You would think the players want to win the FA Cup to finish a catastrophic season, regardless of whether or not the manager is staying. They really shouldn't need much more motivation for the final game of the season.
Firstly, what interim?
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As has been pointed out numerous times, this is incorrect.
Not at all. He was told before Arsenal. He has chosen to leak this out of spite.
Every agent and manager the club have sounded out to replace Hag will know he's being sacked. Are any of those people inside the club? No.
I'd take Martinez over Torres. Injuries is what fecked him.
If you're going to be condescending by asking if I miss Rangnick then I'll be condescending right back to you - did you not follow United during Ole's initial interim spell?
Ideally, you would like to think so, but unfortunately we don't have many Rooney or Keane-esque characters at the club. We have a lot of mopey shits whose performance levels are often centered around how motivated they feel by the manager.
There were some managers available who would have willing to take the job on an interim basis who likely would've triggered a new manager bounce. Hell, I'd have taken Ole back for a few weeks. He has an excellent head-to-head record vs Pep.
Well, you're responding to a poster who wasn't one of those people. I was banging the 'bring in an interim manager' drum on the way home from the Coventry game.
No, I'm not. The club cannot stop some snake from outside the club going to a journalist.
I did. Zero trophies and sacked. Well worth it.
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Aren’t the Guardian quite well regarded? I doubt they would want to burn their bridges with Utd if it wasn’t a leak from the very top
You must've missed the word 'interim' in my post. He went on a record breaking winning run when he was interim manager between December-March. Do you not remember that night in Paris? It was only after they gave him the job permanently that performances started to decline.
I would say the journalist in question has absolutely burned his bridges with Utd.
We're talking about bringing in an interim for one game who has no chance whatsoever of being made permanent. Totally pointless.
If the rumour about McKenna saying no to other clubs is true, there’s people involved there who are nothing to do with United. Plenty of other managerial rumours and other possibles.
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I also had the preference of getting an interim (I myself pointed out Ole's record against Pep in those discussions). However I recognise that none of the options were clearly right or clearly wrong, so I'm not fussed or going to be upset with the negatives of whichever option the club took. It is what it is and there simply was no 'correct' choice.
Believe whatever you like. You asked how it could have come from outside the club and multiple people have told you.
No we're not. We were talking about bringing in an interim manager for 7 games to steady the ship from April-June. It's not unheard of in football. Quite often you see clubs reap the rewards of doing that, instead of seeing sacking leaks emerge on the eve of our most important game of the season.
So rather than adapt, it’s better to play suicidal tactics in the meantime? Gotcha.
An agent whose client we have been talking to?
So he's setting the team up in a way that isn't suitable for the players he picking? That makes everything OK then.
