The stat is good, but it doesn’t mean a thing when we keep crashing out of semi finals and not getting a trophy. A manager of a club like Utd should always be judged by trophies. Would anyone here not take Julian Nagelsmann if he became available over the summer? Because that’s the quality of manager we are going to need if we are to dethrone city/liverpool.
Someone mentioned earlier, but our players are not good enough to leave most of the decision making on the field to themselves. In our squad, only Bruno, Pogba and Rashford have the x- factor, the ability to make something out of nothing. Everyone else needs coaching and instructions, something that I have not seen enough of from ole.
Ok, a simple exercise for you- name any team in PL that has finished in top 4 for two seasons (consecutively or not) in the last 10-15 years, despite having a manager who was just "vibes" and relied on "individual brilliance". (
Hell, I could have argued even one season, but I know the topic will then change to whether Lampard, AVB are good managers or not (I believe they are better than what people give them credit for at the very least).
If any manager is a fraud, they'll get caught very quickly, especially in a league as unforgiving as PL. The point is simple, a team cannot finish in top 4 without having a decent manager, however, a team with a decent manager can finish outside top 4.
As far as Nagelsmann is concerned, I like him, and would be my preferred choice for next manager should things go south under Ole, but people need to remember that there is no manager except maybe Pep (and that too with good amount of resources) who can guarantee success. 2 months ago we were going drooling over Hassenhuttl, an year ago it was Poch, right now it's Rodgers. But, if you apply the same level of scrutiny to their performances that we apply to Ole, you'd notice that Ole is possibly in the same bucket as those two.
There are two sides to every story, if one side is saying we are bottlers because we crashed out of 4 semis, the other side will always, and rightfully bring up the point as to how many semis did our our preferred candidates reach over any two year spell? Look at our underlying stats - they are pretty good any way you look at them. We were 5th-6th best team since Fergie retired . In a matter of 2 seasons, we're 3rd best team in the league by every metric and not really reliant on cat-like reflexes of our GK.
The players we're signing are exciting and more hits than misses, there isn't a doom and gloom around United, the football is exciting, and our younger players are promising and exciting. Some of our most well worked goals of the past decade bar one or two were scored under Ole. I can go on and on, but you get the gist
