Majority of SAFs staff where given the chance of staying and didnt want to. What's Moyes meant to do be held over a barrel by what amounts to being HIS staff from then on rather than people he had worked with for years?
If people want to say the same playing squad was held together by the genius of SAF, the same could be said of the staff under SAF too, and they arent as good as they wanted to believe (like Rene for instance, as proven at Fulham)
Who came out and said that? (Honestly don't know as I just read he replaced them all)
Being a member of staff and being the manager is a completely different thing as proven by pretty much everyone who has worked under him who have gone on to be managers. Also you can't really judge Rene harshly on his time at Fulham can you?
Anyways I don't know how fantastic the staff were but they had done what was required to win the league countless times
Oh and I wouldn't say they were held together by the genius of ferguson, but he could have fielded me, Baz and Pigeon and probably beaten some of the crap teams that turned up at Old Trafford just due to the fear they played with, god knows how many times Liverpool have gone there and been a pile of crap. (Unless teams being scared of you is genius or just their own stupidity.)
Without ferguson I don't expect the team to win the title, there are less 'free' wins, but I expect them to do a whole of a lot better than they have done and a lot of it is down to the players also, although it is Moyes job to get them not to be nobs putting no effort in. Moyes isn't terrible, but he doesn't suit taking over a big club, let alone one with expectations as big as united
I think ferguson has left the club in a pretty
**** position and he doesn't really care/it makes him look better.