opposite…It’s been well documented that we wanted Fabregas, Bale and Ronaldo. There was talk of Ronaldo when I first arrived. We were close to getting a couple of major names. I’m not getting in a blame game here but things just didn’t materialise. I had taken over from the most successful manager in history. The chief executive had taken over from one of the most renowned administrators in the game [David Gill]. So it was a new job for two people.’
David Moyes seems like a nice man. His time at Manchester United was a failure but I hope he manages to learn from his mistakes and have a successful career wherever he ends up. I wish him all the best. The full article can be found here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2726774/DAVID-MOYES-EXCLUSIVE-Manchester-United-never-gave-time-succeed-fail.html
David Moyes breaks his silence
posted on 17/8/14
Believe me I wasn't saying you are in the same footballing stratosphere as Aberdeen. Just that Fergie is a very difficult man to replace and he casts a long shadow over his successors. Money might buy you players but the modern era Man Utd is built in Fergies image and your fans demand for instant success, because it is what you used to, puts a very difficult burden on managers before they even start trying to create something new.
posted on 17/8/14
comment by UnitedRedMacca - First with the news!! (U2024)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 57 minutes ago
He didn't want to come and make changes too quickly, then sacks the entire backroom staff
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Rene wasn't sacked
Keeper coach. Well DDG was our player of the season last season.
Phelan. Meh. Fergie puppet.
He appointed giggs as a coach.
This 'entire' back room staff is just a cliche
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Macca, he said he did not want to change things and then gets rid of the backroom staff. That statement and his resulting action are inconsistent.
posted on 17/8/14
Mudd
It isn't unusual to bring your own staff with you when you join another club
I do not believe keeping Phelan would have made a jot of difference.
Rene wasn't sacked and the goal keeping coach change clearly wasn't detrimental
The 'entire' back room staff thing is ridiculously overstated to me personally.
posted on 17/8/14
Bale, Ronaldo and Fabregas would be pretty much any manager's targets, only 99% of them realise it's unrealistic.
posted on 17/8/14
Macca, not arguing that he was not entitled to bring his own staff. Just saying him wanting to keep things the same then changing the backroom is not consistent with that premise.
I actually thought it showed some balls. The guy just did not have what it took at this level and I'm not sure he will show the players his balls, like LvG surely would have done yesterday
posted on 17/8/14
Mudd
Maybe yesterday's loss wasn't such a bad thing if it makes lvg realise players like lingard Blackett fletch etc are not good enough to be starters for United now albeit he clearly fancies fletch making him vice captain
I'm all for giving youth a chance, but in the league cup or fa cup against the lesser sides.
Our PL starting xi should not look anything like what it did yesterday. Even with our injuries
posted on 17/8/14
Macca
When you get down to it, as much as we we would love to have local lads and kids in the team. Our squad, player for player should be on par with the Madrid's and Barcelona's of this world and it is time for the club to back up its assertions.
Fletch is finished
posted on 17/8/14
Love to know why fellaini came on for Herrera yesterday
Why not kagawa for fletch ffs
Herrera and kagawa or fletch and fellaini?
Maybe I'm missing something
posted on 17/8/14
Still a mystery to me
posted on 17/8/14
David Moyes is a good manager, but he underestimated the step-up in class from Everton to Manchester United: the fact that he could finish higher with many inferior Everton teams makes me think that the mistake was purely to do with his mentality. If you play at a standard such as Manchester United then you will know that you are a good player and you will want to express that on the pitch, whilst players of that calibre can tolerate defensive football and restricting themselves they need to believe it is for the greater good- and ultimately the job of convincing them lies with the manager and the weight of his personality. José Mourinho can convince nearly any player to adapt to his methods- and those who do not will be sold. But if you are a more reserved personality such as Roy Hodgson or David Moyes then the transition will be difficult as they do not have the ability to convince players to adapt to those methods, for example telling Ferdinand how Jagielka would defend is exactly the case; those players will not be convinced by a manager who operates this way at a big club.
Attack minded managers from mid-table teams have a higher chance of making the transition to a big club as they allow the top players to express themselves and thus keep them on their side from the beginning: it's why Liverpool and Everton won by gambling on two mid-table managers. That's what those appointments were, as neither really had such an impressive track record to get those jobs with just one trophy between them.
David Moyes is a good manager and will do a great job for a mid-table club, but the way he manages is not very adaptable to a bigger club and ultimately the humiliation at Manchester United will have undermined him further in the eyes of any top players who are working with him.