Now then. This is a new blog post that I will address to some people I want to address, and talk some shit about the situation we find ourselves in.
Yes, David Moyes is doing spectacularly poorly. David Moyes is seventh in the league, out of the FA Cup and on the end of a defeat in the first leg of the Capital One Cup semi final. Manchester United havent excelled over 90 minutes in any game domestically all season. Manchester United play predictably to the point where its catastrophically easy for the opposition to stop our attacks and make their own effective.
But:
Moyes has come in at a time when Rio and Vidic have sharply declined and Evra has continued his downward spiral into the very depths of fuck. Carrick, Rooney and van Persie have struggled with injuries all season (of course, this might be partially Moyes fault).
Thats six senior experienced players, all of which youd expect to start. And yet three are slipping in quality fast with their replacements not entirely ready yet, and the other three are or have been injured for large portions of the season.
Ferguson left Moyes with this team; with four potentially great young defenders but none ready to prove it just yet, three on their way out, and Alexander Buttner.
With a central midfield made up of a 40 year old, a 32 year old, someone with a debilitating disease, a number ten transformed into a number six by way of a number 23, a number 41 and two number 57s hold the fucking soy sauce.
With an extremely one footed winger, an extremely selfish winger, and an extremely exceptionally shit fucking pussy of a winger.
And four strikers. One of which wanted out, and is showing some good form for a manager everyone assumed hed have a problem with. Currently injured. One who scored a few goals but has returned to the perennially injured state he was a few years ago. One who has also suffered his fair share of injuries this season but is young and improving. And one who is as only as good as the service he gets, which is diabolical at the moment.
Do I think hes made mistakes? Certainly, especially post-match and definitely on the pitch. Weve been lacking in energy and desire, in unpredictability and penetration, in calm, measured, attractive football, and in tactical decisions from the bench. Moyes absolutely has to improve in these regards.
But he came to United a month and a half later than necessary because we didnt want to pay up. He missed out on transfer targets because we didnt want to pay up. He has been left with a squad that, counting the injuries weve had this year and the improvement of the other title rivals, Ferguson would be probably just about scraping fourth with.
Moyes deserves our time. He deserves to build his own squad. He deserves to have a run with a fit squad. He deserves to be given the keys to the kingdom that Pellegrini, Mourinho, Rodgers, Wenger and (tee hee) Baldini were.
The summer was a catastrophe and I find it hard to blame Moyes much for it. He was walking into a job that the greatest British manager in an era had given up, and not to mention Gill, and then he was expected to use the negotiating powers of the big boys to go after the big players.
Now, Pellegrini came in to a club that will spend money, having the experience of working at Madrid. Mourinho came to a club that will spend money. Arsenal have Wenger, who has enough credit in the bank that he could sanction 40m signings.
Liverpools summer signings remain to be seen if theyre a success for the majority, but the ones that are looking most likely (Mig and Sakho) are ones that came in positions we didnt need; who knew that Rio and Evans would drop off so much, that Jones one of our best players this season would be injured, and we certainly didnt need a goalkeeper.
Spurs sold someone for 100m.
Moyes came into a club where the owners are particularly tight when it comes to spending money, where Gill and Ferguson had gone, and in his place came a Glazer man and more importantly not a football man. A banker, I think? Of course hes going to be a tight cunt with money.
Moyes spent 27m on Fellaini; its a lot of money, but Fellaini cost 15m for Everton and had proven absolutely worth that money. After continual fuck ups by a) Woodward at the negotiating table and b) the Glazers for not sanctioning another fucking ten million for Woodward to put towards Fabregas, Moyes was left with no choice but to go for what he knows. An understandable decision I think, even if Fellaini was overpriced.
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Ignoring the squad he made at Everton is fucking ludicrous. There is some absolutely absurd retrospective editing to his time there, I heard all manner of bullshit when Everton went to Arsenal and got a 1-1 draw. MARTINEZ GIVING BARKLEY A CHANCE = Moyes played Barkley at a younger age at the Emirates in a 0-0 draw last season. SUCH ATTACKING SPIRIT AT OLD TRAFFORD = Moyes drew 4-4 at Old Trafford a few years ago. THEY HAVE FINALLY BEATEN MANCHESTER UNITED = Beat United only last season. There was no mention of home or away from the commentator.
