Official: Solskjær has left his role as manager

duffer said:
Seeing this doing the rounds on Twitter. Did Ferdinand invent "Ole's at the wheel"?

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That chant was originally started towards the end of Mourinho's tenure (last few months or so), with fans singing 'Jose's at the wheel' back then. So it was cursed song even back then.
 
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Peter Parker's Mask said:
Let's be fair, though. While defeats to us and Liverpool will NEVER be acceptable to utd fans (and rightly so), they were understandable given the status of the teams now. But getting a chasing at Watford who, even after yesterday, are only 2 points outside the bottom 3 was always likely to ring alarm bells in the hierarchy at OT.
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Mate you got beat at home to Palace the week before, and several times by us in previous meetings. Kiss my arse understandable.

Edit - vague warning for arguing with another poster on an internet forum. Mods on form
 
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A sad and undignified end, ultimately. I cared again for a little bit, and I’m glad we gave it a go. Right call to end it now, however.

My suspicion is that the work he has done will be remembered more fondly in the years to come, but I’ve been wrong about most things more recently.
 
Good. It has been an utterly pointless season from the Leeds game onwards. I tried to give him another chance after the Leeds game, but it just went back to the same old rubbish we were playing the two seasons before. It then proceeded to get even worse.

I think his top league managerial career is finished, to be honest. His resume shows failure at Cardiff and failure at Manchester United. I can't see any club going for him in those circumstances.
 
11101 said:
Thank god that's over. 3 years of mediocrity over.

BBC making it very clear he's been sacked rather than anything else. He should have walked with some respect left.
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3 years? Finishing 3rd and 2nd?

Grow up.
 
led_scholes said:
Ole was not unproven. He had proved that he was a failure before joining us. No comparison with the then young managers Pep and Zidane.
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Exactly. I don't get people calling Ole unproven or inexperienced manager and comparing him to Zidane or Pep. Ole had 10 years of managerial experience before joining us...
 
Finally thank God he's gone. I hope McKenna, Phelan and the rest of the coaching staff are gone as well.

Carrick should leave too.
 
alexthelion said:
3 years? Finishing 3rd and 2nd?

Grow up.
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Bit misleading. 2nd indicates we were ever in a title race. We were the worst second in all years I can remember. Definitely a year when 2nd was the tallest dwarf award.
 
Raw said:
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To Ole's credit, he stood by David every step of the way when he was in the worst form of his career here, defending him at every opportunity when no one else in the public light did.
 
It had to be done. I really wanted things to work out for him, but that's always been nothing more than a hope, rather than an expectation. Realistically, he's rarely looked up to the task after that crazy initial run that got him the job, culminating in throwing away a European final through complete inaction. It's all just a shame.

11101 said:
BBC making it very clear he's been sacked rather than anything else. He should have walked with some respect left.
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I'd rather have an extra £7.5m in my bank account than the "respect" of a bunch of random people to be fair. He'll never have to work another day in his life and his family will be well cared for. There are things more important than football at the end of the day. I don't really care how much of the Glazers' money he takes on the way out. They shouldn't have given him a new contract in the summer. There was no reason to.
 
alexthelion said:
3 years? Finishing 3rd and 2nd?

Grow up.
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Came 3rd with the competition being Leicester and Lampard's Chelsea, and second because Liverpool had an extreme injury crisis and Chelsea couldnt cover Lampard's awful work. Meanwhile, we were getting outclassed in Europe. Instead of you going to every poster who said "finally he is gone", and branding them pathetic, maybe it is time for you to build a better understandingof football.
 
Please, please, please stop this nauseating legend nonsense.
This morbid sentimentality, this 'United Way', this ' We're not a sacking club' (!) drivel has been holding the club back for years.
All the OGS fanboys know this: if he had scored the winning goal in a Champions League final for another club, he would never have got within a million miles of managing Manchester United with his managerial record.
Getting Cardiff relegated? Get real.

The club is a laughing stock. My MCFC acquaintances don't even bother taking the p**s - that's how low this club has sunk.
 
Finally it ends. Had always been my wish that Ole would come here and be successful. Alas.
 
Think we all respect and love Ole but let’s be real, he was in over his head. He’d reached his limit, it was only going to go south.

Thanks for the effort Ole. Serial winners never give up or know when to quit which is why this was on the boards head. We were playing awful football from the start of this season. If you had people with footballing brains in higher positions and no agendas, they would have had the foresight into what was coming. Unfortunately the mixture of not having that, and the friends FC agenda has left us in a tough position.

Good luck Ole.
 
Sad, but inevitable he should never have been given the job on a permanent bases.

