Life after ETH — the next United manager

If we sack ten Hag who would you want as manager?

  • Massimiliano Allegri

    Votes: 24 1.8%

  • Rúben Amorim

    Votes: 280 20.5%

  • Michael Carrick

    Votes: 33 2.4%

  • Roberto de Zerbi

    Votes: 18 1.3%

  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 70 5.1%

  • Sebastian Hoeneß

    Votes: 59 4.3%

  • Eddie Howe

    Votes: 6 0.4%

  • Simone Inzaghi

    Votes: 66 4.8%

  • Andoni Iraola

    Votes: 36 2.6%

  • Thiago Motta

    Votes: 8 0.6%

  • Julian Nagelsmann

    Votes: 256 18.7%

  • Graham Potter

    Votes: 26 1.9%

  • Ruud van Nistelrooy

    Votes: 30 2.2%

  • Marco Silva

    Votes: 8 0.6%

  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 217 15.9%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 58 4.2%

  • Kieran McKenna

    Votes: 81 5.9%

  • Unai Emery

    Votes: 90 6.6%

  • Fabian Hürzeler

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • Total voters
    1,367
KeanoMagicHat said:
I think the club needs to detach itself more from managers in general, just treat them as someone playing a role instead of this hero cult of personality figure that defines the club. The other thing is there are so many managers out there, like a revolving door, you get someone in, they do okay or not, you move on. Managers can also do a bad job somewhere like Flick at Germany and still be a good manager in the right circumstances. Shouldn't be seen as precious as it is.
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Absolutely, sections of this fanbases obsession with finding the new Fergie needs to die out. There are no more Fergies, I've been hearing people moaning today about the club ''chopping and changing again''. It's perfectly normal to change manager every 1-3 years. We need to realize managers are just like players if they're not working out get them out and someone else in to replace them.
 
Rojofiam said:
We need to steer clear of Emery. His teams are questionable out of possession, to put it lightly. It has been clear at every team he's been at so far, even at Villa, and to this day it's a problem, despite the significant improvement of that team under him. It was a problem vs United too when they played us a few weeks ago.

In my opinion, ETH's failure can also be attributed partly to his United side being really bad out of possession. There's no point in getting in someone who might be an improvement but with a heavily limited ceiling.
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I can see that, especially after ETH had us playing with similiar weaknesses but I believe going with a manager with PL pedigree could be of huge benefit so what would your opinion of Frank be, he has already shown himself to be a sustained overachiever and willing to get the most of the players at his disposal?
 
RDCR07 said:
feck kinda hope Pep signs a one year contract extension so we have more of a shot at getting Ruben.

Out of curiosity why would Terzic be a disaster?
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Well going off what Bundesliga fans have said about him on here his Dortmund side were pretty terrible, he did get them to a CL final which he deserves credit for but seemingly there wasn’t much in terms of tactics and he wasn’t setting them up well. Thats the exact opposite of what we need right now.
 
Thought Naglesmann might want to stay on for the WC but like someone said he's young for that type of job, can see he probably wants to get back to big club football and take on the PL. He has plenty of time for international management, that said I was impressed with Germany in the Euros and how he had them playing after Flick, it can be bit boring day to day but it's a lot to give up still, they could be a serious contender for the WC.
 
stevoc said:
Absolutely, sections of this fanbases obsession with finding the new Fergie needs to die out. There are no more Fergies, I've been hearing people moaning today about the club ''chopping and changing again''. It's perfectly normal to change manager every 1-3 years. We need to realize managers are just like players if they're not working out get them out and someone else in to replace them.
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City/Liverpool have shown in recent years it's still good to have managerial stability if you can find it - the model of a heavily involved, long-term manager isn't exactly dead, it's just not the be all and end all.
 
gaffs said:
Probably because he is happy at Villa.
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Would be bizarre for him to leave right now too. They're flying in the CL and looking good for top four again. And he has enough of a pedigree that even if things go downhill in time top clubs will still show interest when they're looking.
 
I think Nagelsmann would be the most ambitious and exciting choice, but my gut feeling is we will get Thomas Frank. A decent manager who is proven in the league, and likely wouldn’t ask for too much financially/will be happy to work with most, if not all of Ten Hag’s signings.
 
I'd want any one of Nagelsmann, Amorim or Frank, in that order too probably.

Not keen on Xavi, and certainly not Potter nor Southgate.
 
Nagelsmann - not sure. seems overrated
Amorim - weak league. Can be EtH 2.0
Potter - No
GS - No God please No
Xavi - would like to see what he can do here
 
Hoof the ball said:
Rumours spreading on Twitter that we're potentially approaching Southgate over the open vacancy.
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If there's any semblance of truth to this, then I'll curse the fact that Newcastle didn't hardball us even harder on Ashworth ffs.

I'm (hopefully) certain its bollocks though.
 
I think the biggest thing Ten Hag has taught us is that the MUFC manager must have personality
 
Someone who makes us to average 60% possession or more, someone who makes us score over 100 goals per season and keep us in contention for the trophies til the end of the season.
 
redshaw said:
Thought Naglesmann might want to stay on for the WC but like someone said he's young for that type of job, can see he probably wants to get back to big club football and take on the PL. He has plenty of time for international management, that said I was impressed with Germany in the Euros and how he had them playing after Flick, it can be bit boring day to day but it's a lot to give up still, they could be a serious contender for the WC.
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Also I did think he'd be leaving Germany in the lurch but WC qualifying doesn't start until March next year, so they have plenty of time to get a new manager to take the team towards the WC. Still not ideal for Germany but it's not like the WC is next summer.
 
TrustInOle said:
I can see that, especially after ETH had us playing with similiar weaknesses but I believe going with a manager with PL pedigree could be of huge benefit so what would your opinion of Frank be, he has already shown himself to be a sustained overachiever and willing to get the most of the players at his disposal?
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I think Frank could be an underrated but very smart appointment. I would absolutely be satisfied and excited if it was him.

It would also personally be a huge green flag for me about Ineos if they went and appointed an unpopular, unknown choice that they internally really believed in rather than pursuing big names, who aren't "rebuilders" like Ancelotti or Zidane would be, for example.
 
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Marwood said:
I'd say it's the only way to judge a manager. Look back and see how he did. Only then can you say it was right or wrong.

Definitely true in ETH's case. He was 50 and his only success was with Ajax. That was nowhere near enough to warrant him being the obvious, unquestionable, choice.

We got it wrong again unfortunately.
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Thats the only way to judge a managerial term but it has absolutely nothing to do with whether he was the right decision at the time.
 
Hope it's someone like Nagelsmann. One thing a Man Utd manager needs to have is charisma and presence to get people on board immediately.
 
Wow this morning I didn't even need to snooze my alarm. This news woke me right up. Let's hope the United heirachy get it right next time.

Sad it had to end this way but wish Erik all the best. Thanks for the FA Cup win ❤️
 
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