Posted on: 10:25 Tue, 10 Nov 2015



David Moyes has been sacked as
manager of La Liga strugglers Real
Sociedad a day short of his one-year
anniversary at the Spanish club.

The 52-year-old steered the Basque
team to 12th spot last season after
taking charge on 10 November 2014.

But La Real are only outside the
relegation zone on goal difference
and Friday’s 2-0 defeat at Las
Palmas was their fourth in five
league games.

A Sociedad statement said they had
decided to terminate Moyes’s
contract.

Assistant boss Billy McKinlay has
also been sacked.

Former Barcelona assistant coach
Eusebio Sacristan was named as
Moyes’ replacement, arriving on a
deal that runs until June 2017.

The club are 16th and face Europa
League winners Sevilla and
European champions Barcelona in
their next two La Liga games after
the international break.

The move to Sociedad was the Scot’s
first job after he was sacked as
Manchester United manager in April
2014 following a 10-month spell in
charge.



Real Sociedad suffered a sixth loss
in 11 league games on Friday to end
Moyes’s time in charge

Moyes, who spent 11 years at
Everton before succeeding Sir Alex
Ferguson at Old Trafford, signed a
contract to June 2016 and became
Sociedad’s fourth British manager.

Harry Lowe was in charge for five
years from 1930, while John Toshack
had three spells in charge, with the
last coming to an end in 2002.

Toshack’s fellow Welshman Chris
Coleman lasted less than seven
months following his appointment in
July 2007.