David Moyes SACKED! Chief Woodward delivers news to failed Man United boss in early morning Carrington meeting with Ryan Giggs to take charge until end of season
Moyes thanked Carrington staff after learning his fate
Chief executive Ed Woodward delivered news to Moyes face-to-face
Club thanks Moyes for 'hard work, honesty and integrity'
Glazer family lost patience after dismal season at home and abroad
Final straw came in Sunday's miserable 2-0 defeat at old club Everton
United are seventh in Premier League, 13 points off fourth place
Holland coach Van Gaal lined up as replacement
Giggs will take caretaker charge for Saturday's home match with Norwich
David Moyes has been sacked by Manchester United with immediate effect.
Chief executive Ed Woodward arrived at Carrington at 8am on Tuesday morning to inform the Scot face-to-face of the news.
Moyes had already been informed of his fate and thanked club staff at the training complex in anticipation of his departure. The players were not present at the time.
A tweet on the club's official Twitter account read: 'BREAKING: Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club. The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.'
It emerged on Monday that United's owners, the Glazer family, had lost patience with Moyes after a dismal season that has seen the reigning Barclays Premier League champions slump to seventh in the table.
United are confident of landing Holland coach Louis van Gaal as his replacement once they have tied up details of the manager's severance package.
The Barclays Premier League champions have already made contact with the Dutchman and he wants to join United after the World Cup.
Moyes has been sacked having not even completed one year of a six-year contract and will receive a hefty compensation package.
The Scot, on a day off on Monday, is understood to have been hurt and angry after learning of his fate on newspaper websites.
Despite the expensive signings of Marouane Fellaini last summer and Juan Mata in January, United have failed to keep pace with their rivals and mount any kind of title challenge.
Moyes, who moved from Everton last summer to replace Sir Alex Ferguson, has also overseen failure in the cup competitions.
United were eliminated by Swansea City in the third round of the FA Cup, by Sunderland in the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup and by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Taking all competitions into account, United have won 27 of 51 matches during the Moyes tenure, drawing nine and losing 15.
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Pressure mounted further on the embattled manager following a lacklustre showing at Goodison Park, in which United transfer target Leighton Baines and Kevin Mirallas scored the goals.
Moyes bizarrely claimed that his team had played well after they lost 2-0 at Everton despite one of the most lame performances of his reign.
Many United fans saw the performance as a tipping point and the increasing number who were calling for him to go have got their wish.
Afterwards, Moyes — who was taunted by a man dressed as the Grim Reaper in the crowd — claimed he was happy with the display.
He said: ‘We played well in the first half but conceded two on the counter-attack. We didn’t deserve to be 2-0 down. We had good control of the game and possession of the ball. We didn’t defend well for the goals, though. That was right rotten.’
Moyes’s verdict raised eyebrows in the Sky Sports studio.
‘That’s the worst I’ve seen from them over 90 minutes,’ said pundit and Sportsmail columnist Jamie Carragher.
‘Nobody seems to know what’s going on, on the pitch or in the dugout. You can’t see what the plan is. When I played it was total dominance from Manchester United. I’m looking at this team and wondering why they didn’t play like that when I was playing.’
Moyes was even criticised on the club's in-house TV channel when pundit David May said he was 'out of his depth' before being hushed up by the presenter.
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