Only suspense left now is whether the club/Gill will use the phrase "European experience" when talking about his appointment.
Moyes To Succeed Ferguson Anyone?
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This tickled me from the Everton site:
Getting knocked out in qualifiers now counts as a European Campaign
Getting knocked out in qualifiers now counts as a European Campaign
The bit where he talks about "We won it 5 times" and the nazi officer puts his hand on his chest with 5 fingers out is hilarious.
I'm so bored that I'll have a stab at #mufc in twitter:
Mike Keegan @mikekeeganmen 6m
Just spoken to #mufc. Still no confirmation.
Mike Keegan @mikekeeganmen 6m
Just spoken to #mufc. Still no confirmation.
What would you call it?This tickled me from the Everton site:
Getting knocked out in qualifiers now counts as a European Campaign
I hate it when people stand behind the reporter to get on TV
Are you aware that they only lost one qualifier and as such went to play in the UEFA Cup anyway which counted as a European campaign.This tickled me from the Everton site:
Getting knocked out in qualifiers now counts as a European Campaign
Moyes, Moyes, Moyes.
Colleen it's a right bummer time, love.
Moyes you'll remember Rooney?
Colleen it's a right bummer time, love.
Be my answer, be my Fergie.
Moyes, Moyes, Moyes.
Colleen it's a right bummer time, love.
Moyes you'll remember Rooney?
Colleen it's a right bummer time, love.
Be my answer, be my Fergie.
Moyes, Moyes, Moyes.
hts the best one so far, I thought the best line was, his only experience of Europe is on a PlaystationThe bit where he talks about "We won it 5 times" and the nazi officer puts his hand on his chest with 5 fingers out is hilarious.
Saw this on Football 365 about the appointment:
No, no, no. I'm not having this.
Moyes? At United? Are you sure? This is for real? This isn't some sort of ginger-themed hallucination? It's not a mushroom flashback? Christ.
Look, I'm not a United fan but I know exactly what United are; they're one of the few elite clubs in world football. There is no bigger job than managing them. No bigger profile, no bigger focus, no bigger pressure. And you're going to give this job to someone whose best gig so far has been steering a noble but, in comparison, tiny club on a tight budget? That's the only qualification you needed? Big Sam has done that. So has Tony Pulis, so has Steve McClaren. At least McClaren got his club to a UEFA Cup final. Has Moyes done that? No he hasn't. Just doing OK on a budget is an achievement but it is an achievement that is irrelevant to United. It's like saying you've run a small corner shop well, made a profit every year and then being put in charge of Coca Cola on that basis.
Of course Moyes might do a good job, he might, but then that possibility is true of almost anyone. If you employed the Chuckle Brothers, Orville The Duck or Ozzy Osbourne, they might do a good job. The point is when you're a huge global force, you don't bet the farm on someone who has not even had a sniff of the rarefied air he's about to work in. And you don't do that because you have no idea how he'll handle it. He might be rocking back and forth in a corner with his head in his hands after a month. Seriously. As I wrote yesterday, this job can break a man, just like that. Ferguson could resist critics by waving his CV. Moyes hasn't got a bloody CV, or rather, he's only got one that says: 'I did quite well without much money but didn't win anything, in fact other managers with less resources won things and did better than me and yes I signed Andy van der Meyde but I am Scottish if that helps and I can look cross'.
Not. Good. Enough. Not by a long way. No no no. It's wrong.
Get away with you. This is insane! And made all the more insane by the fact that the best manager in world football is available right now. That's RIGHT NOW! He wants the job. You know he wants the job. If anyone can make United successful in Europe - an arena which Ferguson was never king of - it's Jose Mourinho. And you think David Moyes can achieve what Jose Mourinho can't? It's senseless. It's stupid. If he was that good, Real Madrid would want Moyes to replace Jose. Well do they? Do they bollocks. No elite club in the world would sign Moyes as a manager. No offence Davey but you've done sod all, so you don't get to hold the wheel of the big boys' bus.
Look, look, wanting another long-term manager and hoping Moyes will be that is utter madness. In case no-one was looking the teams that have won most trophies in Europe over the years are clubs like Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Barcelona - they change managers all the time. Even Liverpool's 25-year period of success was across four different managers. This longevity of tenure thing is all rubbish. Ferguson was the exception not the rule. Forget it. It's not relevant. You want the best you can get, you want him now and you can have him. So why Moyes? Why? Why?
No no no. I'm not having this. It's almost immoral. I can't help feeling that somehow it has all been engineered by Rafa Benitez as part of a long-term black ops campaign to undermine Manchester United. If so, well done Rafa. You have won.
No, no, no. I'm not having this.
Moyes? At United? Are you sure? This is for real? This isn't some sort of ginger-themed hallucination? It's not a mushroom flashback? Christ.
Look, I'm not a United fan but I know exactly what United are; they're one of the few elite clubs in world football. There is no bigger job than managing them. No bigger profile, no bigger focus, no bigger pressure. And you're going to give this job to someone whose best gig so far has been steering a noble but, in comparison, tiny club on a tight budget? That's the only qualification you needed? Big Sam has done that. So has Tony Pulis, so has Steve McClaren. At least McClaren got his club to a UEFA Cup final. Has Moyes done that? No he hasn't. Just doing OK on a budget is an achievement but it is an achievement that is irrelevant to United. It's like saying you've run a small corner shop well, made a profit every year and then being put in charge of Coca Cola on that basis.
