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Manchester United Owners Fly In To Fire Players

 

Manchester United’s players are in the firing line after the Glazer family arrived in England yesterday to carry out their own post-mortem following David Moyes’s dismissal.

Chairmen Bryan, Avram and Joel Glazer have flown to England to sort out affairs at the club following the sacking of David Moyes.

Moyes paid the price for United’s disastrous season when he was sacked just 10 months after succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson on Tuesday.

But United’s players might not escape scot-free after having some of the blame for Moyes’s downfall laid at their feet.

Chief executive Ed Woodward has spent most of this week trying to work out where and how it all went so quickly wrong.

United directors Joel, Avram and Bryan Glazer Thursday flew in for a summit meeting with Woodward about their search for a new manager and further talks about United’s crisis.

And there could still be big consequences for those who undermined Moyes after it emerged as one of the big factors in his dismissal and United’s disastrous campaign.

Starsport understands that Woodward was well aware of the problems in the dressing room before he took the decision to dismiss the manager.

However, he and the other United executives decided it was easier to sacrifice the man in charge rather than a large group of players.

Reports were circulating that former boss David Moyes lost the respect of the dressing room and the support of senior players at the club before he was sacked on Tuesday morning.

Moyes had hoped he would survive until the summer and then planned to ship out as many of the dissenters as possible.

The Scot is understood to be disappointed he couldn’t grab control of the powerful United dressing room and all the politics that came with it.

And even though he felt some of his squad were the problem, the manager’s exit might not be the end of the matter though those who helped push him out the door.

The level of ill-discipline from some squad members under Moyes was so bad it was described as “something Manchester United would have never seen before” by sources close to the team.

United were forced to deny Moyes had fallouts with the likes of interim boss Ryan Giggs and Robin Van Persie during his troubled time in charge.

Revelations last weekend that local boy Danny Welbeck was considering leaving and giving up on playing for his boyhood club were another sign of the unrest.

Further details of how much Moyes was undermined by his former players have emerged since his sacking this week.

Another source close to the squad said: “The respect was just never there from the start.”

Moyes notably omitted the players in the thanks he gave out in his farewell statement, hinting at the scale of the problems he faced behind the scenes but was unable to overcome.”