An open letter to David Moyes from a Manchester United fan

David Moyes

Good Evening Mr. Moyes,

I am not some drunk fan discombobulated by repeated defeat and failures, neither do I belong to the “Moyes Out” brigade. I won’t release my angry rant against you for our debacles, I am just a Mancunian asking for answers from a man who was trusted by the man we trusted for over two and a half decades.

To be candid and prudent the way our team is playing I don’t think we will even be able to salvage a Champion’s League spot next season. We all know it’s difficult to step into shoes of a man worshipped by Red Devils. We always knew it would be tough to imagine life without that towering figure “Fergie” at Old Trafford.

But your predecessor trusted you to take this club to glory? What happened Moyes? Where did you lose the plot? Was it just that we have average players and only Fergie could make them play like champions? But you were supposed to add quality to that squad; as a matter of fact you did by bringing in Mata and Fellaini. But, this doesn’t seem to be Manchester United I have known since childhood, the drooping shoulders, the sluggish body language, the frigid attitude; this is not the team you inherited from Fergie.

It was in the soul and fabric of this football club to never give up, how they started to get a taste of their own medicine. Ferguson left you a team of champions, how they become so ordinary? It’s really been a heartache all season to see fringe teams come to Old Trafford and better their record against us. Old Trafford is no more a theatre of dreams, it’s become a theater of silence and screams.

I don’t blame you entirely for our lack-luster performances this season, but on the part of a manager I would like to ask you “where has the urgency and motivation vanished”. Perhaps you need your own version of Fergie Hairdryer. It’s been seven months now since you took over the reigns, this amount of time is sufficient to thaw with players and staff.

The patience of United fans has been tested to the core, and I sense a storm coming. There is likely to be a surge of supporters demanding your sack. Though I am not one of them I can’t refute the fact that in the future I might be one of them.

I am sorry Mr. Moyes, but your substitutions against Stroke were awful and your attitude seems cynical and downbeat. We are a bunch of fans that have grown up alien to mediocrity and failure. In a club where its DNA is built by triumph mediocrity becomes a disappointment.

It bleeds my heart to see my team languishing at 8 in the table. Had it not been for those imploring words from the departing manager we would have been more hostile to you. As it stands now, we stand by you Mr. Moyes, but we are starting to get apprehensive and distraught, it’s my earnest request to you please appease us though some great victories. This is the plight of every United fan across the globe. Please act soon before we are left to bemoan a bad season