We made the wrong decision that time. I can easily see us make the very same mistakes again.
Erik ten Hag | Currently unemployed
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We made the wrong decision that time. I can easily see us make the very same mistakes again.
Surely we will have VDS fighting our corner and persuading him to join us if he does leave them of course. The other 2 clubs could just be rumours though to make us make a decision quick time. Happened with Fernandes, we was interested but then apparently Barca put a bid in so the next minute we bidded in and eventually signed him.
We shouldn’t be going for just fine though… we should be taking risks and going for the best and to me the best option for us out there is ten Hag.
We should go for ten Hag, he might be a risky option but it is well worth it.
I think unless he has a disaster, Gerrard could be their next manager.
Youve got to me a special kind of gullible to believe estate agent style reporting. "oh you better get a move on, we have other buyers too!"
I'd be quite shocked if we got him tbh. I think a manager with a promising profile would he likely committing career suicide coming here to work under the clueless regime of the Glazers and co. We're in a position where we're far more likely to ruin his reputation that he is likely to drag us out of this mess.
That’s the spirit.
Completely agree. I hope the new CEO can give him the belief that there can be real change. This is not currently a particularly appealing challenge for a genuine top manager sadly.
Can’t really blame him if he’s having some reservations about the job. Really hope we get it done but I’ll literally be unsurprised if we feck this up considering how ineptly this club is run from the top.
It's sad if "United come calling, you go" is dead after only a decade post SAF
If in most managerial jobs the past 5(ish) appointees have failed and been let go. You'd have to be completely unsuitable to not have huge concerns.
No thread is safe from the self-loathing.
There’s no fecking it up if he thinks the job is too big for him.
Better knowing now than in 12 months when he’s frozen in what players to drop etc.
When was this ever a thing?
No thread is safe from complete denial. Are we still a big club? Yes. Are we a current European giant? No.
In the past 10 years, we've got to the CL QF's twice and gone through 4 managers who have all flopped. Wake up.
Hmmm you are right there has a certain j'en sais quoi………I may change my surname to Hag then my wife will be an old hag
It’s laughable, some amount of bed wetters in here. Biggest club in the world, with a £150m yearly budget, is now unattractive to top managers?
Remember who’s running this club. It’s been operated with complete incompetence for nearly 10 years so nothing would surprise me at this point.
It's not self loathing though, it's being realistic. If this was any other club I'd say the same. We're a complete shambles from ownership and upper management to playing staff and that's not something that any manager is going to fancy trying to fix if he has ambitions of working at a top level
It's the kind of miserable shite we hear every day about every player we're linked with, so makes sense it's now being applied to managerial targets.
It's so fecking tedious.
Forum is absolutely dominated by fans who actually seem to hate the club and are totally miserable having to support them.
You would think we were a clown club with zero prestige and zero pull.
It’s not realistic since he hasn’t turned us down.
Yes, I remember that Richard Arnold is running the show since the last 2 months.
The record up to his appointment is irrelevant.
Please VDS don't be mean to us
This is because we didn’t look after Donny like you asked isn’t it Edwin
The only reason ten Hag could be interested in another job after being interviewed by us is because he wasn’t impressed with what the clowns was saying to him. He obviously has better offers on the table so the choice is down to him. The only thing we could probably offer him more then the other clubs is money. But we want a manager to want to manage us and take us back to the top, not one that’s coming to us for money, obviously if the new manager wins us things then he deserves a pay rise.
While we are a huge club and hard to turn down for anyone it is a huge job ETH would have here. It’s probably the hardest job in the world at the moment as we are looking and spending to get back to the top but we are miles away
Hopefully there were no mentions of Manchester Disneyland this time.
Yep, the new manager will inherit a squad with many, many players that need offloading, I read that he or she will have less than 100 million to spend and that's not a lot when you consider how clubs will put the prices up when Manchester United come in for their players.
Other clubs won't be able to afford a lot of our surplus players either so it's hard to get fees for them, just hope someone can take them on free transfers and the like.
It's a job that will take time, will the club give him/her the time? will the fans give him/her the time? I'm happy to go without winning anything for another 4 years if it meant seeing the decks cleared and a squad of young hungry, ambitious players who are committed blended with some of our talented youths.
Other clubs won't be able to afford a lot of our surplus players either so it's hard to get fees for them, just hope someone can take them on free transfers and the like.
It's a job that will take time, will the club give him/her the time? will the fans give him/her the time? I'm happy to go without winning anything for another 4 years if it meant seeing the decks cleared and a squad of young hungry, ambitious players who are committed blended with some of our talented youths.
Oh yeah? And what colour boxers is he wearing?
Genuinely interested here do you think there's even a remote chance that United will hire a female manager?
Casey Stoney!
When I watch extended highlights of Ajax I don't really see "possesion football".
Do people who watch him/them regularly actually see it?
Like I don't see the 3' P's of Possesion football that I can see with Van Gaal or Pep.
I see the centre backs making runs to the other end of the pitch, losing the ball at times that lead to counterattacks; losing their positioning, possesion and ability to play.
I'm not trying to put him down because I don't watch his football regularly enough - but is he actually a possesion based manager; or just a pure attacking manager.
Do people who watch him/them regularly actually see it?
Like I don't see the 3' P's of Possesion football that I can see with Van Gaal or Pep.
I see the centre backs making runs to the other end of the pitch, losing the ball at times that lead to counterattacks; losing their positioning, possesion and ability to play.
I'm not trying to put him down because I don't watch his football regularly enough - but is he actually a possesion based manager; or just a pure attacking manager.
It's a common misconception that ETH is a purely possession based manager. Truth Is, he really isn't. He plays a hybrid of possession and Vertical football similar to recent Liverpool. It's why I believe he will fare better than DeBoer and LVG in the premier league. Their style looked boring because it lacked verticality.
Didn’t realise we had a comedian… don’t give up your day job.
100 million plus sales maybe? Probably going to raise a fair bit selling players.
You're woke man.
We’ll be saving a lot of money from pogbas wages though so that will help, lingard shouldn’t be to hard to get rid of, there’s teams in the prem that will snap him up, maybe Newcastle. Cavani if he leaves then that’s more money saved on wages. Although we may not get what we want for some players it will be easy to get rid of a few and even the ones going on a free will save us money. It’s ridiculous that we’ve let pogba run is contract down though, could of easily of got 50+ mil of someone for him last season or the one before.