5 mistakes David Moyes has made as Manchester United manager

The Kagawa conundrum

The most baffling situation concerning a player at United presently is the curious case of Shinji Kagawa. Since the arrival of Moyes the Japanese international has got significantly less playing time. The most annoying fact is that Moyes has preferred the error prone Tom Cleverley over Shinji Kagawa, which has not gone down well with the fans. The out of form Cleverley and Ashley Young have been given more first team starts than the sublime Japanese play-maker.

Inspite of having performed well whenever given an opportunity, Kagawa has had to watch the crucial matches from the bench. Clearly Moyes doesn’t seem to rate Kagawa for some unknown reason beyond my conjecture.

Playing the blame game

The last thing you need to do to invite the ire of Manchester United fans is to criticize the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson. David Moyes has been as ridiculous as it gets when it comes to press conferences and post match interviews. He went one step further when he said “Sir Alex would have also struggled with the current squad”.

Indirectly he might have wanted to state that Fergie stepped out of a sinking ship but Moyes who was hand-picked by Sir Alex Ferguson needs remember that with even lesser resources Fergie won us the title. So let’s make it clear with average players too Fergie made us play like champions, Moyes needs time. But dare not demean the great Sir Alex in front of me.

Replacing the backroom staff

Manchester United’s new backroom staff

Perhaps the biggest blunder that Moyes committed immediately after taking charge from Sir Alex. Contrary to Fergie’s advice Moyes decided to replace his backroom staff with his own from Everton. With this move he lost the valuable insight of people like Rene Muelesteen .Players like David De Gea who had a excellent time in the goal thanks to former goalkeeping coach Eric Steele stated their disappointment over this move.

This brought a lack of experience in management and complete disconnect between the coaching staff and the players. Replacing a mythical figure like Ferguson was never going to be easy and with a complete revamp in system made matters worse.