I think with a top coach we would be amongst or above Pool/Chelsea at the moment. Look at our results and say Flick was our coach (using him as an example as I'm assuming everyone rates him) do you not think we could have beaten Watford & Villa? That would put us 1 point behind Chelsea and we've played 2 games less than them... then you just look at the stupid dropped points, we have drawn with Newcastle & Everton (who are relegation fighters this season) and we got hammered by Leicester who are poor this season. That's just off the top of my head, there are other stupid draws I'm sure.
I honestly don't know how anyone can look at our squad and think it's up with Liverpools or City's. They are better in every single position.
Of course, the managers are tasked to get the best out of the players. And let me give you an example, go no further than Sir Alex and his 2013 team.
Why did Sancho want to come play under a poor manager?
He's clearly a very good coach, my take was this season would define if he was world class (i.e. win PL or CL again). I do think they got a bit fecked over by the PL when they got made to play in contrast to Villa being allowed to call a game off with 2 hours notice but expect they'll be close enough by end of season.
Yeh… And they probably still think the squad is of title challenging quality
Stupid morons!Not even sure what this argument is. Managing the mentality of an employee to ensure they're happy and performing at their best isn't restricted to football. Its a thing in any professional career.
And we can't even get rid of him.
Took the words out of my mouth. Makes me want to vomit every time I hear him speak as our captain.
As a manager he is absolute disaster but as a person he is clever fecker.
I'm loving the cost of players being oles fault. Like he's just sat there with a blank chequebook.
Maguire transfer fee is not on Ole, but I just really would like to understand Ole's reasoning for making him captain. Maguire was made captain after only 6 months at United, wasn't captain at previous clubs, does not seem to have leadership qualities or be vocal. Just why, Ole? Just because of Maguire was the most senior English first-team player? Cannot find any other explanation.
I came to post this. Thank you for showing I’m not the only one who thinks this. Maguire is a liability.
We all knew what Leicester were demanding for him, didn’t we? It was all over the papers, so he had to think he was worth that amount of money and that it was more important to get him (and AWB) for £130m than buying more players, only for him to then complain about not having a deep enough squad.
But if they do that then everyone’s going to say “the manager’s job is to select the targets and the board have to back him”. It seems very much like he locked in on the most expensive target in pretty much every position that he signed players in, apart from James, and then complained about not having squad depth. Go figure.
But then people would have said "Ole is not backed. Burn Ed. Burn Glazers".
I don’t think any manager will have much luck under the current ownership they interfere and they don't invest aggressively.
Over the year fans bashed Glazers about Cavani and Donny because they were only "B targets"
To great criticism from the people on here. They surely weren’t going to do that to a United legend in his first transfer window, were they? Like I said, the fee wasn’t his fault but he decided on the target and it can’t have been a secret how much he was going to cost seeing as everyone who followed the transfer saga knew it was 80 million quid.
The board and Ole are both to blame as they both should have balked at the fee and realized we could get 2 or 3 players at that price. It’s not rocket science.
Sorry but it’s results that matter, you can’t say Ralf has the team playing better but ole got better results: in regards AWB- I think he was a good signing for first season or two when we were counter attacking defensive team, as soon as we go front foot attacking he’s poor. So think the AWB signing needs to be looked at in right context
Yes, not that Dalot is very good and not a fan of Jose at all, but the fact is - he bought a RB that was 2.5 times cheaper, younger and is starting over AWB at the moment and you cannot say that it is not on merit.
