Yesterday, LFC legend Mark Lawrenson accused Manchester United of an egregious 'lack of respect' over the handling of David Moyes future, and now that United have sacked 'The Chosen One', Michael Owen and Jamie Carragher have given their views on the issue.
After learning of Moyes' merciless excision from Old Trafford, Owen tweeted:
"With the summer looming and a huge transfer kitty available, United had to be 100% Moyes was the right man.
"Evidently they didn't have the confidence in him in which case makes the timing absolutely right"
Carra took a similar line to Lawro, and expressed his dismay with the classless handling of the announcement. he told Sky Sports:
"I was disappointed with the way the news broke, and it doesn't put Man utd in too good a light. It was inevitable that he was going to leave the job. Some of the players have let him down, but you can't sack a team of players. It's been a disaster season for them."
Rather surprisingly, Man Utd legend Gary Neville also took a similar view to Lawro and Carra, and slammed his former club for allowing the rumour-mongering to escalate. He told the Daily Mail:
"I find it repulsive how rumours break. I don’t like it, I’ll never get used to it, but it needs to be clarified quickly. They [Man United] need to break rank and make a statement".
Then, after United announced the news of Moyes' swift transfer to the Old Trafford scrapheap, Neville barked:
"I don't like it, it's not the way in which the club should portray itself. I'm a traditionalist and I think it could have been dealt with a whole lot better. Football managers now just chucked about, disregarded, rubbished. Decent men, good men just get thrown away and that's not just David Moyes"
As much as it pains me to say it, Neville is a damn good pundit, and his views are frequently fair, and well-balanced, and this situation is no exception. He better watch it, though, or United's mewling fans will probably turn on him and fly a 'Neville Out' banner over Sky Sports' studios.
As for Neville's comments about managers being 'chucked about'. Give me a break! These guys are paid millions to live the dream, and then get paid millions when they fail! Nice work if you can get it, so forgive me if I find it hard to sympathise with this particular first-world problem.
Moyes' sacking is, of course, a crushing blow for Liverpool. It opens up the possibility that United's slide into abject mediocrity may well be prematurely arrested, and that's no good for anyone. If they get the right manager, they'll inevitably improve next season, which will make retaining the league title even harder.
On a related note: if only Liverpool had been as ruthless in 1992 after Graeme Souness's first full season? The whole course of LFC history might've changed for the better...
Author: Jaimie K
After learning of Moyes' merciless excision from Old Trafford, Owen tweeted:
"With the summer looming and a huge transfer kitty available, United had to be 100% Moyes was the right man.
"Evidently they didn't have the confidence in him in which case makes the timing absolutely right"
Carra took a similar line to Lawro, and expressed his dismay with the classless handling of the announcement. he told Sky Sports:
"I was disappointed with the way the news broke, and it doesn't put Man utd in too good a light. It was inevitable that he was going to leave the job. Some of the players have let him down, but you can't sack a team of players. It's been a disaster season for them."
Rather surprisingly, Man Utd legend Gary Neville also took a similar view to Lawro and Carra, and slammed his former club for allowing the rumour-mongering to escalate. He told the Daily Mail:
"I find it repulsive how rumours break. I don’t like it, I’ll never get used to it, but it needs to be clarified quickly. They [Man United] need to break rank and make a statement".
Then, after United announced the news of Moyes' swift transfer to the Old Trafford scrapheap, Neville barked:
"I don't like it, it's not the way in which the club should portray itself. I'm a traditionalist and I think it could have been dealt with a whole lot better. Football managers now just chucked about, disregarded, rubbished. Decent men, good men just get thrown away and that's not just David Moyes"
As much as it pains me to say it, Neville is a damn good pundit, and his views are frequently fair, and well-balanced, and this situation is no exception. He better watch it, though, or United's mewling fans will probably turn on him and fly a 'Neville Out' banner over Sky Sports' studios.
As for Neville's comments about managers being 'chucked about'. Give me a break! These guys are paid millions to live the dream, and then get paid millions when they fail! Nice work if you can get it, so forgive me if I find it hard to sympathise with this particular first-world problem.
