Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

[ZonkoVille77]

He's gone. Just confirmed.

[Josef Svejk]

Fuck.

[Manny]

Waaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaah!

[RobC]

At least it means that Emile Wellbeck will stay

[Razoray]

This is absolute genius. Nearly choked!

[Lee909]

Spurs next I reckon

[Major Tom]

Meh

[Sweeney287]

Hopefully Giggs does a wonderful job to the end of the season and they give it to him.

 

I hope they don't get Klopp.

[TheDrowningMan]

Spurs next I reckon

Spurs fans wouldn't approve of his brand of football.

[matt1983]

Does this mean there's iPads for sale?

[Guest davelfc]

Joke of a club with their managerial roundabout, what ever happened to giving managers time? 

[deiseach]

22/4/2014 - the day the laughter died.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Manchester United should turn to Ryan Giggs as a short-term replacement for David Moyes

 

By Henry Winter, Football Correspondent10:12PM BST 21 Apr 2014

Long-serving winger has all the qualities to make an exceptional manage and René Meulensteen would be an able lieutenant

 

Never, ever, ever underestimate Ryan Giggs. All the talk is of experienced, charismatic European managers to succeed David Moyes as the manager of Manchester United, men such as Jürgen Klopp, but at some point at Old Trafford, maybe even as soon as today as short-term caretaker, Giggs will be manager. It is his destiny.

 

He has worked hard on his Pro-Licence, getting “badged up” in dressing-room parlance. He studied Sir Alex Ferguson for 20 years, and Moyes for a few months, absorbing lessons, good and bad.

 

He is ambitious. Once Moyes is dismissed, United’s board are expected to place the side in the tender hands of Giggs, assisted by Nicky Butt, and the club should consider adding the support of René Meulensteen.

 

United were always going to be the poorer the moment Moyes signalled that he did not want to retain the Dutchman’s coaching expertise and wisdom. Meulensteen has strong opinions and will voice them. Nobody did that to Moyes, who made unchecked mistakes from dugout to press conference.

 

Installing a Giggs-Meulensteen-Butt caretaker axis would give United’s board time to find a successor, to commence the complicated courtship of the likes of Klopp. It would also give the board an opportunity to have a look at Giggs in the role, to assess the reaction of fans and players.

 

“Management does interest me,’’ Giggs told me once. When I asked what a Giggs team would be like, he smiled: “I would like a few wingers in there.’’

 

The emphasis would be on attack, on adventure, on taking on opponents, on raging against the ticking clock and unflattering scorelines, on never giving up. On reverting to the Ferguson way, the United way, after the timidity of Moyes. There would be no deference to rivals from Giggs in his pre-match utterances, a Moyes weakness that has infuriated United followers.

 

There would be no fear of the media; I helped give him a mock press conference during his Pro-Licence studies at St George’s Park and he just could not be caught out. He was polite, controlled, confident. He was in charge. He knew all the ruses; he had watched the laird and master, Ferguson, in action for a couple of decades.

 

Could he handle the pressure? Yes. This is a man who has lived in the public’s scrutiny since his teenaged years and remained sane, whose private life was all over the front pages and yet he remains grounded, if occasionally guarded, with those new to his company.

 

Otherwise, he is good, frank company. A rare coffee with Giggs is a privilege, an education and a reminder of his managerial potential. It is in his eyes. There is a hardness there, an unrequited hunger for more success. It might stem from his early years, from growing up without a father figure because of the estrangement between his parents.

 

The father figure in Giggs’s life was a manager, a Scot who protected him, chastised him, and helped his fulfil his dreams. The role of the manager is huge for Giggs. No wonder he sees his next job in the dugout. Carrington and Old Trafford are his homes.

 

He has absorbed knowledge from Ferguson down the years, heard the team-talks and noted how Ferguson knew the names of all the staff at Carrington, the names of the schoolboys breaking through, even their parents’ names. He really knows only one manager – the best.

