18 Oct 2021 10:52:19
I see it's Marcus Rashfords turn now to come out and say he is unhappy.
What a stupid thing Ole done here with the 'focus on football' comment.
Best of luck coming back from this one Ole.
18 Oct 2021 12:31:32
I wrote about it on Saturday saying it was an idiotic thing to say in public. His defenders would say "football manager tells footballer to play football" nothing to see here.
Well he's p. ed off one of our better players by trying to be the smartest guy in the room. All of this is text book behaviour from a manager who knows his time is up.
18 Oct 2021 13:55:04
We have people on here trying to tell us ole has created a happy camp??? he is toxic. Get him out now he is running this club like nobody ever before him.
18 Oct 2021 14:02:54
Angel a couple of the 'happy chaps' on here the other day defending that. Its worse than jose ever did to Shaw but our 2 faced friends with double standards can't see that.
18 Oct 2021 14:08:17
Way worse. The man has literally fed starving kids and being called out and told to 'focus on football' by his manager.
Mind baffling. Not sure why people were on here trying to defend it.
18 Oct 2021 14:29:26
Ken, calm down. I'm not sure anyone could objectively say Ole saying Marcus needs to focus on his football is anywhere near as bad as Jose saying he had to be Shaw's brain on the pitch as he doesn't know how to play football. Or the constant jibes and put downs he made publicly about Shaw.
What Ole said is true, is something many fans have said on here. He probably shouldn't have said it publicly. Although most managers have said at some point that a certain player under them needs to focus more. I'm sure Sir Alex said it about Rooney at one point, probably amoungst others he managed.
Personally I think the pressure is getting to Ole and he is saying things he normally wouldn't. While I think the media is prepared to take it out of context to suit the current agenda.
18 Oct 2021 14:40:08
Ah right, Angel. So it's not double standards to call out Pogba for getting a new haircut or Lingard for launching a fashion label and telling them to focus on football.
But it's not to call out Rashford for working on charitable deeds.
Either you can say a player should focus on football regardless of what it is that could be distracting him or you don't. Otherwise that is double standards.
18 Oct 2021 14:58:52
Ole, went out of his way to tell Marcus to focus on football after literally feeding millions. Are you trying to draw parallels between Pogba/ lingards extra curricular activities and the fight against hunger and poverty? Not to mention, for all of Rashfords additional work going on behind the scenes, he has delivered on the pitch a lot more than those you mentioned.
Your post above is laughable shappy. A player fighting poverty v how someone's hair looks haha. Embarrassing.
And anyway, what manager had a go at Jessie and Pogba?
18 Oct 2021 15:19:49
The point is while a manager might have a go at a player, they shouldn't do it in public, it should be dealt within behind closed doors.
Ole has observed this up until now, it seems a silly mistake to make and you have to wonder if the pressure is getting to him.
18 Oct 2021 15:59:28
Angel, Jose had a go at both publicly.
I'm not saying Rashford's intentions were anything but pure. He is an inspiration.
Yet many said on here and elsewhere that he needed to focus on football.
I agree that Ole was wrong to say anything publicly. Yet he is hardly the first manager to say such comments.
Just pointing out as a fan you have double standards of you think saying to one footballer to focus on his football is acceptable but not to another footballer.
Double standards: a rule or principle which is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups.
Either every manager is wrong to criticise a player publicly or none of them are. Anything in between is hypocritical and clear double standards.
I said Jose was wrong to slate players publicly even if I agreed with what he was saying. And I stand by that with Ole. He shouldn't have said that about Rashford. It was at best naïve, at worst stupid. Ole shouldn't have said it.
18 Oct 2021 16:18:04
'Just pointing out as a fan you have double standards of you think saying to one footballer to focus on his football is acceptable but not to another footballer. ' - again, a massive difference between a haircut and feeding starving children in poverty.
I couldn't care less about pogbas hair or Jessie's fashion label. I think it was pathetic of Ole to have a go at Rashford and much worse than what Jose might have said.
I actually don't remember Mourinho having a go at either of them for that behaviour? In fact I remember Pogba specifically saying that Jose had no issues with his haircut and Jessie says he had a fantastic relationship with Mourinho, making him a winner.
18 Oct 2021 16:52:19
Rashford just coming back from an injury and Ole opens his mouth preaching him.
I think Rashford is one of those who seems to recover quickly from injuries and is ready for action almost immediately which shows that he is focused on football and works really hard to get back on the pitch.
He even doesn't mind playing with injuries and here we got the manager telling him to focus on his game.
How about Ole focuses on football himself first for a change.
18 Oct 2021 17:01:56
Angel, it comes down to the basic principle of whether you think a manager should criticise a player publicly or whether you think those things should stay in house.
As mentioned above what about Jose's comments about Shaw noting having a football brain and that he had to talk his every action through during a game.
Jose was effectively saying Shaw is stupid and doesn't understand football and is incapable of playing without his constant guidance.
Some are saying that reminding a footballer to focus on his job is as bad as calling someone stupid.
Either every manager is allowed to criticise every player publicly or none are allowed to call out any players ever.
Anything in between is hypocrisy.
18 Oct 2021 20:09:18
"Either every manager is allowed to criticise every player publicly or none are allowed to call out any players ever.
Anything in between is hypocrisy. "
So, Shappy every manager should be treated equally?
Then how come Ole is still in the job even without achieving anything, a privilege the previous managers didn't get even though they achieved something?
The biggest hypocrisy is Ole still being in the job.
19 Oct 2021 05:35:45
LPU, simply because you has a fan have a vastly different idea about what constitutes success to the people who run our club.
For fans trophies equal success, for the people running our club money equals success.
Winning an FA cup doesn't bring in as much money as finishing in the top 4 and getting UCL football.
That is why LvG won the FA cup and got sacked 2 days later with the team finishing in 5th place on goal difference. It's why Moyes was sacked only when it was mathematically impossible to finish in the top four. Jose was slightly different, but he team was in a downward spiral and Jose was in meltdown. Still the club continued on until almost Christmas.
Ole has up until now always got top four/ UCL qualification, and thus has kept the money rolling in. So the owners consider him a success.