SIR – The sacking of David Moyes, after less than a year as manager of Manchester United encapsulates very well the state of modern football at the top level.

The Scot arrived in the job, feted as ‘the chosen one’ and given a contract for six years, (twice the normal length).

After his continued success at Everton in keeping them in the upper reaches of the Premier League on limited budgets, he was tipped to do well. He was recommended by his predecessor, the ultra-successful Alex Ferguson.

The team clearly needed massive re-building, rather than tinkering, and this affected results, causing no trophies to be won and a lower than expected league position. Yet they remain in the top eight and got to the quarter finals of the Champions League this season.

The job requires many transfers in/out and the time to blend new players together into a winning outfit. The chances of doing this while at the same time winning trophies seems a huge expectation, to say the least.

Sporting success is usually transient, but of course in football, money is now the top priority and sport can’t be allowed to get in the way of that!

The fact that the club never won the league from the mid-60s to the early 90s and were relegated in the early 70s was due to sport, but money considerations now require this can’t be allowed to happen again.

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose