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- Four managers who could replace Moyes
- Moyes had clear plans for the future
- Fergie to help manager’s selection process
- Neville: “United have got it wrong”
- United and “The Wrong One”: what a mess
| Four managers who could replace Moyes Posted: 23 Apr 2014 03:56 AM PDT
The rumour mill over Moyes’ successor has been in full swing since he was told he was no longer required at Carrington and given every man and his dog have picked a list of candidates, we thought we’d join the fun too, given we were denied the fun 10 months ago, when Fergie dumped Moyes in our laps - Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp aren’t included, given they’ve already ruled themselves out of the job.
1) Louis Van Gaal The obvious favourite, partly because he’s a really good manager and partly because he’s the only available high-profile manager available, the Dutchman would be a fantastic appointment. Unlike Moyes, Van Gaal has swagger, arrogance and self-confidence in abundance. Where Moyes spoke of “trying”, upon his unveiling as Bayern Munich manager in 2009 the current Holland coach declared: "I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative". He might not have been involved in club football since 2011, when he was sacked by Bayern Munich, but Van Gaal’s record speak for itself: the Dutchman won three consecutive league titles, a UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup and a Champions League with Ajax. His four seasons at Barcelona yielded two consecutive league titles, a Spanish Cup and another UEFA Super Cup, while his league title with AZ Alkmaar earned him a move to Bayern Munich, where he won a domestic double. Furthermore, Van Gaal has a history for blooding young players into the team and improving footballers at his disposal. The former was a cornerstone of his success with Ajax, when he promoted Edgard Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Edwin Van Der Sar and Patrick Kluivert to the first team, while Arjen Robben and Bastian Schweinsteiger matured enormously under Van Gaal at Bayern Munich. Tactically offensive minded – a preacher of 4-3-3, Van Gaal often adopts an attacking 4-2-3-1 – Van Gaal can be rather abrasive with players and press and won’t be free until July, but he’s a bit of a nutter and would suit United. 2) Carlo Ancelotti Six years younger than Van Gaal, Ancelotti claimed that Fergie had been in touch with him before appointing Moyes as his successor, but while the mutual respect and friendship between the two is well documented, Ancelotti remains a difficult target for United. The Italian is currently in charge of what’s arguably one of the two best teams in the world, a team with which he’s already won the Spanish Cup this season and he might well end up lifting the Champions League as well as the Spanish League this season, while United won’t even be in Europe next season. As if that wasn’t enough to convince Ancelotti that remaining at the Bernabeu was the right choice, imagine leaving Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale behind to manage Tom Cleverley and Nani?
However, Real Madrid managers are obliged to win and entertain and were Madrid to stumble over the last hurdle domestically and in Europe, Ancelotti’s future could be under scrutiny, which could open the door for United. The Italian is a winner – he won two Champions Leagues and a Serie A title with AC Milan, delivered Chelsea’s first ever double and won the league in his 18-month spell at PSG – very pragmatic and doesn’t treat attacking football as a virus. What’s not to like? 3) Diego Simeone Simeone is the proof that, with the right manager, even overpaid prima donnas are willing to run themselves into the ground for the cause, regardless of how successful their coach has been in his career. The Argentine has produced a minor sporting miracle at Atletico Madrid in the last three seasons, transforming Madrid’s second team from laughing stock to league leaders and Champions League semifinalists. Simeone had won two titles in Argentina but arrived in Europe with question marks aplenty over his credentials, but responded by winning a Europa League and a Spanish Cup in the last two seasons, before the current campaign saw his reputation soar even higher, to the point where he’s now one of the hottest tickets in town.
The Argentine was a largely unpopular figure when he visited Old Trafford with Inter Milan in the 1999 Champions League’s quarter finals, but that would be forgotten if he could Marouane Fellaini and Ashley Young to hunt the ball down with the same ferocity and determination that characterises Atletico Madrid’s midfielder. Tactically, Simeone does not employ a style of football as expansive and attacking as Louis Van Gaal, preferring instead to focus on relentless movement and pressure without the ball and a very organised defence – presumably without Steve Round’s set-pieces manual – but he’s still somewhat unproven at the highest level and doesn’t speak fluent English. 4) Antonio Conte A name that has occasionally been linked with United in the last couple of months, Conte’s has largely flown under the radar in the speculation that followed David Moyes’ sacking. The Italian is probably best remembered for scoring for Juventus at Old Trafford in the first leg of the 1999 Champions League semifinal and endured a David Moyes moment of his own, when he was appointed by Juventus as manager, despite having limited experience and no trophies to his name.
