Mate, he is league proven trophy winner and see how well he is doing in one of the hardest leagues in the world with one of the worst teams there. His teams also play each and every opponent off the park. And something about his work at Southampton etc..
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LVG is 100% right. We don't act as a club that cares about creating a good playing squad or style. The last 9 years has showed that.
We sign players that sell shirts. We'll do the same again and sign a 29/30 year old striker in Kane and sign a manager that couldn't win anything of note with Spurs or PSG.
We sign players that sell shirts. We'll do the same again and sign a 29/30 year old striker in Kane and sign a manager that couldn't win anything of note with Spurs or PSG.
You know what's scary though and something I think a lot of fans even here don't realise?
Getting Europa League and going deep in that tournament is financially not THAT different to being in the CL and barely making it out of the group stages and losing immediately after.
Moreover, it retains the veneer that we're competing in Europe for a trophy, normalises mediocrity all with the added bonus that we might get a CL spot once every 2 or 3 editions because we're just the biggest club in that competition.
Meanwhile, Newcastle with their blood money will be winning the league before we get anywhere near doing it.
Mediocrity was normalised back when we hired Ole. Its just trying not to reach the lowest levels of irrelevancy these days so that the owners can milk as much money as they can.
I don't buy the SAF propaganda. The man probably has influence but it's funny that's only ever mentioned when things need to be 'explained' to the 'dumb' fans (rather customers).Is it a problem that they cannot seem to make a decision without asking SAF's opinion? They are going to need to eventually as he will not be around forever.
LVG is spot on.
And the funny thing is we'll fail to carry on being a successful commercial club the longer we become associated with failure and incompetence.
And the funny thing is we'll fail to carry on being a successful commercial club the longer we become associated with failure and incompetence.
It is weird. Are they then going to say if it is Poch and it doesn't work, well we listened to SAF. Think it is more likely as has already been said all the managers are still in work. ETH in a tight title race, Poch because we don't want to pay compensation and PSG don't want to let him go without it. So either they let him carry on or sack him or come to some compromise. Enrique is a problem because of Spain and the World Cup and he will not want another situation like Lopetegui found himself in.
If he is right, we accept being a commercial club and we have made changes.
Why is everyone getting twisted if we get Poch?
We don't know this.
That's one thing we do know.
Ed Woodward is gone.
Richard Arnold is CEO
John Murtough, Fletcher and Rangnick are from the football side.
Slight overreaction over the LVG comments by some on here. He had a gripe with Woodward who we could all agree is an incompetent prick who mishandled the club for a decade. I don’t expect LVG to say a kind word about the club and that’s all his quote confirms.
I get seriously concerned the more I keep hearing Arnold and Murtough repeat that we have the right structure in place for success and trophies.
I wish they or anyone at the club would just come out and say that they consider our past few years failure. They talk as if nothing is wrong and we are too big to fail.
A commercial club signs Rice, Kane for £250m, resigns Pogba, puts all three on 400k per week and makes Poch manager.
A football club gets Ten Hag or Luis Enrique, makes Rangnick DOF and signs 10 players for £250m and has a clear out of underperforming players.
Big summer ahead for the direction of the club.
A football club gets Ten Hag or Luis Enrique, makes Rangnick DOF and signs 10 players for £250m and has a clear out of underperforming players.
Big summer ahead for the direction of the club.
So are we signing Poch then? Haven’t really kept a close eye on what’s going on lately…
Top line looks like something we would do. Worrying summer ahead.
It's almost certainly going to be Ten Hag.
I have no idea how so many on here have suddenly convinced themselves it's going to be Poch. There is no basis to believe that
It's almost certainly going to be Ten Hag.
I have no idea how so many on here have suddenly convinced themselves it's going to be Poch. There is no basis to believe that
It's Waza!
What did he say?
Richard Arnold is an accountant who has been at the club since 2007 and is Ed Woodward’s friend from their time at the University of Bristol.
Him replacing Ed Woodward means absolutely nothing to the way the club is run, because they replaced one (accountant) CEO with another (accountant) CEO who is a friend of his.
Murtough has been at the club since 2013. He came in with David Moyes. He doesn’t have anything to boast about since 2013.
Fletcher does not have any previous experience as a technical director, so we don’t really know how he will pan out.
Ragnick stated he doesn’t even know what Fletcher’s role at the club is. Speaking of Ragnick, he said (or implied) in his press conference that he hasn’t even been consulted about who the new manager should be.
Sounds like Man United to me.
Notice the distinction with 'Sports' people, the suits and the bankers don't want him
Ok so what if they are Accounts? He is the CEO to run the club and given football duties to Murtough.
Your comments about he's had nothing since 2013 shows lack of knowledge because if you knew better you'd know he changed how our academy works.
Fletcher has no technical director experience, does not mean he can't do his job?
Also, Rangnick said he doesn't know what his role is in the boardroom because he was focused on football side of things not the hierarchy.
So are you going to believe everything Rangnick says in the press conference? Fabrizio has clearly stated that Rangnick will be involved.
The poster above put it best. I badly want to believe this club has changed direction but look at all the people in charge. They have all been part of the club's failure for close to a decade.
Joel Glazer has been known to micromanage the club. There's no indication that will change.
Get in. I’m team Luis.
Pause or not, don't think that's what I meant. Basically, he will come to next season with two different things in his mind. It'll be divided into how he can improve his Spain National Team to win World Cup and how he can improve the Man United team to reach their goal in 22/23 season. It's like how someone can't get his focus at work due to something else outside of his job bothering him.
Haha, sorry Wazza didn't say it is Poch, Wazza said the only reason he got into management is to manage Utd one day
I rarely agree with Sam Luckhurst but we do on this one.
Ten Hag is 1/3 with PP to get the job. It's as good as settled.
No, nothing happened, some journos just jumped on that and connected their own dots that we must be buying time for Poch. People then took it at face value and worked themselves up. I don't even know what's going on here half the time. Race to post the least credible twatter sources and rile up everyone. Also don't know where the news about an announcement being imminent came from. Everytime you peak you'd swear the news was getting announced today, everyday every other hour. Let's set aside the fact that our hierarchy are clueless, the recruitment process at anywhere surely takes longer than a week and that's even assuming they don't ask to keep it confidential. You can read just about any situation both ways if you jump on every source.
Music to my ears
Yes, I get it.
Firstly, the old regime would have appointed Poch when Ole was sacked.
Who has been part of the clubs failure? Rangnick? Fletcher?
Murtough is the one who hired Rangnick and wants him to help in some forms going forward, plus he has reshaped our academy, unless you are unaware of that. He was also integral in establishing the Womens team.
So clearly there is an indication that things will change.
I can already see the look on Mark Goldbridge's face if Rooney got the United job one day. Honestly, I don't think he'd ever recover from it!
Romano seems to think this isn't true.
Don't see how PSG would let us talk to him anyway. Hopefully they continue to be stubborn.
Our club seems unable to handle more then 1 managerial interview per week. I guess they are too busy scouting 100000 players only to come out with a shortlist made up of Harry Kane and Declan Rice.
What the feck is the point then?
He potentially could decide to leave Spain early to take over.
It's not what is most likely to happen, but until you speak to him directly you don't know
I'm team Luis as well. God that would be so fecking good if it were to happen.
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