What if the opposition also think their training was a high standard? In the end you find out who is best on match day. It's no surprise anyone can look good playing against our tactics and players.
Erik ten Hag | 2024/25 | Sacked
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Which ones?
As you say time will tell, but for me, keeping ETH for longer than necessary is damaging to the club.
We are 14th in the league, following on from last seasons disastrous campaign. Only a matter of time before the players give up on him. The majority of fans already have. Players are getting run into the ground. He is going to kill Mainoos potential.
When do sponsors start getting in the ear of INEOS? There is so much negativity around the club, when it should be a time of excitement.
The mist would lift the minute he goes. Hope would flourish again
Yoro
Mainoo
Garnacho
Amad
Hojlund
Then there’s a number of really talented players in the u18s who I’m not going to list but there recent success at youth level has been phenomenal.
Would be very careful calling any Utd game a gimme after the form demonstrated so far
Interested to see Yoro.
Mainoo is going to be ruined under Ten Hag
Garnacho has stagnated
Amad not sure
Hojlund I don't see it in him
The gap between u18 and PL is huge. Hopefully 1 or 2 make it but extremely rare for a much more than that to come though.
As I said, there’s some really talented young players at the club, so it’s not all doom and gloom.
Unless you disagree.
By the time that stadium is built we might be at Evertons level.
It really feels like ineos are good at one thing and that is stripping costs out businesses until they are perceived to be lean. Hence stripping back the workforce, fergies contract etc. But that is nothing more than a side issue at United and so far they are no better than Ed and the glazers were at making decisions ober the big problems e.g. transfers and managers
This is the same nonsense we have heard for years to justify keeping failing managers. The fact is if a manager is failing these days most clubs act quickly to get rid of them and already have a replacement in mind.
Ten hag has had around 3 good months aside from that we have regularly looked the worst organised team in the league. It doesn't take pep to improve on that it just takes competence.
Also it was quite clear mourinho was already declining before we hired him. It didn't take a genius to see things would fall apart.
Given the actual number of voters it only takes 2 or 3 to change the % more than a fraction
I don’t even know what this mythical ‘looks amazing in training’ even means. Games are very different from training which is not supposed to replicate conditions of a competitive game.
At what point do you judge someone? Where is the line? How much time do we need to spend with them?
I think saying you don’t like someone’s personality, even when it’s in a secondhand setting, is absolutely fine. You meet someone at a dinner party and draw a conclusion in 15 minutes…
Now, answering questions that are difficult in a public setting, and 100+ times, you probably learn more about that person than the 15 min conversation.
I completely agree and that is exactly what I think will happen. It is astounding how badly these "leaders" run a company and don't even realise it.
I agree with this, but I doubt INEOS would think this way.
INEOS are reactive. So if they sense that there is a lot of dissent, perhaps "ETH Out" chants, they'll see that and then maybe do something. This is likely to happen if we lose a game 4-0 or something like that. We'd need to get absolutely destroyed in a single match for them to think, "Maybe ETH isn't good enough".
And for those who argue that we should INEOS time. It does not take a genius to work out that ETH is completely out of his depth and is sinking fast. If senior management is not able to assess the urgently dire situation we are in, then they should not be running the club.
I knew that ETH needed to go in the Summer, but INEOS thought otherwise.
Absolute load of garbage.
Yeah but apparently we're amazing in training but the coaches have no idea why we're so bad on the pitch.
Correct.
We've seen that every single player we buy (for big money) regresses.
The current set of coaches, sorry to say, aren't good at their jobs.
It is staggering that some people on this forum claim that our coaches are good at their jobs. They aren't!
We have a near 100% success rate of turning every newly purchased player into garbage. I don't even understand how this is possible. Surely by pure luck alone, we'd end up with about 20% of players improving after joining MUFC.
Donny Van Der Beek arrived as a player who was shortlisted for the Ball on d'or. We destroyed his career so fast, that I don't think even he quite understands how he regressed as a player, so quickly.
Which part did you disagree with?
I feel like in a perfect world, this amount of patience is preferable. In a perfect world, you could hire a cab driver off the street and they would win lots of titles. Unfortunately, this is a far from perfect world. There is no guarantee that time is the only reason Ten Hag didn’t win a major trophy. In fact, time has proven to actually negatively correlate to success and results with Ten Hag. So, it is infinitely more probable that he is not the right man for the job.
Frankly, we were spoiled with SAF and we need to understand that he is the exception and not the norm. Even the best managers don’t stay in their position for over two decades. “Finding the next SAF” is a mentality that has hurt us more than it has helped us. The top managers deliver results pretty quickly.
Giving Ten Hag more time and money are resources that we can invest in a manager who MAY be able to deliver. Not guaranteed of course, but we have to try because this is the game we are in. Otherwise you might as well close down the club if you aren’t mentally equipped to face the never ending challenge.
Ideally I don't 'judge' people, but that's nitpicking. But I would say that we won't learn much from people's performances in media settings about how they are in person, and vice versa. So something like 'based on how he is in interviews and press conferences, he must be terrible to work with' seems like nonsense logic to me.
