Not me! But I like the way that guy thinks
Ruud van Nistelrooy | Leaves United
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I'm glad he's getting a couple of games and no more. Hope we win, everyone has a nice time, and then onto the next chapter.
What a great day that was. First game of the season, lots of optimism. We had just signed one of the most exciting talents in Europe in Jadon Sancho and Varane was presented to the crowd like some sort of French Gladiator and we battered Leeds.
Things quickly went downhill from there…….
Sorry that's what I meant compete typo
This is good to know he is only there for a few games. I am glad INEOS have sorted out an appointment before fans can get excited and the "should we give it to Ruud till end of season" discussions started.
I really like the idea of him being written in the Utd books asa manager. He's a true legend, is he a longterm solution? I guess not (for now). Maybe he is in the future.
But no one is taking this managerial debut at Utd's Old Trafford off of him, and I think that's nice.
But no one is taking this managerial debut at Utd's Old Trafford off of him, and I think that's nice.
Same attacking performance against Chelsea. Time to get our GD in the pluses
I agree. INEOS have done really well to make sure we don’t get into that scenario again. Got a replacement sorted before Ruud even managed his 1st game.
Would be nice if Amorim wants Ruud as part of his coaching team. Maybe not necessarily as assistant but striker coach maybe?
Did McAteer piss in his team mates cornflakes?
Why are the minutes different? Leicester patterns are based between minutes 1-75, whereas United's is 1-66? And are we really suggesting that no other player passed to Rashford bar Dalot?
Not sure this graphic is really useful for anything.
Not overly great defensively though. Could see it being a hectic high scoring game.
Agreed. Got like a 4-3 written all over it.
It was great to see him enjoying himself on the touchline. It feels like so long since we've seen a manager kicking every ball and living every moment in the dugout like that.
Scored five against a PL team, EtH never managed that. Fun for a scoring hero to get that result in his first match!
Thought he managed the game very well last night. As a caretaker I suspect he felt a responsibility to go with a strong team, but good substitutions meant hegave minutes to plenty of players who needed them too.
Would make sense to keep him around at least for the rest of this season. To have someone who knows the club, players, league will be useful to Amorim and his staff.
With 2 games a week it’s looking likely Ruud will get a couple of games.
Happy for the great man.
Happy for the great man.
So he’ll get Chelsea, POAK and Leicester. That’s a decent set of fixtures for him, let’s hope we carry on playing like we did last night, minus the silly goals we conceded. It did look good seeing him on the touchline last night.
More goals yesterday than in our last five league games combined can't be a coincidence.
As Ruud said, we were lucky with finishing, deflected free kick, rebound went to Casemiro etc when we were not in the previous games. (West Ham, Fenerbache, Palace)
Sometimes you need a bit of luck, we could have been 4-1 up against West Ham the other day at half time too. I don't think Ruud did anyway particularly different
Looked and acted the part and the players delivered 5 goals. Can't ask for a better home debut.
The main difference with the number of goals scored was we finished our chances this time (+2 goals Vs XG). It's nothing to do with the players not trying, they can't hack the pressure, and with Ten Haag gone, the pressure is off (for now). Being a United players is like no other club, expect maybe Madrid or Barca and most can't hack it.
The mentality is not right with these players, hopefully the new manager can resolve this, but it could just be innate in these players.
Nice win last night. If he can get a point against Chelsea, beat PAOK and then beat Leicester again, that'd be great.
I think the sacking freed the players to be themselves and deliver what they knew they could all along. Long may it continue.
Yeah, but Danny Ward was in goal.
He was in goal twice under ETH too. Didn’t even score 5 in those games combined.
Those weren't cup games against a second string side.
2 games, 2 wins, 4 scored, none conceded.
Sancho even scored in both of those games.
Chelsea a real test. Hoping we bang in some goals against them
I know now why you cry!
It should be 9/9 we are at home to Chelsea no excuses . Small time mentality needs to go
It was so good to see him truly excited on the touchline, I do hope Ruben (if it is to be him) can find a spot for Ruud
The role Benni had last season?
Chelsea have started the season better than us. You can call it small time mentality but I'd be happy with one point atm. Last season or season before that I would have different view.
Or you could call it a new manager bounce. Remember Tottenham going unbeaten in their first 10 games under Ange? We really should be beating Chelsea, especially at home. They have a lot of defensive frailties that we can take advantage of.
Thank God, no Woodward to give him a 5 year contract and 300mil off of last game.
This has nothing to do with his 5-2 win but I have to say that among our ex players he’s always come across as one of the best spoken and most thoughtful. I can see him being a good man manager at least in his managerial career. Tactics and coaching are obviously harder to gauge and we’ll have to see how that pans out but I’ve always liked heading Ruud speak.
I agree with him. This season we’ve created tons of chances so it’s not like the 5-2 came out of the blue. Actually it did, but more in terms of who we played and the rub of the green. Maybe mentality too, sometimes you need that mental lift - we possibly could have won that 4-3 or worse, under ETH due to the downward spiral.
Comes off as an class act in that PC. Hope the club decides to keep him in some role.