I think we as a fans should keep an eye on these two appointments. From the outset they look pretty laughable. One has been managing in the Championship and the other just got relegated from the Premier League.
However in this current era where it’s all about first team head coaches and football directors running things, as opposed to a manager, these guys look fairly competent albeit very early on. Whether they have the staying power is another thing but they’ve got their teams organised, playing coherently, scoring goals and winning games… so that whole ‘a manager needs money and time to put his stamp on things’ notion peddled in the past by the likes of Gary Neville is absolute bollocks. A few weeks and it can look much better.
And in the future, I think fans will need to get used to that approach. We’re no longer after managers. We’re after first team head coaches. There’s probably going to be names in there that when you first think of them, you would dismiss them but when you drill down further into what they do and coupled with a whole new power structure at United, it will start to make more sense.
And with that said new power structure, removing the head coach will be a whole lot fecking easier because we’re no longer chained to a single manager’s vision. We could appoint a guy and he does amazingly for 12 months then the shit hits the fan? Sack him off and move onto the next one until we find one that can win serious stuff for us.