The “Ole In” Brigade

Nah, it's clear it's under instruction by Ole that he was happy to see all those players leave first. But you shit on everything Ole does so i'll leave you to your complaining.

Shame your toys are out of the pram, nothing I said was a complaint just summarising what’s happened.
 
Sold/released experienced players, replaced with relatively inexperienced players. It's a long term strategy, clearly that's not going to be healthy for our short term success but it will benefit the club further down the road. Only Maguire and Bruno are players that were signed and should come in with expectations of having an immediate impact in my opinion. But if you look at those players it's pretty clear that we focussed on getting rid of the older players in the squad first, selecting a few to retain (Mata/Matic), but even their days are numbered imo.

Players Sold/Released Since Ole Took Over:

Average Age:
30.6

Antonio Valencia
34​
Ashley Young
34​
Marouane Fellaini
32​
Alexis Sánchez
31​
Ander Herrera
30​
Matteo Darmian
30​
Chris Smalling
30​
Marcos Rojo
29​
Romelu Lukaku
26​

Players Signed/Promoted Since Ole Took Over:

Average Age:
22.0

Harry Maguire
26​
Bruno Fernandes
25​
Axel Tuanzebe
22​
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
22​
Daniel James
22​
Brandon Williams
19​
Mason Greenwood
18​

Only Herrera would improve our current side of the departed players since Ole arrived. Then again, he was fully intent on leaving the club regardless, leaving the manager with no option other than to sell. Lukaku would have been a handy option (especially with the injuries to our strikeforce this season) but he was also adamant about leaving the club.

I'm fairly certain Tuanzebe emerged before Ole took charge of the club. I could be wrong though.

All in all, Ole has done well in the transfer department, which is why I would like him to stay at the club in an official capacity after the inevitable goes down. Be that a Scout, DoF, coach, assistant manager (this position may be beneath him given the circumstances) or whatever.
 
They were fecking 2nd 2 years ago. Dont try to make them look like a Sunday league football team.

Look at the two line ups...
I can, it’s absolute bollocks. Not a single fan who sits near me rates Ole, they can’t believe he’s still in the job.
All my mates think we’re an absolute joke.

You must live in some fecking weird part of town man, either that or you’ve got a small group of mates, all with a sheep mentality.

Lived my entire life in Chortlon. Been going to OT for nearly 40 years.

As I said, you can't speak for other people's experiences. The over the top, panic mentality of Redcafe does not reflect real life.

Funny how you have to get wound up and try to make digs, simply because other people want Ole to remain in the job.

Try to accept that people who want Ole to continue aren't saying he's Pep. But we see he's going to see us through a tough time for the club. Steady the ship and lay foundations for the future, rather than ripping it all up again and hoping for the best that works.
 
If we lose 3-0 tonight is it all going to be fine?

I am not a fan of Ole being in the job long term and I have accpeted that this season is an absolute write off. We will not get a CL spot and will not win any trophies. I just hope we can win a few games. Plan to get rid of the cling ons like Jones and Lingard etc and plan to get a good manager in the summer that can take us forward. Literally no point in sacking Ole now may as well wait until the summer.
 
8 weeks/75 pages of (mainly) criticism.

To the posters who thought he was sh!t (and may still do), has anything changed your opinion or is it just that we're on a good streak and there's nothing to criticise?

If we play like this and get into the CL spots I will hold up my hand and say he needs a chance next season.
 
Ole's real judgment time is next season IMO. If we aren't challenging for the league than he has to go. Top 4 should be an absolute bare minimum.
 
So, we all Ole in if we get top four and/or win the EL? I assume we are.

I definitely am. Thats the moment I will change my vote. Clear, tangible progress and a target achieved, even if there are question marks, he will deserve another season.

That being said, if he messes up Leicester like he just did Chelsea/West Ham, and then he doesn’t win the EL either, he won’t have done enough and should leave. That would be too many collapses and a clear sign of problems within the mentality of the squad.

Beat Leicester and he earns the time. Lose, and he has 3 games to save his job.

I think that is fair after the collapse last year and our poor overall points total this time around.
 
So, we all Ole in if we get top four and/or win the EL? I assume we are.
I think he might stay regardless, the board might have seen enough encouraging signs. I still shake my head over the summer transfer business (not getting a number 10 or a first choice winger/back up striker) and our season changed with the Bruno signing. If it all goes wrong you have to point to that and Ed's stupidity.
 

He's getting next season no matter what. After that remains to be seen.

To be fair his tenure won't be a waste either way. He has done several transfer and squad changes that I think will help the next manager, no matter whom he's, a lot.
 
So, we all Ole in if we get top four and/or win the EL? I assume we are.

I'm "Ole in" even if we fail at both.

We spent half the season with a shite bench, Lingard/Pereira as our creator(s) and a lengthy injury spell on Rashford on top of this. Truth be told, we've been overachieving
 
He's getting next season no matter what. After that remains to be seen.

To be fair his tenure won't be a waste either way. He has done several transfer and squad changes that I think will help the next manager, no matter whom he's, a lot.

We were saying that about Van Gaal and Jose too initially.
 
He's getting next season no matter what. After that remains to be seen.

To be fair his tenure won't be a waste either way. He has done several transfer and squad changes that I think will help the next manager, no matter whom he's, a lot.
What happened to you?? :lol: :lol:
 
We were saying that about Van Gaal and Jose too initially.
What happened to you?? :lol: :lol:

Hey, I'm trying to be optimistic lads, :D For once I'm trying to sound positive, beside he has been doing very well recently to be fair so can't criticize him much, and really can see many managers liking to have the likes of Bruno as their main creator, and Rashford and Greenwood too, beside Martial recent great form. I think many managers will like this set of players so at least his tenure wasn't a big loss for us.
 
