stevoc
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No but i never suggested that he should have. Replacing all of them wasn't needed or practical in 2013, but at least replacing 1, 2 or 3 of them with United's resources was easily doable. Moyes didn't and thats on him no one else.All of them needed replacing, and given the stature of the players we're talking about here, I doubt any manager would be capable of doing that within 2 windows.
Thats not the clubs job mate it's the managers, and at the time that was Moyes. United work with the manager being solely in charge of identifying and giving the go ahead to try to sign players.The club should have had players coming through to take their place.
The money was there Moyes didn't spend it. Ferguson probably didn't spend as much as could have in his final years with an eye on allowing his successor to have more freedom to build their own team. Not only in terms of funds available but creating the landscape for them to buy their own players to replace older squad members.Most fans moaned for years about the failure to invest on Fergies final years, whoever took over was faced with a massive task, and that was made worse by Gill going at the same time.
I also suspect Gill probably could have been convinced to stay on another year if he and the club had knew Ferguson was retiring earlier than they did.