Ole Sack Watch
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
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Lack of word is good right?
No, they're waiting till it blows over apparently
According to who?
This is never blowing over by the way. We’re as close to the top as we are to the relegation zone.
Daniel Taylor article in the Atheltic... and I completely agree
That article came out so soon after the game I wouldn't read too much into it, most of it would have been pre-written anyway.
It's really puzzling how they're dealing with this tbh. If they stay with Ole and and we end up dropping more points after the international break (which is quite probable considering our form and fixtures). The board is going to look even worse for not doing anything about it during the break. It's like by trusting Ole they're all digging themselves into a deeper hole. It's actually ridiculous.
Were new contracts with Carrick and McKenna actually completed though? There were talks of that few weeks ago but it all went silent more recently, probably because of results of course.
Any word from Rudy Galetti? Or Ja Rule?
Ole is the perfect yes man for our boards who apparently got scarred from Mourinho speaking out against them, so they're very hesitant to fire him. Besides, his mates are doing all they can to deflect the blame onto literally anything else and apparently even SAF wants Ole to stay.
He is the world's luckiest manager.
Did any really imagine a few weeks ago that after being battered at home by Liverpool and City that he would still be in a job...
Norwich sacked Farke despite them beating high flying Brentford. That same result would've bought Ole a further 6 months in the job.
No news supposedly
I agree with you about the yes man thing. But do you know how many other managers in the world wouldn't mind being a yes man to the board when their squad is worth 850 mill and also win stuff.
Well Moyes stayed in job after those 2 results. Got sacked about 1 month later though
I’m sure there are or will be meetings held to discuss his sacking. It has to be on the cards. Not saying it will 100% happen. Otherwise they would have already briefed the press they were backing him.
To be honest, yes? Is anyone actually surprised if they're truthful with themselves and look how awfully run this club is? Still, we don't know he's survived yet.
I think the international break increases the chance of him getting sacked imminently.
Can't be emotionally invested in a club that doesn't even care about being serious. There's no excuse for him to continue.
So we’ve played appallingly in 2 of the 3 games he apparently had to save his job, and the other one was against a Spurs side so poor they immediately sacked their manager… I’m guessing it was bollocks then? Cos if not, and we keep him on, we’re basically saying thats the level. Beating Spurs… and a really bad Spurs at that.
Fergie will save him again
You can hope mate….but I doubt it
What about Amorim at Sporting? Big jump for him but he’s a young coach who’s taken and under-powered big club to titles. Probably not ready yet but what if he is?
Got a feeling he won’t be rescuing him anymore.
TF are you talking about? Zidane or bust bro.
Any more detail on what he said?
Daniel Taylor would be one of the more informed, less knee jerky journalists. He's absolutely streets ahead of chancers like Mark Ogden.
How this silence is acceptable? Just unbelievable if the board still stick with him after all the humiliation and the terrible stats.
Will they wait until everything is totally lost? Or still waiting for this clueless man to turn things around! Just sack him for the sake of the fans and find someone at least till the end of the season.
Will they wait until everything is totally lost? Or still waiting for this clueless man to turn things around! Just sack him for the sake of the fans and find someone at least till the end of the season.
Ten Hag. Sick of us going for the easy pragmatic coach option. Get a fecking progressive coach for once.
There is that possibility of club waiting until this tough run of fixtures ends, so after Watford/Villarreal/Chelsea/Arsenal/Palace/Young Boys. Real nightmare would be even couple more losses (I'm sure we'd lose to both Chelsea and Arsenal, to Villarreal in CL as Emery would batter us like he did at OT) and a strong possibility of falling more behind in PL and finishing 3rd in CL group, which would be our lowest point since the end of 2018/19.
As desperate as I am for us to sack Ole, these endless screenshots of him smiling amidst defeat are nearly all fake.
- The 0-5 Liverpool screenshot is from a pre-match interview with the final score photoshopped over.
- The 0-2 Man City screenshot is also fake as his post match interview was outside on the pitch and so the same as above.
- The one of him on the bench with Carrick today is of such poor quality, yet such a high resolution that it makes me believe it has been doctored this way to cover for mediocre photoshopping.
Wenger till end of season
Dave Chappelle loves this.
I'd be grinning if no matter how bad the results I "led" the team to, no matter how bad the "performances", even getting by our rivals including a thrashing, despite being clearly out of my depth I was still nowhere near getting the sack, while earning a whacking great salary!!
Oh, I would be praying to the Glazers the Lord and Eddy Woody the Savior if my salary got bumped twenty-fold and I knew myself I would have zero chance of finding a job anything close to it.
Most world-class managers have options though, so I'd think they would generally voice their discontent.
Agreed. 500k/y to 10M/y is a pretty grin-worthy jump.
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The depressing thing about the Daniel Taylor article is although he is based in Manchester nowadays and writes on United a lot, he doesn't even support the club, so there tends to be very little sentiment in his pieces.
Got a feeling he is staying until the end of the season. Not sure if any of the board are even interested in doing the right thing. Woodward is leaving soon. Its a bit of a mess because no one seems to be accepting responsibility within the club.
Come to think of it - who is actually in charge?
Come to think of it - who is actually in charge?
The very notion of giving a manager "three games to save his job" is absolutely farcical, anyway. You can't be a serious club and do that. If you ever get to that point, then it's already over. I never believed that anyway. I still think they're going to give him the season, probably finish about 5th/6th and then get a manager in the summer. We're in November, and i think we've already written this season off.
Ole is that boxer who keeps getting saved by the bell in every round. Wasn't Ole saved by the last international break? 
They just keep happening right in time, don't they?
They just keep happening right in time, don't they?What could precipitate his sacking is if the players complain behind the scenes. After we lost to Liverpool 3 years ago, I read that a senior player contacted upper management and told them things were untenable. Mourinho was sacked soon after.
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