David Moyes is set to be sacked as Manchester United manager any day from now
This is after the club’s owners, the Glazer family, decided to end the Scot’s disastrous tenure at Old Trafford,the daily telegraph (uk) reports. Ryan Giggs, with Nicky Butt as his assistant, will take charge until the end of the season.
Giggs has served as player-coach under Moyes while Butt has worked with the reserves.
The Glazers have handed executive vice-chairman
Ed Woodward the mandate to dismiss Moyes less
than 12 months into his £4million-a-year, six-
year contract after United’s defeat at Everton on
Sunday confirmed their failure to qualify for next
season’s Champions League.
United have yet to actively pursue a replacement
for Moyes, with the Glazers remaining supportive
of the former Everton manager until the
weekend. Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp
has admirers at Old Trafford after building a
young, vibrant and successful team in Germany,
and the 46-year-old is expected to be favoured
ahead of candidates such as Louis van Gaal and
Diego Simeone. Giggs’s lack of experience is
likely to count against him securing the job in
the long term.
Carlo Ancelotti, currently in charge of Real
Madrid, could be in the frame as he has failed to
to settle at the Bernabéu following his move
from Paris St-Germain last summer.
Manchester United are poised to become the worst defending champions in Premier League history
Senior United figures have also noted that
United are poised to become the worst
defending champions in Premier League history,
equalling the seventh-place finish of Ray
Harford’s Blackburn Rovers in 1996.
Concern has grown among the United hierarchy
over the direction the team has taken under
Moyes and several senior players’ disaffection
has been transmitted to influential power-
brokers at the club.
Moyes has been given several opportunities to
arrest the team’s slump this season, with his
position most under threat after the 3-0 defeat
at home to Liverpool last month, but there is
now a realisation that the manager has been a
central factor in the downturn .
Ferguson’s support of Moyes, after recommending
him for the job, is also understood to have been
eroded by the poor performances and results, as
well as by the breakdown of the manager’s
relationship with the increasingly marginalised
Giggs .
source: telegraph.co.uk
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