 

Giggs’s thirst for knowledge has always kept him ahead of the rest, kept him playing into his 40s, and set him on the path to management. He talks to United’s sports scientists on a daily basis, anything to extend his career and understand players better.

 

He speaks to the coaches. He works with the players, taking delight in Adnan Januzaj’s hunger to learn. They have talked of the skills required to take on full-backs, the strength needed off the field to deal with the limelight. Giggs is already shaping United’s future.

 

Now embarked on the player-coaching journey, Giggs is still a fighter, still moaning in the dressing-room, admitting that if “someone’s made a mistake, I’ll let them know”, shouting “what were you thinking?’’

 

If Giggs talks, players listen. He commands respect. Partly it is his delivery, which brooks no argument, but it is also the playing pedigree of a man who has won 13 Premier Leagues, four FA Cups, four League Cups and two Champions Leagues, whose blood runs United red.

 

Great players do not often make great managers. Being able to do skills instinctively is no preparation for explaining them. Legends often lack patience with lesser footballing mortals. Appointing Giggs would run against accepted footballing practice yet there is something special about him, something that radiates “unfinished business” with United.

 

Meulensteen has never been in any doubt that Giggs possesses the skills-set to dominate a dugout and shape a team’s fortunes with his nous rather than his feet.

 

“Without a shadow of doubt Giggs can be a manager,’’ Meulensteen told me in February. “He’s got enormous knowledge about the game.

 

"He’s a very good thinker. He’ll be a very shrewd decision maker. He’s tough. Believe me, Giggs is tough. He’ll handle the media and the stress with ease. It’s about getting the right guys about him.’’

 

Meulensteen could do that. As a short-term double act, with Butt assisting, it could just work.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10778690/Manchester-United-should-turn-to-Ryan-Giggs-as-a-short-term-replacement-for-David-Moyes.html

 

[Marko121]

but....but....they're better than this??  Only other clubs sack their Manager

[Bad Red Bull]

All good things must come to an end! It was fun while it lasted.

 

Now to search for other options for my daily dose of laughs.... Not gonna be easy

[M_B]

C'mon Fat Sam. Get your CV out. You are the man for this job. Make Madrid regret not giving you the chance.

[Guest davelfc]

I doubt any replacement could break as many records as Moyes did in his short time there. Damn shame they sacked him, he should have had time, time to rebuild the team, spend 200 million in the summer. The comedy potential was huge.

 

A sad day on Merseyside. 

[Jairzinho]

Decent of Henry Winter to represent our interests.

[M_B]

Or perhaps Steve Bruce? Deserves a chance surely?

[Guest davelfc]

The Glazer family appear to have sanctioned the removal of Moyes as far back as the Champions League defeat at Olympiakos on 25 February. The decision to get rid of the 50-year-old was discussed and possibly ratified at a recent United board meeting but there is a financial motive behind delaying removing him until now. 

 

The mathematical impossibility of United finishing in the top four this season, following their 11th Premier League defeat of the season at Goodison Park on Sunday, means that United need only give Moyes a one-year pay-off under the terms of his five-year deal, rather than honour the full four years left on that contract.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/david-moyes-to-be-sacked-manager-waits-for-ruthless-sacking-but-manchester-uniteds-decision-was-made-in-february-9273567.html

[setreal]

Ah well.

[beejay]

Funny as fuck if the new manager bans Ferguson, him watching every game was always gonna cause problems but Moyes wasn't strong enough to do anything about it.

 

They might go for Martinez, that would lead to mass frothing at the mouth from the bitters 

[Bad Red Bull]

I dont know who the bigger fool is - The Glazers for appointing him based on slurface's suggestion or Moyes for allowing a clause that will give him only a year's pay-off for not finishing in the top 4. 

[Guest davelfc]

I dont know who the bigger fool is - The Glazers for appointing him based on slurface's suggestion or Moyes for allowing a clause that will give him only a year's pay-off for not finishing in the top 4. 

 

I think his ego got the better of him there, he must have thought that it would all just run the same and they would stroll in to the top four. 

[Bjornebye]

Any chance we can lodge an appeal against the sacking?