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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Very happy with this appointment and Ten Hag was my first choice.

However he has an enormous task ahead of him. We have a lot of fundamental problems with the squad at the moment including players contracts running out, aging players and players who are not good enough.

Really hope the board back him to make the changes needed and hopefully he will work well with Rangnick.
 
Chairman Steve said:
Schteve was barely here that long to be fair, like 2-3 years between joining mid-Treble season to end of 2000-01 when he went to Boro? He’s hardly part of the old boys club.

Plus I was under the impression him and ETH’s main assistant Mitchell van der Gaag would both be assistant managers, plus Schteve is someone who has worked with ETH at Twente as a huge bonus. A nepotism appointment would be something like throwing Nicky Butt or Phil Neville in there.
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Yeah I know, it just makes me laugh every time someone who is associated with 99' season pop's up we're all onboard, no questions asked. I'd love Steve back, I think it's important to have someone who's been there and done it for United around the place
 
I know we're not supposed to be living in the past but I'd love to have Meullensteen or McClaren back as part of Ten Hag's team.
 
phelans shorts said:
Jesus Christ are people still going on about this.

Lingard wasn’t allowed to leave because Greenwood was (I should probably say allegedly here) a scumbag. Even with Lingard our depth up top is abysmal now, imagine how bad it would have been without him!
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United wanted a loan fee and a stupidly high survival bonus, that's why it broke down.
 
Revaulx said:
I don't recall Jose having issues with Rashford, who in those days bore no resemblance to the shell of a player we're seeing now.

If he was so unhappy with Pogba, why did he go along with the club spunking a record fee on him?
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He said something along the lines of Rashford can't be our main centre forward.
And then managed to mess about both he and Martial, and wanting to bring Perisic in for 60m, that was rightly vetoed.
 
Daily Mail are reporting that ten Hag wants Ruben Neves.

EDIT: The sun originally reported this.
 
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Cloud7 said:
I think this is where Ralf comes in, and why him, and by extension Fletch, will be important. In their upper management and advisory roles they will go into them with insight into the players and just what is going on with the team, so I don’t think the management will have much siding with the players over the manager at this point.

People talk about Fletch a lot, but he was a winner, and he played in a team full of winners. There’s no way he is looking at the current team and not disgusted by what he’s seeing.

I think the club will, quite rightly, give him the time and backing he needs. I hope I am right.
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I hope you’re right too. Fingers crossed!
 
Judas said:
I think it could be a disaster but I'm just very happy to see us take this risk and try something different and potentially very exciting. I can't wait for the summer and next season.
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Disaster in what sense, we could not be any lower at this point and we've had Ole and Moyes manage the club. A disaster compared to them would need to be relegation.
 
crossy1686 said:
Yeah I know, it just makes me laugh every time someone who is associated with 99' season pop's up we're all onboard, no questions asked. I'd love Steve back, I think it's important to have someone who's been there and done it for United around the place
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Agreed. I think its a much better thing that McClaren has worked closely with ETH previously, rather than McClaren was the assistant manager during the Treble season and the subsequent 3 leagues title in a row.

But you can totally people getting carried away by the latter, when the former is much more important.
 
Chairman Steve said:
Agreed. I think its a much better thing that McClaren has worked closely with ETH previously, rather than McClaren was the assistant manager during the Treble season and the subsequent 3 leagues title in a row.
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As long as they have a good working relationship then yeah, it should happen. I've worked alongside some people before that I definitely wouldn't want thrust upon me in a new job...
 
I hope we give him time. He will need it to get the younger players integrated into his style of play. If we have faith then in the next couple of years we can see youngsters like Mejbri, Mainoo, Gore, Shoretire, Garnacho playing regularly for us
 
Shark said:
Disaster in what sense, we could not be any lower at this point and we've had Ole and Moyes manage the club. A disaster compared to them would need to be relegation.
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Exactly. At this point I just want us to play with intent and have an actual system. If ETH can't do that then there's little chance that anyone else could and we'll just have to bin the entire club and buy Leeds scarves.
 
Shark said:
Disaster in what sense, we could not be any lower at this point and we've had Ole and Moyes manage the club. A disaster compared to them would need to be relegation.
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Well yeah, I can't see it going any worse than Moyes at worst. It's going to be truly very interesting and intriguing.
 
phelans shorts said:
He’s come on off the bench a few times, and been as impactful as Elanga/Rashford/whoever he’s replaced.

At least he’s saved us from the agony of watching old Father Time Mata
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Was it worth keeping him for the odd 5 minute sub appearance here and there? Surely throwing someone like Mejbri would be better for all concerned?
 
crossy1686 said:
Well we need at least 3 coaches to come in with Ten Hag, we lost that many with Solskajer going.

Rene is an attention to detail man. Van Persie spoke at length about him being his favourite coach. We scored a goal against West Brom I think? Valencia drag back to the edge of the box and Van Persie with a late arrival smashes it home. VP said it looked easy but Rene had them working on it for 2 days in training because he noticed West Brom had a tendency to all go deep in their box when defending.

These are the kind of coaches we need at the club.
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Many coaches fit into this kind of attention to detail, hard working... general description. The question is whether he can coach a whole automation system of play instead of reactive exploiting tactical piece.

His time with us after Queiroz left and saw him promoted to a more prominent role was the start of the football quality decline. His career afterward is underwhelming. He failed to make his own name, nor any top coaching gig want to recruit him. It's almost a decade since when he's at that high level. This assistant role however is likely just the "vibe coach", while ETH and his main staffs do involve heavily on hand on training. ETH should be able to bring as many coach from his Ajax team as he can.

Everyone have their favorite. Rooney has LVG as his best manager. Doesn't mean anything when the whole team look struggling.
 
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