This is so typical of a member of Ole FC that I had to laugh. Your first 'argument' is, as a very 'rational' fan, is to attack me on some cultural negativity tangent or other nonsense like this.
This literally displays the whole problem with people saying OGS is the right man - nothing to do with the football or trophies, all to do with 'happiness of players' and the 'right culture' and being a 'nice man'. None of those are what we need at the cutting edge of football - vision for the style of play, ruthlessness to implement it, confidence to change things and make the right decision when it's time.
As for who would be better, Zidane and Conte on a very short-term basis (I am against him but he'd do well with this squad). Even someone like Brighton's manager would do alright based on what he's doning with a much inferior squad on a short-term contract. At the end of the day, as a United fan, it's not my job to appoint or scout managers but watch and enjoy the football and say when we're not up to it. And currently, it's obvious we are not.
For someone complaining about having his position oversimplified and misrepresented, you're doing an awful lot of it yourself.
The case for Ole isn't what you write. Having a well-handled, united squad with the right mentality and bringing some shape, structure and long term vision to the organisation is a part of it, and is with every justification considered important. "Being a nice man" is just silly, no one thinks this is a reason he should be Manager of Manchester United, and you should know better than to think other people reason that way.
The case for Ole is mainly this:
1. Becoming a top club again. We were in the dumps when he took over. Now the issue, for the first time in nearly decade, is if we're going to be title contenders or not. Huge change. For a lot of people the main point is where we're heading, not where we've been or where we are. If you assume we're not going to go any further (as you and many others on this thread seem to do), then that's one thing, but a lot of people do not assume that. And like it or not, the trajectory of development so far supports their view, even if you think that what you consider to be the shortcomings of the team, tactics etc supports your view. The truth is none of us know. Maybe we're just going through a phase where we're adapting to several new players and then it clicks and rolls on through the season, or maybe we've genuinely hit the ceiling and OGS can't take us further. But so far, the results are simply too good to warrant a change of manager.
Some will point to a lack of trophies as so on. Frankly I think that mainly reflects that people are unrealistic and have the wrong priorities, and also it's an absurd misrepresentation to talk as if those supporting Ole think top 4 is good enough and don't care about titles, and as if you necesssqarily had to have the same expectations for the club every season. Trophies yes, but the right ones please - and I accept that getting there is a process. Not accepting that isn't having higher standards, it looks a lot more to me like not being prepared to face up to the realities of the challenge, and how much work this club has to do to re-establish itself again as a top team. Seeing that job done properly is much more important than a minor trophy immediate endorphin hit, and I frankly don't think we've earned the right to consider any season without a trophy as a failure, and people are wrong to talk as if we have. But we have to get
back to that place, and that's what it's all about. And we
are heading back to that place, it looks. Much more clearly so than at any previous point post SAF.
2. Stability. The disruptive cost of a managerial change, especially for a club that's on their fourth manager in 8 seasons with each of them playing a different kind of football, is a very real argument against a managerial change. Given the position United is in, this is something that should not be done unless there's a significantly clearer case for it than there is now,.