Unlike Moyes, however, Conte has gone on to win back-to-back Serie A title in his first two seasons with Juventus and could soon make it three in a row this season, as the Old Lady’s superiority in Italy remains unmatched. Conte, who has been has learning English and has admitted that he’d like to manage a Premier League club one day, has also an excellent record when it comes to transfers, having snapped up the likes of Paul Pogba and Fernando Llorente for nothing, while Arturo Vidal and Carlos Tevez cost less combined than United paid for Fellaini. The Juventus manager is a firm believer of the 3-5-2 formation, with wing-backs bombing forward and box-to-box midfielders who defend and score in equal measure and while Conte remains very much an outsider, were he to join United we might finally see a couple of world class players in the middle of the park. |
| Moyes had clear plans for the future Posted: 23 Apr 2014 03:21 AM PDT
Judging from Twitter and Facebook etc, I usually spoke for myself when I said I wanted him to stay and to be given more time. Despite this, I had always said he was never the right man for the job. He was, however, chosen by arguably the greatest manager in the history of football, to take the club forward and lead us to more success. After a dreadful season many grew impatient and in the end, so did the club and its owners.
After less than a year of scouting across Europe, he had clear plans for the future of our club and he knew exactly what he wanted to do, that was all taken away from him. As a fan I have not enjoyed watching United under David Moyes this season however I always believe in managers to be given time, as Sir Alex Ferguson went three years without a trophy. In Sir Alex's final speech at Old Trafford he said “I would like to remind you this club stood by me in bad times, the players and the staff, your job now is to stand by our new manager.” Everyone had betrayed Sir Alex Ferguson's words. Where this leaves the club I don't know. I had always said the hardest job in football was to be Sir Alex Ferguson's successor, and that the easiest job in football is to be the successor of Sir Alex Ferguson's successor, so perhaps we are heading for even more success? Only time will tell. Louis van Gaal is favourite to succeed with Ryan Giggs and Jürgen Klopp behind him, there are reports that Ryan Giggs will take the role until the end of the season. I personally would like to see Diego Simeone take over, I really admire his work at Atletico, a humble Jose Mourinho if you like. So what do you think, do you agree/disagree with me? Who would you like to take over? And Where does this leave our club? Let me know. @Jordan Griffin |
| Fergie to help manager’s selection process Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:21 AM PDT
Since Moyes was relieved of his duties yesterday, two managers have already ruled themselves out of the running, with Pep Guardiola stating that he’s determined to remain at Bayern Munich for at least another two seasons, while Jurgen Klopp, who would have been the perfect choice for United, has made clear he has no intentions of leaving Dortmund.
Ryan Giggs will probably make an excellent interim manager and he’d be the romantics’ choice ahead of next season, but United have made clear that his lack of experience means he will not be considered for the manager job, though he’s more than likely he’ll be heavily involved with the coaching staff. The pool of high-profile managers from which United can choose from, has shrunk considerably from 12 months ago, when United could have attracted pretty much any manager in the world had they chosen to do so, while now they find themselves without a manager, without European football and with limited options. Jose’ Mourinho is the one that just won’t go away but frankly there are more chances of seeing Tom Cleverley hit a forward pass than of Mourinho leaving Chelsea for United, just a year after returning to Stamford Bridge. Louis Van Gaal was yesterday highlighted as the firm favourite to replace Moyes, both on grounds of being an excellent manager and because he’s one of the few managers available, but Carlo Ancelotti is also in the running. While would Ancelotti leave Real Madrid – with whom he could still won the Treble this season – for a side that will probably not even play Europa League football is anyone’s guess, but various backpages this morning claim that the Italian is a much more realistic option than originally thought. Whoever will replace Moyes, however, will have had Sir Alex Ferguson’s blessing. The Guardian and the the Telegraph today run a story according to which Fergie will again have a massive say in the next managerial’s appointment, and one can only hope things will work better than they did 10 months ago. Fergie was apparently also involved in the discussions that led to Moyes’ sacking but, as the Guardian reports, “he was asked for his opinion but it was made clear to him that his colleagues had already made up their minds. Most of the directors had lost faith in Moyes in February and Woodward’s opinion was that he could have been sacked, justifiably, any time over the last two months.” United seem to have realised that appointing Moyes without carrying out a proper selection process was a mistake and will now do everything they can to rectify it. As they say, better later than never.
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| Neville: “United have got it wrong” Posted: 22 Apr 2014 08:43 AM PDT
Moyes was handed his P45 this morning, as United finally run out of patience with the man to whom they had given a six-year contract 10 months ago and who has overseen one of the worst season United have endure in the last three decades. Neville, however, insisted that while Moyes didn’t help himself, the players and the club should take a long, hard look at themselves.
