Manchester United head honcho Sir Jim Ratcliffe has named the one manager that the club should never have appointed.
Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 – having led the club to a 13th Premier League title – 10 men, including caretakers and interim managers, have stepped into the Old Trafford hotseat.
All have hoped to lead the club back to the pinnacle of English football. All have failed.
Billionaire Ratcliffe, now in charge of all footballing operations at the club, is hoping Ruben Amorim will be different, having made the Portuguese his first managerial appointment after parting ways with the man he inherited – and of course gave a four-year contract to last summer, Erik ten Hag.
The INEOS chief admitted earlier this week that it was a mistake to have given Ten Hag more time to prove he was the right man for the job.
But he believes that the biggest mistake, and the man who should have never been given the job in the first place, was Fergie’s hand-picked replacement: David Moyes.
“Look, I like David Moyes, and I think he’s a really good manager, but to go from Sir Alex Ferguson to Moyes is not where I would have gone,” Ratcliffe candidly said in an interview with The Times.
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“Moyes stepped into the shoes of Ferguson, who’s won the Premier League 13 times, who won the Champions League twice and then you’re handing over to a guy that has never managed big players and had never won anything.
“He’s not necessarily got the personality to stand in front of them all. And I don’t think Real Madrid would have made that choice as coach.
“If you look at coaches, a club can’t always get it right, but they should have found the best chief executive in the world, and the best coach in the world, because Manchester United is the best club in the world. Instead they got both of those decisions wrong.”
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