#MoyesOut Yay! Moyes appointment only made sense if in the short term he could ensure that the club was ticking over with the ideology, culture, and methods firmly entrenched by SAF. He was hired because he supposedly ensured consistency and stability. Instead, Moyes, Woodward, Round, P Neville, Lumsdan and Woods was created as an entirely new senior management team. It is unprecedented at any Fortune 500 company that an entire board is replaced in one go so I have no idea why anybody thought we would be successful with such a transition. I admired Brendon Rodgers for the amount of time he invested in learning about Liverpools traditions and history in his early months at Liverpool and that he went out of way to emotionally connect with his fan base and the local area. Moyes has not cultivated the same relationships in Manchester. And of course his record in the transfer market spending €75m but delivering no impact at all in the team has been a disaster. The job for me was very easy: Allow SAFs coaches to run the club, as was, for the first few months and simply observe and absorb the clubs methods. Use existing club intelligence to immediately recruit a suitably classy central midfield ball winner and perhaps a left back. Use the first months to build relationships with senior players and staff, meet senior and influentials supporters and stakeholders within Manchester and get to Christmas in the top 4 of the table and still in the cups. Only after about 100 days should he start thinking about implementing any new ideas he has, but even then, it needed to be in a phased and coherent manner. He was given a 6 year contract … he had plenty of time to go about his work in a planned and systematic manner and so not change things that were working perfectly fine. None of that is rocket science …. Managing the first 100 days of any new senior appointment is a well established path which all seasoned professionals are aware of. But it seems Moyes was hell bent of being Mr HardMan, wanted to hit the ground running and rip out the heart of the club. I wonder if SAF knew that his protege and friend would so brazenly disregard every principle he has established at his beloved club? Moyes tried to fix problems that did not exist, ignored issues that have been plainly obvious and seemingly had very little respect for the amazing work done at the club in years gone past. Press leaks like SAFs footballing operation being years behind the modern world, that our squad was simply not good enough, that the team required enormous restructuring were all made to help cover up his own limitations and capability in the job. Its been the white elephant in the room for too long. Simply put, Moyes was not the man for the job, and the club has suffered a heavy penalty in trying to make that decision work. Patrick Kalotis Ahmad Niaz Murshed
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:36:31 +0000
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