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Giggs appointed as player-coach too.

David Moyes has appointed Ryan Giggs as player/coach with immediate effect.

Ryan, 39, Britain’s most decorated footballer, has been taking his coaching badges and is due to attain the UEFA Pro Licence next summer. He signed a one-year extension to his playing contract in March and will combine his new duties with being a member of the first-team squad.

Announcing the appointment, manager David Moyes said:

"I'm delighted that Ryan has accepted the chance to become player/coach. His success and ability to adapt his game over a number of years gives him an unrivalled perspective on the modern game. His career is an example to any aspiring young player and I’m sure that both he and the players will benefit from his new role."

Ryan Giggs said:

"It's a great privilege to be appointed a player/coach. I hope I will be able to bring my experience to bear, having been both a player and part of the Manchester United family for so long. It's no secret that I have been taking my qualifications and I see this as the first step in my future career. I'm really looking forward to working alongside David and the team."
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Rosco said:
I like all the changes he's making.

It bodes well for us
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Indeed.
Dismantling such a successful backroom team to bring in his own people gives me hope that they might yet crash and burn.
Hope rather than belief still though
 
Ferguson has done it on purpose. He deliberately picked Moyes knowing he would do all this and that way his time as Utd manager will be seen in an even more positive light.
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry gents, can't help but laugh when i see this thread title.
 
the count said:
Indeed.
Dismantling such a successful backroom team to bring in his own people gives me hope that they might yet crash and burn.
Hope rather than belief still though
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All we need now is for them to totally alienate the squad and we're laughing.
 
A bust up with a popular player in preseason training would set us on the road.
Someone set up fake Twitter accounts for Man U players to abuse Moyes and see if he bites
@Rosco
 
Binny said:
Giggs appointed as player-coach too.
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Intriguing. Player-manager works in the sense that the other players know he's now the boss, but player-coach? I can't see that working unless, as I suspect it is, it's simply a symbolic appointment.
 
It's too early to laugh.

I know Ferguson isn't the manager anymore but how many times have we been here!

It's difficult to see them crashing and burning much as I'd like them to.
 
There's no way they'll crash and burn - much as it pains me to say it, there's too much of a winning habit ingrained at that club for that to happen. They won't be as successful as they've been under the old goat, but they'll always have known that and will have planned for it.
 
They won't crash and burn, but the level of success they'll have will be nowhere near good enough.

FA cup this year.

Close fought second place league finish next year.

It'd be great for us, but diabolical for them.
 
Fabio said:
It'd be great for us, but diabolical for them.
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Why? No one expects to win the league every season.

If Moyes delivers a trophy in his first season and they are in the mix for the title it'll be considered as good enough.

I'd like to see them drop out of the top two.
 
I would like them to win nothing next season, win the league cup (or whatever it is called) next season so that Moyes is given another year in charge then let them really properly fall apart under him.

I would love it, LOVE IT, if that happened.
 
keniget said:
Why? No one expects to win the league every season.

If Moyes delivers a trophy in his first season and they are in the mix for the title it'll be considered as good enough.

I'd like to see them drop out of the top two.
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I'm suggesting 2 years jot winning the league, during the second season no trophies at all.

A gradual slip, but A noticeable one
 
Whatever keeps him in the job long enough to properly fuck them up without achieving anything of note.
 
David de Gea is believed to be disappointed by David Moyes' decision to dismiss Manchester United's goalkeeping coach Eric Steele.

Steele left Old Trafford along with assistant manager Mike Phelan in a clear-out of the coaching staff as Moyes prepares to appoint his own backroom team.

But ESPN understands De Gea had hoped that Steele, with whom he had established a close relationship, would have stayed on.

Steele has been in contact with De Gea since at least 2010, even though the 22-year-old only moved to United in 2011, when he was signed as the replacement for the retiring Edwin van der Sar.

He also learned Spanish to help him communicate better with De Gea, whose form in the second half of last season earned him a place in the PFA Team of the Year.
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Former Manchester United goalkeeping coach Eric Steele has warned Ryan Giggs and Phil Neville that they will find it difficult to adapt to their new coaching roles.

It was announced yesterday that Neville, who emerged from the Old Trafford youth system with the highly celebrated class of 1992, would take on a coaching position in David Moyes’ backroom staff – after Neville ended his 18-year playing career at Everton last month.

And club legend Giggs, 39, who is expected to complete his UEFA Pro Licence next summer, will take up a player/coach role after signing a one-year contract extension.

The appointments have been well-received, with many praising Moyes’ decision to bring the United legends into his coaching staff and integrating the old with the new following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson after 26 years as the club’s manager.

But Steele, who left Old Trafford this summer after new manager David Moyes decided to replace him with Everton’s Chris Woods, told BBC 5 Live: ‘They have to develop their own coaching and managerial style.

'They may have passed the necessary coaching qualifications but it is a bit like becoming a driver. You don’t become a great driver the night after passing your test. I’ll be very interested to see how it evolves with both Phil and Ryan.

'You have to time to go out, practise and sometimes fail. Sometimes sessions won’t work and they will have to ask ‘why?’ But what a great place though to come in and be able to say to David Moyes, ‘can I have a quiet word?'

And Steele, who has been widely-acclaimed for his role in the improvement of David de Gea’s form, has suggested that Giggs and Neville may have to make do with more menial tasks as they look to settle in to the coaching staff at United.

‘It would be bit-part role at first I expect – go and take the sessions in the afternoon, learn, have a new focus because it is difficult to go from player to coach. You have to get out on a wet, windy day and coach 10 or 12.

'The great thing is that United always have great players there in the reserve and youth set-up where Ryan and Phil will be able to learn – and they will transfer that eventually into the first-team setup.’

Steele is one of a host of Sir Alex Ferguson’s back-room team to leave Old Trafford this summer – along with assistant manager Mike Phelan, first team coach Rene Meulensteen and Chief Scout Martin Ferguson – has said that David Moyes has been ‘brave’ as he looks to stamp his authority on the club early on.

Steele said: ‘I think he is brave in that he has come into such a big club and he has said that he wants to do it with people who know his way. They know his system and the way he wants to work. It’s not just a system – it’s a culture that you have to have.

'He’s brought Steve Round as assistant manager, Jimmy Lumsden as first-team coach and Chris Woods as goalkeeping coach. They know the way it all works.

They interact well with each other and that’s what is needed as he looks to hit the ground running at one of the biggest clubs in the world. Now, he’s added to that a great link to the dressing room with ex-players Ryan and Phil. Hopefully, it will all bode well for the future of Manchester United.’
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I wonder what Mike Phelan does these days. Probably stands outside Ginsoak's house, waiting for Jeff Shreeves to come and chat.
 
He's already referring to himself in the third person: "All I can do is what David Moyes has done before".

 
Third person bit aside, that's like what Hodgson said during his time with us. Here's hoping the parallels eventually extend beyond that.
 
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