Of course Moyes might do a good job, he might, but then that possibility is true of almost anyone. If you employed the Chuckle Brothers, Orville The Duck or Ozzy Osbourne, they might do a good job. The point is when you're a huge global force, you don't bet the farm on someone who has not even had a sniff of the rarefied air he's about to work in. And you don't do that because you have no idea how he'll handle it. He might be rocking back and forth in a corner with his head in his hands after a month. Seriously. As I wrote yesterday, this job can break a man, just like that. Ferguson could resist critics by waving his CV. Moyes hasn't got a bloody CV, or rather, he's only got one that says: 'I did quite well without much money but didn't win anything, in fact other managers with less resources won things and did better than me and yes I signed Andy van der Meyde but I am Scottish if that helps and I can look cross'.
Not. Good. Enough. Not by a long way. No no no. It's wrong.
Get away with you. This is insane! And made all the more insane by the fact that the best manager in world football is available right now. That's RIGHT NOW! He wants the job. You know he wants the job. If anyone can make United successful in Europe - an arena which Ferguson was never king of - it's Jose Mourinho. And you think David Moyes can achieve what Jose Mourinho can't? It's senseless. It's stupid. If he was that good, Real Madrid would want Moyes to replace Jose. Well do they? Do they bollocks. No elite club in the world would sign Moyes as a manager. No offence Davey but you've done sod all, so you don't get to hold the wheel of the big boys' bus.
Look, look, wanting another long-term manager and hoping Moyes will be that is utter madness. In case no-one was looking the teams that have won most trophies in Europe over the years are clubs like Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Barcelona - they change managers all the time. Even Liverpool's 25-year period of success was across four different managers. This longevity of tenure thing is all rubbish. Ferguson was the exception not the rule. Forget it. It's not relevant. You want the best you can get, you want him now and you can have him. So why Moyes? Why? Why?
No no no. I'm not having this. It's almost immoral. I can't help feeling that somehow it has all been engineered by Rafa Benitez as part of a long-term black ops campaign to undermine Manchester United. If so, well done Rafa. You have won.
Di Canio reference
WE LOVE YOU MOYESEY, WE DO
WE LOVE YOU MOYESEY, WE DO
WE LOVE YOU MOYESEY, WE DO
OHHHHHHH MOYESEY WE LOVE YOU!!!
It's been hilarious seeing some of our own fans go into meltdown over this appointment
WE LOVE YOU MOYESEY, WE DO
WE LOVE YOU MOYESEY, WE DO
OHHHHHHH MOYESEY WE LOVE YOU!!!
It's been hilarious seeing some of our own fans go into meltdown over this appointment
that is one of the best hitler videos I've seen. The part about Yakubu Please refrain from posting sheer amounts of bollocks
Certainly not a 'campaign'. Whoever wrote that glorified it a wee bit imo
And I am not one of the Moyes haters btw
They've only had 2 runs which could be classified as campaigns. Getting dumped twice out of Europe in 2005 (including a thrashing by a Romanian team) does not quite count as a campaign.
if I were Moyes,
I think I would understand,
That I'm not wanted here,
By these cnuting hipster fans
But you're just Moyes,
You don't understand,
And you don't understand, oh
That Fellaini isn't right,
And Jose's a better lookin' man
I think I would understand,
That I'm not wanted here,
By these cnuting hipster fans
But you're just Moyes,
You don't understand,
And you don't understand, oh
That Fellaini isn't right,
And Jose's a better lookin' man
That's a copy writer's job in a PR company.
To be fair, they way it's expressed may be over the top, but I think the sentiment chimes with a lot of us.Please refrain from posting sheer amounts of bollocks
It seems an odd decision to go for such an untested option, and a positively bizarre one given the timing, with Mourinho available and keen on the job.
Has Moyes been seen hiding under any bed sheets in Manchester yet?
But I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the Moyes of summer have gone
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the Moyes of summer have gone
Guess who just got back today?
Them goggle-eye'd boys that had been away
Ando's changed, Valencia hasn't much to say
But man, I still think them caps are crazy
They were asking if you were around
Hows your eyes, where you could be found
Told them you were living downtown
Driving all the red men crazy
The Moyes are back in town
Them goggle-eye'd boys that had been away
Ando's changed, Valencia hasn't much to say
But man, I still think them caps are crazy
They were asking if you were around
Hows your eyes, where you could be found
Told them you were living downtown
Driving all the red men crazy
The Moyes are back in town
Not sure if it's been posted or not, but apparently a second photo was accidentally put onto Facebook:
That's epic. Except the last paragraph which takes the point a little too far and goes abit RAWKish.
AmateursNot sure if it's been posted or not, but apparently a second photo was accidentally put onto Facebook:
This facebook nonsense from the club is exactly the kind of thing that has happened in the muppet forum. As I said earlier, for a club with a manager in situ for 26 years, the whole succession management piece is all over the shop IMO.Not sure if it's been posted or not, but apparently a second photo was accidentally put onto Facebook:
Looks like United have been letting Fergie have a play on the Facebook account before he leaves.
I wonder if the club will allow him to make as many guest appearances as a pundit on MOTD and sky as he does/did with Everton? Or would they just let him decide that.
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MUTV confirm Moyes now
MUTV confirm Moyes now
Six year deal. More like "sex year deal" eh? Amirite? Am I? Guys?
Appropriately "Welcome to the New Age" is just airing on the radio.
This is the apocalypse indeed....
This is the apocalypse indeed....
6 year contract? Wow.
6 year deal for Moyes? worst deal since Faust.
A real kick in the balls.
I'm currently at the initial pain stage, the longer stomach ache part starts when he takes over.
I'm currently at the initial pain stage, the longer stomach ache part starts when he takes over.
Brilliant stuff.
Expect he'll do a fantastic job, awesome appointment.
Expect he'll do a fantastic job, awesome appointment.
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