How is it bulltrout? The club has a £46m debt and spends 78% of their cash on wages. Compare that to £0 debt for Swansea and 54% on wages... I'd say the Swans aren't in a bad position financially. Sure, they spend less on wages than Everton do, but don't go thinking Everton has the cash to compete with Manchester United. Only Swansea (and not by much, btw), Wigan, Southampton, Reading and Arsenal have spent less on transfers than Everton have on a per season average since 2003. For a club that has finished in the top half of the PL table so consistently, Everton has bugger all cash to spend - almost 80% of their cash is spent on wages. There's no room to keep big time players, and if Moyes had the room to spend money on wages to the point that he could retain Rooney, who knows where they'd have ended up? Of course, it looks like even United can't afford to keep Rooney these days. :rolleyes:
League Cups are luck of the draw, not a sign of being the best club in the country. I'd take league position over league (or even FA) cups, personally. Swansea are doing very well, though, but I wouldn't say that's all down to the man who won them the league cup. He's only been there for one season, hasn't he? United were never going to pick a guy based on a single season. I imagine the biggest interest from United will be in how well a manager can keep the entire club stable over a long period of time, not just a first team for a single season.
Just not sure there are that many available managers around who can make such claims outside of Moyes.
Still, nobody will know how he'll turn out at United, just like nobody knew Klopp would put Dortmund where they are and nobody knew that Pep would do so well at Barcelona. Moyes has a better record than both of these had at the top level (well, let's face it, Pep had no record at all) before they took on the clubs they had so much success at. He might fail, yeah, but he might not. I'm sure even if he does well, though, some people out there will just say what they said about Pep... "Oh, anyone could have won with that team."