“The last 15, 16 hours or however long it’s been, I don’t like it, it’s not the way in which the club should portray itself,” Neville told Sky Sports News. “But it’s the modern world, it’s how things seem to be dealt with now, but I’m a traditionalist and I think it could have been dealt with a whole lot better. I believe in managers being given time, I think they should be allowed to complete their work. The idea of giving people three- and four- and six-year contracts and then getting rid of them after 10 months is something that’s foreign to me. “However, there’s no disguising that the football this season has been poor, the results have been poor. As a fan I’ve not enjoyed watching it – I’m sure David Moyes himself hasn’t enjoyed watching it. And I can’t think many Manchester United fans will have enjoyed watching it either. “The performances have sort of got worse and worse. There was a little bit of a pick-up before Christmas when you thought there might be a bit of a run but in the last month or two the performances have sort of deteriorated really,” said the former United captain. “The players have to take massive responsibility. I never once during my 17/18-year career at United turned around after a game and thought: ‘You lost us that game, boss’. “It’s always the players. Players have to take responsibility, accountability in football. Those players there are not as bad as they have been showing, I’ve played with a lot of those players,” added Neville. “They’ve got great care for United, they love the club – the ones that I know – they’re desperate to do well for the club and they have completely lost confidence. These are players who were champions nine months ago and the decline has been surprising to say the least.”
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| United and “The Wrong One”: what a mess Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:28 AM PDT
David Moyes has gone and with him, hopefully, so have the dire, turgid football United have served up for the last nine months, the defeatism which seemed to permeate the club from top to bottom and the catastrophically bad press conferences which made Moyes look like a rabbit caught in the headlight.
Numbers alone aren’t enough to paint the whole picture of this beleaguered first post-Fergie season, though they do a pretty good job. Under Moyes, United have ensured they’ll miss out on Champions League football for the first time since 1995 and they’re in danger of being excluded from European football altogether for the first time since the 1981-82 season. Everton have completed their first league double over United since 1970, while we have lost all of our four meetings against Merseyside clubs for the first time in history. City have put seven past United this season, Chelsea three, Spurs and Liverpool four, while Newcastle and West Bromwich have recorded a first ever win at Old Trafford since 1972 and 1978 respectively. Now, at long last, the club has finally woken up from their utopia that hiring a Scottish manager would be enough to reproduce the glory we enjoyed under Fergie. It isn’t, it wasn’t and it probably never will be. Longevity is obtained and ensured through – almost – constant success, not vice-versa.The romantic notion that the manager chosen by Fergie would step up to the plate when given the choice didn’t even last the whole summer, before Moyes began digging his own grave with surgical precision. The farce of the transfer window was exacerbated by his desire to subject his squad to a dramatic overhaul, one much more drastic than it was required, and by his refusal to admit It’s only a personal opinion, of course, but Moyes has always struck me as the sort of man who gets picked for a job too big for him, though one he knows he can’t realistically decline, for it represents the chance of a lifetime, even though he himself knows he’ll never be up to the task. Moyes never spoken or acted like a United manager and, truth be told, he never seemed to grow into the role like the many – myself included – who defended him even during the first heavy defeats of his United career had hoped. Moyes leaves the club with his reputation in tatters and being sacked it’s probably the best thing that could have happened to him, at least if he harbours hopes of getting another gig later in his career, for had he been allowed to go on he would single-handedly destroyed his career. He’s obviously a decent man, but decent isn’t good enough for a club like United – or for any top club, for that matter – and while he’ll always be remembered as the man who blew the chance to replace Fergie, he’d well at plenty of mid-table clubs. If Moyes leaves United having wrecked both his and the club’s reputation, the United board doesn’t come out of this mess in much better shape. After years of hiding behind Sir Alex, the Glazers and their cronies have been exposed for what they are: clueless puppet masters whose football knowledge is barely north of zero. Moyes was Sir Alex’s recommendation and Fergie should shoulder some responsibility, but any businessmen worth their name would have carried out a selection process, rather than handing over the reins of their most prized asset to a man who had won nothing in a decade. It’s symptomatic of their tenure at the club that the Glazers only started to smell the coffee, once Moyes’ catastrophes on the pitch began to reflect uncomfortably on the United brand. Who cares about losing matches and this football lark, what we really need is a manager good enough to keep the team competitive and thus appealing to South American crisp producers or tyre factories from Laos. The players must take a long, hard look at themselves too, for while Moyes might not have been the ideal conductor for this orchestra, playing for Manchester United should always be a privilege, particularly when cheques worth hundreds of thousand of pounds each are regularly deposited in their bank accounts each week. Leaking stories to the press and complain about the team selection on Twitter are embarrassing behaviours, the sort of thing the new manager could frankly do without and whoever will replace Moyes would do well to shift some deadwood out. The fans, or at least the overwhelming majority of it – that is those who don’t hire planes in the hope of forcing the manager to resign, nor those who are so up their own backsides to pretend of speaking on behalf of the supporters, via crass banners in the ground – are the only ones to come out of this beleaguered season with some credit. Even those who didn’t want Moyes generally stuck by him and most defended him until his position became untenable. A plaster can’t stop a haemorrhage, however hard it might try (if you’ll pardon the Moyesesque pun) and David Moyes had been his own worse enemy since being appointed manager last July. Ultimately, when it comes to ensuring success, Manchester United are like a lot of other football clubs: they must take drastic, and at times unpopular, action. It’s the only way forward. David Moyes, quite simply, had to go. |
Its official, David Moyes is no longer the manager of Manchester United. His spell lasted only two hundred and ninety five days.
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