Chosen to take united up or down?

How is it going people, don’t you just love Mondays? I don’t! So let's just say we are already looking forward to Friday. As always, we had good football but the results were not good for some of us. lets just say there are questions to the chosen one story.

At the end of the premiership 2012/2013, two key decisions were made...after a wonderful 26 years in steering the Manchester United ship, the captain was stepping down and as the captain steps down it is only right that he would name the next captain. The long and short of the story was that Sir Alex chose David Moyes to be the next manager of united. Who are we to question that choice especially from a man that had given the fans so much joy, so many trophies...He had picked the man he thought was right for United. The chosen one he was named.

In that same period, a man was returning from his harsh but slightly successful time in Spain, the special one returned to the bridge and he put in a name request..calling himself, the happy one. Now in this current time, we question two decisions, the decision made by sir Alex and the decision made by Roman Abramovich...Is the happy one happy? Are his fans happy? And is the chosen one confused? I ask if he is confused because his fans do not know if he was chosen to take united up or to take united down.

This weekend was the 2nd meeting between the chosen one and the happy one and it was a no brainy who would emerge as winners. United season has gone from bad to badder than bad (forgive my grammar) and Chelsea, even if they don't play the best football have stuck in there, getting the results they need and that just shows the calibre of both managers. I watched the game and I will tell you 5 things united have lost with the appointment of the chosen one..

Alex Ferguson…

Its pretty obvious but filling sir Alex’s shoes was always going to be difficult especially after his success for United over the years. David Moyes ignored Fergusons advice about not getting rid of the back room staff and that was his first mistake; imagine if you are taking over a successful company like Samsung, would you get rid of the entire staff? Simply because you want to do it your way.

Fear Factor…

Seeing that your next opponents would be Manchester united, a lot of teams had already lost the games in their heads because whoever wore the united shirt had nothing but victory in their minds, I remind people that Fergusson won the league with players like Darren Gibson. and with that name enough said. United has become yet another fixture for a lot of teams especially as they have lost four home games in the league this season

No plan B or C…

David Moyes has stuck to his 4-4-2 formation and never changes it regardless of the situation on the pitch. You can name a David Moyes team a week before the game and you may not get the players playing but you will know how the position of each player would be on the day. He has refused to give the likes of Zaha a chance and these days,United goes 1-0 down,the game is as good as over unlike before.

No motivation…

Although I think the responsibility or a lot of the responsibility goes on the players, the manager is still accountable for whatever happens as he selects these players. There is no zeal or motivation from the players which leaves us to believe that the Manchester united players are not playing for the manager; After being used to a system that has been successful, there is certainly something Moyes is doing or not doing that makes the players not willing to play for him. and once that happens it is like trying to convince a cat that dogs are cleaner.

Quality…

As all fingers are being pointed at David Moyes, it might be fair to say that two of his key players in Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney have been injured hence taking a major chunk in the quality of the united squad. There is no magic any more in the midfield as nobody is able to control the tempo of the game like Paul Scholes used too. David Moyes was chosen way before the Transfer window opened and yet failed to make any major signings hence questioning his eye for quality.

David moyes is a good manager as he showed at Everton but is Manchester united too big a club for him?Its been dark days for the united faithful,its January and still no buys to improve the squad.There is a big risk of loosing out on the top 4 and no champions league.Its a funny situation as the downfall of Man united is applauded by many after their domination over the years but the United supporters should take pride in the fact that it shows how great they are. Or should we say how great they once were.

In more words to come..Sabi Boi