That defeat against. Newcastle put Ole on 17 points from his last 17 games. Jose got the boot having taken nine more points from the same number of games.
But getting rid of the manager will not fix our plunge into irrelevance as a club.
One comment from Ole that is REALLY scary hints at the poison that seems to remain even though it was thought we had got rid of that (wrongly) by removing Mourinho. He talked of having loads of players injured or " away".
"[Where are they?] That's the million dollar question, now, isn’t it? ."
What? So Ole doesnt know what is going on with missing players and is perhaps hinting at an attitude issue.
Pogba. Where is he, for instance. The player who wants to be elsewhere...is. Just not at another club, yet.
Pogba was poisonous in the dressing room under Jose and it seems those issues have not disappeared with a different manager.
Nor has the incompetent way our club is being run.
I asked a Newcastle fan whether he would rather have the Glazers or Mike Ashley as owner(s). He took a while before plumping for "neither". When pushed and only when pushed he went for the Glazers. An indictment of the Americans' disinterested attitude to our club.
Having said that...at least Mike Ashley was at the game.
Where we are as a club is we have too many big money players who are there for salaries, or dont want to be there, or just are not good enough.
We have a manager who will always be a legend, but is out of his depth. If we lack goals and Greenwood was seen as a solution for the departing Lukaku..what is the youngster doing on the bench? Bringing the consistently unimpressive Chong on to change the game is baffling...at least Gomes has shown us something. And shifting Tuanzebe from central defence out wide to accommodate Rojo after performing well for so long against Newcastle just blew my mind.
Add to that an executive that is wayward (Woodward) in his vision for the club outside the commercial side, and we are deeply in the mire.
I said before Mourinho was fired that that was not the answer. The only way this club can go forward is to get a man or men with a vision for the game who have the power to run the football side of the club without interference. Perhaps a director of football alongside a manager.
And we need to get rid of those players who do not want to be at the club. Pogba being at the head of the list.
And reset..yet again.
But getting rid of the manager will not fix our plunge into irrelevance as a club.
One comment from Ole that is REALLY scary hints at the poison that seems to remain even though it was thought we had got rid of that (wrongly) by removing Mourinho. He talked of having loads of players injured or " away".
"[Where are they?] That's the million dollar question, now, isn’t it? ."
What? So Ole doesnt know what is going on with missing players and is perhaps hinting at an attitude issue.
Pogba. Where is he, for instance. The player who wants to be elsewhere...is. Just not at another club, yet.
Pogba was poisonous in the dressing room under Jose and it seems those issues have not disappeared with a different manager.
Nor has the incompetent way our club is being run.
I asked a Newcastle fan whether he would rather have the Glazers or Mike Ashley as owner(s). He took a while before plumping for "neither". When pushed and only when pushed he went for the Glazers. An indictment of the Americans' disinterested attitude to our club.
Having said that...at least Mike Ashley was at the game.
Where we are as a club is we have too many big money players who are there for salaries, or dont want to be there, or just are not good enough.
We have a manager who will always be a legend, but is out of his depth. If we lack goals and Greenwood was seen as a solution for the departing Lukaku..what is the youngster doing on the bench? Bringing the consistently unimpressive Chong on to change the game is baffling...at least Gomes has shown us something. And shifting Tuanzebe from central defence out wide to accommodate Rojo after performing well for so long against Newcastle just blew my mind.
Add to that an executive that is wayward (Woodward) in his vision for the club outside the commercial side, and we are deeply in the mire.
I said before Mourinho was fired that that was not the answer. The only way this club can go forward is to get a man or men with a vision for the game who have the power to run the football side of the club without interference. Perhaps a director of football alongside a manager.
And we need to get rid of those players who do not want to be at the club. Pogba being at the head of the list.
And reset..yet again.
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