They played good vibrant football based on the same way Moyes plays football with us, and that is partly the reason he was picked to manage us. He plays a 4-2-3-1/4-4-2, same as Fergie, and anyone who says Everton were boring to watch last year are following a media narrative and being fucking stupid counts. They werent. Have they improved this year? Yes, but theyve taken advantage of two expensively assembled squads who have no need for talents like Lukaku and Barry right now and can just lend them out for a year instead of Everton actually committing to purchasing them, and they can even take someone from Barcelona.
Theres an Everton fan who is the most disrespectful, illegible fucking ape sometimes. I like him, but he talks utter cock a lot. Moyes consistently finished fifth, sixth, even fourth once and got knobbed out of the CL by a dodgy penalty decision if I remember correctly, with a far poorer squad than he had now in a stronger period for the league. Finished above Liverpool a fair few occasions, and its entirely disrespectful to claim after a few months in the job that Moyes was holding Everton back and Martinez will take them to the cusp of fucking immortality and relentless cock gobblings by flavour of the month mangoes. Lets see where Everton are at the end of the year, hmm?
Im not even Moyes biggest fan. But hes been fucked over by Fergie, the Glazers, and a lot of his players this season. He has to take a huge portion of the blame, but that has to be shared. The injuries might be his fault, but they might not. If theyre not, then hes working without two or three of the only quality players Ferguson left him with and that cant be attributed to him.
PLUG talks about Di Matteo winning the CL with Chelsea, conveniently ignoring the fact they finished sixth themselves with a stronger squad than we have now, and ignoring the fact that they were lucky not to have two crucial penalties scored against them in the final and the semi final. Theres cunt words like deserve and you make your own luck bandied around, and then theres Drogba kicking people every five minutes and great players like Messi and Robben missing pens. Thats fucking DEVIL FUCKING DEALS.
Chelsea also lost at Sunderland not two weeks ago. No one called for Mourinhos head there, and theyve got a better squad than us and a better manager, and they went out earlier. Granted theyre doing much better in the league but teetering on the edge in the COC is better than not being in it.
Hes not clueless, as proven with his work at Everton. Liverpool hired Rodgers who had one promotion under his belt. I dont subscribe to the notion that you have to have won every fucking thing under the sun in order to prove youre good enough to work at a top club. I think Moyes proved that at Everton to be honest.
Maybe hes the wrong fit for the club, but its not through lack of managerial ability if that is the case.
CLEFF
all we do is send the ball wide and whip in crosses we did this under Ferguson but our best strikers werent injured and the players were just playing better. Maybe both of these are Moyes faults, in which case he should be accountable. But maybe they arent and our players are just fucking gobshites.
maybe its because we have such a poor midfield no fucking shit. Ferguson has a lot to answer for in that regard.
he had the chance to remedy that last summer but he cocked that up again, I find it hard to give him the lions share of the blame for the summer; not because I genuinely believe hes fucking Moyeezus, but because the club let Gill and Ferguson go at the same time, seemed unwanting to cough up for the big players, and Woodward is a fucking novice.
Moyes main faults to me so far are his absolutely embarrassing post match comments, including referee performances and transfer business bullshit that makes him sound like he has no idea what hes doing, and the fact he got rid of an established back room staff. But that second point, hes a coach on the training field, far more so than Fergie was at this point. We cant simultaneously say he has to be his own man and then chastise him when he wants to take matters into his own hands with that.
Do I believe we should spend money this January, even if we have to overpay? Yes. Do I believe the Glazers and Woodward have a massive say in if thats possible? Yes. So its unfair to blame Moyes for that. On one hand he might just be tempering expectation because hes been told he cant have a war chest and hes the one taking bullets for it.
I might sound overly defensive, but its pissing me off the amount of people who are placing the blame solely on him.
