03 Dec 2019 13:25:41
If the club's plan is to stick with Ole until the end of the season or beyond while the clean out takes place then they should do so. Neither the fans nor the media make the decisions, the Board do. If the Board are unable to withstand external pressures, or if they have made the wrong management decisions, then that is their failure. If they fire Ole then they must take the responsibility for it, and for his replacement. People talk about us needing leaders on the field, players like Keane, and we do, but we also need a CEO and a Board of Directors with some cojones too.
It looks to me like there are no top managers out there who actually want to work for Woodward under the current set up. I hope I'm proved wrong.
03 Dec 2019 15:23:47
Shawthing, unfortunately I think you're right. We blindly say we are Manchester United and top players/ managers want to work for us. But is that just a fans view of the club they love.
If you're a top manager then you will have more than one option for a job.
So serious question, with United in their current set up and position why would a top manager pick us over Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Broussia Dortmund, PSG, Inter Milan, Juventus, Napoli, Chelsea, Liverpool, City, Arsenal and Spurs.
Just look at Mourinho, he looks twice as happy at Spurs than he ever looked at United.
We approached Pep when Sir Alex retired, he said thanks but no thanks. We ended up with Moyes.
We tried for Klopp, he said no thanks. We spoke with Conte before he joined Chelsea, and Ancelotti before he joined Real Madrid. Neither wanted it. Apparently we had Allegri lined up, then shafted him. So, there's another top manager who we have more then likely turned against wanting to work for us.
People ask why we appointed Ole when we did. How do we know that after putting the feelers out we found that top managers weren't interested. What if Ole on the back of 10 straight wins was performing better than any of the realistic options available to us.
03 Dec 2019 17:54:07
Completely agree Shaw it's about time the decision makers at the Club took some responsibility for their actions and stopped hiding behind the manager and players.
We find ourselves in this position because the Club has absolutely no footballing strategy or leadership at board level.
03 Dec 2019 18:12:57
Shappy
United must be terribly unlucky, they put the feelers out when SAF retired and just no one other than Moyes was available. Then after a short period of Ole’s interim management, they put the feelers out again and only the interim manager who had no relevant experience at all was the only option, no way could they have waited for the end of the season. Thousands of managers with more relevant experience but just no one better than good old Ole. They sewed his name into the new shirt didn’t they.
It’s a laugh a minute.
04 Dec 2019 09:09:12
They could have waited, they could have done better research. Unfortunately who at the club at the boardroom level really has their finger on the pulse about coaches and managers who are doing a great job at less obvious places?
Woodward is a top shelf shopper, he doesn't know enough about football to understand a great player or manager who is flying under the radar. He opens up a newspaper and sees who's name is being spoken about most.
There are many great young managers about, but there isn't the expertise at the club to find the right one.
We will have spoken to the obvious candidates and no one nibbled. At that point they would have had the choice of gambling on someone they knew little about or hire the guy who just broke records held by the club's greatest ever managers and won his first 10 games on the bounce.
When we sack Ole it will be the same people making those decisions again. Do you trust them to get it right?
The fact is that many of not all of the top managers can see we are a mess, and a quick conversation with people like Woodward will confirm that the club doesn't have a direction or a plan that will work in the real world. So few if any would be prepared to come to the club.