The Manchester United job was always going to be an opportunity David Moyes was never going to be able to turn down.

But following on from the relentless winner Alex Ferguson meant he was almost guaranteed to be on a hiding to nothing.

And so it has transpired as his deeply disappointing tenure was brought to an end over five years before his contract was due to expire.

There has been plenty of focus on the things Moyes got wrong - and there are shedloads of poor decisions to choose from - but did he get some decisions right during his short Old Trafford reign?

Rooney?

At the end of March, Pat Nevin told Off The Ball that David Moyes had been "sold a pup", referencing the ageing squad he inherited.

But one of the pups the ex-Everton boss was handed came in the shape of a man who would quickly become one of his favoured pets.

When Moyes was settling into his new role last summer he immediately had to deal with a Wayne Rooney-shaped ticking time bomb precariously left behind by Ferguson - which was especially dangerous given the very public nature of the situation and Chelsea's open interest in the player.

At the time on Off The Ball, football writer Gabriele Marcotti described the reason why Man United and Moyes were vehemently opposed to Chelsea's approach: "It's to ensure that if Rooney is rescuscitated, he doesn't come back regularly to Old Trafford and punish them."

Looking at the long-term, Man United were probably wrong to give Rooney an improved £300,000 per week deal at this stage in his career and it can be argued that Moyes' decision to give Rooney such an influential role has been flawed.

Indeed that is something The Guardian's Daniel Harris questioned as recently as the Bayern Munich tie.

But in the short-term keeping him out of Chelsea's clutches was not the worst decision as Moyes and the club were in an unenviable position and Rooney did not want to go abroad.

In what was already turning out to be a damaging summer on the transfer front, that situation had the potential to be explosive.

But Moyes played a role in preventing that from becoming even more destabilizing.

Rooney has been far from an unqualified success in the big games, but he has contributed 15 goals and 10 assists overall during the campaign.

So there are two strands and much of it depends on your opinion of Rooney. Some fans are satisfied with his performance this season which would seem to vindicate Moyes' decision. But on the other hand, many may feel that Moyes pandered to his former Everton charge.

The scouting system?

Last month, Everton academy coach Kevin Sheedy tweeted that David Moyes "never had an interest" in the Toffees youth academy.

While the veracity of that assertion can be argued upon, the scouting system at Everton did unearth a wealth of useful players at relatively knock-down prices.

And the evidence was that Moyes was beginning the task of sorting out Man United's increasingly stagnant scouting system.

In February, The Guardian's Jamie Jackson reported that Moyes had "reconfigured United's scouting system" and installed a "state-of-the-art" facility to improve that aspect of the club.

It is too early to draw any tangible results from Moyes' revamp of Man United's scouting system and it is unclear whether his successor will adopt the changes, but it will be interesting to see what fruit it bears in future transfer windows.