Progress since Moyes?

Two years on from David Moyes’ sacking, Manchester United supporters are still waiting to see significant progress, writes Adam Bate.

The announcement that Manchester United had sacked David Moyes was greeted with relief by many of the club’s supporters at the time. Even the share price rose to its highest level since Sir Alex Ferguson’s final month at the helm. The blip was over.

There was logic in believing that the blame lay entirely with Moyes. After all, United had been Premier League champions the previous season. And it was impossible to regard his haul of 57 points from 34 games as anything but failure. But two years and more than £200m in transfer spending later, United have 59 points from 34 games. Some blip.

It’s a damning indictment of a club that appears to have spent much of the intervening period stuttering from one mistake to the next. At least Moyes could point to the challenges of being Ferguson’s immediate replacement. There was a Champions League quarter-final, too. That remains their best effort in the competition since reaching the final in 2011.

The accepted wisdom at the time was that it would be easier for the man after the man after Ferguson. But there’s been precious little evidence of that, with Louis van Gaal on the receiving end of much criticism. Indeed, while it might have seemed as though Moyes had broken every unwanted record going, Van Gaal has found plenty more to add to the list.

For Moyes, there was a first league defeat against Stoke in 30 years. Van Gaal duly delivered the second. A first home …

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