Next permanent manager | Poll updated

Who should be the next permanent manager?

  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 113 7.4%

  • Erik ten Hag

    Votes: 1,300 84.7%

  • Julen Lopetegui

    Votes: 10 0.7%

  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 79 5.1%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 32 2.1%
  • Total voters
    1,534
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Class of 1902 said:
Maybe it's perpetuated by a group of players who refuse to work hard wanting him as their next manager.
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That's why I am hoping he gives them a kick up the backside. Dealing with that lot at PSG might make him even more demanding of our squad. He cannot be happy with how it has gone there.
 
Mickeza said:
Pochetino is known to be demanding. I’ve no idea where this myth that he isn’t has come from.
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It's just from PSG, who have an uncoachable, commercial-based club culture. You just can't do anything with certain players. Tuchel was sacked and then won the CL with someone else. Emery won the Europa League and just beat Juventus in the CL, he was made look like an idiot there.
 
These players have practically got what they've wanted for sometime now, until Ralf walked in that is.

Given the obvious squad discontent and the leaks that have embarrassingly and alarmingly been coming out at such a rate throughout this campaign, giving into these players preference of manager is ,well, leaves one with some question marks.
 
Whoever we get isn`t going to have us competing with City and Liverpool while Pep and Klopp are there . If Poch or Ten Hag improve our football and have us back in the top 4 then we are going in the right direction for a change, that will do for me.
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
It's just from PSG, who have an uncoachable, commercial-based club culture. You just can't do anything with certain players. Tuchel was sacked and then won the CL with someone else. Emery won the Europa League and just beat Juventus in the CL, he was made look like an idiot there.
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A bit like United at the moment whether we like it or not.
 
No one is expecting us to instantly compete with Liverpool or City with Hag or Poch. No one.

We practically need a new squad of players and that's take 3/4 windows. You cant be a successful side with the players we've currently got.
Talent wise and fundamentally the mentally and work ethic isn't there.
 
djembatheking said:
Whoever we get isn`t going to have us competing with City and Liverpool while Pep and Klopp are there . If Poch or Ten Hag improve our football and have us back in the top 4 then we are going in the right direction for a change, that will do for me.
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That is what I would expect. I want to enjoy watching us play, plus be competitive in the title race. I would not expect us to go from distant also rans to title winners. It will take time.
 
FrankDrebin said:
No one is expecting us to instantly compete with Liverpool or City with Hag or Poch. No one.

We practically need a new squad of players and that's take 3/4 windows. You cant be a successful side with the players we've currently got.
Talent wise and fundamentally the mentally and work ethic isn't there.
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The mentality leaves a lot to be desired. A lot bring up those late wins under Ole, but they were mainly behind closed doors or with limited crowds. They seems to have buckled under the pressure of having hostile crowds away from home and apathetic crowds at home.
 
Long Time Red said:
Perhaps as players who have played football at the highest level they might actually know something?
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Same players who've thrown two managers under the bus, responsible for the longest trophy drought in Utd's history and responsible for the club's worst season Post Fergie Era? I'd sooner listen to the opinion of a dog with rabies
 
Long Time Red said:
Perhaps as players who have played football at the highest level they might actually know something?
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Sir Alex is the best manager ever, and he liked David Moyes. Just because you've done things in the game doesn't mean you are spot on about everything
 
UNITED ACADEMY said:
I don’t think anyone watched them vs benfica since everyone in here watched united game. But just like other games when they failed to win, they probably dominated the game but couldn’t finish their chances. Considering their level of players, no one should be expecting them to even reach quarter final. Finished the group stage as the 2nd highest of goal scoring team among 32 teams just below Bayern, that’s already overachieved.
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I watched it later. They should have hammered Benfica. They simply couldn't score. It was one of those games they should have won easily.
But look at the players who are prominent in that side. Their CF and most prominent scorer is a West Ham reject. Their playmaker a Southampton reject. Their creative defense player a Manchester United failure. With those kinds of players they should not even be in the group stages. Losing their top players every year and still competing with the bigger clubs is a credit to them. And their coach.
 
VP89 said:
Murtough is said to have some very good pedigree to be in the role he's in. Richard Arnold is hands off (as he should be) noting that he's not a subject matter expert on the footballing side and delegates this to Murtough.

Murtough & Arnold officially took charge on Feb 1st, so stop getting your knickers in a twist about the 10 years up to that point.
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Thanks for not disproving anything i said. So you think hiring three people with no expertise in their particular role is how one of the biggest clubs in the world should operate?
 
