Amazing how he’s escaped criticism from media and journos, any other manager and the media would be turning him into a laughing stock.
Don’t you know you need a squad full of world class players to beat Rochdale over 90 minutes, and to not lose to West Ham, Newcastle and Bournemouth?
Which is why they are still 4th in the Bundesliga unlike us who are in the bottom half.
They sacked him because the football was dire and Kovac has been tactically inept in every big game save the Spurs one. Yesterday's loss was the final straw that broke the camel's back. By the same token, LVG had a worser start and still managed to keep his job.
He was a super sub that scored a great goal. He wasn't a great player. History is being rewritten when it comes to Ole.
He has been a terrible manager but the 1-5 loss was the last straw. Anyway how you described Kovac doesn't differ much from our current clueless manager.
There's worse. Any team that's doing better than us apparently has a better squad or something.
Easy now. He's not a top manager, we can all agree on that. But changing formation against a far superior Liverpool side was the only sensible thing to do. Factor in the lack of options and we actually have an easier time of it fitting in a 532/352 formation. The midfield options are too limited so he's going with what he has. He should have bought 2 midfielders in the summer, Ed should have sanctioned deals. It didn't happen, so you go with what you've got. I'm not on the Ole train but he will always be loved.
Chelsea?
Yeah united need to be proactive like Bayern Munich and give Solskjaer 16 months.Meh, Bayern don't have a soul. And what is their long term plan? Sack managers every year? What that will bring to them? Titles, attacking football and what else? Nothing.
Shame on them, how can they not stick with their mediocre manager? Loyalty to a mediocre manager is much more important than titles and entertaining football.Meh, Bayern don't have a soul. And what is their long term plan? Sack managers every year? What that will bring to them? Titles, attacking football and what else? Nothing.
They just needed to give Kovac 5 more years and he would have turned to the new Jupp Heynckes. Idiots.Meh, Bayern don't have a soul. And what is their long term plan? Sack managers every year? What that will bring to them? Titles, attacking football and what else? Nothing.
So, go with two slow centre backs, two non-creative midfielders, and what, a false #10 (for what are they if not false #10s?). Whether we play 343 or 4231 or even 442, our attacking play is poor in all likelihood because we aren't coached well enough. His intentions are noble, his execution is off. Nothing insincere about that.
The idea of copying Sir Alex, hoping that mediocre Ole (the manager) will turnout to be Sir Alex 2.0
Agreed. Give it another year or 2. Ole will be gone, just be patient.
I don't care about intentions, only actions what matters in football. He is not good enough, full stop. He himself knows that, he is not stupid to think that he is a quality manager who can take us to the next level, he is here at the club because he is just buying time by saying we are in a process. He wants to sit on that chair as long as possible before the club sack him. I am very disappointed in him.
I don't know what's inside his mind any more than you do, but my hunch is that he believes he'll come good and things will fall into place. I assume most managers that get a job in a top league think like that. And many turn out to be off with their self-appraisal.
This sums up the shit storm we are in since the glaziers took over. No need to complicate the issue further.
Not many managers get parachuted at a top job like that. Usually former players get their trade straight away like Pep or Zidane.
And how do you know the shit performances we see are the players and not lack of coaching or suitable system? Lingard was a different player under LVG and had some effective moments under Mourinho. Pereira was always mediocre but Ole chose to keep him.
Ole is the problem that we can solve now. Why people do not want to accept that? We can not sit here watch the team sitting in the 10-15th positions for 11 weeks and do nothing when the first step we should do is sack the manager and put a temporary replacement till the end of the season if no good permanent option is available. We cant just sit here and cry about our squad that we cant do anything about until 2020.
What 5 years my friend? They sacked a manager who had won the double last season, had a 70% win rating and had lost only 8 matches in 65 in all competitions since the start of his tenure. We are still waiting for the invisible plan to manifest itself and for Longstaff and Rice to save our midfield.
If I'm wearing a rubbish pair of jeans and drop some ketchup on it, I'm not going to leave the ketchup and say "I look bad anyway this ketchup isnt the only problem". I would fix what I can there and then and wipe it off.
Still a good player and for many a legend because of that goal.
Moyes, LvG, Mourinho and now Ole have tried to work with this squad of players at some point. All very successful in their coaching at other clubs who failed to a certain extent with this group. There's certainly a debate to be had to say the players are simply not at the standard required to be successful at a club of United's stature. I'm not saying Ole is a brilliant coach, mind. Results and performances have not been great to suggest Ole has been successful. However, there's a lot of collectives going wrong at the club, and to point fingers exclusively at Ole is not right or fair.
No one told him to spend 80m on Maguire instead of paying for a midfielder or a forward after letting go of Fellaini, Herrera and Lukaku. He chose to reinforce the defense on the expense of both midfield and attack. It's his own problem.
Honestly don’t think so about the intelligence part.
That’s it for me. The squad is baaaaad, but he’s had it since December ‘18. He’s known our midfield options, he saw Fellaini and Herrera leave, Matic needing to be put out of his misery at the soonest opportunity. We can’t afford missteps like that, and his mistakes will need to be rectified by the next manager. It’s awful to witness it.
How about his sense for giving new contracts to the likes of Mata and Pereira?
