Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

[Paco]

Paddy power already got a book out on next manager/assistant manager.

 

Ryan Giggs/ Rhodri Giggs 11/10

 

Ron Atkinson / Paul McGrath 5/2

 

Roy Hodgson/ Paul Koncielskis mum 5/1

 

Darren Fergurson/ ex wife Shirley 8/1

 

Roy Keane/ his dog 'fergie' 10/1

 

Paddy Crerland/ his therapist 16/1

 

Steve Bruce/ a beechball with fergies face drawn on it. 33/1

 

 

 

Not a bad list.

made me laugh. fuck it im having another easter egg.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

It's going to be a long night. Hang in there Moyseh

 

[Dr Nowt]

I wouldn't like Giggs, Scholes or the proper Neville brother being involved with any new manager though. Enjoyed this as much as the next man, but they're the last people we want involved in any new set-up.

[Phoenix]

Amazing he lasted so long. Looks like his contract made him easier/cheaper to sack with no champions league. No top four so bye bye, David. Thank you for a memorable season.

 

It does look that way. As soon as they can no longer mathematically return to the top four he gets sacked. 

[Anubis]

 

 

"First things first.  I've asked the lads to provide me with a list of their wives', girlfriends' and sisters' phone numbers..."

[Phoenix]

Surely Hodgson will be out of a job after summer. He has experience of steadying the ship.

[skend04]

I wouldn't like Giggs, Scholes or the proper Neville brother being involved with any new manager though. Enjoyed this as much as the next man, but they're the last people we want involved in any new set-up.

Wouldn't worry too much if it was any of them. Not many of slurs disciples have done well in management. It'll be fun to watch the fans turn on the playing legends next.

[Ranxerox]

NYSE has to be informed first and they are now reporting a parting of the ways, official club announcement soon

[KMD7]

Please bring the old drunken bastard back for the last few games, to watch us jump back on our perch while he's fumbling about in a drunken piss smelling haze in 7th.  He'll think he just dreamed the last 27 years.

[Guest davelfc]

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Ah well, a late spell of resurgence in the league to pinch a Europa league slot wouldn't harm.

[Adebisi]

Please don't go!

[Barney_Rubble]

Moyes' sacking by Manchester United 'imminent'

 

Moyes' sacking by Manchester United 'imminent'

ESPN staff

April 21, 2014

 

Sources at Manchester United have confirmed to ESPN that David Moyes' sacking by the club is imminent.

 

In an ironic twist, United's 2-0 defeat to Everton - on Moyes' first return to Goodison Park since leaving for Old Trafford last summer - appears to have proved to be the final straw after what has been a dismal campaign for the club.

 

Sir Alex Ferguson handpicked Moyes to be his successor at Old Trafford following 27 years in charge at Old Trafford, but Moyes has lasted just 347 days.

 

Moyes signed a six-year deal at United, but despite completing less than 12 months of it will only be paid one year of severance pay, according to reports.

 

Ryan Giggs is reportedly set to step into the breach until the end of the season.

 

The reigning Premier League champions have slumped to seventh in the table this season, and will finish the campaign with their lowest ever Premier League points total.

 

The defeat to Everton was their 11th in the league this campaign, and United will miss out on Champions League football next season for the first time since 1995-96.

 

Despite Moyes continuing to stress he had the long-term support of the club following Sunday's match, it appears that United's owners, the Glazer family, have finally lost patience with him.

 

Last week Moyes spoke of being "well into" his transfer plans for the summer, and said he hoped to sign several targets before the start of the World Cup on June 12.

 

Southampton left-back Luke Shaw had reportedly been lined up in a £30 million deal, with Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho also said to be one of Moyes' top targets.

 

Following the match at Everton, Moyes said: "They [the supporters] realise it has been a difficult season. They understand it has not been good, I recognise it has not been good, it needs to be better

 

"Everybody knows that we are on track to make changes and do some different things. We are rebuilding, we have got things we want to do."

 

Club sources told ESPN last week that the Glazers were demanding Moyes secure a Europa League finish, but even that could be out of reach for United now with the club six points behind sixth-placed Tottenham with four games remaining.

 

Moyes' reign has lurched from one disaster to another this season. United have lost to Liverpool, Manchester City and Everton home and away, with Ferguson even coming under fire from supporters near the directors' box during the 3-0 home defeat to Manuel Pellegrini's side.

 

A plane displaying the words "Moyes out - the wrong one" was flown over Old Trafford during United's next home game against Aston Villa, in response to the 'Chosen One' banner that adorns a section of the Stretford End in reference to Moyes' status as Ferguson's choice to succeed him.

 

Moyes has only taken six points from the other clubs in the Premier League's top seven this season, with one victory against Arsenal at home.

 

They have also suffered humiliating defeats at Old Trafford to West Brom and Newcastle, and went down 2-0 in their Champions League last-16 first leg in Olympiakos before Robin van Persie's hat-trick in the second leg sent them through to the quarter-finals.

 

United were also knocked out of the League Cup in the semi-finals by Sunderland, and suffered a third-round FA Cup exit at home to Swansea.

 

If the above is true, it looks as though Gollum will get just 1 year severance pay, pity that!

 

I am also hoping that Giggsy's appointment is long term so that he could continue the good work build on the strong foundations laid in by The Chosen One.

[Marko121]

Just hope they don't have anyone decent lined up, can't see it being Giggs long term

[Baltar]

Nooooo, please keep Moyes at United. He's the Chosen One. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Giggs long term could be a shrewd appointment.

 

They'd be good at playing away from home.

[Boss]

Giggsy will be sent off in the summer with 150 million in his cargo pants and end up spending it on enough blow to kill several large elephants, his mission will be simple, capture the elusive signings of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia, ploughing his way through enough fanny to make even Ghenghis Khan blush.

 

He'll return to Carrington like Hunter S Thompson out of Fear and Loathing, bucket hat, coloured sunglasses covering eyes as wide as cascading supernovas. He'll see Chris Smalling and Phil Jones appear as dinosaurs out the corner of his vision, before running off down the street in confusion. Imogen Thomas will comfort him 400 metres down the road, before both walk off buoyantly, her arm draped around his shoulder, his index finger shoved defiantly up her bum hole.

 

[magicrat]

Absolutely gutted at the news

Like suffering a bereavement

When things were going badly or you felt a bit down Dave had been there to make me smile

How will we cope without you

Thanks for the memories you big lovable chosen goon

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Phil Townsend, director of comms at #mufc tells @JohnSinnott “Nothing has happened at all. I don’t know where the suggestion has come from.”

[Pureblood]

I don't buy this idea. Why would you give someone a six year contract but build in all manner of get-out clauses? He's getting sacked because they're shite and it's going to cost them a fortune.

So why did they wait until it was mathematically certain?  If he was getting sacked for being shite it would've happened long before now. 

 

EDIT: just read Phoenix's post. 

[Guest davelfc]

So why did they wait until it was mathematically certain?  If he was getting sacked for being shite it would've happened long before now. 

 

IF there were clauses you can't just sack someone if you think they won't meet the criteria. 

 

All speculation of course.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Someone should ask Paddy Crerand.

[Guest davelfc]

Someone should ask Paddy Crerand.

 

I don't think he's realised bacon face has gone yet the deluded old cunt.

[deiseach]

So why did they wait until it was mathematically certain? If he was getting sacked for being shite it would've happened long before now.

Because they haven't got a Scooby? Maybe you're right about the terms of the contract, but he was mad to sign it - although that could be proof, if any were needed, of his loser status.

[TheHowieLama]

Does Giggs have badges?