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David Moyes has been sacked by Manchester United before he could even finish out the first season of his six-year contract and it makes perfect sense.
Man United still have four games left to play this season, but with 11 losses this is already the club's worst season of the Premier League era. That record has ensured they will not play in the Champions League next season for the first time since 1995 and if they remain in seventh place, they won't even have a (perhaps unwanted) chance at the Europa League. That alone would be enough to get the manager of any club one season removed from winning a league title sacked, but for Moyes it was made so much worse by the way in which this played out.
"When we had bad times here, everyone stood by me and your job now is to stand by your new manager," Sir Alex Ferguson told the fans in his farewell address, but Moyes made it very hard for them to do that. His long list of dubious records and accomplishments would've been dismissed a ridiculous impossibility had it been predicted before the season began and he made a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Under his leadership, Man United lost both their matches against Man City, both their matches against Liverpool and both their matches against his former club, Everton (who are currently two places ahead of Man United in the table). He either lost or never had the players' belief. But aside from all of that, he really did a splendid job.
Depending on how you look at it, the question is either why Man United waited this long to sack him or why they wouldn't just let him finish the season out and start fresh next year. According to the Independent, there's a practical answer to both of those questions.
A look back at David Moyes' season on DT:
-David Moyes' harrowing first day at Man United in pictures
-DT Exclusive: David Moyes negotiates with David Moyes for Fellaini and Baines
-DT Exclusive: David Moyes reprimands Ashley Young for diving
-Man United's 4-1 loss to Man City in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's 2-1 loss to West Brom in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Future News: David Moyes' car breaks down on road named after Sir Alex Ferguson
-Man United's loss to Newcastle in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's FA Cup loss to Swansea in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's super smiley training session proves everyone is having a great time
-The first draft of David Moyes' letter to Man United fans
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Man United still have four games left to play this season, but with 11 losses this is already the club's worst season of the Premier League era. That record has ensured they will not play in the Champions League next season for the first time since 1995 and if they remain in seventh place, they won't even have a (perhaps unwanted) chance at the Europa League. That alone would be enough to get the manager of any club one season removed from winning a league title sacked, but for Moyes it was made so much worse by the way in which this played out.
"When we had bad times here, everyone stood by me and your job now is to stand by your new manager," Sir Alex Ferguson told the fans in his farewell address, but Moyes made it very hard for them to do that. His long list of dubious records and accomplishments would've been dismissed a ridiculous impossibility had it been predicted before the season began and he made a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Under his leadership, Man United lost both their matches against Man City, both their matches against Liverpool and both their matches against his former club, Everton (who are currently two places ahead of Man United in the table). He either lost or never had the players' belief. But aside from all of that, he really did a splendid job.
Depending on how you look at it, the question is either why Man United waited this long to sack him or why they wouldn't just let him finish the season out and start fresh next year. According to the Independent, there's a practical answer to both of those questions.
The decision to get rid of the 50-year-old was discussed and possibly ratified at a recent United board meeting but there is a financial motive behind delaying removing him until now.*
The mathematical impossibility of United finishing in the top four this season, following their 11th Premier League defeat of the season at Goodison Park on Sunday, means that United need only give Moyes a one-year pay-off under the terms of his five-year deal, rather than honour the full four years left on that contract. Ryan Giggs could then take over as caretaker manager for the final four games of the season
Initially, it had been thought that the Scot’s departure might be a graceful one after United’s Premier League season ends at Southampton on 11 May. But chief executive Ed Woodward has been urgently seeking to tie up transfer business in Germany and Spain before the World Cup starts, in 52 days’ time. The prospect of securing players such as Southampton’s Luke Shaw and Bayern Munich’s Toni Kroos would be even more challenging if United were under the leadership of a lame-duck manager, as well as unable to offering such recruits Champions League football next season.
Of course, the World Cup always complicates the summer transfer window and since Woodward proved how much difficulty he had with it under normal circumstances last year, clearing Moyes out and working towards the future now seems absolutely necessary. Though it doesn't guarantee the next attempt at replacing Ferguson will go much smoother, it certainly couldn't get much worse. Probably.The mathematical impossibility of United finishing in the top four this season, following their 11th Premier League defeat of the season at Goodison Park on Sunday, means that United need only give Moyes a one-year pay-off under the terms of his five-year deal, rather than honour the full four years left on that contract. Ryan Giggs could then take over as caretaker manager for the final four games of the season
Initially, it had been thought that the Scot’s departure might be a graceful one after United’s Premier League season ends at Southampton on 11 May. But chief executive Ed Woodward has been urgently seeking to tie up transfer business in Germany and Spain before the World Cup starts, in 52 days’ time. The prospect of securing players such as Southampton’s Luke Shaw and Bayern Munich’s Toni Kroos would be even more challenging if United were under the leadership of a lame-duck manager, as well as unable to offering such recruits Champions League football next season.
A look back at David Moyes' season on DT:
-David Moyes' harrowing first day at Man United in pictures
-DT Exclusive: David Moyes negotiates with David Moyes for Fellaini and Baines
-DT Exclusive: David Moyes reprimands Ashley Young for diving
-Man United's 4-1 loss to Man City in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's 2-1 loss to West Brom in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Future News: David Moyes' car breaks down on road named after Sir Alex Ferguson
-Man United's loss to Newcastle in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's FA Cup loss to Swansea in David Moyes' pained facial expressions
-Man United's super smiley training session proves everyone is having a great time
-The first draft of David Moyes' letter to Man United fans
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