Amsterdam Devil
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13th in the league after tonight.
Only 2 of those are Dutch and TBH very few would learn it because 90% of it is unprouncable to most folks, bit like Welsh and MalteseNot that much of a stretch tbf.
Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Martinez, Eriksen and Zirkzee have made up half of recent teams.
It’s Jamie Jackson. He doesn’t know what the feck he is talking about.
I imagine from an oppo point of view, like the above, it must have been hilarious. I don't even know how we got so small-time so quick. Beatdowns are a regular and normalised occurrence and there doesn't even seem to be fear of impending consequences when they happen.
I don’t believe Ineos would have been so stupid to allow such a massive payout on the back of keeping ETH on after how piss poor we have been since we won the league cup, surely they agreed to lower the compensation in exchange for extending as they saw what we saw and that was a one off game keeping ETH in a job and Ineos openly courting other managers through the summer.
Imagine basing such an important decision off the back of if we scrape a win in a one off game or not. fecking hell.
Why not just make Ruud interim for however long it takes then? It would be very hard to do a worse job than what we've seen recently. Two back to back batterings at home would be an instant sacking at most PL clubs, replacement lined up or not. This looks really bad on INEOS.I don't think they're giving him two games, I think it's probably the case that they need time to secure a replacement, they'll need to do the due diligence to see whether it's going to be an interim/Ruud or full blown replacement. By now there is enough evidence to make a decision, I highly doubt they will rely on the two games upcoming, if anything they serve only as time to find the replacement.
What gets me the most about Ineos and their approach is that they're basically treating it like pre-Ineos didn't matter. The fact we've seen this many times before doesn't matter to them, because they weren't in charge. It's almost disrespectful to supporters, and incredibly arrogant. As though their presence alone makes a difference to how good the manager is, and that them not being there was a big enough factor for ETH to have already failed dismally. We basically had to suffer last season and they don't give two shits because, in their mind, they weren't in charge so it doesn't matter.
Statements like the above come across like they're trying to act like they're in conplete control, when they actually look daft because they're going to fall until the same traps as the previous lot and they don't even realise it.
Pretty sure most teams in the league would be more ruthless than we have. Anyway, sacking a manager after the last two home results, even ignoring the disappointing result in EL, isn't even ruthless. It's normal. Even the fecking glazers would have sacked him by now, probably after the FA cup final.It's so frustrating considering you can simply look at other top clubs in football and see how ruthless many of them are willing to be when the standards drop to anything below "best of the best". There's no need to "give time" to a manager that is clearly out of his depth, he's not a fecking 18 year old academy player making his debut or something.
To many think Neville is a complete nob so don't pay attention to him, but he's not wrong in what he said yesterdayI’m with this, at least some of them anyway.
I can’t believe it hasn’t attracted more attention, especially after Eriksen & Neville’s comments in the last week
I imagine from an oppo point of view, like the above, it must have been hilarious. I don't even know how we got so small-time so quick. Beatdowns are a regular and normalised occurrence and there doesn't even seem to be fear of impending consequences when they happen.
It's even more crazy that a large portion of the fanbase petitioned to keep him in charge after an 8th place finish and negative GD. Id argue the majority of last season was more boring to watch and far worse than anything we saw under LVG, yet the majority of fans seemed to be in agreement that he needed to go. Why was it different for ETH?In one of my old FM saves, United kept plugging on with their failing manager (I can't recall who) even after that 2 consecutive finishes outside the top 6.
I remember remarking to my friend how unrealistic it was that the board were so patient not to sack him.
But here we are...
The glazers were bad in this regard but they would have sacked him by now. We somehow have people in charge now who are even more accepting of mediocrity apparently. There really is no excuse for him still being in a job after yesterday, long before even. Have INEOS done some good things? Yes. But let's call a spade a spade. This is ridiculous and a big stain on my opinion of them. I suspect the same is true for many fans. The only way they end up looking good over this is if ETH somehow manages to completely turn it around, which is very unlikely.Genuinely can't believe he hasn't been fired first thing this morning. No other top club operates and tolerates medicority like we do.
I was watching a interview with Lampard re Abramovich's conduct at Chelsea. Lampard said he would make it clear that if they underperformed, all of them would be gone for good or demoted to the 2nd team including the manager. You need to have this feeling of authority/fear to get these prima donnas playing well.