They do but I worry more what damage is being done under Erik. Just look at last year when Amad couldn't get a game even though Anthony was shit on a stick every time. Also I really don't think he wants to play Ugarte so even if the potential is there he won't be able to step up because Erik didn't want him.
This is exactly why I see no risk in an interim. We can't get much worse anyway and I'm positive the whole club would be lifted out of the doom and gloom.
Begining the season with him was a mistake. Firing him at end of last season would already have been a late decision.
I knew there was a reason I blocked him.
I'm convinced this will be his farewell match after we lose against the mighty Brentford side.
I reckon 8 points after 8 matches, with a negative goal difference, 15th on the table, and only 5 points above relegation, should be enough to get the long-awaited boot.
Edit: "along with the worst United start in Premier League history"
I reckon 8 points after 8 matches, with a negative goal difference, 15th on the table, and only 5 points above relegation, should be enough to get the long-awaited boot.
Edit: "along with the worst United start in Premier League history"
Man are some of you going to be disappointed when we win on Saturday. 
I can understand that if you're judging him from press conferences when he's under pressure because he comes across as a total dick to me. But in other interviews he just comes across as being deluded, arrogant, he seems to see himself better than everyone else too and spouting bullshit wherever he goes and he's condescending.
To me there's nothing to like at all.
FTFY
I've heard a lot of United fans say this or similar since the end of last season. But it's genuinely mad that some are sick of going through managers so 'quickly', United give managers longer than most clubs, every post Fergie manager bar Moyes has had at least 2 full seasons. If anything we've gave them all too much time.
The average tenure of a manager is somewhere between 18 and 24 months across world football going back 20-30 years. Ten Hag's already been at United for over 2 years for fecks sake. If the team you support changing manager every 2-3 years makes you ill then maybe being football fan isn't a healhty past time.
The average tenure of a manager is somewhere between 18 and 24 months across world football going back 20-30 years. Ten Hag's already been at United for over 2 years for fecks sake. If the team you support changing manager every 2-3 years makes you ill then maybe being football fan isn't a healhty past time.
He got us two good away points to buy himself some time, now we need to win the home game against Brentford. Then we could start talking about things starting to turn around. No easy games though, when you've struggled as much as we have this season. Brentford should fancy their chances, they're above us in the table for a reason.
Pretty obvious that nothing is turning around. The Porto game in particular, wasn't a good point. We were 2-0 up.
I don’t like the word “judge’ either. He may be an absolute disaster as a manager, but an incredible human being. Like Gandhi, for example, probably couldn’t coach the team to execute a high press, but he was an admirable human being.
But, you added a vice versa in there that caught me. If we can’t judge whether a person is likeable by their press conferences and also cannot by how they are in person, there really isn’t much left, is there? I agree that an interview is more or less a press conference though.
With the 'vice versa', I meant that you chat judge how people will be in media settings based on how they are in person. Not really relevant here, but I like being complete.
Which is why they went and hired a new CEO, a DOF, a technichal director, a guy who handles transfers. Why they apparently spend a lot of time after the season before they made a decision on the manager, including meeting other managers. Oh, and also why they spent loads on transfers so far.
Because they are mostly interested in the stadium.
I mean, come on. I know it's doom and gloom, but there's no need to invent baseless conspiracy theories.
INEOS don't need to be good in making decisions about transfers and managers.
They need to appoint people who can make those decisions.
They did appoint new people. The two most important ones only arrived 3-4 months ago. Do you think they've been given a chance?
He definitely doesn't come off as hugely likeable and the tendency to make excuses has become a bit excessive. That said it isn't the level that he seems like a bad guy, for the most part just a bit bland.
Definitely competing with Moyes for the least charismatic/charming manager we have had in my time though.
Also don't think this matters hugely, I could listen to Mourinho talk for hours quite happily and he wasn't the right man.
Maybe if Ten Hag had his charisma it would make a huge difference, maybe he isn't as tactically inept as it seems and it's a motivation issue. Either way he isn't doing the job.
Definitely competing with Moyes for the least charismatic/charming manager we have had in my time though.
Also don't think this matters hugely, I could listen to Mourinho talk for hours quite happily and he wasn't the right man.
Maybe if Ten Hag had his charisma it would make a huge difference, maybe he isn't as tactically inept as it seems and it's a motivation issue. Either way he isn't doing the job.
With the way we usually start like we've just woken up and the fact Brentford train alot on starting very strong I can see 1 nil down in under 7 minutes then they'll get another after half time. God knows if we'll score but I don't think we'll outscore them under any circumstances.
Yeah really wish INEOS would give him reality check
Plausible, I would not be shocked were it to pan out something like that, but I recall people were very sure we'd lose our last game. I think there's a reasonable chance we see them off and get that win under our belt.
If I had to bet, another draw that infuriates everyone feels very easy to imagine.
Big win at Brentford incoming.
- The notion of “no one our there being the right man apart from Ancellotti”
- sticking with a manager through all of the shit in hopes that it magically works out
- Acting like there must be some strange, deeper reason that previous managers haven’t worked out
So in essence, all of it. We are the only club where fans complain about firing managers that are doing a shit job in years 2-3.
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