I've seen director of football mentioned loads of times here. And for the past few years. Wtf is one? What does he or she do?
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | W15 D2 L4
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Very impressive from Ole. People will mention De Gea but you have to be impressed with the way United set up to defend tactically. Rarely have I seen Spurs midfield neutralised like they were today. Was Lingard centrally the key? Would be interesting to see an analysis. They didn’t create much centrally.
Yes completely. Results, performances and soundbites!
He's broken the supposed "tough game" duck, and hopefully we can go onto even higher performances going forward.
Chelsea and Arsenal will certainly know they're in a bit of trouble now.
Poch should probably go to Real Madrid if he gets the chance.
5 league wins in a row, in a long long time.
So....Ole is breaking positive records?
WTH is going on here?
So....Ole is breaking positive records?
WTH is going on here?
He reminds me of SAF in his later years (2009-2013). Lots of forward-thinking football with a great chance to collect the points week after week (especially against small sides), but not at the same level in regards to pressing / organisation / positional play like Poch, Guardiola and Klopp. That is not a slight on him btw
People seem to think it's some magic person who comes in and knows exactly the right players to buy, and somehow works perfectly in dovetail with the manager.
Yeah it's a weird obsession a lot of people have jumped on to
To be fair he has only had 3 weeks to work with the team so far, considering this is the busiest period it really is just a few days of actual serious training.
Brilliant stuff right now, pretty much a flawless performance from the man.
Ole's humility is just outstanding. He's everything the other guy was not.
He says the right things, and he means them. He knows the club and he really wants to do well by us and himself.
Just as some don't feel like United managers, others do!
He says the right things, and he means them. He knows the club and he really wants to do well by us and himself.
Just as some don't feel like United managers, others do!
I love him more now than I did as a player
He's been here for 3 weeks
Our players are simply not used to playing at this tempo after playing for Lvg and Jose for the last 4 years, hence we looked dead and on our last legs in the second half. Our defenders bar Victor are joke too.He has entered into my top five. Pochettino is still number one. But Ole has me thinking that might be a more fitting choice than my other favorite in Zidane, Marco Rose and Erik ten Hag at the moment
Teddy and Ole chatting and laughing. Lovely.
The only way it seems to work in my head, is that the DOF deals with the transfers, so we don't have a glorified accountant doing it.
But it sounds a very tough appointment.
Same! And I really loved him as a player.
in a business you have finance directors, sales directors, engineering directors. Well in a football club you appoint a football director that takes control of the football, things like appointments (managerial, players, backroom staff etc.), preseason tours, coordinating with scouts, etc. It basically leaves the manager to manage the training and on field stuff without needing to worry about all the other stuff.
Right selection and clearly is doing a job getting the best from Pogba which is dictating the performances right now.
Wouldn’t batter an eyelid if he got the job. Just feels right at this point.
Wouldn’t batter an eyelid if he got the job. Just feels right at this point.
I’m just enjoying this while it lasts. Every game is making me happy. Under Mourinho I’d forgotten what that was like.
Top 5?!
It's surely a straight top 2 v Poch.
And the way it's going, Ole's incredible start, and a mix of Poch having doubts in the big games, and taking a hell of a lot of money, surely makes Ole the favourite.
Erik ten Hag, really? He's not up the standard. He's managing the most talented group Ajax had in 10 years, of course he's getting decent results. Couple of months ago Ajax fans wanted him out.
Some great stats on NBC earlier:
Under OGS’s 1st 5 PL games we have 15 points and +12 GD.
Compared to Jose (9; +2), LVG (5;+1) Moyes (7; 1).
OGS!!!!!
Under OGS’s 1st 5 PL games we have 15 points and +12 GD.
Compared to Jose (9; +2), LVG (5;+1) Moyes (7; 1).
OGS!!!!!
Still more huge tests to come for him, but honestly I'd give him the job Now
Just get him a DOF, get the players that we need. Hire more staff if we need to. Attitude goes such a long way and his attitude is top class. We've tried the 'safe' options and they haven't worked, so why not?
Just get him a DOF, get the players that we need. Hire more staff if we need to. Attitude goes such a long way and his attitude is top class. We've tried the 'safe' options and they haven't worked, so why not?
Lucky today but he's generally done everything right so far so that's fair enough really.
We are seriously weak in the air at the back without Smalling. So, it was a bit easy to see why we kind of struggled with all the crossing and long balls in this match where they have quality forwards. It is not exactly easy for him to fix it with what he does not have unless we put the tree man as back 5.
The only thing that made me wondered with this game is Ole not doing much to stop Eriksen in the 2nd half once he started pulling a lot of strings.
Anyway, we have to be fair on Ole. He is working out a lot along the way and we can only judge him at the end of season as a whole. He didn't have his pre season, his playing plan with his type of players, time to train his way etc. We can't really expect him to hit the ground running perfectly against top teams in the table at this point.
So far, everything is positive and much better than what we could have hoped for.
The only thing that made me wondered with this game is Ole not doing much to stop Eriksen in the 2nd half once he started pulling a lot of strings.
Anyway, we have to be fair on Ole. He is working out a lot along the way and we can only judge him at the end of season as a whole. He didn't have his pre season, his playing plan with his type of players, time to train his way etc. We can't really expect him to hit the ground running perfectly against top teams in the table at this point.
So far, everything is positive and much better than what we could have hoped for.
Oh god I remember Van Gaal's first few games well. After so much excitement heading into that season we couldn't buy a win culminating in the 4-0 loss to MK Dons.
I'm over the moon for him. I hope he keeps it up and gets the job on a permanent basis.
He’s doing a fantastic job so far. It’s so good to have that feel good feeling back and actually enjoy watching us again. Thank you Ole.
If we continue to win and manage to get into the top 4, and Woodward decides to sign fecking Southgate or something I'm going to go absolutely livid.
the main purpose of that sub was to get Rashford down the left to provide more cover for Shaw, who was getting completely overrun in the 15 minutes prior and we'd conceded a bunch of crosses from that side that led to chances. After the sub it stopped happening.
The fact that Lukaku was shit was regrettable but the sub still helped us win the game.
Just get a DoF to work with him and make him permanent manager.
I love Ole, him and Giggs were always my favourite players. It makes me so happy to see him getting results like this, and in front of the cameras he hasn't put a single foot wrong. I've gone from the edges of losing interest to actually being so invested in the games now and at the start of December I could never have imagined id be giddy to think about Utd by midway through January.
Dont want to think about long term yet but I'm just enjoying having him around, so so pleased for him.
Dont want to think about long term yet but I'm just enjoying having him around, so so pleased for him.
Any post match interviews yet?
RE Eriksen - Lukaku came in and put in a horrible shift. The work lingard did in the first half was amazing defensively.
Completely disagree. Dalot could have covered down the left like he did on the right later on. We needed energy and pressing from Lukuku, he gave us none of that, he had absoubtly no impact, which is what you need from a sub when under pressure.
I don't think he could've done any better so far. Yeah we got overrun in the second half against Spurs, and he needs to figure that bit out, but the players gave him everything to get the win and he deserves a lot of credit for that.
Everything he touches turns to gold.
would like to see Ole with a good defence to see how he would really gets on with the role as our manager. If he carries on like this it would be ruthless for Ed to get rid of him
yeah I'm not disagreeing that Lukaku didn't do what we needed - I wouldn't blame Ole for that, though