Moyes' sacking is, of course, a crushing blow for Liverpool. It opens up the possibility that United's slide into abject mediocrity may well be prematurely arrested, and that's no good for anyone. If they get the right manager, they'll inevitably improve next season, which will make retaining the league title even harder.
On a related note: if only Liverpool had been as ruthless in 1992 after Graeme Souness's first full season? The whole course of LFC history might've changed for the better...
Author: Jaimie K
Indeed I'm gutted that he didn't stay for at least another season, the indifference of spending 60 odd mill I would of loved to see him waste another 100 on players.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note I love how you say at the end "retaining the title even harder" :D
Slightly premature perhaps?
Call it forward-thinking ;-)
ReplyDeleteProfessional millionaire players not trying ?. what if they decide they don't like the next manger ?. the new guy better clear the old guard out right away cut out the poison
ReplyDeleteThe next manager will also be in the shadow of Ferguson. Replicating that success quite honestly is not going to happen in the near future no matter who they appoint.
ReplyDeleteGo Atletico Madrid!
ReplyDeleteI hope no Chelsea players get injured, :)
ReplyDeleteCech going off, fell awkwardly on his elbow :-o
ReplyDeleteThis could be good news for us!
ReplyDeleteThen again Shwarzer is hardly a pushover.
ReplyDeleteNah, he's just trying to avoid the sas onslaught at the weekend;-)
ReplyDeleteHe didn't rub glory all over himself against Sunderland.
ReplyDeleteRather him than Ceck, Terry also down, but Lampard out of 2nd leg, so will play on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI'm not frightened as much as Lampard anymore. Still a good player and has the ability to change the game but nowhere near like he could. Again the same with Terry, I still don't see why Mourinho chose him over Luiz but then again what do I know they have been solid defensively this season.
ReplyDeleteThat's true, probably because he decided to leave Fulham to become a second choice keeper.
ReplyDeleteAs the old saying goes, "you don't want to be the guy to replace the legend. you want to be the guy who replaces the guy who replaced the legend"
ReplyDeleteand then he goes on and does a Clough in the near future.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure they can't do much worse than Moyes and that they will get in a better manager. However,with no European football they may find signing players a bit difficult this summer
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised. It was a big call for Moyes to get the job in the first place but United gave him a 6 year contract and that gives a very strong message that they intended to stick with him through some expected bad times. These are indeed bad times but Moyes needed more time to exert his influence and one season would never be enough. Maybe next season would only have been marginally better but it seems a knee-jerk reaction. There are just not that many candidates out there and United are now in a position where they need to groom their own Rodgers, Klopp or Martinez while experienced alternatives are no guarantee of anything. A new, younger manager would have to be afforded at least two seasons to get things back on the right track again. This is a really bad position to be in and highlights that it was a terrible decision to appoint Moyes in the first place. Well done to big Al for screwing that one up.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, United fans can suck on that for a while. They'll struggle to compete again next year, have no CL income and need to spend money to replace their aging squad. I can't see them back in the top 4 for at least a couple of years, hopefully longer. To see them be overtaken by Everton is an odd feeling for us as Liverpool fans but I think we like it.
Watching Chelsea this season you'd think Sam allardyce was their manager. Horrible to watch
ReplyDeleteOff topic : our beloved MD is stupid enuf to announce we had huge budget this coming summer ! In my oppinion we will had problem like gunner which whoever we linked will be doubled the $$$....The 1 should be sacked is Ian Ayre as well
ReplyDeleteIm sure there is a role behind the scenes played by the neville bro's, giggs and scholes.
ReplyDeleteMoyes may have been poor but he was severely let down by his players. Barring de gea,evra and rooney no one really played for him. Carrick looked like he was having a stroll in the park, rvp didnt rate him, rio wasnt interested either.
I do not think they will have much trouble as some people think.
ReplyDeleteThey can still offer amazing wages and signing on fee's. There are many players who would be willing to miss a year out of the CL for 300k per week.
They still have the ability to spend on a massive scale and offer stupid wages.
ReplyDeleteI would not rule Utd out next season.
The difficulty for Utd will be if they do not qualify for the CL next season, then there problems will be come much bigger.
That may be true but there are clubs who can offer big wagen AND champions league football. As we have foundation out, it ain't that simple
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