I would like my tuppence worth here!
If you look at the current team/squad, there are players that go back to SAF. De Gea, Smalling, Jones. Then there are other players brought in by the subsequent managers including Jose. From Herrera to Shaw to Paul Labile Pogba to Lukaku.
There are players that have come through the system too. Rashford is the shining light, but let’s not forget Pogba is included in that. He’s a United graduate. Jesse, Andreas, Scotty.
SAF, Moyes, LVG, Mourinho all deserve a little credit but that’s just for the signings, which the board approve and EW writes the cheques for.
There is collective congratulations deserved, not just Mourinho.
What Ole, Mike, Carrick etc have done, is coached them on defensive shape, changed the midfield dynamic, changed the complete style of play and instilled belief in all of the squad. They’ve turned the mood on it’s head. They have turned the club on its head. It’s not just good management, it s fantastic management. Who can remember a squad chanting the managers name in the dressing room after a win? Any team, not just us?
We are playing in a Man Utd style for the 1st time in years.
But let us all not forget, Ole IS a successful manager. He has already won the Tippy-leaguey a couple of times and cut his teeth. He could potentially be at OT for years, if not decades like SAF.
The biggest credit MUST go to whoever decided to take a gamble on the Ole/Phelan axis. I think it was a calculated gamble in the 1st place, United had nothing to lose really and I’m wondering if Poch was ‘plan b’ from the off? All hoping this would work. It will have been talked about long before anyone in the public eye knew about it. We all think it was SAF I suppose. I know I do.