20 is history.

After the match ended my friend texted me to ask, is this the worst start in Manchester United history?

I pondered over how to answer the question, because one I am not a historian and two I don’t like accept that it was the worst start in my memory. So, I replied to him. It doesn’t matter. History is history, Sir Alex Ferguson is history, and 20 English titles 13 premier league titles are all history.

David Moyes is what we have now. Is he a capable man to manage the team? Is he capable of repeating the past history? I don’t know, but from what we all know by now. He is a seasoned premier league manager who knows how to navigate within the premier league and has had his highs and lows in so called the best league in the world. So all we know for now is that he is a capable manager.

That brings me to the reason for this article. So, why is such a capable manager experiencing such a horrendous start to his career at one of the biggest club in the world? The main reason he faltered in his start is because of his team selection in all those losing matches, also in the matches won but no one bothers about them too much. So is it his fault? Certainly not his fault alone. It’s the fault of the team too. The team that won the league with 11 points has no reason whatsoever to perform as badly as they did today in the match against West Bromovich Albion. The squad that Moyes inherited was so worn out that it had only one midfielder worthy of getting a look into the Manchester United squad. Still, the same team won the league. That’s testament to the managerial abilities of THE GREAT SIR ALEX FERGUSON. If anyone has any doubts over why Sir Alex was the greatest, the mentioned analogy is more than sufficient to answer them.

So coming back, the current problems are because of the squad not of the manager. He has vowed to fix it and I believe in him because he is capable of it. I have heard a argument stating that even City, Chelsea changed their managers and they have started better than United. The reason being that even though the manager changed, the management that looks after the transfer activity of the team didn’t change. Their respective management knew what exactly the team needed and made the necessary moves the transfer window. Where as in United’s case it was a one man army of Sir Alex, hence with just his change there is a huge void left behind.

Moyes did a mistake of blindly believing that the last year’s squad could do a repeat in terms of performance and hence committed his fouls in the transfer squad. If being naïve is a crime then he is guilty, but lowering their own performance the players are surely guilty of what they did in all those matches which cost us the points. As a die-hard Manchester United fan, I always take pride in the team’s style of play. And in recent the style hasn’t made me proud, honestly there is no style at all. Making a match a contest and losing is fine with me like what happened against Tottenham at home last year (United lost 3-2, but they played with style which has made them champions so far). So whats going to happen in the January transfer window will be keenly awaited because Moyes has made his intentions clear regarding adding 2-3 players who can walk straight into the team and may be chop off the dead wood.

May be Moyes will fail, but that’s the thought for another time in 2-3 years. Lets give the man a decent chance to succeed in a league where a team that beat Manchester United 4-1 and score another 5 goals for fun in a league cup and still go down 3-2 to last year’s strugglers. No wonder they consider Premier league to be the toughest in the world.

Lets not take solace in the fact that all the top teams dropped points today (at the time of writing), because we are not team who depend on others to drop points.

The team selection is forced because that’s all he has after a disastrous transfer window.  But there are some unanswered questions of why didn’t Fellaini start? Why is Anderson even in the squad? These are the questions I am sure Moyes will answer soon.

David Moyes in you we believe so you better not screw it up.