I kinda have no position. If he stays I'll back him and keep my fingers crossed that people with more data than me (and just me) have a plan.
If he is sacked then I hope all our issues were caused by him and the future will be immediately bright.
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I kinda have no position. If he stays I'll back him and keep my fingers crossed that people with more data than me (and just me) have a plan.
If he is sacked then I hope all our issues were caused by him and the future will be immediately bright.
Extremely hopeful is ok by me, considering the alternatives.
That's pretty much where I am placing my thoughts. I imagine he'll be sacked, but if not I'll still support him. I do think though that he doesn't have the ingredient that is most important, the character, to actually win over the players (and I think to some extent the players are at fault, just as they have been for every other manager to varying degrees) properly. And if he does get sacked I suspect one issue has been address but other issues will remain.
So I am hoping that the next manager whenever he's appointed has that aura and that character to dominate the dressing room (in a positive way).
There's one thing I know about football, there isn't anyone you can employ, players and/or coaches that will ensure success, you can make your chances better but actual sucess doesn't necessarily happen
season is a wash apparently
The nonsense about his personality characteristics doesn't interest me. A good manager isn't built from a kit, there are many ways to do it. He's on very thin ice though. We are torture to watch.
We won’t get relegated. He will turn it around and we will probably finish between 7th and 10th.
I was lucky as a kid, we had satellite TV and I had access to lots of european channels and at the time it seems that many games were rebroadcasted early in the morning. There was also a show saturday mornings that was basically showing all the BBC documentaries and INA(the french TV archives) about Football history.
There may not have been any announcement but I now think for the first time that his job is actually on the line and that a firing is closer than its ever been. A loss or two in the next 5 would do it.
Garnacho and Amad have had plenty of playing time and haven't really grasped their chances yet, that's on them not the manager or his tactics
Mainoo has done OK but he's looking mentally shattered, the tactics probably don't help so that's on ETH, he shouldn't be playing as much as he has, Hojlund has been injured, he had next to no-preseason, he needs games now and and some service, Yoro hasn't even played bar a half game in pre-season
It interests me. As someone who prefers McKenna over the rest, it is the one aspect I'm least sure of. But it is why SAF was incredible, it is also why Mourinho was incredibly successful, same with Klopp, same with Guardiola. You can even see a bit of it in Thomas Frank (whom I loathe, but maybe because of his arrogance which is probably merited).
And I'm not talking good managers, but great. But anyway.
This is indeed a new low. Now we are not allowed to be happy we beat the team that won the league 6 times in the last seven years in a final
, and the local rival.If we won the CL he’d be like “Big clubs winning CL is not a big deal, we have a small club mentality.”
Yeah, I hear you. But I think success can be achieved in various ways.
He’s staying. Better pray he turns things around cause he ain’t going nowhere.
Serious doubts have been raised over his future and I can only assume he must be patently aware of it at this point. The style of football has also been awful to watch and the defeats have been humiliating. Anything less than a win in our next game will spell the end hopefully.
The silence is deafening. I don’t see how him not being backed publicly is increasing his chances of staying.
I have cancelled my trip to Istanbul for the Fenerbahce match.
I can't support this shitshow.
Joke of a club.
I can't support this shitshow.
Joke of a club.
I would like to think, the reason we haven't heard anything is because INEOS are currently sounding out replacements so there is a seamless transition.
That's what I'm hoping anyway.
That's what I'm hoping anyway.
It's gonna need intercessory prayer by a megachurch to get ETH to turn things around.
When I was a kid VHS didn't exist, never mind satellite TV, and I was a teenager before we got a color TV, in fact I went to games at OT before we got one of them - yeah I'm old!!!
Have we called INEOS Buffoons yet?
Criminally underused when we’re throwing around hysterical descriptors like ‘incompetent’, ‘inept’ etc…
A little more creativity would also add some variety to the daily whine
Criminally underused when we’re throwing around hysterical descriptors like ‘incompetent’, ‘inept’ etc…
A little more creativity would also add some variety to the daily whine
TBH we don't even know if ETH's position was even discussed, this was a pre-planned meeting not an ad-hoc one
That'll show 'em!
Indeed.
He will fail yet again. There is no praying in football! He will be sacked be it now or later.
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I’ll be honest - I want him gone, but at the same time a part of me is genuinely curious to see how low we can go before he’s sacked.
Feels sadistic.
Feels sadistic.
For someone calling others hysterical you sure are working overtime tonight.
The odds on you being right at some point are low.
What?Said he can't support this joke of a club. He's cancelling flights and visit to Istanbul and me slagging that is hysterical?
And I told you I was responding to a comment which basically said that United fans have a small time club mentality because they celebrated beating city.
I didn’t say anything about ETH (whom I have said numerous times deserves to be let go)
Lower than 14th? I guess we could sink lower. It’s like if a stock is down 90%, it can fall a further 90% from there.
Maybe this board should learn to read then because i was replying to one specific thing where fans were said to have a small time club mentality for celebrating a win versus city
You’ve done it now, multiple posters will respond replying to something you didn’t sayThis is indeed a new low. Now we are not allowed to be happy we beat the team that won the league 6 times in the last seven years in a final
If we won the CL he’d be like “Big clubs winning CL is not a big deal, we have a small club mentality.”
I don’t understand why management is delaying what’s inevitable. Why, for whom? Everyone knows this can’t and won’t be turned around. Sure, they might not get sacked this week, but it’s just a matter of waiting for which week it will happen (whether it’s November or December doesn’t matter, it will come, and that’s the worst part of it all).
United is losing direction and failing to make quick and right decisions, instead dragging things out unnecessarily.
Even Goldbridge, who says he doesn’t want a sacking, actually does, he just doesn’t want to say it out loud because it’s inevitable.
It’s sad and pathetic how low the standards and decisions have become.
United is losing direction and failing to make quick and right decisions, instead dragging things out unnecessarily.
Even Goldbridge, who says he doesn’t want a sacking, actually does, he just doesn’t want to say it out loud because it’s inevitable.
It’s sad and pathetic how low the standards and decisions have become.
We've won 1 out of the last 10 matches in Europe under Ten Hag, cant really blame him.
He's cancelling flights and visit to Istanbul and me slagging that is hysterical?
It's like playing some sort of Zombie game where stealth is key. Too loud and they all awaken, frothing!
Fair enough. I defo would not cancel a trip to Istanbul to see a game, any game. I'd say that's a bit more dramatic than me being amused by it. But that's just me.
Just a thought, maybe they will wait till he’s back from holiday? After all the big fuss he made last time
They could be waiting at arrivals in Manchester Airport.
I don't think the silence indicates anything. If they have to answer to media speculation then it sets a tedious precedent.