It's time to take a break, mate. Just get a good a strong breakfast, then come back here and read your bla-bla posts, they are getting quoted a lot.
Who's to say we don't already have a contingency plan? We should be evaluating all the time. For all the club's ineptitude and inertness, and a misplaced focus on the first official intimate trimmer of Manchester United, there must be a department or an individual there somewhere who recognises we have the worst manager in the league and that a shortlist of potential replacements needs readying.
You say 'start preparations, evaluate candidates'... Blimey, you really think the preparations should only be beginning? Take your time, mate, let's wait out until Pep and Klopp have retired, then we act! Let's do a Leicester and win the league when no-one is watching. By that time maybe Ole learns some exciting new stuff called organised pressing, pressing triggers, patterns of play, third-man run, underlap, etc., none of which can be seen regularly since 2018. One thing is for sure - I would still like a dialogue with you even then, it's a good laugh.
Irony is for winner types, you don't strike me as one.
Maybe I'll try again to explain my stance: you are right, we should have a contingency plan. We should have started to evaluate, started to prepare. All correct - but do you really think we did that? Do you really think, Ed and Murtough are ready for that?
Because if not - it changes the situation. As I stated already, if there is a good plan then now is the time to execute it. But if there isn't a plan, then we have to create one now. Because if we don't and we feel pressured to act we might end with another premature emotion driven decision. The kind of decision based on no existent plan that got us Mourinho after LVG. And that gave the permanent manager to Ole before there was the actual need to. I am sure you remember, the kind of decisions we wanted to avoid in the future.
I am not defending Ole, far from it. But I want the best for the club and if that means sticking to Ole for the rest of the season to then switch to a great candidate who is available then instead of now jumping to Conte, who first and foremost is in the mix because he is availabe, then I know which one to pick.
The season is going down the drain, what you are suggesting is akin to a surgeon calling for cool heads to map out a game plan whilst the patient, with an arterial bleed, is bleeding out on the table. If we lose the next four games then our season is over and we restart in the summer having lost a couple of good players in need of a manager and another rebuild, doing all that from a position of weakness.
We desperately need this season to end on a high note, we need to salvage it. We can't allow what happened with Moyes and LVG to play out again where a season is wasted on a hopeless manager and then go another multi-window rebuild.
To be honest, even if I understand from where you are coming from, I don't perceive the urgency like you do. This squad is capable of challenging but it isn't guaranteed a title. No matter which manager comes in, there is no guarantee. Therefor it doesn't matter to me how this season pans out if the groundwork is layed for the future instead. I don't know which player you mean, who could leave - Pogba maybe? I am happy to see him leave. Who else could go? I don't see anybody. And we don't need another rebuilt because the last rebuilt hasn't really been finished in my eyes as long as we didn't adress the midfield situation. Therefor I don't see the need to act asap, to be perfectly honest, I think the chance that it will hurt us are potentially even bigger. Who is the fan favorite now? It is Conte, do we want to give Conte 1,5 or 2,5 years from now on? Even if we don't know, what his vision for the club would be? Which players he would plan with? If the plans would align to the plans of the club? If we evaluated the situation, interviewed Conte behind the scenes, synchronized plans silently - then fine, execute the plan now. If not, do the fecking work now. The club decided to stick with Ole, we shouldn't allow the club to cut his losses by just presenting the first available big name manager without any preparation.
The outlook of the season is what it is. Tuchel-situations are the exception not the norm. The odds are way better for the club if the time now is used to plan and prepare. Plus I'd argue, that some issues of our squad go deeper than to be rectified within a few weeks of training. Greenwood is a striker, to transform him into a hardworking winger will be close to impossible. Sanchos introduction to PL - will the manager just fast-forward that? Unlikely, wouldn't you agree? Will a new manager change Ronaldo or Pogba?
I am totally for accepting that change is necessary. But do it smart. I couldn't care less if that means that Ronaldos time here is wasted then, the club comes first. And no manager will just turn us into a monster team that is immediatly ready to just compensate such a player. I don't want to say, that this is the only way to see the situation. But for all the talk of not wanting to repeat mistakes, I would see it as a big mistake to just jump the gun now because the situation is really dire for 4 weeks. It all boils down if there is good plan ready to be executed. If it isn't - do it now. If there is a plan, then great, execute it now.
lovely rewriting of history. We finished 2nd, god knows how, a sign of the shite level of the league that season. We were tumescent to watch, and the atmosphere was miserable. Anyone reminiscing positively about that season are weirdos.