David Moyes is doing a fantastic job at West Ham United and is currently defying expectations and sitting equal on points with Manchester City in the table and are third place in the table.
Moyes time at Manchester United, which ended in 2014, will feel like much longer than seven years ago, especially given that United have been through the tumultuous tenures of Louis Van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and are now experiencing similar troubles under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as well.
But due to Moyes' overachievement at West Ham and United's current struggles, there has been a sense of revisionism over Moyes time at United and even calls from some fans to back Moyes' own admission that he deserved more time at Old Trafford.
Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of his comprehensive 3-2 win over Liverpool, Moyes reiterated his disappointment over his spell at United; "I look back with unbelievable fondness, but great disappointment I didn't do well enough to get longer than 10 months. I believe that I deserved longer, but that's not my decision.
"My style would be to build a club like I feel I did with Everton - and rebuild them. I didn't need to build Manchester United. I was following and I wanted to follow Sir Alex.
"There was obviously going to be a change of the guard there a little bit, regarding players at the time. But overall it was a great experience, just one, unfortunately, for me was a bit too short."
But I am here to say comprehensively, despite my own personal belief in most cases that ten months is not enough time for any manager to truly implement a project, the mistakes and style of football during Moyes' tenure deservedly got him sacked from the biggest job in football.
And regardless of how badly Solskjaer is currently doing, you should not pine for the past.
This is no slight to his time at West Ham, he's doing a fantastic job, the team is well built and his system is good but it is entirely a different situation to the one he was in eight years ago and I feel like the only connecting factor between the two is that Moyes learnt from a lot of his mistakes that he made as United boss.
Firstly, the staff. When Sir Alex Ferguson left Old Trafford, his world-class staff included the likes of Rene Meulensteen and other great coaches. When Moyes joined he removed them all and appointed his own staff, this was a mistake. One because the staff were well-liked by the personnel at the club but mainly due to the difference in quality between the existing staff and the ones Moyes brought from Everton.
The existing staff had experience winning trophies and shouldn't have been relieved from their positions so easily.
His handling of the squad wasn't great as well, he isolated experienced players such as Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney and his infamous handling of Wilfred Zaha, a player Sir Alex Ferguson said had the makings to be the next great United attacker, will be well remembered by United fans.
Furthermore kicking off a rebuild with just signing Marouane Fellaini is never really going to inspire any confidence in the fanbase, even if the player turned out to be a lot better than the criticism he was originally chained to.
What truly was Moyes' downfall was his style of play, and in the final days of his United tenure, the team he fielded looked lost and completely out of ideas. Many will remember the game against Fulham, where cross after cross after cross sailed into the box with no one truly understanding what they were meant to do with them.
What we are seeing now at West Ham is an evolution of the style of play he played on that day, but I doubt with the personnel he had available at United and the weight of expectations he had on his shoulders, he would truly have been able to implement or develop the tactic as he has at the London club.
Moyes will not be fondly remembered by the fanbase and he will probably be always remembered as Ferguson's disappointing follow-up act in the stands at Old Trafford. What he is doing at West Ham is fantastic and looks miles away from his time at United, but don't go chasing what could have been, because you likely would have been disappointed.
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