Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

[Russ Atmosphere]

Rather than the small-time view that he now wants Man Utd to fail, I still think he's co-managing them, and it's a disaster. The tactics aren't Moyes. The team selections aren't Moyes. Calling for refereeing protection of certain players isn't Moyes. He's not even dressing himself anymore. Moyes best hope is to buy Baines because everything went through him at Everton.

[spider-neil]

You don't want Manu's form so bad they get rid but you don't want them to have a sniff of a recovery as they are more than capable of going on a run. Sustained mediocrity is what's needed.

[Russ Atmosphere]

I wouldn't mind their form getting so bad they make terrible decisions. It won't be truly funny until they end the year with Comolli as their director of football.

[spider-neil]

I wouldn't mind their form getting so bad they make terrible decisions. It won't be truly funny until they end the year with Comolli as their director of football.

 

The danger is they get rid and get someone decent.

[Russ Atmosphere]

The danger is they get rid and get someone decent.

I doubt they'd risk falling out with Ferguson.

[Dr Nowt]

Don't understand the fear they may sack him.  It's abundantly clear they're not flush, and he has a 6 year contract.

 

We know ourselves that the cost to cut a failing manager is never limited to his own enormous payoff - it's all his staff, it's likely paying a fee for a new manager, it's the visible change of culture placing immediate pressure on any future manager who has a poor run of form because this precedent is seen by the media as an open goal.  In this case it's the cost of paying Fellaini off so he can go and work on a fairground somewhere.

 

The die is cast already for them, no manager will recover the points he was worth within the club, let alone those his unprecedented tenure grew to be worth outside of it.  Keep Moyes or sack him, either works well for us in truth.  Everytime I see the phrase "Sir Alex Ferguson, former Manchester United manager" it brings a smile as wide as the gap between their points totals with him and what they'll now accrue without him.

[ZonkoVille77]

He'll leave by "mutual consent" in the summer and go somewhere like Villa.

[Gnasher]

Getting worried for him now, all going downhill too fast.

 

He needs to up moral. He could try pinning loads of medals on his chest to prove he's a winner. It worked for prince Edward, every year he appears at the cenotaph draped in the things when the closet combat he's seen is playing a game of its a knockout.

 

Or he could organise a game show night to boast the moral of the whole squad. I suggest a bullseye night. Get Jim Bowen back to host it, " nothing in this game for two in a bed" or more apt, wheel out the league title and fa cup at the end of the show " lets have a look at what you could've won"

 

 

Or pretend he had a drive around Manchester all he saw was red flags, worked at everton.

 

 

Or pretend for the umteenth time the old chestnut that Cristiano Ronaldo would love to rejoin the club and the club are working on bringing him back.

 

 

Or sit in a darkened room with a bottle of whisky and play this old classic on loop

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-slwuoj9g

[Dr Nowt]

United's season in 7 seconds.

 

[Gnasher]

 

^ Joe Jordan would've got his head on that.

[Pureblood]

[xerxes]

To start with it looked like man u were in transition to becomeing Everton, now they look like transitioning into Preston.

[Champ]

 

I'd be worried about his health holding out. He looked like a dead man walking on the footage from SSN this morning (even more so than usual)

[raininblood]

Rumours abound that blotchy face is making a comeback as assistant manager with Moyes !

[Elite]

Rumours abound that blotchy face is making a comeback as assistant manager with Moyes !

Not a chance.

[Trevorjc]

^ Joe Jordan would've got his head on that.

 

Well it was closer to the dugout than the box  :P

[Razoray]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdPFJnjIgAATK6H.jpg

 

Stadium emptied out during injury time yesterday. The feeling of invinibility is gone. It's like Souness all over again.

[Josef Svejk]

 

He's had a stroke.

[YNWAViking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDfVezkQ4yg

 

 

Enjoying this.

[Elite]

I am enjoying Moyes new status of hapless buffoon.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

He's hitting that stage of half smiling in a nervous way when he's beaten now, like he's out of answers and bordering on the hysterical. It's all very Hodgson-esque. 

[Johnlj]

They better not sack him yet. Let him rot the club from the inside. Make those ridiculous signings ala Souness, and just let them slip outside any real chance of competing for the next many years.

[Anny Road]

They cannot sack him without at least appearing to give him a wad to invest in the squad.  i suspect this wad will come from selling Rooney or RVP plus a few others. They will do all they can to deflect any blame for their plight on the owners. Much as i dislike their support it will be a tinderbox should they appear to be in permanent decline as a result of the owners. Massive loss of potential sale revenue will be avoided at all costs as a result of fan unrest.

[Horus]

They cannot sack him without at least appearing to give him a wad to invest in the squad.  i suspect this wad will come from selling Rooney or RVP plus a few others. They will do all they can to deflect any blame for their plight on the owners. Much as i dislike their support it will be a tinderbox should they appear to be in permanent decline as a result of the owners. Massive loss of potential sale revenue will be avoided at all costs as a result of fan unrest.

 

They cannot sack him without at least appearing to give him a wad to invest in the squad.  i suspect this wad will come from selling Rooney or RVP plus a few others. They will do all they can to deflect any blame for their plight on the owners. Much as i dislike their support it will be a tinderbox should they appear to be in permanent decline as a result of the owners. Massive loss of potential sale revenue will be avoided at all costs as a result of fan unrest.

The funds won't come from selling anyone. Their investment is the only thing good ol' Malcolm is interested in, and he's not stupid. They will have money to invest without sales. the club has lost £200m in value since Moyes arrived, so they won't risk making that £400m by selling Rooney and signing a couple of players. Just wont happen. 

[Barney_Rubble]

They cannot sack him without at least appearing to give him a wad to invest in the squad. i suspect this wad will come from selling Rooney or RVP plus a few others. They will do all they can to deflect any blame for their plight on the owners. Much as i dislike their support it will be a tinderbox should they appear to be in permanent decline as a result of the owners. Massive loss of potential sale revenue will be avoided at all costs as a result of fan unrest.

I disagree. With that lot, there is an even bigger chance for the owners to 'cash-in' on this unique and not-to-be-missed opportunity - remember the green-and-gold scarfs bought from their club shop and other 'official' outlets?