L1nk said:
Sir Alex is the best manager ever, and he liked David Moyes. Just because you've done things in the game doesn't mean you are spot on about everything
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I never said that, just said perhaps they might know something.

And perhaps they might know a little bit more than the average poster on here.
 
Anyway considering the disconcerting prospect of Poch becoming manager becoming increasingly likely, who do you think our transfer targets will be? I assume we'll spunk almost our entire budget on Kane, but who else does he bring in? Wanyama? Ndombele?
 
The obvious solution at this point is to allow Pochettino and ten Hag to share the job.

Poch - Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
ten Hag - Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
Fletcher can have Friday's to help him prepare to take over when they leave.
 
djembatheking said:
Whoever we get isn`t going to have us competing with City and Liverpool while Pep and Klopp are there . If Poch or Ten Hag improve our football and have us back in the top 4 then we are going in the right direction for a change, that will do for me.
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Will Klopp and Pep still be here in 3 years?

If a rebuild is carried out correctly we could be on the up when Liverpool (arguably) and Man City lose the best managers in their history.
 
dubplate warrior said:
Will Klopp and Pep still be here in 3 years?

If a rebuild is carried out correctly we could be on the up when Liverpool (arguably) and Man City lose the best managers in their history.
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This.

No one is expecting us to compete within the next season or two, irrespective of manager. It's about priming us to be in the best possible position to occupy the vacuum at the top when either or both those managers leave their respective clubs.
 
TrueRed79 said:
Thanks for not disproving anything i said. So you think hiring three people with no expertise in their particular role is how one of the biggest clubs in the world should operate?
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You were complaining about the last 10 years and pointing to staff who took charge from Feb 1st 2022. Is your head so far up your own arse that you don't see that as being disproved?

And yes, I do think Murtough has expertise in his role.
 
Sick to death of how our clubs decisions are discussed at painstaking lengths in the press, everyone has a scoop, several stories a day. It’s like we’ve forgotten every aspect of what used to make us such a well run and enviable club, it’s torture if you actually pay attention to it all.
 
MUFC OK said:
Sick to death of how our clubs decisions are discussed at painstaking lengths in the press, everyone has a scoop, several stories a day. It’s like we’ve forgotten every aspect of what used to make us such a well run and enviable club, it’s torture if you actually pay attention to it all.
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I mean if anything its a testament to how big and relevant we still are, despite being shite and not really a competitive outfit. Would City generate the same sort of media traffic if they were hovering around 7th place and stuck in some mediocre limbo?
 
to give my two cents on this.

Ten Hag is a good manager but a terrible fit for Manchester United and your dressing room
 
Ajaxsuarez said:
to give my two cents on this.

Ten Hag is a good manager but a terrible fit for Manchester United and your dressing room
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Elaborate.

You'd expect our dressing room to drastically change over the next couple of transfer windows anyway. This summer alone we'd likely lose half a dozen players.
 
VP89 said:
You were complaining about the last 10 years and pointing to staff who took charge from Feb 1st 2022. Is your head so far up your own arse that you don't see that as being disproved?

And yes, I do think Murtough has expertise in his role.
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The mention of the last 10 years was an observation and clearly pointed at the Glazers. Who ok'd all those appointments? Maybe you should remove your head from your own ass.
 
Ajaxsuarez said:
to give my two cents on this.

Ten Hag is a good manager but a terrible fit for Manchester United and your dressing room
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This is exactly why we should be getting him.

We don’t want a manager that fits the dressing room, we want a manager to build a team and play attractive football. The dressing room and those who leak stories need kicking out.
 
Ajaxsuarez said:
to give my two cents on this.

Ten Hag is a good manager but a terrible fit for Manchester United and your dressing room
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We need a new dressing room anyway and hopefully the club and the fans will give him time over the next few years to build a new team.
 
TrueRed79 said:
The mention of the last 10 years was an observation and clearly pointed at the Glazers. Who ok'd all those appointments? Maybe you should remove your head from your own ass.
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Being OK'ed by the Glazers doesn't make Murtough automatically shit. He's done a lot of good work for the club and in his career that made him qualified for the role. He's taken proper steps too in the transitioning phase, such as pointing to an interim before a proper reset and resisting another big name quick fix managerial signing. He wants to conduct the process properly and sound out the candidates as thoroughly as possible. By all accounts ETH is the front runner (whilst both candidates for me aren't necessarily bad).

There isn't really a foot hes gotten wrong so far and he's built up a lot of experience to be qualified. And yet, you want to just assume he has feck all qualifications because of hearing some random pieces of news you don't like.
 
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