David Moyes has opened up on how Sir Alex Ferguson essentially forced the Manchester United job upon him back in 2013.
Ferguson decided to call time on an illustrious managerial career after nearly 27 years in charge at Old Trafford, but kept his choice a secret until the latter stages of the 2012/13 season.
One day after Ferguson announced his retirement in May 2013, then-Everton boss Moyes was announced as his successor on a six-year contract.
However, he would last less than a season with the Red Devils before being sacked due to poor results.
Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Moyes talked at length about the incredibly quick process of becoming United manager.
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When asked if rumours of Ferguson coming to his house regarding the job were true, Moyes replied: “No, he took me to his house!
“It wasn’t long after I turned 50, my wife had bought me a watch and we had actually gone through to Manchester to the jewellers. I needed to get a link taken out. It was actually in Altrincham of all places and the phone rang, and it was Sir Alex.
“I said ‘oh, bloody hell, it’s Alex on the phone’, and I thought ‘oh he’s going to want one of my players or me to take one of his players’.
“He said, ‘where are you?’, I said I was in Manchester, he said ‘come out to the house when you’re ready, will you?’. I said to my wife, ‘I can’t do it, I’m in my jeans’, I couldn’t go to Sir Alex with a pair of jeans on, there’s no way!
“So I’m like, ‘what am I going to do? Do I go down to Marks & Spencer’s and buy a pair of trousers before I go to Sir Alex?’. She’s saying just to get on with it. So I dropped my wife off at the shopping centre and drove out to Sir Alex’s house.
“I went in, he says ‘in you come’. Nice house, he’s got a lovely sort of sports room up the stairs, he says ‘you want a cup of tea?’ and I said yeah. And he said ‘I’m retiring, and you’re the next manager of Manchester United’.
“No interview, no telling me, not saying ‘would you like to be?’, [only] ‘I’m retiring’, and I nearly…
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