Just watched Austria playing quite nicely and wondering about Ragnick.
football fans are fickle, especially at Utd, as a fan base we seem to react to each match with a few that see the bigger picture. Ultimately we had a shite season but won a cup, any team can raise their game for an fa cup final, fortunately for Eric it was the last game of the season and we have several months before it restarts. We as fans have a lovely memory that will carry us all through summer until next season. I’d be amazed if he can turn it around (hope he can) but I don’t see it and I suspect after 3 games next season the majority that wanted him gone , then changed to him staying after the the fa cup win will be again against him, he will be gone by Xmas.
What I had wondered though is the Southgate links and I was thinking I could vaguely see a plan for why they wanted him. If INEOS have a 5 years plan (which they should), in year 4/5 Utd should be aiming for premier league titles and champions leagues. That’s 3 years of rebuild before we seriously compete. We can all see the culture at the club has been awful, England culture before Southgate took over was the lowest it’s been in my lifetime. Perhaps they see him as the guy to reset the culture as he did at England.
The football would be diabolical , results likely poor except for a cup run or two but what if we’re slowly buying some young talent and putting them into the New Southgate culture which they seem to enjoy, 2 years in it’s not worked with him And we have a good group of young players about to hit their prime with a clear managerial candidate to take over (e.g McKenna if he does well on next couple of years). That would make sense to me, can I accept 2-3 years of shite to be competing in 4-5 years , I could , I’d be interested if anyone else could ?
Way I see it is we’ve really been through 10 years of crap, why not have the patience to suffer a a few years if that’s what it takes to conpete again?
I’m not a fan of Southgate and hope he doesn’t get the job, just playing devils advocate and interested to see if folks would have the patience in that hypothetical scenario for a rebuild with Southgate at the helm