Only 2 of those are Dutch and TBH very few would learn it because 90% of it is unprouncable to most folks, bit like Welsh and Maltese
I think it was standards where we weren't a long way away from Sir Alex and so people expected a lot. Standards are in the gutter now and somehow this guy is still under performing. Coming into the season not 1 United fan expected a title challenge, all we wanted was a fight for top 4 and some semblance of improvement but this guy has somehow made us worse
The reports are rightfully being mocked, the whole 'he's got the next 2 matches to turn it around' is farcical on its face
The reports are rightfully being mocked, the whole 'he's got the next 2 matches to turn it around' is farcical on its face
This isn’t really even restricted to top clubs really, although most top clubs do indeed replace managers frequently.It's so frustrating considering you can simply look at other top clubs in football and see how ruthless many of them are willing to be when the standards drop to anything below "best of the best". There's no need to "give time" to a manager that is clearly out of his depth, he's not a fecking 18 year old academy player making his debut or something.
Not that much of a stretch tbf.
Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Martinez, Eriksen and Zirkzee have made up half of recent teams.
The reports are rightfully being mocked, the whole 'he's got the next 2 matches to turn it around' is farcical on its face
I don’t believe Ineos would have been so stupid to allow such a massive payout on the back of keeping ETH on after how piss poor we have been since we won the league cup, surely they agreed to lower the compensation in exchange for extending as they saw what we saw and that was a one off game keeping ETH in a job and Ineos openly courting other managers through the summer.
So they make their decisions based on optics?I think their taking the long approach. Its selfish, but for them it makes sense. Ten Hag wasn't their signing and no one can blame them for his appointment and poor performances. At the end of last season, if they had sacked him, there would have been fans and large portions of the media reacting negatively to their decision. Despite it being really important to our current season to have him gone as soon as possible, for INEOS, buying time comes with low risk. They get the time and space to get what they want, how they want it, whilst also being on the right side of optics. I genuinely believe that this is why they actually kept him.
Noone can say that they didn't give him a chance, back him in the market or support him publicly, like people tried to do with Ole, Mourinho, Moyes and LVG. I think we're speaking with managers on the backend, but are making sure to put a public face of some support.
The reports are rightfully being mocked, the whole 'he's got the next 2 matches to turn it around' is farcical on its face
I’ve voted sack for the first time - not because I particularly like seeing our managers do so shite that they get the boot, but because I don’t really have confidence in EtH’s ability to turn things around any more. We looked a bit more assured defensively at times this season, but we’re still getting drubbings by large margins, and we can’t score for love nor money, something ten Hag has never got us doing well.
I'm not convinced we have at all.I’ve voted sack for the first time - not because I particularly like seeing our managers do so shite that they get the boot, but because I don’t really have confidence in EtH’s ability to turn things around any more. We looked a bit more assured defensively at times this season, but we’re still getting drubbings by large margins, and we can’t score for love nor money, something ten Hag has never got us doing well.
The Glazers would have actually sacked him by now.If this is true, then there is absolutely no hope of an real improvement with INEOS, their appointments seemed exciting, but if they’re shortsighted like this, then we are in for Glazers 2.0.. Surely they’re better than this..
Definitely. Is there anything as bad as a calm and professional atmosphere? I mean come on, we are Manchester United, I want to hear about people screaming and crying, the odd physio burning themself as protest. We need that because being hysterical and impulsive is the only way forward. It is that serious!I hope this is BS.
Last season itself is more than enough for anyone to make a decision. And then the shit start to this year is even MORE evidence. Needing 2 more games of shit after 18 months of shit is stupid logic.It'd based on a bit more than that mate. He's basically got one foot out the door. If it's more of the same in the next two, then that's 10 games with no hope things will improve. After last season that should be enough for anyone to make a decision.
I think their taking the long approach. Its selfish, but for them it makes sense. Ten Hag wasn't their signing and no one can blame them for his appointment and poor performances. At the end of last season, if they had sacked him, there would have been fans and large portions of the media reacting negatively to their decision. Despite it being really important to our current season to have him gone as soon as possible, for INEOS, buying time comes with low risk. They get the time and space to get what they want, how they want it, whilst also being on the right side of optics. I genuinely believe that this is why they actually kept him.
Noone can say that they didn't give him a chance, back him in the market or support him publicly, like people tried to do with Ole, Mourinho, Moyes and LVG. I think we're speaking with managers on the backend, but are making sure to put a public face of some support.