Was Moyes treated unfairly at ManU?

[The Cowboy]

Biggest problem for Moyes was all those records that tumbled. Teams who hadn't beat Utd at OT found them there for the taking, and Moyes struggled badly to rectify that.

Utd rolled on that air of dominance at OT for years, and once that facade fell, he was doomed.

 

[hibbos left peg]

Remember his quote about being 'happy to get out of old Trafford alive', that was the type of thing that made me want him gone from the club, but when he got his big chance to manage the mancs i wished him well. Even tho after 11 seasons he did us out of some deserved compensation.
his conduct over the Baines transfer, crying in the press when we rejected the half a million pound bid, only served to make me want him to fail, and he duly obliged. Which made me like him again.
im conflicted when it comes to moyes.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

His choice of coaching staff seemed to pile more pressure on him - his own stature was under the microscope, so he could have done with someone to deflect that a bit. Someone like a Joe Jordan figure, say - someone connected to the club but not with the Ferguson regime, who has standing in the game.
Instead, he brings his own people in - commonly done, but was that squad going to listen to Round, Neville and Lumsden? Further undermined by having Giggs-the-moral-leper acting as a coaching link to the senior members of the squad, with predicatble results.

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

LOL at all the Moyes defending in here. He took the Champions to 7th. He couldn't even get Europa league with a team that pissed the league the year before. That is atrocious management so no I don't think that he's been unfairly treated.

Van Gaal actually managed to get United back in the Champions League.

His two best players Mata and Fellaini
were signed by Moyes. Give Moyes the money Van Goof spent and he would've got them there too.

 

[spence03]

Yes, of course he was. I think you give managers time though.

I think he created some of his own problems He should have kept some of the United coaching staff and maybe moved a few of the senior players on, such as Ferdinand and Evra. He tried to be mates, whereas at Everton he ruled with an iron fist when he first came in.

That said he was a very, very strange choice in the first place.

 

[cduff]

Yes, of course he was. I think you give managers time though.

I think he created some of his own problems He should have kept some of the United coaching staff and maybe moved a few of the senior players on, such as Ferdinand and Evra. He tried to be mates, whereas at Everton he ruled with an iron fist when he first came in.

That said he was a very, very strange choice in the first place.

I think taking over at United at that time was like jumping on a moving train. He basically had no time to settle it and judge the players/staff etc. At the time I thought he maybe should have kept some staff on but I guess from his point of view it was risky and he decided to bring over people he knew and trusted (staff and players). RM did something similar when he started with us although he did retain a lot of the backroom staff to be fair.