Managers and players of the Premier League’s three relegated clubs face an uncertain future but parachute payments make an instant return the targetWill the manager be there next season? Related: Marco Silva yet to decide Hull City future after relegation Related: David Moyes will stay at Sunderland only if given funds to rebuild Continue reading...
The manager’s strangely dated mindset and transfer failures are largely to blame for the club’s relegation and there will be few tears if he leavesWithin hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the cabin crew soon confirmed they would be making a detour.Engine failure had prompted an awkward emergency landing. With the benefit of hindsight, it seemed an ominously emblematic portent of an impending season destined to conclude with the club bumping down hard into the Championship and Moyes’s carefully burnished reputation in ruins. Related: Sunderland relegation ‘my...
Sunderland do not want to sack the manager but they may be forced to rethink should further anger build during the remaining two home games from critics who have not taken to his tactics, selections or downbeat demeanourThis time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked.It has been quite a fall from grace for the former Everton, United and Real Sociedad manager who endured chants of “We want Moyes out” from all corners of an unusually hostile Stadium of Light during Sunderland’s 2-2 draw with West Ham United on Saturday. There...
If David Moyes makes a habit of such joke-threats, can the men on the receiving end of them please step forward and speak out. Don’t all rush at once …Couldn’t this whole silly misunderstanding with David Moyes be cleared up if all the male reporters he’d threatened joshingly to slap came forward to contextualise the experience? I mean, honestly. HONESTLY. How are we possibly to make a judgment about the incident’s acceptability or otherwise with a sample size of one? To be more specific: one woman. Related: Sunderland ‘fully support’ Moyes after he told reporter she ‘might get a slap’ Related: David Squires on … Mourinho, Moyes and post-match interviews Related: Behaviour of David Moyes shows old-fashioned sexism is still...
Comments by the Sunderland manager to Vicki Sparks of the BBC highlights that there still resides an attitude of contempt for women in football under the shiny new politically correct facade, despite claims to the contraryDavid Moyes hardly covered himself in glory in the aftermath of his side’s goalless home draw with Burnley last month. No sooner had Sunderland’s manager told the BBC’s Vicki Sparks that she might be in peril of “a slap” than he was informing journalists that he had dropped Didier Ndong, his Gabon midfielder and the club’s record £13.5m signing, because he wanted more “Britishness” in midfield.Fifty is supposed to be the “new 30” but the 53-year-old appeared a dinosaur, seemingly stuck in the 1950s and...