Not a foot wrong. Can only assume a fair few CEOs and sporting directors will be interested in him now.
Ruud van Nistelrooy | Has left United
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Nice to see hate for Fletcher is well and alive still in this place.
Going for another former United striker.
I will miss him loads. All the best in your next journey, Ruud. You’ll always be welcomed back at United
Speaks volumes about him that's he's applied for a lower league job rather than take the well worn path of top league clubs only while sitting back waiting for teams to come to him. What a guy!
a bit much he was only there since the summer so 4 months. Sometimes, if you really love something , you know to just move aside quietly.
Ruud will make a great manager!
You can’t win with people. If he doesn’t say anything people will be like he calls himself a fan and can’t even say thanks. If he says something this is the reaction.
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There's a fine balance to be struck between anonymously disappearing and needlessly lingering.
By politely thanking supporters and wishing them well, Ruud has done it splendidly here. A class act at every level.
4 months if you completely ignore his time here as a player maybe. He clearly has a fairly deep affection for the club, so I’d imagine even if he was here for 4 hours managing, it’d have felt extremely special to him. Not many get to tick off all those boxes as player, coach & manager at a club they love.
Yeah, it's not like he has put a podium outside Old Trafford to proclaim his goodbye message and individually thank fans. It's just a social media message. Seems very appropriate to me (and well done).
I think for you, it's only Giggs, Carrick and RvN isn't it and none of them got manage more than 4 games which is a shame.
I would say Ole too if you count youth coaching.
Regardless, lovely message and hope he does well wherever he ends up.
I get that. But after proclaiming he wanted the job, wanted to stay, “telling the players to get behind the new manager” just doesn’t sit right with me. Especially when if things go off to a bad start “getting rid of Ruud was a mistake” will be something the press and many fans will start going on about, if the manager comes under pressure “bring back Ruud” will no doubt start making the rounds.
To me it just has a tinge of corporate white colour power play. The type of world where (just the most basic example) insults are masked as polite compliments and most people will think “ohh what a nice thing to say”.
You can win with a lot of people.
But with a club that has millions and millions of fans, you're bound to have different opinions - even if some are held by very few.
I really don't think it's that deep. He did what just about any other person does when they leave our club, or any other one for that matter. I think he made it pretty clear that he didn't arrive with the expectation to be the manager. Leaving the door open though makes a lot of sense for both the future and even before he left. I doubt he had much knowledge of negotiations with Amorim and even if he did, the club itself may have told him anything can happen and to ask him to be open to extend his stint.
Either way I see nothing odd here.
It's not like he was a fantastic player for us either, right? What a ridiculous post.
Strange take away and have to say I totally disagree. Think you’re looking at this from the wrong angle entirely.
Yeah, i think probably (sort of) Ole - albeit not a first team coach, but then again, had by far the longest managerial reign of the lot!
Maybe. I just think it’s a culmination of things not one thing in particular. First started when he was emphasising he had 18 months left on his contract. In football people realise and respect when a new manager comes in it’s up to him.
You're overthinking it. The players have probably moved on already, and Ruud will probably take on another role sooner rather than later. This will be a none issue for Amorim.
Urban myth or not, the guy is etched into United's history
I wonder if he hadn't been injured during the run-in in 1992, we might have been champions a year earlier.
Sounds like it's between him and Lampard for the Coventry job.
It’s all well and good demanding the players get behind Amorim, but frankly it’s disappointing Ruud hasn’t done the same by releasing his statement in Portuguese. It would make the new guy feel at home!
Coventry must be mad to choose Lampard who was dreadful at Everton and Chelsea and not go with Ruud
Lampard ? Jesus wept. Only because he's English. Terrible manager.
Things will go south quite quickly. The sacking of Robins hasn't be popular as it is with Coventry fans. Appointing Lampard only going to rub it in
Things will go south quite quickly. The sacking of Robins hasn't be popular as it is with Coventry fans. Appointing Lampard only going to rub it in
Not sure how you can't understand that both go togetherWhich is it?
Penny-pinching or throwing millions away?
Make your mind up what argument you're going to use
Leicester bound?
happy for him. Hope that works out!
Best of luck to him. Interim stint at United did him no harm - very tough job though, hope he can keep them up.
Wout Faes is going to ruin his career. Oh and the keeper is shit. And the midfielders are all shit. And Ayew is absolute dogshit.
This could be like Ole at Cardiff.
This could be like Ole at Cardiff.
1. Becomes United interim manager.
2. Beats Leicester twice, in the process kicks out incumbent Leicester manager.
3. Becomes Leicester manager.
Ruud playing 4D chess here.
2. Beats Leicester twice, in the process kicks out incumbent Leicester manager.
3. Becomes Leicester manager.
Ruud playing 4D chess here.
Christ, tough job. Hope he smashes it though of course. God dammit do I love Ruud.
That's me keeping a close eye on and supporting Leicester from now on...
I take it he’d work with the already Leicester coaches since he doesn’t have any of his own does he?
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