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It was Sir Alex Ferguson who handpicked then-Everton boss David Moyes for the position that he was vacating after 26 years of service, however, the Scot has rejected the idea that Moyes’ failure at the club has anything to do with him.
“He hadn’t realised just how big United is as a club,” Ferguson wrote on the updated version of his book My Autobiography, as quoted on the Guardian. “The reason for playing at speed was that United players had been accustomed to operating that way,” he writes. “If the tempo slowed for any reason, I would be into them at half-time. ‘This is not us,’ I would say. Playing with speed never hindered our results. It was our way: energy and determination in the last third of the pitch.”
Time-up for Moyes
“There appears to be an accepted view out there that there was no process. Nonsense. We feel we did everything the right way: quietly, thoroughly, professionally.”
He then goes on to criticize Moyes for not listening to his advice for retaining Mike Phelan as the team’s assistant manager. “Maybe David felt that at such a massive club he had to be sure that all corners were covered in terms of his support system. I felt that network was already there, with plenty of great people already in important slots.”
“As the results deteriorated, each defeat was a hammer blow to him,” he adds. “I could see that in his demeanour. In January, we bought Juan Mata and that gave everyone a lift but I could see the walls squeezing in, leaving David with less and less room to breathe. I know that feeling from 1989, when we went through a terrible spell. You feel you are being crushed. The results gnawed away at David. Nobody could dispute how disappointing the season was. And it cost a man his job.”
Ferguson then talks about a meeting that the two managers had following Moyes’ termination. “Just David and me; private” – after United had lost 3-0 at home to Manchester City.”
Where is Moyes now?
?It has been six months since David Moyes’ termination as Manchester United’s manager and the Scot recently insisted it’s time he gets back into management. Moyes had also hit back at Manchester United, stating that he wasn’t given enough chances there.
“I got the job and I expected it to be a six-year plan,” he said. 'I expected to be given an opportunity to fulfil that and it wasn't what was expected. But Louis Van Gaal has got a difficult job as well, just like I did when I took over at the job, and he needs to be given that opportunity to get his mark on the team, turn it around.”
