My job is to make my own history

CALM DOWN BEFORE THE STORM ... David Moyes in action during a first team training session in Yokohama

 DAVID MOYES says he is determined to carve out his own glorious era in Manchester United’s rich history.

Statues have been carved and a stand named in honour of the incredible years under Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Now it is Moyes’ time and he wants to make it work so that future fans talk about his reign in a similar vein.

The Scot said: “It has to be a new era. My job now is to make my own history.

“I’m following someone who has made incredible history.

“I think about Matt Busby’s and Alex Ferguson’s history — they could do a film about it. I have to make sure now that my time is something fans in the future talk about.”

Moyes has been paying great credit to Ferguson, who hand-picked the former Everton boss as his successor.

But he knows that will soon have to stop if he wants to move forward.

Speaking on the Japan leg of United’s Far East tour — ahead of today’s friendly with Yokohama — Moyes added: “I don’t want to mention Sir Alex in every conversation I have.

“But I would hate to think in any way that I was disrespecting someone of his level.I’ll always respect him.

“He left me with the best team in England and said, ‘Go on, take it on, build on it and try and make it better’.

“It is my team now. I have taken over, I’m in charge. I’ll use the ex-manager when I can because of his knowledge.

“But it’s my team now and I must take responsibility.

“From day one, it is my team and I have to get on and show that.”

Moyes has been delighted with the players’ reaction to him and he knows he has a group with a mentality that sets them apart.

He said: “The biggest thing I’ve seen is the determination.It’s incredible, it’s oozing out of them to continue winning.

“I see it in the training and it’s probably the biggest thing I’ve noticed.

“In training I just see winners written all over them.”

Moyes will certainly need that intensity from the word go as the season approaches.

The fixture computer has given him a baptism of fire in his first five games, with Chelsea in his first home match plus trips to Liverpool and Manchester City.

He said: “It can map out our whole season, which is why we’re trying to get it right for the opening games.

“It will be an interesting start but, however it goes, you play each team twice.

“We just have to play some of the better ones at an early stage, so we have to make sure we’re in good form — but the same applies to them.”

Moyes wants to make sure that opponents’ fear of going to Old Trafford remains as strong during his time as manager as it was under Fergie.

He said: “Anybody who went there, it was ‘Oh no, we’re off to Manchester United’. I want that to continue.

“Going there as a manager — and a lot of managers will say this — you want to get out of Old Trafford alive.

“That used to be our saying. You wanted to make sure you came out alive.”

It will be odd seeing Moyes, 50, barking out the instructions in the home technical area at Old Trafford.

There will be no more ‘Fergie time’ either. But will we get ‘Moyes time’?

He joked: “Maybe if I’m at Manchester United for 25 years I’ll be able to control it as much as Sir Alex!

“But I still see myself as one of the young managers in the Premier League, not one of the old ones.

“I think I’ve got a few more years before I get that level of control.”

Of all the advice and encouragement for Moyes in his new job, one phrase has stuck with him.

But what was it and who said it?

Moyes added: “It was ‘You’ll do it easy’. But I’m not saying who it was.

“I do not take that as a given. It’ll be very hard at Manchester United. I know that.”