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Ten Hag sacked | Ruud appointed Interim Manager
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No to mention at this point I'd take anyone "failing like Ole", i.e, finishing 2nd and 3rd while scoring goals in a heartbeat.
Xavi actually won the league, and was then handed a 3 Million transfer budget. The way people talk about him you'd think he was a Lampard or Gerrard in manager.
What is the real problem?.
To be fair to McKenna, he has taken Ipswich from League One to the PL in 2 years, without major investment. To even be in the PL is beyond ridiculous. They made some signings in the summer, but their squad is miles off being PL quality. The only reason they are even in the league is because of the massive overachievement of their coach. The fact they aren’t bottom is achievement enough, and then you look at them having played Liverpool, city and Villa in their first 9 games. Getting 4 draws and 5 losses.
Yes, they have defensive issues, but a huge part of that is just a massive gulf in player quality. I’m not advocating for McKenna to be United manager. He isn’t ready. But he can’t be bashed for how Ipswich have done in the PL. By all rights they shouldn’t even be there if it weren’t for him.
Liked him as a man but he's been allowed more than enough time and we're only getting worse.
they couldn’t get anyone they liked and firing him and hiring the wrong bloke is a far worse look than giving him time. i don’t think ineos did much wrong and they’ve acted a lot quicker this season than i thought they would. they need to start proving themselves now though.
That really is the key. Had we signed the likes of Kane, Palmer and Declan Rice instead, I'm pretty sure it would have worked out. Some of these players are so good that it would have made up for any tactical deficiencies. Whatever happens next, recruitment really has to be top notch going forward.
Christ. That makes for dire reading. Just shows how poor our managerial recruitment has been in the past eleven years.PL games was posted up by the PL themselves today.
So, in terms of points per game:PL games was posted up by the PL themselves today.
Fergie: 2.16
Mourinho: 1.89
Ole: 1.80
LVG: 1.78
ETH: 1.71
Moyes: 1.67
Rangnick: 1.54
Both myself and somebody had posted totals previously, but looks like we both made small mistakes. ETH only beating Moyes from the permanent managers, comfortably behind the others.
No. Tiki Taka is from the 2000s and it describes how Spain played which was then used and improved by Guardiola. Cruyff is credited with the introduction to Total Football.
Did you expect him to jet off to Las Vegas?
Was time. Loved the two cups, but it was inevitable.
I agree and I have said that they have done extremely well but when I look at what is required for United, he isnt it.
Whilst he has done really well, being defensively solid is a requirement for a top tier coach.
I think McKenna can be a good coach, but that doesnt mean he should manage United based on what he has done at Ipswich.
At the moment, we need a manager with a big personality.
none of them are idiots. they don’t get to where they are by being stupid. all they’ve done is takeover business basics really. now they don’t have any excuses for getting it wrong.
If you want to be literal about the introduction of the term yes, but as you basically said the groundwork/underpinnings of it lie with Cruyff. Pep made it what it is today.
i’d expect him going and soaking up the last bit of mediterranean sun at worst. 10-day lady boy thailand bender at best.
I thought he was the man to take us forward at first, but as last season progressed, it was obvious it wasn’t. Still he has two cups to his name and will probably be successful in a much lesser year. Maybe we would have been better off with Poch at the time. Who knows?
The next manager; surely won’t be worse, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
The next manager; surely won’t be worse, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
The roof at Old Trafford is leaking.
Granted, it's only a real problem when it's raining.
In Arteta's defense, he has been competing with Pep and cheating City so it hasn't exactly been fair. If RvN can get us to play like Arsenal and compete for the title every year, I'll be more than happy. Not sure what more we can hope for. Being a regular title winner in current PL is unrealistic.
I think like always he lost the dressing room, the Ronaldo stuff came back to bite him on the backside. Right decision.
Good post. I wouldn’t want Xavi because simply put, I’m not sure our squad is suited to how he’d want to play but to objectively call his time at Barca a failure without any context is wrong.
I cannot see how fixing a leaking roof will improve how our players play... maybe when they play away they miss the leaking roof, so they leak goals instead?
I think it has to do with the fact that their squad wasn’t in a mess when he took over. They were and still are a mess financially but not when it comes to their squad. Same reason Slot found it easy to transition - squad is very good.