In fairness he did a far better job than we had a right to expect from a manager with his record and before this summer he did a good job of starting to sort the squad after the mental squad scatter gun approach in the post Fergie era. Obviously that all went wrong this summer with the bringing of too many big name attacking players and a lack of a midfield base.

So we are now basically back where we were when Mourinho fired, halfway though the season a massively imbalanced dysfunctional squad, with huge egos and no real style of play, the younger attacking players desperate for top level coaching before it’s too late ( and it is probably to late for some of the players who would have been classed as young players when Ole arrived to reach there potential)

The next manager has a massive job as now at the end of Ole’s reign things are a bigger mess then at the start of it.
 
slored1 said:
This is absolutely hilarious. Nothing has changed.
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It's not like the board has a choice and Carrick is the only option right now. You just can't sack the whole coaching staff when you don't already have a replacement aligned.

Now how they did get into this mess is for everyone to see. Ole should've gone in the summer, after the EL final and especially after all the marquee signings (C. Ronaldo in particular). You have are big, ambitious players, used to win big trophies and they won't take average results or pastings like Liverpool very well. They won't put up very long with an inexperienced, rudderless coaching team that seems to play the same batch of players, regardless of their form or the opposition and without any real plan. At a certain moment, they'll stop to believe in the manager and play for him even if they like him, and I think that's what happened. Anyone who played in a club, and it doesn't need to be a high level, knows that when the doubt sets in, the results don't follow and you'll start to lose the dressing room. Players won't turn on you off the bat, but they'll start gradually to question your decisions and then stop giving you 100%. Which will bring even more bad results. It's a vicious circle and what happened yesterday is the culmination of what was brewing since September.

Your board has to take full blame for hanging onto OGS until the very last moment, tolerating the actual shit-show and never planning for the long-term. They panic sacked him, that's why Carrick is now in charge and that means the season's gone if they can't find a capable manager very soon. It's a real pity because while imperfect you currently have a great squad, capable of achieving something, especially if you get a DM. Who knows who you're going to lose in the summer if you don't reach top 4 at the end of the season? C. Ronaldo will also be a year older in the next one.

A long as you don't have a competent DoF and the owners really willing to acknowledge your club's footballing dimension, then you're never going to really achieve what your club should be capable of.
 
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Feel really bad for him today and hope he can have a decent career elsewhere.
 
Sad it's worked out the way it has. I think everyone would've loved if it had worked out but it wasn't to be and he rightfully has to go. At the end of the day he's still a united legend and when the dust settles I hope that's what people will actually remember again.
 
Man, I cant help but feel he was too nice as a person. He was too loyal to the people around him. He wanted everyone to grow together even though they weren't capable.
 
Carrick, Mckenna and Phelan still there. What a joke. This will make not one scrap of difference because the coaching that was crap under Ole is still there. Basically just written off this season.
 
bonothom said:
Carrick, Mckenna and Phelan still there. What a joke. This will make not one scrap of difference because the coaching that was crap under Ole is still there. Basically just written off this season.
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Isn't this till they've got their interim in place?
 
crossy1686 said:
I mean, SOMEONE has to be in charge for the next couple of games, who would you have in there until we find an interim? Kit man? Carrick's only going to be taking training and picking a team for a week or so, along with Fletch.
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Literally anyone but one of the three people that been in charge of this shit show.
 
bonothom said:
Carrick, Mckenna and Phelan still there. What a joke. This will make not one scrap of difference because the coaching that was crap under Ole is still there. Basically just written off this season.
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We have a match on Tuesday again who do you want to take charge of the match and training the stadium announcer, this is obviously until they can get an interim manager for the next 7 months or so and that person will probably bring in some of their own people
 
bonothom said:
Carrick, Mckenna and Phelan still there. What a joke. This will make not one scrap of difference because the coaching that was crap under Ole is still there. Basically just written off this season.
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I'm certain that they have been kept for mean time as we cannot let everyone go so suddenly 48 hours before our next match. We need someone in charge that is at least experienced enough to take the team for a few days at minimum until the club can find a suitable replacement for Ole and hopefully with that, comes the new managers backroom staff and Carrick etc can then be relieved of their duties.
Of course that is just my own thinking on the matter and I have no way of actually knowing if it is correct or not but it's at least logical to me.
 
bonothom said:
Carrick, Mckenna and Phelan still there. What a joke. This will make not one scrap of difference because the coaching that was crap under Ole is still there. Basically just written off this season.
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What are they supposed to do, sack the entire coaching staff without a replacement? The board is to blame for the situation that the club is in now, but you can't expect them to just clean house overnight and let the ship drift rudderless. We have a game on Tuesday. Stop being irrational.
 
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