Viable, available caretaker managers?

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
That's a lie, these are not the same players from previous managers and the other managers in lvg and Mourinho made us a top 4 side that won trophies, under Ole we are a hopeless mid-table side going nowhere.
 

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Can we bring Mourinho back to actually clear everyone out? Gives him something to do till Madrid next season
 

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Wenger, Allegri, Blanc, Ranieri, Allardyce, Spalletti, Pardew, Hughton, Di Matteo, Poyet & Klinsmann are the ones I recognize from seeing a list of managers who are available. Ignoring Mourinho & Moyes since they have already had their go.
 

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
Please enlighten me how sacking a clearly underperforming manager who is simply incapable of delivering anything, we cannot win a game of football, we cannot create anything, we cannot play decent football against lower league clubs, would not help us?
 

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We are United we dont need a caretaker manager, if a club of Leicester's size was able to get Rodgers who is a lot better than Ole from Celtic, then it shouldnt be too difficult for our club with our size and pull to get a manager of Rodgers level from another club.

Oh and I would take van Gaal back over out of his depth Ole. Martial and rashford looked good under van Gaal and he made a good defensive partnership out smalling and blind, tbh the current squad would probably suit van Gaal in many ways.
 

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Marcelino is an excellent manager out of work. Doesn't speak English but is a hard task master and is good tactically. Got Valencia into two straight top 4 finishes and won Copa Del Rey and did a great job at Villarreal.
 

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
Sacking the worst manager ive ever seen in my life would definitely help..
 

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
Just because Ole is way out of his depth doesn't mean players don't have accountability too. But I would like to think a better manager would bench those lazy players. If we have to put in a youngster who will at least give a damn, I'd easily have that over a senior player just going through the motions.
 

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
Let's be fair, there are probably very few circumstances under which you would agree with him being sacked.
 

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Unless you're bringing new, quality players with the new manager, might as well not bother. Till 400 - 500m is injected into this team on well thought out recruits, we ain't going nowhere. Not even with a Pep Klopp combo.
 

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I believe Klopp joined Liverpool mid season. We have to hope Spurs sack Poch, so he can join us mid season as well, so he can assess the players he has. However, I don’t believe Pochettino will want to jump straight right into another job so fast. The benefits of having Pochettino is that we could get Kane as well. Ferdinand is already taping Kane up and we all know that Kane will have more chance to win something at United with our resources and poch as our manager than at Spurs.

So right now, I will just say get Allegri, Blanc or Wenger. Preferable Wenger, so we can teach some of our players how to play football. Not long term, but just to give these players some proper coaching.
 

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Nah, nah lads chill with the Benitez stuff. I'd rather do a colonoscopy with Poseidon's trident.
 

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Sacking Ole would not help us. Our players are poor and unmotivated as feck. They have demonstrated that with world class managers as well.
Yeah yeah whatever. Let’s keep the inept one in. Ole’s at the wheel.....
 

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Wenger - forget results he will at least have the team play football. Would be good with young players as well.
 

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I believe Klopp joined Liverpool mid season. We have to hope Spurs sack Poch, so he can join us mid season as well, so he can assess the players he has. However, I don’t believe Pochettino will want to jump straight right into another job so fast. The benefits of having Pochettino is that we could get Kane as well. Ferdinand is already taping Kane up and we all know that Kane will have more chance to win something at United with our resources and poch as our manager than at Spurs.

So right now, I will just saw get Allegri, Blanc or Wenger. Preferable Wenger, so we can teach some of our players how to play football.
Wenger had huge issues at Arsenal getting his players to play properly. I'm not sure he'll be successful here either. Now if he drops the senior players and focuses on developing youth, there could be some value in that.
 

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I actually think that Wenger might be able to do a decent job for 6 months.
He'll get us attacking, because right now, we can't attack.
The problem with Wenger was that his team had no backbone and would easily fold.
 

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Probably never happen and will get the piss taken out of me but Wenger for me.

He’s had time off so should be refreshed, at the very least he’d play attacking football win or lose. He’s also pretty good at bringing the youngsters on.
 

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A year ago anyone would have found the idea of Wenger hilarious.

But it's actually an interesting idea now.

There's no way in hell the board sanction Ole signing £150m worth of new players to sack him 2 months later though
 

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A year ago anyone would have found the idea of Wenger hilarious.

But it's actually an interesting idea now.

There's no way in hell the board sanction Ole signing £150m worth of new players to sack him 2 months later though
You can because the players we bought for 150m pounds are players most managers would want.
 

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At least give ole a couple of transfer windows. Our best players so far this season are ones he has brought in. Our so called best player doesn't want to be here. Give him a creative dynamic midfielder and goalscorer. Automatically we improve. Other positions obviously needed strengthened as well but those 2 are urgent requirements.
 

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A year ago anyone would have found the idea of Wenger hilarious.

But it's actually an interesting idea now.

There's no way in hell the board sanction Ole signing £150m worth of new players to sack him 2 months later though

Probably but the transfer deals were pretty safe, any manager would use Maguire and AWB. The scary part would be letting Ole build the whole project. A guy without results and no history in management given the keys to build a team?

Disaster in the making.
 

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Wenger had huge issues at Arsenal getting his players to play properly. I'm not sure he'll be successful here either. Now if he drops the senior players and focuses on developing youth, there could be some value in that.
Yea that is the plan. I see no future for Matic, Mata, Young at United. Let Wenger focus on developing and implementing his philosophy into our younger players than have a manager that emphasizes a possession based philosophy like Poch take over next season.
 

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At least give ole a couple of transfer windows. Our best players so far this season are ones he has brought in. Our so called best player doesn't want to be here. Give him a creative dynamic midfielder and goalscorer. Automatically we improve. Other positions obviously needed strengthened as well but those 2 are urgent requirements.
The tactics look non existent to me, add Messi in that #10 role Ole insists on playing he’d do nothing.

It’s really strange, the players generally look like they aren’t being coached. There’s absolutely nothing there.
 

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We should see if Pellegrini would be willing, should we decide that we need caretaker manager.
 

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Yea that is the plan. I see no future for Matic, Mata, Young at United. Let Wenger focus on developing and implementing his philosophy into our younger players than have a manager that emphasizes a possession based philosophy like Poch take over next season.
Does Poch's current situation with Spurs not concern you at all?
 

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I think we have to stick with him unless things get worse, even though it is really bad at the moment.
 

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19 points in 20 games is unacceptable for any club with standards.
That's where the problem lies. We don't have any standards anymore, we simply don't. No standards from the club nor fans. We are just drifting into mediocrity, slowly and steady. We are lowering our expectations every year. Half of our fans would be happy with TOP 10 finish as long as they see the manager who smiles and talks about "United way" in charge. If you expect something better, like ability to play some decent football once in a while or score 2 goals in 1 match (how cool would that be?), you are immediately called an entitled gloryhunter because apparently it takes 10 transfer windows and £500m spent to be able to do that. Of course, any manager deserves at least that, no matter that we get worse and worse each match.
 

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Does Poch's current situation with Spurs not concern you at all?
Nah not at all. It is the end of a cycle. He needs a new objective. Klopp was as bad or even worse at his last season at Dortmund. Now Klopp is the best manager in the world. We all know Poch has that capacity to be the best and all it takes is a club that doesn’t restrict him economically. Let Poch rebuild United similar to the way he rebuilt Spurs, but instead of top four as his goal, a title winning team and the best team in Europe instead.

Ole has not improved none of our players. The best thing Ole can do is use his Norwegian connection to get Håland at United and let Pochettino develop him into the next Kane.