Same cannot be said about United. You not only need a good coach to coach this bleedy team but a good man manager. Someone to take the team by the scruff of the neck and tell them this is the way to play.
That...doesn't work (it doesn't work as a joke either, sorry).
If you ask the typical non EPL club supporter they'll probably tell you that we had shown far too much support to ETH. The guy came 8th with a negative goal difference despite spending hundreds of millions on the team. Not only did we keep him and we handled him a contract extension despite refusing to lose control over his VETO but he ended up saddling us with more Eredivisie linked players. ETH had spent 72m on Hojlund, 36m on Zirkzee and 82m on Antony and yet we scored less goals then the likes of Leicester City, Everton, Ipswich and Wolves. In fact only Southampton had scored less goals then we did.
In my opinion INEOS biggest mistake was to bring in Ashworth and Berrada in July. By that time next year's plan had already been shaped (manager, transfers, strategy etc) and there's very little space to maneuver let alone assess what's really going on. Yet the writing was pretty much on the wall from ETH's inability to go past his fetishness for Eredivisie players to his fallout with numerous players including the living legend Varane right to his training regimen who was time and time again, accused for being too intense and was crippling most of our squad. Ultimately we ended up with a manager who was completely on survival mode and whose desperation led to some, very weird, decision making. Case in point was playing a RB as a No 10.
Probably already mentioned but it’s interesting in the statement how he is the outgoing ‘Manager’ whilst Ruud and the search is for a ‘head coach’
Ok. but your post was rubbish too... talking about roof being the highest priority...
Weird that my post got deleted with all the effing and blinding left in here. I tried to be nice and didn't swear. 
No, the angle would be different in that case. What you’re thinking of is the Qian Bai, a striking technique in Chinese Martial arts. What probably happened was that your uncle was trying to teach you praying mantis kung fu style, but as he struck, you turned around in fear, and the rest is history.
Or shows how much extra SAF gave us.
yup. It just goes to show how he was the GOAT.
Martinez, Hojlund, Onana, Yoro, Mazraoui can be used by any manaer. Ugarte, De Light need to improve a lot. Eriksen as a backup. The rest can just feck off.
Almost made it a year since the day he should have been fired.
Which was when we got knocked out of the CL in a shite group
Which was when we got knocked out of the CL in a shite group
Aligns with everything we've heard up to now, that INEOS want a head coach rather than a manager
Sad it ended like this. Was so hopeful. Thanks for the two cups Erik.
Now who next? (sigh)
Now who next? (sigh)
I think it's clear that the next manager won't have anything like the same sort of say over transfers as Ten Hag enjoyed. I seem to recall it being reported in the summer that Ineos wanting to change his title from 'manager' to 'head coach' (or similar) was the reason that a new contract couldn't be agreed. Instead they just triggered an extension in his existing deal. Obviously this is the right decision long-term, assuming the new upper management can get things right. The amount of money that's been wasted on shite just because Ten Hag had previously managed them is criminal.
Thought for months they'd dilly dally and let it fester until November and we're nearly there. They obviously wanted to give him every chance to turn it around so they could save face and not have to sack him so soon after backing him in the summer. But at least they've made the right decision, better late than never.
I hope going forward we don't let failing managers stumble on for so long, we need to get more proactive in sacking managers. Unless they show progress they should be out the door. In all honesty Ten Hag should have been sacked last November, we've been dogshit since then and nothing has improved in 12 months. Keepoing him this long was madness.
I hope going forward we don't let failing managers stumble on for so long, we need to get more proactive in sacking managers. Unless they show progress they should be out the door. In all honesty Ten Hag should have been sacked last November, we've been dogshit since then and nothing has improved in 12 months. Keepoing him this long was madness.
Honestly after watching the Ugarte introduction video, they were standing by the mural where it says something about "fight" the writing was on the wall for this guy
That's cringe at best, you want to die for that man? Or run away from pure embarrassment, all the personality and aura of a bland chicken egg.
I'm happy, extremely happy to see him being sacked, he deserves it and nothing of his own doing, the ego was the size of a planet with nothing backing it up.
That's cringe at best, you want to die for that man? Or run away from pure embarrassment, all the personality and aura of a bland chicken egg.
I'm happy, extremely happy to see him being sacked, he deserves it and nothing of his own doing, the ego was the size of a planet with nothing backing it up.
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