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REVEALED! Ferguson Returns From USA To Approve Moyes’ Sack

David Moyes was given his marching orders by Manchester United vice-chairman Ed Woodward after holding crisis talks at the training ground.

The Scot has paid the price for United’s spectacular and sudden decline in his 10 months in charge since replacing Sir Alex Ferguson.

Moyes met Woodward at Carrington long before the players were expected to report to training.

The pair talked things through and it was then that Moyes learnt he would be axed.

United followed that by releasing a 33-word statement on their website confirming his departure at 8.30am.

It read: “Manchester United has announced that David Moyes has left the Club.

“The Club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.”

Ryan Giggs will take charge as caretaker until the end of the season.

Moyes’ future has been in doubt since Sunday, when United lost 2-0 to ensure they miss out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 19 years.

A season after winning a record-extending 20th championship by 11 points, United are on course for its lowest league finish since 1990.

Moyes was hand-picked as United manager by Ferguson, who ended his 27-year reign at the end of last season after winning the league for his 38th major trophy.

He signed a six-year deal at a club famed for preaching the values of stability.

But the enormity of the job has overwhelmed Moyes and he has been unable to continue the success of Ferguson, with the team’s domestic form dismal by its high standards.

Meanwhile, it might surprise some people that Sir Alex Ferguson returned from Boston, where he had been at Harvard University, to attend a board meeting called in the wake of United’s woeful – and latest – defeat of a miserable season at Goodison Park on Sunday.

Once the decision had been taken to axe Moyes, which chief executive Ed Woodward informed him of in person at the club’s Carrington training complex Tuesday morning, thoughts turned to who will replace him.

It is understood United want to appoint someone with greater and proven European experience and have put Louis Van Gaal, Carlo Ancelotti and Diego Simeone on a three-man shortlist.

Ryan Giggs, who will take charge of the team for the final four games of the campaign, has been ruled out, along with Laurent Blanc and is not guaranteed to be involved in the new regime.

Jurgen Klopp insists he won’t leave Borussia Dortmund, while United considered Jose Mourinho before quickly realising it would be impossible to prize him out of his beloved Chelsea.