Very good post.
The Glazers and Ed were lucky to have SAF. After he retired the club is in a continuous downward spiral. Top management have no clue about football but finance, commercial and marketing. No vision, structure and planning on football side of things at all.
How on earth those highly intelligent people (Top Management) continuously making mistake after mistake? We have had Moyes, LVG, Jose and Ole in charge who needs different set of players all together every 2 or 3 years. The worst part, all of them play fecking negative football.
We all thought that DOF - Murtough can change all that. But apparently, he has no power over appointment of manager. The manager appointment still go back to Ed or Top Management of the club which has no clue about football.
Man Utd need real changes at the very top and not just put a DOF in charge of academy. We need proper football structure in the club helm by football people. This is common sense and not rocket science.
Absolutely spot on.
We certainly need football orientated owners, who will put their money to the benefit of the team, not to keep creaming of the profits year after year.
Many people have said that bringing people like Murtough in will ultimately change nothing, and that appears to be correct.
There is a distinct lack of footballing experience throughout the club from top to bottom, and what we are seeing on the pitch at the moment is testament to that. I've always felt that Ole needed an old head alongside him from when he was first given the job in March 2019, Phelan was ok as someone who could take training and implement certain plays, but realistically he was woefully short of what was needed.
Ole and his coaches have never had the experience of running a premiership club, which appear painfully obvious at the moment, and look to be making decisions that are piecemeal, and show no forward looking structure. We bought Amad, and Pellestri in for the right wing position, but it seems Ole had always wanted Sancho, which doesn't appear to be working, but it is still early days, and it appears as though we won't go for a midfielder unless it's Rice.
Trying to keep all the big players happy seems to be Ole's mantra, but yesterday, playing Maguire after one days training, and Matic and Pogba in the midfield positions seems to be a disaster waiting to happen, which it did.
Some of the players stroll about as if they are thinking 'we are Manchester United, and we have the right to do what we like and you will roll over and submit'. Would Bailly have been as lax as Maguire, or Lindelof come to that when closing players down, or showing a bit of urgency, even Jones gives his all when playing, albeit sometimes a bit misguided.
I've always supported Ole and thought he should be given plenty of time to get 'his' squad together, but we are getting to the stage where we appear to be getting worse, and we still have plenty of players who still need to move on.
I believe that Ole has been given the ultimatum to win something this season, or he's gone, that is why he doesn't have any academy players on the bench, he is still relying on the old heads to come in and save the day when we are struggling, but I feel that by denying players like Hannibal, Elanga, Amad (I appreciate he's been injured) and Shoretire, we are missing the opportunities to give these young lads valuable time on the pitch.
I don't think Ole will resign, and I don't think the club will sack him, just yet, but with our schedule over the next few weeks, his position may become untenable.
If Ole does go, I wouldn't be amiss to looking at Graham Potter, or even Thomas Frank, whose Brentford team really should have beaten the European champions yesterday, but they are not 'big name' managers, who many fans of this club think we need, but they are young forward thinking managers, who may be just what we require. Could they handle the big egos in the team, who knows, but generally it's what they do on the training ground, and install into the players how they want them to perform that will determine their success or not, some players will take to their methods, and others won't, that will always be the case.
I will still watch the both Atalanta games on Wednesday with hope more than expectation.
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