Jim Ratcliffe: 🗣️ “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. 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.” 😳

During the years that followed Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, Manchester United has appointed one manager that Sir Jim Ratcliffe would not have brought in himself. This manager is the one that Sir Jim Ratcliffe chooses to name. The 72-year-old individual has been in command of the Red Devils ever since he purchased a 25% share in the team in the year 2023. During the course of the past year, he has made a number of decisions that are questionable, and he has irritated fans with some of the cost-cutting measures that he has implemented, such as laying off a significant section of United’s personnel.

Ruben Amorim succeeds Erik ten Hag as the manager of the Red Devils, which is another change that he has implemented throughout his tenure as the head coach of the team. Following a lacklustre beginning to the season, the former Ajax manager was removed of his duties in the dugout in October, and the Portuguese coach was selected to take over for him. Although Amorim has not been able to turn United’s fortunes around, there is a great deal of faith that he will be able to do so. Things have not gone especially well under Amorim since then. There is just one individual who has managed the Red Devils since Ferguson retired that Ratcliffe personally would not have hired, despite the fact that he finally took the decision to let Ten Hag go through with his managerial duties. David Moyes is the name of that individual.

Neither Ratcliffe nor Moyes would have been hired.
It was his belief that he was an unacceptable step down from Ferguson.

As the head coach of Everton, David Moyes
Considering that Ferguson left United, it is safe to say that the club has not had a great deal of success with its managers whatsoever. There has not been anyone who has been able to recreate the success that the Scot had at Old Trafford after he retired as the greatest manager of all time in 2013. He had been in charge for 27 years. Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer are only some of the managers that have attempted to manage the club but have been unsuccessful. However, according to Ratcliffe himself, Moyes is the last manager he would have signed. During an interview with the Times, he made the following statements, which were subsequently shared by talkSPORT:

With all due respect, I have a lot of respect for David Moyes, and I believe that he is an excellent manager. However, if I had gone from Sir Alex Ferguson to Moyes, I would not have chosen that path. After stepping into the shoes of Ferguson, who had won the Premier League thirteen times and the Champions League twice, Moyes took over as manager of Manchester United. However, you are now delegating responsibility to a person who has never managed major players and has never won anything.

“He’s not necessarily got the personality to stand in front of them all.”

In the summer of 2013, Moyes left Everton to become the manager of United. However, he only remained in charge for a single year before stepping down in 2014. In the intervening time, he has played for a number of different clubs, including Sunderland, Real Sociedad, and West Ham United, before making his way back to the Toffees earlier this season.