Good post here from a fan - https://www.redcafe.net/threads/ole...-interim-manager.443699/page-13#post-23439922
Couple of other noggies have popped their heads in as well but they're buried back in the thread a bit.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | W15 D2 L4
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Couple of other noggies have popped their heads in as well but they're buried back in the thread a bit.
Was AFK for 3 hours and it's already page 16 wow. Good luck to Ole. let's give him time and space to grow into the job however long it may last.
Not gonna quote your entire poem but this part seems pretty clear to me. The job is too big for Ole, as many of you are pointing out, so Phelan seems like the most natural choice to help him ease into the position, who can delegate alot of things to him just like SAF used to. There is no need to panic and the fact that the club have consulted Fergie and is actively putting together a team to support Ole is very encouraging.
Proper banter appointment, but I love Solksjaker and this season is gone anyway so couldn’t care less.
I was checking out his formations at Molde and he has used a 4-4-2 diamond quite often. Peronsally, I would love to see a 4-4-2 and I won't be surprised to see Lukaku go on a scoring spree if he has a strike partner. He may look like a target man, but he is anything but...
You are just trolling at this point.
Sorry mate but either you don't remember or didn't watch Solkjaer in his prime. Very respected and liked player by United fans even without THAT goal. If he'll do well as a manager for us now that's a different question, we'll just have to wait and see.
Well he finished in 6th with whatever they’re called in Norway in 2014 and hasn’t won anything since returning in 2015. This is the best we can get as interim manager? You seriously couldn’t write this. If this was Liverpool appointing Gerard as manager we would all be laughing our socks off !
Insulting another member
Honestly, you’re an idiot. No top manager is taking a caretaker role for 6 months. Give it a fecking rest. This season is over anyway. It’s all about giving us time to choose the right manager for next season.
Good luck Ole. Can't say I'm too pleased with the appointment but made sense for board to appease fans I guess. Hopefully we play good football for rest of season at least. Would be nice to see some of Chong and Gomes for rest of season. Also recall Tuanzebe please.
I wonder if Ole will be capable of masterminding defeats away to Brighton, or getting humiliated in victory against the Cherries and Newcastle. If he is really top draw, he can exit competitions with lack lustre performances to a toothless Seville and a lack lustre Bristol City. Cups are not won on history and reputation - while prigress is not made wuth negativity
I'm looking forward to the rest of the season, positivity and attacking football here we come. Fingers crossed he will also promote deserving youth given his academy experience here
Great appointment Ed
Stop getting your knickers in a twist about United getting relegated. That’s not going to happen for Christ sake.Thanks. You just made me worried more.
No posts up to now have made me more confident however. Its all about sentiment and glad that Jose is gone.
I really hope we can get someone like Klopps calibre and Poch is not.
Enjoy the ride. The slightly unexpected ride, but enjoy it nonetheless. The style of football can’t get any worse.
This season is only over if you’re a loser or have a losers belief. Which clearly you and our board have in common.
The thing is, football has changed since those times, attacking, high octane football is now done with high pressing and putting pressure on opponents in their own half...
This takes managerial skill. If you think Ole 'understanding the club' somehow makes this possible, I'd suggest that you're dreaming.
It might work - and I hope it does, genuinely. But fecking hell if you're telling me there aren't better choices for the club than Ole and Mike Phelan I'm not sure I can buy that.
Guardiola and Zidane are always held up as an advert for cronyism, but these are the anomalies, not the norm - added to that they took over teams with truly great players in.
Again, I hope I'm wrong, and I very well could be - what the feck do I know, not much really. But I'm just very wary of chucking away a CL campaign, and resorting to cronyism at such a crucial time.
Feels like a step backwards to me. To almost Moyes levels.
Who was the last manager Fergie put forward...?
And if the job is too big for Ole, give it to someone else.
Mike Phelan's time at the club was during a completely different era - it's not the same club / squad / period in football.
Rosenborg is no joke. Also Gerrard is doing very well with gers atm
Didn’t he once say he did most of his scouting on football manager or FIFA? We’re in for a treat then lads.
Rosenborg in the Norwegian league are a more dominant force than Bayern in Germany. Other teams go into most seasons expecting 2nd place at best. The fact that Molde won the league three times after his appointment is pretty special. You have to go all the way back to the early 80's to find a team other than Rosenborg that won two league titles on the trot.
Molde are also comfortably the most entertaining side to watch in the league. Solskjær will come in to entertain and lift the spirits of everyone. At this point that's probably what this club needs more than anything. The actual work to build the club back to former glory starts with the next permanent manager.
