We're all royally pissed, but yes maybe the fans who have been royally pissed off for over a year or longer are in an even worse state at this point. My honest opinion is there is absolutely nothing rational about this situation. Any ownership that comes into a club like United and even glances at the statistics, performances and results which led to us finishing 8th, and bottom of our CL group would not require wherever review/assessment they carried out. To then be pressured by fans after winning a domestic cup, against a side we are massive underdogs against, and would have won four out of five times had the final been played again, is just beyond incompetent. This is before the fact that we've undergone multiple embarrassments this season and he's still surviving on.
It’s kind of conflicting viewpoints from many on the Caf to be honest.
Some are saying that it’s too fast to draw any conclusions. INEOS just got control over football operations, the new hires need time to bed in. They need time to evaluate the situation.
Yet, INEOS wasted zero time in making a 20% of the staff redundant. Where was the careful evaluation at that time?
Bungled the summer review, taking too long, sounding out other candidates, and finally, keeping a man who is woefully inept at his job. Not only that, extending his contract by another year. Madness.
“Backing” the manager to well over £200m, yet somehow failing to bring in a LB, buying a RB (Dutch and a former ETH player mind you), and spending 35m on another Dutch player, a “sort of” striker who doesn’t score, failing to get a 20+ goal scorer that we desperately need.
Finally, as results and performances continue to tank, not making a statement by saying, “Look Erik, it’s been two and a half years. We’ve now spent 600m on a new squad that we’re all either suggested by you, or signed off by you. 14th in the league isn’t good enough. 1 win in 10 in European matches isn’t good enough. Thanks for the two domestic cups, but you’ve been given enough time and money to do much, much better. Clean out your desk. Better yet, we’ll pack up your shit, and ship it to you on your holiday. Don’t come back.”
People laughed at me at the time when I said INEOS is acting like Glazers 2.0… yet here we are. Reluctant to pay him off and bring a better manager in (hopefully).
Sad.