How excited are you?

I was excited for all of Moyes, LVG, Mourinho and Rangnick so feeling a bit of an idiot at this stage but this is the most I'd say I've been excited. Almost felt emotional at the news earlier despite how obvious it was going to happen
 
I'm not excited at all. We've seen this a few times over last few years.

Having said that, I am INTERESTED. And I haven't been interested since the middle of Mourinho's second season, because everything that's happened since with him and then Solskjaer was awfully predictable.
 
Very excited actually as this represents the first good managerial hire post Fergie of a top current/upcoming manager, and has hunger and the right philosophy of football we desperately need. After so much doom and gloom we can possibly start being Manchester United again after a 9/10 year absence.
 
Gladly admit this is the most excited I've been about our club in a long, long time. When Ole was appointed I was happy that Mourinho was gone but I didn't think it was going to end well. This time, we may have got our man.
 
Because things couldn’t possibly get any worse, I’m optimistic Utd will start moving in the right direction.
The fact that ETH will be moving to the EPL and hopefully we’ll see a new style of play is exciting and finally we’ll see the back of a number of our squad that has been rotten since Mourinho.
 
Stookie said:
United have kicked the shit out of my emotions over the last few years- (even drilled them into the ground like a tent peg this season) so although I’m happy we have a new manager, I’m mildly optimistic at the moment. Too many false dawns have happened before for me. I really want this fella to do well but it’s a massive task. He has a mish mash of previous managers players and mistakes. He’ll definitely need to make it his own team. Let’s see if he’s given the time to do it.
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Exactly how I feel.
 
Not excited. Nothing against ETH, just the club seems rotten on the inside.
We`ve tried 5 different managers, different CVs and styles, but all got more than decent careers apart from Ole. Club has bought tons of players to support them, and still, all have looked like absolute frauds.

Honestly believed that this season was going to be special. Finishing second in the prem and then adding Varane, Ronaldo and Sancho in the summer should by all known maths add up to a proper title challenge. But instead they all completely forgot how to play football. Maguire was decent for us last year and arguably our best defender, and then something happens and now he can`t even get the basics right. Rashford is another one, he has gone from being one of the most exciting young attackers in the world to someone who can`t make two good decisions in a row to save his life. Bruno was a revelation when he arrived. Seemed like the best addition to the squad in ages. Now nothing happens for him on the pitch. All look more or less miserable these days.

Haven`t got a clue what is going on behind the curtains at the club but whatever it is, it seems to suck the joy out of everyone involved. Erik needs to be the second coming to even stand a chance of turning this old ship around.
But i will watch and hope for a miracle.
 
Less excited more hesitantly positive, albeit dreading the remaining five games of this horseshit season.
 
Ayoba said:
Exactly how I feel.
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I’m pretty optimistic personally. This seems like the smartest piece of managerial recruitment we’ve made since Ferguson, though the results of course remain to be seen.
I also feel that Murtough (spelling?) is guiding the club in the right direction at last, though I’m not as knowledgeable as some here and I might be wrong.
Overall, I’m feeling surprisingly hopeful. Just seems like we could be on the cusp of better days. None of the recent managers were right, I felt at the time. Ole in particular- nice man but his appointment and its subsequent trajectory symbolised all that was wrong with the club- living in the past. This feels different and better thought out. We’ll have to be patient with ETH though and not demand the impossible.
So yeah, quite optimistic.
On the other hand, I may be quite mad. I acknowledge this possibility.
 
If this was 2 managers ago, I would be very excited.

I've learned not to celebrate before any tangible improvement with this club, so I'll keep it down.

But you have to say, there's some real rays of hope coming through the 10-year night.
 
The needle isn't really moving yet, I think some optimism might build when I see half our current squad signing for other clubs (I'm still dreading opening the sky sports app and seeing Pogba/Lingard have signed new deals), and then a bit more if we gets some good replacements in.
 
Do you remember in Dragon Ball Z when Nappa was about to kill Krillin, Gohan and Piccolo, but all of a sudden they sensed Goku on his way and began to hope again?

That's me.
 
A newspaper quote.

“Manchester United could sell England striker Marcus Rashford, France forward Anthony Martial, English right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Ivory Coast centre-back Eric Bailly, ex-England defender Phil Jones and Brazil left-back Alex Telles this summer as part of the overhaul under new manager Erik ten Hag.“

Sounds like a second hand car dealer trying to flog some old bangers. I wish ETH well but he has a monster job ahead.
 
I dont think the manager is the problem at our club. I think its upper management. ETH might be a very good manager in the premier league and for us, but I dont think anyone can be good under the current administration
 
I’m naive like a young buck in the woods and very excited. That’s why I watch the game ffs. If you can’t get excited about this big change then do something else with your time.
 
I was excited about LVG but his holland team performances were pretty boring that summer and that took the sheen off. I was most excited about Mou as he had at that point won a title at every time and was still an elite manager regardless of how anyone tries to reengineer history. I was excited about Ole when he got the job permanently as performance wise it was far ahead of any manager prior over that spell of 15 games. At different times in Oles reign I was excited but felt the same as everyone els that it probably wouldn't work out, the top of the game is too difficult.