Got a source on that?
Got to say I’m a little nervous on this to a degree but at the same time this season is a total write off anyway. The club has to try something different, I hope it works out but feel maybe the dressing room is a bit more toxic than some fans realise.
Erm it’s the Norwigan and Scottish league.... Why doesn’t Ed nip to the MLS and Asian leagues and see what mangers are doing ‘very well’ there too.
Cheers!
Maybe you could email your concerns to Jose, unfortunately has left us closer to the relegation zone than to the title and I suspect it was only going to get worse
It seems risky at first glance. But there are lots of mitigating factors. Most importantly, over 20 matches left and only 14 points from safety. No matter what happens the likelihood of United being relegated is virtually zero.
So, even in the worst case scenario (17th place) no one is terribly upset because Ole is universally loved by us. He's agreed the interim deal because the club know who is coming in the summer. It's a no lose scenario for everyone involved with a small chance of gain (a CL run on the back of Ole's legend or maybe top 4). This is the opportunity that exists in risk, kind of an upside risk.
At first I thought it was strange but now it's a smart play by the club. If we have Poch coming in it's up there with Roth's play in the Godfather Part II.
Great spot seeing that on the official site. I have my reservations regarding Ole's appointment as our interim manager but I can't help but be excited about the prospect of it. Especially if it is indeed only until the season is finished and then we can appoint our official manager.
The Gerrard that's got Rangers top (admittedly halfway though season)?
Nobody's saying it's perfect but we're not in a perfect situation?
How about being positive/supportive, give the guy a break and wait and see? (and again, if Phelan is there, that's a plus).
(Edit. Ok, you don't like Ole. Who would YOU have picked? .... who's available?)
Tbf Hiddink did just that
Nice one Ole. Now get on the phone to Villa and bring us back Tuanzebe for the rest of the season.
Is Rene coming back as well or just mike phelan?
From what the Molde fan said earlier, Ole has applied a continental pressing style with Molde, the club he has managed to an unprecendented back to back titles.
Regarding chucking away a CL campaign, the players already did that against Valencia. Regardless of who manages us, PSG will trounce us. And I do think we need to bear in mind that when the highly successful LVG and Mourinho can't get much out of this squad, it is wrong to think that any other manager can do all that much more with them. The problem wasn't just Jose, but from the owners, to Woody, to the squad balance and composition, the fitness/medical team, the lack of leaders, lazy and unprofessional big time Charlie players who are just not good enough to wear the United shirt. That we can just remove the toxic atmosphere and have a manager we can love, to have us playing at least more adventurously and in keeping with our ethos could salvage at least the odd smile or two out of this depressing season. I would settle for just having something worth watching, I don't care about just getting the results--this season is a write off and to think otherwise is dreaming.
Hiddink was mates with Roman and wasn’t interested in a full time gig. People here seem to be thinking Jardim or ZZ are going to accept a caretaker position, it’s nonsense.
So Ole is resigning his post in Norway for a temp job?
Dumb question probably, but I don't understand how the timing works out if their league resumes in March.
Dumb question probably, but I don't understand how the timing works out if their league resumes in March.
Maybe a call to Fulham and Hearts for TFM and Mitchell?
Not sure about scouting through a game but I know he enjoys playing manager games.
Apparently he had a united release clause in his contract which united has activated
Remove the prev toxic manager -- a good step forward.
Hire a United legend as caretaker -- not bad, 50-50 chance/risk to success/fail, at least club is giving chances to a manager that knows the United way.
Not a bad move, let's see how it pans out first.
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Hire a United legend as caretaker -- not bad, 50-50 chance/risk to success/fail, at least club is giving chances to a manager that knows the United way.
Not a bad move, let's see how it pans out first.
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Jose left, the moaning stayed it seems.
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Man, honestly I feel that the same way some smaller managers aren't built for bigger teams it works the opposite too. For those who criticize him at Cardiff I don't think the club was of enough quality for him. I think he will do decent here.
Really? It's clear to the whole wide world who our choice of manager is. That's Poch. It's impossible to happen midseason. Would you rather the inept board attempt to hire someone permanently now instead of going after their first option in the summer? Not to mention no top tier manager who is currently out of a job (Conte and Zidane and if you want to count Jardim as one) is going to take a job midseason. You say people have a loser's belief because we think the season is over, well I think you're suffering from delusions of grandeur. FA Cup can be randomly won by anyone at any time, no reason to assume changing managers would increase/decrease that chance. UCL is a pipe dream and the league is gone. Top 4 is a small possibility but I'd argue making a change can't make us any worse.