Ten Hag sacked | Ruud appointed Interim Manager

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Same old story really. Now they will spend another 200 million on players and back a manager and sack him after 2 years. And then again... this club...
 
Thank you for helping United add to the trophy cabinet, Erik. You're by no means a bad manager. United just need the very best to get back to our ways lost. Here's to the next chapter.
 
Really should have been let go after the FA Cup win. Would've been dismissed with a "fairly" positive image and memory. Now they've wasted all this time, signed some more players and possibly also missed out on 1 or 2 managerial candidates as well.

Sure, we'd have had a few on here moaning that he needed/deserved more time because of that FA cup win...but let's face, we still have people on here clamoring for all our ex-managers - so that won't change anyway.
 
Had to be done, and probably took too long to reach this decision. I'm not exactly celebrating though, we're once again left with a squad full of signings that felt more like indulging the manager than any sort of coherent long term strategy or vision. It will take time to undo that damage and there's every chance we're just going to keep repeating those mistakes.
 
Revan said:
And we still finished in a higher position than EtH last season, had 4 more points, scored 7 more goals, and conceded 15 fewer goals.
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With the league champions.

The team that won the league weeks prior to him taking over. With players who'd feature in all-time United XIs posted on here with little to no argument.
 
quadrant said:
I feel for ETH. I don't think he's a bad coach, I think the job was simply too big for him. Just as it was too big for every other manager since Fergie.

I think future managers will be helped by only needing to focus on the first team, and will hopefully benefit from the cumulative impact of season after season of buying players who are compatible with each other, and with the managers we bring in. ETH inherited a dog's dinner of a squad, who don't seem to suit any style of football other than counter attacking into space.

It's debatable whether any manager could have succeeded in these conditions. But it's undeniable that ETH couldn't.

Now we're in the position we didn't want to be, choosing a manager when the best managers are unavailable. Best case scenario, Ruud keeps a steady ship til summer, when we can get involved in the manager roundabout.
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Nah, I think he was just a bit shit. We're not the only club in the league that comes with a big job. He was given ample support.
 
He's the first manager I truly believed could turn things around, the first one we hired when we was on the rise, said and made all the right things that first season, and we were playing relatively well. Something happened after that cup final and it's been terrible since.

Sorry we took so long to do it, sacking him on the summer would've been better for all.

Now we have an squad that lacks quality all over the pitch and no money. I think we're in our worse state since SAF left.
 
Should have been sacked during the summer if not during the international breaks.

We wasted the start of the season for what exactly, this was always going to be the outcome.
 
Ish said:
:lol: finally bud! Shame, I always have some sort of soft spot for our ex (failed) managers, and EtH is no different. I wish him well wherever he goes, but glad it's not with us.
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I thought he was gong to be the guy........... unfortunately he appears to be shite and I'm pretty disillusioned. Works pissing me off too :lol:

But still, needed to happen and soon.... and thankfully it has
 
I can't believe we actually sacked him. Thought for sure we were stuck with him when he survived the last international break. Such a shame we pretty much wasted an entire season by keeping him after last season.
 
Feel bad for him but it was the right decision. I knew the hammer was falling after losing yesterday.
 
The persistent Frank links always worry me, he's good where he's at.

I'm convinced he'd struggle at a top 6 side.
 
Wumminator said:
Thank you for the league cup and FA Cup.

Liked a lot of signings as well.

Right decision.
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Which ones? Anthony? Zirkzee? Mount?

Gimme a fecking break. The guy spunked our budget on absolute horseshit that we’ll now need to spend the next few years clearing, meaning the next manager is already on the back foot.
 
This is a happy day.

I would have felt it is a sad day if it had come a few months ago. But they waited far too long for everyone' sake, including Ten Hags.
 
Plant0x84 said:
Nah, we need stability to push up the league. They have had months to sort out who they want and line them up. Ashworth should have decent contacts too.
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I really wouldn't like United to appoint a new manager on a permanent basis right now, if they aren't one of the most appreciated options internally at the club. My educated guess would be that those managers are the likes Amorim, Hoeness, McKenna, Nagelsmann, Inzaghi, etc.

If none of them are attainable now, I'd much rather let van Nistelrooy see out the season, instead of appointing someone that wasn't even in our top 5 options, like I believe the likes of Xavi or Terzic would be.

Also, I want to see how Ruud does first. I'm not saying he's secretly been some elite manager all along, but ETH has had our whole squad criminally underperforming basically since the start of his second season. If RvN just gives this squad some basic, balanced approach, I bet we will immediately see an upturn in results. There are no guarantees that a suboptimal choice like Xavi, Terzic, Frank, Silva, etc. will get us into the top 4 anyways.
 


Been getting teased in the group chat as well, all my rival fan friends are sad to see him leave
 
JBG said:
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That's frustrating, frankly. They should have been sounding out replacements earlier given the start to the season. Pulling the trigger without having worked out the contingency ahead of time, after that start we've had, is poor.
 
The club mention about a new 'Head Coach' being appointed, after referring to him as First Team Manager, so the job title will be changed. Only a slight change but telling.
 
Thank feck we don’t need to witness this guy’s shithouse tactics anymore, which made us look like Sunday League teams on many occasions.
 
Will Ruud take the tough decisions that need to be taken and drop the overpaid underperformers and change the style of play and formation? If he isn't going to do it then this interim situation will be another waste of time.
 
I loved listening to Ten Hag, and to be honest he comes across as a genuine person, but he needed to be absolutely honest last night and rip Michael Oliver with both barrels apart because frankly it's a joke how much we've allowed that referee to undo our football matches.

But with that said it's absolutely the right decision.
  1. Dross recruitment of journeymen former players for massive money
  2. Weird squad set ups that seemed designed to kill us in matches
  3. Clearly no belief left in the playing squad whatsoever in what they were doing
  4. Not backing himself and doing what Arteta, Klopp and Guardiola did and holding the PGMOL to rights for their absolutely disgusting treatment of our club ever since that Onana Wolves incident. How he kept quiet I'll never know, maybe people would have held it against him if he did speak out, but frankly I am astonished he let the media and referees wreck his and our season in the CL and the Premier League last year, and give us disgusting decisions weekly this one.
Don't know who we get next but they need to be stronger and actually impart some belief in this PTSD riddled squad. We are far better than we're showing.
 
Kinky Melinky said:
Nah, I think he was just a bit shit. We're not the only club in the league that comes with a big job. He was given ample support.
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Over the last 10 years, given our budget and cachet, we have a genuine shout at being the worst run club in world football. Of our size anyway. It may or may not have been possible for a different manager to succeed, hard to know, but no-one can argue that the club has been set up for success. Hopefully the changes Ineos have made ends that sequence.
 
Thanks for the cup wins but this is unfortunately way long overdue.

Better late than never I suppose.
 
SonOfFergie said:
Not true. They heavily downed tools last year for a certain part of season and only picked up when they saw ETH will stay the season and some more. Rashford being the main protagonist of that.
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I'm not sure that is a result of 'not playing for the manager' though. I think its more a reflection of a lack of belief in the tactics and lack of confidence when results don't go your way. The players tried very hard to play the way they were asked to last year but if in the back of your mind you are questioning a tactic then you aren't going to be 100% committed to the execution. It's the difference between having the right tactic and also getting buy in.

Rashford is perhaps the only one who visibly didn't seem to be working hard enough. Yet considering he was getting picked every week I'm not sure that wasn't what ETH wanted. Sometimes it seemed like he wanted him to preserve energy for the transitions.
 
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