Manchester United Superthread 2014 Mod warning Post #1880 #2613

There's going to be a lot of bullshít reported as fact in the coming weeks in regards to Moyes and the team with the hunger for headlines and stories that is building. That 'Carrick watching Osman videos' claim is a prime example, it would be a DVD if anything! Seriously though, there is enough documented evidence broadcast by Sky Sports/BT/BBC each week to use against Moyes without having to buy into the creative writing of another pissed off fan. Any one of us here who can read the situation as it is currently presented can conjure up something similar...

-Chico had to be talked into returning to Manchester by close friends after the recent international break. Sources close to the out-of-favour Manchester United striker say that he now sees absolutely no future for himself at Old Trafford, with the 25 year old stating that "...once the summer arrives, I will be happy."

The writing was on the wall last summer and I for one didn't see it at the time. There are things I remember that should have been ringing like alarm bells back then. Cleaning out the entire backroom staff and bringing in all his own from Everton was Moyes' first mistake. I thought at the time that it was a bit of a left-field maneuver, but I also bought into the notion that him and his coaching staff would acclimatise to the championship winning mentality of Manchester United, and not do the opposite - Turn us into a sub-par Moyes' Everton.

I should have known when SSN tried to grab a quick comment from Moyes last May after the betting was suspended on him taking over at Old Trafford. You remember the 'interview'? They tried to nab him as he was coming out of some meeting (possibly the parting one with Kenright) in London and they asked him "David, are you going to be the next manager of Manchester United?" Moyes didn't respond verbally, just ran off to a waiting car, but the expression on his face was one of absolute joy and excitement, he actually answered the question with his body language! I remember thinking at the time 'Of course he's delighted, he's about to occupy one of the biggest jobs in football, good luck to him'. Now with a bit of hindsight and 30 league games of regression, I see that brief bit of footage as something else - Moyes demeanor and expressions in that video is the exact same of a homeless man who just found a fat stack of €500 notes lying on the ground. Telling.

Give him £200,000,000 to spend in the summer? I wouldn't give him £200 to bet on June 23rd 2014 being a Monday. As I've said in the past, I can't see him getting a string of results even with a fantasy European Team of the Season lining out at Old Trafford, no amount of money and new shiny players will make this any better. Maybe that isn't entirely true, but I don't see the sense in trying to secure 6-7 world class talents with this manager when 2-3 plus a couple of signings 'for the future' would more than suffice under a different manager.

While I hope beyond hope that the wheels are turning behind the scenes in Old Trafford to make a summer replacement possible, there is an underlying fear I have that the higher-ups have no intention of doing that, especially with Fergie so influential, and that what we are seeing will become the norm for the next few years at the least.

Personally I wish David Moyes well but he and his coaching staff at Utd have shown nothing in almost a full season of football to suggest that they have a masterplan to make Manchester United play and compete like Manchester United should be doing. That said, I can't see him going before the end of the season and think that we're going to have to just grind it out as fans until then.