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That's the worrying thing, I DON'T see him booted. They signed him on a megabucks deal that they won't want have to pay out on with a replacement on a similar contract. Don't get me wrong I wanted him sacked by half-time today but they'll probably give one more year and a massive transfer budget providing he offloads players at the same time.

The risk of course is he uses his second year to further destroy the club, something I have a bad feeling he'll succeed in doing, all the while maintaining that "I don't have a clue how to manage a team of this size" look on his face.

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What do you think I'm hoping for then?

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Don't be hasty, he's a great manager

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For a team like Everton maybe.

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What a team that beat utd and is chasing champions league and therefore as a team doing better than utd, surely it's fergies fault anyway, he gave him the job.

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This United team is technically stronger than the one that won the league by 11 points last season.

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It's also technically a year older and more prone to injury plus the competition is better than twelve months ago, this season has been in the post a while and has finally arrived, it would've come no matter who was in charge.

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Also Alex Ferguson is a better manager and couldn't have been replaced like-for-like anyway.

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True but only the most incompetent manager with zero experience of managing a club of this size could take a stronger team and oversee them perform worse than any other in more than 20 years.

That takes exceptional talent.

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I don't know. It wasn't exactly a unspoken theory that Fergie was going at the right time when he left. The team had a weak midfield and an ageing defence and needed a lot of work. Moyes couldn't have come in at a worse time from his point of view.

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There's no doubt that the current United team is one of the weakest in some time however SAF was about to get last year's performance out of them. While no other manager would be able to repeat that even an above-decent one would find it difficult to drag the team down to the level we're at now.

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The thing with Man Utd is in the next month do they stick and give David Moyes up to £200 million this summer and hope he gets the right players in or do they twist and decide that he is not up to the job and get a big name in?.

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Well yeah!!

That's the risk factor I mentioned. What if they give him another year to bring in the right players which will obviously cost a lot of money and he continues to ruin the club? They aren't likely to agree another big transfer budget if he doesn't bring enough success to fund it.

This is why I still can't see why they brought in a manager who hasn't won any club trophies and has zero experience at this level.

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Sir Alex was a great manager but basically to allow him to have such a influence in picking the next manager was folly in my opinion.

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Well as a MUFC fan this pains me to say but congrats to Liverpool for winning the EPL. Ok so its not actually over yet but i think they will win it and again it pains me to say that Liverpool deserve it.

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Yes, i agree (even with the pain :))

Who would have thought at the start..that Liverpool would win the league..and Atletico Madrid the spanish league.

The odds would have been good :)