All talks about coaching aside, there's a few thing that a good manager would recognize immediately and do:
1. First off, Ronaldo has never been a lone striker. I don't know how many times this should be repeated. He's never played in that role in his life. His best years with us and Madrid were spent as him playing a free role of a winger/inside forward hybrid that moves into goalscoring positions up to. This is literally the same role Salah plays. Unfortunately, Ole, for whatever reason (I don't think he's watched a game of Ronaldo ever since he left us and even before that) has decided to play him as a poacher like he is Ruud Van Nistelrooy or something. Of course, Ronaldo ends up isolated and due to the team's low creativity, he feeds of scraps, basically. He still has the ability to score second to none, but he is very limited in this role and his overall play and threat potential suffers because of it.
2. Ronaldo needs a hard-working CF who would open spaces for him so Ronaldo can obliterate defences with ease. He had that with us, he had that in Madrid and he's had that in Juventus. This is how he has always worked as a player. And ironically - we have that perfect forward here, but apparently Ole thinks it is a good idea to keep him on the bench rather than play him with Ronaldo. Baffling.
3. The whole point of getting a player like Ronaldo is to make him the focus of your team. This is how every top team works. Bayern with Lewandowski, Inter with Lukaku, Liverpool with Salah, Madrid with Ronaldo, Barcelona with Messi. There is zero reaason why you would buy a player of this caliber to use him as one of the "lads". Now this is the part where Ole can learn a thing or two from Fergie (albeit it's too late for that now). When Van Persie was brought, SAF immediately made him the focus of the team. He told every player that if able, search and pass to Van Persie or you get dropped. Period. And every player did that. Lo and behold, Persie wins us the league. But Ole has zero idea what to do with Ronaldo. He continues to allow Greenwood to do whatever he likes, Rashford makes his own runs and Bruno is apparently, more on his own volition, the only one looking for Ronaldo in any way. This leaves us terribly disjointed because every player basically tries his own thing. Virtually all of the goals Ronaldo has scored so far have either been from Bruno's amazing passes or his own individual brilliance. No service whatsoever for a player of that caliber is criminal. All down to the manager.
4. Ole, due to his own incompetency or emotional maturity of picking his "favorites" does so at the cost of team balance and cohesion. This leaves the entire team organization in a sad state of affair. He wants Bruno to act like his previous sesasons, pushing up top, basically playing more or less as a second striker because Bruno basically saved him his job twice. But this does not help Bruno, it only hurts him and the entire team but Ole seems not to udnerstand that. He thinks that pushing Bruno in more forward positions would make him more influential when it is the opposite - he needs to be deeper in order to do what he does best - maestro the game. Ole is also in love with Greenwood and has made him basically undroppable despite severe deficiencies to his game that need to be ironed out in any top team. Now, is Greenwood a superb talent? He is. But Ole has given him free reign to do whatever he likes in game which more often than not hurts us than it helps us. Then you have his absolute favorites McFred that are unable to dictate a game if their lives depend on it. I won't go about the rest of the team, but Ole's insistence on picking his favorites rather than do what is good for the team has created a weird situation where every player looks to play the way they want, rather than for the team.
5. Ole has continued to persist with a formation (in order to involve all of his mates in) that leaves us terribly exposed and the front men, including Ronaldo, isolated from the rest of the team. Most of the time I'm shocked at what I'm seeing. The forwards are miles away from the midfield, so said midfield is left with no option to pass. Or when we lose the ball teams pass through our midfield like nobody's business because, as Scholes said, it's basically 2 men defending against 4, at the very least, incoming players. Bruno is the biggest culprit of this, but he isn't the only one, so it's not something on an individual basis. These players are told to play that way because often times Rashford and Greenwood are in the middle of nowhere, as well.
Anyway, Ronaldo is the last thing we should be worrying about. Up top we're actually not doing that bad due to the sheer quality we have, despite the terrible tactics. But our similarly disorganized defense with none of the talent like our top basically makes us concede like crazy. This is also all down to tactics, but the problem is that unlike the top - there is no sheer individuality to save it. You have donkeys like AWB and Maguire at the back with the addition of Luke Shaw who is on the burgers again and our only quality player there is injured. A good manager can make them play well enough, they're not that bad. But the problem is we have no good manager or a system and players like Maguire and AWB are left to rely on their own individual acumen, of which they have very little.
Just some of the views on here recently have been strange.
what he needs to do changes.