Now I think we haven't made any of the necessary changes in the club for success, we have just lurched to a new manager who is set up to fail, so the least excited I have been in decade, purely because I am slowly learning about how slow the club is to adapt. The fan may be willing to forgive multiple season outside of top 4 for ETH but the club will not, so he is 50/50 to survive this season I would imagine and with nobody above him to create continuity we will lurch again
 
charlenefan said:
Moyes - WTF seriously?
LVG - Hhmm ok he hasn't done anything or note for ages but ok
Mourinho - ok here we go we're gonna win the league
Ole - Hhmm ok I guess he deserves a crack

Those were my thoughts at the time of each managerial appointment

With ETH it's a mix of excitement with him being the first up and coming coach we've hired post Fergie, a tinge I hope he's not our Frank de Boer and a lot of 'the clubs cursed it doesn't matter who we appoint' but yes I'm excited for this season to be over and the planning for the next to start
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haha true. i bought into lvg a lot more... but watched that team in the summer of 2014 and thought they looked so so boring
 
I’ll be more excited when we get rid of all the garbage players that we have.
 
I've been burned too many times since Sir Alex to be super excited. I think most people understand the issues run deeper than the manager so I feel a new structure is even more important than the specific manager appointment. But I'm hopeful optimistic. I think I was far more excited by Van Gaal and Mourinho, but this feels like a more sensible appointment but i won't let myself get carried away again.
 
I mean if you can’t be intrigued and excited by this you may as well pack up and go home right?

1) Highly rated, top quality modern coach in high demand and in the upwards trajectory of his career - A big difference than any previous appointments

2) New set up within the club - Murtagh, Fletcher and Rangnick leading on football issues. No Woodward.

3) Lots of players on big contracts leaving - Freeing up the bloated squad and wage bill, perfect timing for a rebuild

4) Two transfer budgets to spend (January and the summer)

5) New coaches coming in to the club, not this cobbled together set up Rangnick has had to put together mid season

6) Scouting network changing with Lawlor and Bout being moved on. Big switch in recruitment.

I mean other than the Glazers stepping down everything is going perfectly surely?

It feels Rangnick is being listened to in his appraisal and everything he’s eluded to in interviews is slowly coming to fruition.
 
7.5/10, he's the one I wanted but he is relatively unproven, and we have no reference of how he'll do at an elite level because he has never been there even as a player.
 
Excited about the new direction but the current season is still weighing down the excitement for now. Just want it over with.
 
I am happy that we have now got this confirmed, now I want to see us move onto more pressing matters, like extending the deals of the players that are soon to be put of contract.

Getting, Ona, Jackie, Turner, & Russo all signed up is the next vital step.
 
I rate Ten Haag, but just not sure our squad suits him.

It is a hard job to do. We need to nail our signings in midfield if Pogba goes.

Then hope Ten Haag can raise the levels of our squad players since they are good players, but without confidence.

One attacking star and then hope Sancho, Bruno, Rashford can find form could be key.

4-5 top quality signings we need I think if we want to challenge for the league and get top 4 for sure. To actually win it we probably need 1-2 seasons and nail most of our signings like Liverpool did.
 
Got excited with all of them apart from Moyes who I thought would be sacked mid season. With Ole you had to dream a little after that run, at least some good times after Mourinho's collapse. With Mourinho you thought you'd go back to winning ways especially with that summer window. Van Gaal had the great world Cup and after the Moyes thing.

This time I'm probably the least excited, but the most optimistic at the same time. Least excited because I feel so sapped from all the bullshit, and it's still a ways away, but optimistic as I genuinely think this is our best manager and the first time we truly got the appointment right.
 
Bit of a strange one. First time that my number 1 pick has been appointed since Fergie, yet I'm less excited than I was when we got LVG. Probably because Moyes being so bad at a time when we weren't used to it. Also, having been excited before... I've just been hurt too many times. On a serious note, I'm very happy with the appointment but it's only part of the battle, the team needs a major overhaul and we fans I feel will need a little patience. It may get worse before it gets better (hopefully)

Excited-metre rating 6.5/10
 
I keep low expectation and secretly waiting a surprise. Been hurt too many times.
 
Very excited:

1. He is absolutely my first choice
2. There will be lots of outgoings and incomings this summer
3. Potentially speaking, we are finally going to build a team to play exciting possession football
 
Very excited regarding the manager but I remain doubtful of our setup and the people in charge. Except for LVG I thought every manager we appointed was a mistake, with RR I was fine since it was interim and more of an advisor role afterwards
 
This time around I wont get excited till I see some sustained progress.
Its the hope that kills you.
 
I feel completely dead inside to be honest.

This is more likely to be a failure than it is anything else but I'm that used to being disappointed by United nowadays that it doesn't register as failure = sadness.

If it works out then great but there's so much work and so much going against it that I just don't see much changing.

We'll be bombarded by the press with calls for a new manager by the end of next season IMO.
 
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