billycopper
Player Valuation: £40m
He may well have been advised by SAF, the taking of staff from here could have been settled in talks when he was offered the job, United will have redundancy payments to make. Quite honestly so much of this seems to have been cut and dried for some time, it does not smack of anything recent which really does make me and others hugely suspicious
Fergie has said he started planning his retirement at Christmas. I suppose he probably did sound Moyes out but even if he was offered the job out of the blue I'm sure he wouldn't have had to think twice about it and his staff would have joined him without hesitation.