Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
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Why SHOULD he "prepare the squad for his successor"? His job was to win trophies, which he did time after time whether he had the best squad in the country or not. Moyes clearly was never going to even get close to winning a trophy, whether he'd been given one season or ten, because he was nowhere near good enough for that job. By all means blame Sir Alex for choosing him, but not for the tools he's been given to do the job. The other factor you're ignoring is that Sir Alex wasn't given anything like the budget Moyes has been. When did Sir Alex last sign a £27.5m player and a £37.5m player? Apart from RVP, he barely spent in his final years and even what he did spend was offset by the £80m they got for CR7.
I'm not defending Sir Alex on the choice of manager. Moyes is, was and always will be a mid-table manager and I said that last summer. But he's taken over a squad that won the league last year and he's had £70m to spend so he's been given more than a fair chance to succeed and it's his fault alone that he's come up well short.
Those 'tools he'd been given to do the job', weren't they all in the toolbox Taggart left behind when he retired?
What you're saying is that Taggart could leave a squad that needed a massive rebuild to his self-appointed successor but not be held responsible for anything and it is all Moyes' fault?
If you were in charge of a multi million, multi national company (like Taggart was), you prepare the company for a smooth transition to the next management team. That is part of your on-going responsibilities to the company that has paid you multi millions. Especially if you are to remain part of the company after your retirement. Taggart didn't do that. He dumped Moyes in the deep end of a pile of brown stuff.
To suggest he is isn't in any way responsible is laughable.