Because they are more incompetent than ole. They are criminally incompetent. When this started getting bad for ole a few weeks ago, they should have planned for a replacement. Even someone like Ranieri would have been good enough.
Why are United board/owners so slow to act?
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Over the last few years I’ve defended the Glazers as we were/are spending just as much as anyone but that still doesn’t make up for them not knowing or caring about football as they obviously don’t based on top 4 is ok for Man Utd.
Im not saying we should be as ruthless as say Chelsea but the difference in between Roman and the glazers is night and day. Roman actually loves and understands football
Im not saying we should be as ruthless as say Chelsea but the difference in between Roman and the glazers is night and day. Roman actually loves and understands football
Should but can't.
Yep. That's it. I just simplyfied it.
Conte was an option, decided against it. Fair enough.
Rodgers is a option. Let's hope the board passes on that as well.
Other options available now?
Zidane doesn't want it.
Ten Hag doesn't want it at the moment apparently.
Potter? I'd give it a go.
Poch? Meh...
Ragnick? Too desperate.
There is only a handful of top top managers in the world at the moment.
And none of them want to be here.
Money talks. If we paid Ajax £20m we get Ten Hag, simple as.
We've been in the shit for too long that all the good, available candidates have gone to the other clubs. Now we don't have any standout candidate. And since it's Ole and not Jose, even if the board waits longer the could just say "we believe and respect Ole", for some of the fans that'd be understandable. It's not like Jose era where almost all the fans wanted him out and never liked him to begin with.
Are you sure about that?
Surely money can't buy everything.
Why don't we payout Liverpool for Klopp then?
Or buy Pep from City?
You may wish that were true but it may not be.
No, we wouldn't. He already rejected clubs this summer and extended. People keep making this point as if we were the only club interested.
In the context of the size of Ajax, and rivalry etc why would he stay at Ajax? He’s won everything he can there. The Champions League isn’t realistic.
He won’t leave mid season, why would he?
Because they can see the problem is the the way the club is run. The sheer fact Ole is still here should tell you something is serious fekked up with our decision making process.
Maybe the man made a Word with them and is keeping his end to stay till the end of the season.
There is still integrity and honour in this world, its not all about the money.
Because we've given the manager a bit too much power.
I agree with much of what you say. I think part of the issue is that our current setup has the Manager and Football Director as peers, rather than the Manager reporting into a Director of Football. Murtough is more of "a fixer", as The Athletic described it, and focusses on transfers, rather than overseeing our overall footballing vision and shaping the squad accordingly. Unless our structure changes, we are still very beholden to the manager to ultimately determine our style of play and shape the squad accordingly, even if they do not have the best interest of United in the medium and long-term at heart.
It's just wishful thinking. He might go to Bayern but not to our shitshow Disneyland joke.
Why would he leave mid season? It’s madness.
What a shit show of a hierarchy. No wonder we are in a mess.
Failing to sack managers at the right time has been a real problem for United and we look to have done it once again. Now we’re in a position where we can’t get a manager in at all. We could have had Conte on an 18 month contract. Now we have who exactly? There really is no one available.
You know the morons on the board looked at the fixtures and thought well Watford is a freebie so win that and it buys us a few more weeks regardless of what happens against Chelsea.
Yep, the situation is better than it was under Mourinho, but still is holding us back.
He has the pick of big clubs coming up in the coming years, he’s in with a great shout of being next Bayern manager in particular and would be fancied all over Europe. Why on earth would he leave midseason, to go to a club in freefall, that doesn’t play his style of football, and one that might not even make CL next season? He might derail his whole career just by not being able to fix a sinking ship. It’s an absolute hospital pass, the idea that it's a easy decision is kind of absurd.
True.
Also true - even in mid-table he can still get into CL 2022-23 by winning this seasons comp or this seasons Europa League (we know he won't, but legally he could).
If he goes when its mathematically impossible, the pay-off will be approx. £7 million, sack him now and its probably 4x that.
Some people say he should resign, to preserve his club legend status - but he ain't going to do that because although a relatively young man he isn't going to get another big management job like this one (because of this one). It is the equivalent of a player getting his one last big pay-day and nobody walks away from that.
Edit: Just heard on Talksport about the emergency meeting at 7pm - maybe he is going to get the big pay-out after all.
Some people have all the luck!