Manchester United

[Muddled]

The Osman one was a joke, but the story of Moyes telling Ferdinand to watch what Jagielka does is true

Awesome! I'm glad one is on the money.

[john316]

Wonder who is briefing all the papers on how incompetent Moyes was? Didn't see this tawdry mess when Hodgson was despatched by us.

[G]

I'd be very worried about how much these players think of themselves if I was a United fan. If the next appointment doesn't go well these cunts will carry on taking a wage while undermining the club.

Hopefully

[Shaggy]

Ferdinand has been a big leaker this season and apparently also Cleverley has been leaking stuff to that McDonnell at the Mirror.

[RichC]

Moyes is being utterly buried in the news today.

I'll laugh my arse off if they get rolled over again this weekend

[Shaggy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2610731/David-Moyes-drove-fate-5am-night-twisting-turning.html

David Moyes drove to find his fate at 5am after a night of twisting and turning

A process that began in earnest during a meeting at a hotel on Sunday night finally reached its conclusion at Manchester United’s training ground at 7.40am on Tuesday.

United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward sat across the table from David Moyes and delivered the news the 50-year-old had known was coming. After 296 days as United manager, Moyes was suddenly an ex-United manager.

Moyes was angry. ‘How could this leak into the newspapers before I knew?’ he asked.

Woodward could offer only words of conciliation and regret. It had not, he explained, been his intention for the news to leak from within his club. The previous night, he added, he could not offer Moyes reassurance or otherwise as by that point United were deep into a due diligence process.

On Sunday night, the decision had been made and ratified by a meeting that included Woodward, David Gill, Sir Bobby Charlton and, of course, Sir Alex Ferguson. As we know, faith in Moyes had slipped away after defeat by Olympiacos in Greece in February. Sunday’s loss at Everton had only accelerated the separation process.

Moyes, of course, had known that his drive down Carrington Lane on Tuesday morning would be his last. As he guided his Chevrolet Captiva SUV down that long, bleak road, past the outlying Manchester airport parking and the barren, muddy fields of the nearby riding school, he knew precisely that only disappointment lay at the far end.

At least on this occasion there were no photographers. Moyes had grown to dislike them during his time at United, dashing out of airport side doors to avoid them. Too often the lenses had been focused on a man whose face was drawn pale by the pressure of defeat.

On Tuesday there were none waiting at the training-ground gates and he knew there wouldn’t be. It was, after all, 4.30am. Moyes, unable to sleep, had risen early from his home near Preston, determined to be behind his desk, doing his work, when the bad news came.

Following his sacking and United’s brief confirmation, and once a call to Richard Bevan, of the League Managers’ Association, had been made, Moyes addressed his coaching staff as it emerged that Phil Neville would remain and Steve Round and Jimmy Lumsden would not. Goalkeeping coach Chris Woods also remains.

By 9.30am Moyes had moved on to other staff at Carrington. After thanking them and wishing them well he addressed his players, some of whom followed him back into his office to express their regret. Whether any of them meant it remains unclear.

As interim manager Ryan Giggs took training alongside Neville and Under 19s coach Nicky Butt, Moyes and Woodward began their conversations with Bevan, who arrived just after 9am. Moyes’s compensation package will be around the relatively modest £4.5million mark, another side-effect of his failure to guide United into the Champions League places.

Woodward, it is understood, found the process difficult. When Moyes was handed a six-year contract last summer, nobody at Old Trafford expected to be ripping it up before the 2014 World Cup.

Inside the club, however, senior figures had grown nervous, then increasingly anxious this season. Defeats in December by Newcastle and Everton had spooked the board but they approached the new year hoping to see signs of progress.

But that defeat in Greece had left Woodward, Ferguson and the Glazers deflated. They began to realise things were getting worse, not better.

‘The football was just going backwards,’ said one source.

Interestingly, Ferguson is known to have all but given up on Moyes two months ago. As embarrassing as it is, he has admitted his mistake in driving the Scot’s appointment and fully endorsed the decision to terminate, made on Sunday night.

Equally, Moyes had sensed a drift in his mentor’s support. For all his failings as a United manager, his intuition clearly remains intact.

When he left the training ground at midday on Tuesday, a sobbing Moyes chose to do so through the back entrance. That was a shame. He has done nothing wrong and should leave with his chin up and chest out.

Moyes had grown tired of the cameras, though, seeing them as a means of the world gaining a clear, digital view straight to the heart of his problems. Soon they will be on someone else, though. For now his problems are somebody else’s.

As Moyes took his leave, Giggs was already having his lunch at the coaches’ table where the Manchester United manager used to sit. Giggs was seen laughing and joking, high-fiving team mates.

[Yozza]

[Shaggy]

Ian Ladyman @Ian_Ladyman_DM
Paul Scholes back at Carrington on training field with the first team. Story coming on Mail Online. #mufc

[Shaggy]

Manchester United @ManUtd
It's great to see Paul Scholes here at the Aon Training Complex today, assisting Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville. #mufc

[Bender]

How long till Media whore Beckham is wheeled in

[Reece]

They'd be fools not to try and tempt Clayton Blackmore out of retirement.

[Sarb]

Moyes being mugged off at Utd. Now he is gone all the legends are coming back

[Alex]

Maybe Robbie Savage will be back too

[Shaggy]

Giggs, Scholes, Butt and Neville. The charisma!

[kev776]

The last paragraph must be a Shaggy edit - it was breakfast, not lunch