We were saying that about Van Gaal and Jose too initially.
As long as the manager isn't the complete opposite of of Solskjaer we can build on some of these players. But knowing Woodie, he will do another 180 and get a known name that will ask for 5 transfer windows to assemble his defensive team. We will then fire him and hire a washed away Pep Guardiola in 2027. The same will happen. Woodie will then hire Rupert Murdoch to do his press.
 
We really weren't.

You can go back and view the threads.

The entire talk was that the next manager will have a much better squad to work with as a result of the signings.

I'm not even the only one who's mentioned this recently.
 
I'm "Ole in" even if we fail at both.

We spent half the season with a shite bench, Lingard/Pereira as our creator(s) and a lengthy injury spell on Rashford on top of this. Truth be told, we've been overachieving

I think the problem is that if we don't get top four, it'll seriously hamper our rebuild and transfer targets. It's absolutely vital that we have CL football next season. I think he'll stay regardless as there's no noises to the contrary.

Fact is, it will make his job much tougher not being able to attract the calibre of players that we need and he would already be starting next season on the back foot. I have no doubt that the league will be much stronger next season and we'll need the best squad possible to challenge for a top 3 place.
 
The best brigade were the "we want Ole not Zidane". Yeah, why take a 3 times CL champion instead? We have the Champion of Norway lads!
 
I swear as a club - I hate our supporters because we hardly have any but to those who support instant success.

The moan about Rashford only to go back and shut their mouth. They make rubbish stories about Martial that gets echoed in press only for them to shut their mouth. The list is never really ending just like their moans. Their moans is the way they support.

Absolutely one of the worst supporters of a club I have ever seen and many of our rivals have better fans of their club to create a family atmosphere that alot of our fans pretend to be worse off than us.
 
You can go back and view the threads.

The entire talk was that the next manager will have a much better squad to work with as a result of the signings.

I'm not even the only one who's mentioned this recently.

If you listen to the muppets then yes. People spanked themselves silly in August then realise that the players brought in were shit come November. With Jose it was the same, lots of initial excitement followed by a dose of reality afterwards when watching the players first hand. Don't buy the argument, there was plenty of talk about Van Gaal having a history of building teams up, there was plenty of talk of Jose wrecking teams because he'd build with short term in mind.
 
Ole’s first big test is next season?

No, but by then he will of had enough time and enough transfer windows to of fully enforced his philosophy. If that isn't good enough to challenge for the title then he isn't the answer.
 
No, but by then he will of had enough time and enough transfer windows to of fully enforced his philosophy. If that isn't good enough to challenge for the title then he isn't the answer.

What if we sign no players this summer and we get a lengthy injury spell on 1 or 2 important players(Bruno, Pogba, Martial etc)? Even without injuries this team is not on the same level as City, Pool and even Chelsea with their amazing transfer window so far.
 
No, but by then he will of had enough time and enough transfer windows to of fully enforced his philosophy. If that isn't good enough to challenge for the title then he isn't the answer.

Yes, but he will still deserve credit for getting us back into the top four, somewhere we haven’t been many times recently.
 
No, but by then he will of had enough time and enough transfer windows to of fully enforced his philosophy. If that isn't good enough to challenge for the title then he isn't the answer.

I really wouldn't be expecting a title challenge next season. I think the aim would be a very comfortable third place finish. Liverpool are still far better than us and I can see City making big strides in the transfer market this summer. Our aim should be a third place finish. I would love a title push of course but it's not a reality for next season.

I have a feeling the league will be a much tougher place next season and I fully expect Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea to be in much better shape. Getting CL football is so vital, it really is. If we miss out on CL then we likely miss out on the calibre of players that we need. I feel if this happens then Ole is a dead man walking going into next season. I realistically can't see us winning the EL so Sunday's game is so unbelievablely vital.
 
What if we sign no players this summer and we get a lengthy injury spell on 1 or 2 important players(Bruno, Pogba, Martial etc)? Even without injuries this team is not on the same level as City, Pool and even Chelsea with their amazing transfer window so far.

If we sign no players this summer then he needs to stand up to the Glazers or he would be creating a rod for his own back by being a yes man.

I'm not one for using the amount of money spent to use as a stick to beat a manager with, but if we spend another £150m say this window on top of what he has already spent and we are nowhere near challenging then he has to go simple as.
 
Yes, but he will still deserve credit for getting us back into the top four, somewhere we haven’t been many times recently.

Totally. If we qualify this season then he deserves a hell of a lot of credit. He then needs to build on it though. No point just being an also ran for the Champions League and trying to scrape top 4 every year. We roasted Arsenal for years for doing that.
 
I really wouldn't be expecting a title challenge next season. I think the aim would be a very comfortable third place finish. Liverpool are still far better than us and I can see City making big strides in the transfer market this summer. Our aim should be a third place finish. I would love a title push of course but it's not a reality for next season.

I have a feeling the league will be a much tougher place next season and I fully expect Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea to be in much better shape. Getting CL football is so vital, it really is. If we miss out on CL then we likely miss out on the calibre of players that we need. I feel if this happens then Ole is a dead man walking going into next season. I realistically can't see us winning the EL so Sunday's game is so unbelievablely vital.

Finishing 3rd and being relatively close in points to Liverpool and City is acceptable and should be the realistic goal to be honest. Scrapping for top 4 after potentially spending another £100m plus this window shouldn't be enough. We will basically be also rans for the Champions League at that point. No different to a Sevilla etc.