stevoc
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What difference does it make if its their first season or 3rd season, if a manager is failing badly then you get rid of them. Sentiment doesn't come into it the club is bigger than any one person. Mourinho, Van Gaal and Ron Atkinson had all won trophies and done more for United than Moyes did yet they still got sacked. Why should the club go out of it's way to give special treatment to Moyes?Yeah we sacked Mourinho before Xmas, but it was his third season not his first, and he was trying to get sacked anyway, and we were 19th in the League when Big Ron in his fifth season got sacked, and we'd just been humiliated at Southampton in the League Cup.
I couldn't give a flying fart what Royal Madrid and Chelsea do, or don't do mate, they just don't register.
Yes if we'd sacked David Moyes earlier we may have been able to rescue something from that season, but conversely it may have got worse, a lot worse.
How exactly could it have got worse mate?
We already had 31 points by Xmas, 30, 32 and 33 points got you relegated that season so i don't think we were going to lose 19-20 league games in a row.
It was taken into consideration though, and it was deemed to be below minimum standards. Hence the clause in his contract that allowed the club to terminate his employment if he failed to qualify for the CL.I won't read back thanks, i'll take your word for it, but maybe United finishing outside the top four should have been taken into consideration because it should have been bloody obvious that the new Manager(whoever he was)had a major rebuild on his hands, christ 5 years on we still haven't adequately replaced any of Rio, Vida and Evra who were all ready for the Travellers yard and of no use whatsoever to the new Manager and needed replacing asap, and the less said about the midfield and upfront the better. We basically needed a new team.
Yep i'm sure the Board hoped things would go smoothly but the fact they gave Moyes a six year contract suggests they knew there would be bumps ahead but they were placing their confidence in him to erm Manage the situation and get us back on track.
Mate you said in one of your posts yesterday that if there was a clause in his contract that stipulated that CL qualification was the bare minimum then fair enough he deserved to be sacked. But you seem to be arguing against your own point now.
The 6 year contract was nothing more than a PR stunt, it gave Moyes no more protection than a 12 month contract would have done. Moyes willingly signed a contract with a minimum expected performance clause, he failed to meet that goal and he was subsequently sacked. He or no one else can really say he was hard done by.it was written in said contract that top four was the bare-minimum than fair enough, sack him,
Taibi signed at the end of August 1999 on a 5 year deal, shipped back to Italy in January 2000. Costing the club £2-3m in the process. Fergie was ruthless back then, got rid of Bosnich after a year as well.And Yes SAF could be ruthless, but I don't recall him ever giving a player a 5/6 year contract, then binning them off 7 months later.