The final days of Ole were painful.
The Norwegian lost his job in November , 2021 following a 4-1 defeat at Watford that left United eighth in the table. Eighth. Right now we are lying in tenth.
Our points haul is worse and our win percentage is pretty much the same so far this season compared to the point when Ole was given his marching orders - and would be worse if Wolves had got the penalty earlier in the season that was wrongly wiped out that would have seen them get a draw. So why are the pundits not as vociferous in calling for the manager's head as they had been in what was a prolific campaign against the abilities of Solskjaer.
One man epitomised those with an anti Man Utd agenda - the former Chelsea midfielder, Craig Burley on ESPN. He put his attacks on the club to one side last season but now is back in full throttle and almost foaming at the mouth at yet another chance to put the boot in. Of course, United are a shambles. I've been a fan since the Tommy Doc days and we are a mess. But Burley was the man (along with others) who said it was all on Solskjaer. He couldn't stop going on about how the Norwegian didn't have the coaching nous. And looked very pleased with himself when Ole got the boot and things appeared to turn around under Ten Hag, who the ex-Chelsea man believed was a 'proper coach' - although his experience was outside the major world leagues.
After he went quiet for one season, he is back putting the boot into Ten Hag when the results have gone bad in the typical United 'bad second season under new manager' syndrome. But hold on, Craig and all the other naysayers got their wish to see the end of Soskjaer (effectively) and Ten Hag is supposed to be the proper coach who he and others believed was the answer.
Before Ole was fired, United had won five of their first 12 games of the league season - a 41% win percentage. We are now two places lower having won three out of seven with a win percentage that is about the same. Although we know that after the Wolves debacle we are lucky to have that win percentage. When Ole was fired we had been averaging 1.41pts a game that season. Ten Hag is averaging 1.28pts in the seven games so far this season.
The problem with United comes from the top, always has been. The board who sanction the failed approach to not target best-in-class, who appoint the failed recruiters and the managers. Ten Hag who with all his high praise from our key pundit (although he was not alone) has been key in the new wave of poor overpriced signings. From the showpony Antony to to the crazy Onana spend when we needed a striker, to the ineffective and overrated Mount, to the hapless Weghorst and the ridiculous £72m spend on Hojlund, - a young striker with no goalscoring record who we are relying on.
We don't see the same level of attack on the likes of Chelsea who have been arguably a bigger shambles over a longer period of more recent time with mad spending.
But then United have always been the big story.
The Norwegian lost his job in November , 2021 following a 4-1 defeat at Watford that left United eighth in the table. Eighth. Right now we are lying in tenth.
Our points haul is worse and our win percentage is pretty much the same so far this season compared to the point when Ole was given his marching orders - and would be worse if Wolves had got the penalty earlier in the season that was wrongly wiped out that would have seen them get a draw. So why are the pundits not as vociferous in calling for the manager's head as they had been in what was a prolific campaign against the abilities of Solskjaer.
One man epitomised those with an anti Man Utd agenda - the former Chelsea midfielder, Craig Burley on ESPN. He put his attacks on the club to one side last season but now is back in full throttle and almost foaming at the mouth at yet another chance to put the boot in. Of course, United are a shambles. I've been a fan since the Tommy Doc days and we are a mess. But Burley was the man (along with others) who said it was all on Solskjaer. He couldn't stop going on about how the Norwegian didn't have the coaching nous. And looked very pleased with himself when Ole got the boot and things appeared to turn around under Ten Hag, who the ex-Chelsea man believed was a 'proper coach' - although his experience was outside the major world leagues.
After he went quiet for one season, he is back putting the boot into Ten Hag when the results have gone bad in the typical United 'bad second season under new manager' syndrome. But hold on, Craig and all the other naysayers got their wish to see the end of Soskjaer (effectively) and Ten Hag is supposed to be the proper coach who he and others believed was the answer.
Before Ole was fired, United had won five of their first 12 games of the league season - a 41% win percentage. We are now two places lower having won three out of seven with a win percentage that is about the same. Although we know that after the Wolves debacle we are lucky to have that win percentage. When Ole was fired we had been averaging 1.41pts a game that season. Ten Hag is averaging 1.28pts in the seven games so far this season.
The problem with United comes from the top, always has been. The board who sanction the failed approach to not target best-in-class, who appoint the failed recruiters and the managers. Ten Hag who with all his high praise from our key pundit (although he was not alone) has been key in the new wave of poor overpriced signings. From the showpony Antony to to the crazy Onana spend when we needed a striker, to the ineffective and overrated Mount, to the hapless Weghorst and the ridiculous £72m spend on Hojlund, - a young striker with no goalscoring record who we are relying on.
We don't see the same level of attack on the likes of Chelsea who have been arguably a bigger shambles over a longer period of more recent time with mad spending.
But then United have always been the big story.
Anyway sacking ETH is just foolish considering all the situations revolve around the club atm.