Solskjær sack watch | 2019/20 edition

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Dead man walking after that, let's just do it now instead of prolonging the inevitable.
 

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Why is there nothing in the media about him being under pressure or nothing, surely he is out if we lose to spurs and city ?

Media and commentators and fans were going crazy on Mou this time last year, I don't get it. If Ole has so many fooled he really should go into politics because he has shown nothing on the field to justify him keeping the job
That's because the decision to sack him is made in Tampa not in Manchester. As soon as Woodward gets the instruction he will leak it like he did with Moyes and Van Gaal. If you remember correctly, Moyes never seemed under pressure at all and when he got the sack he was busy preparing for the summer transfer window.
 

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Do you think the board would really get away from what they have been doing for years and follow the “buy british players who care about the club” strategy just on Ole’s advice? Don’t you think it is ridiculous for a manager that has done nothing during his entire carreer to have the soft power necessary to completely change our recruitment strategy all by himself?

Removing Ole at this stage doesn’t fix anything.
You have a better manager and keeping him is only creating more problems not fixing anything.

They have the job to a manager who’d done nothing so if they were prepared to do that then it makes sense they’d listen to him. I really don’t think ex players are influencing our transfers.
 

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I don't think so. How do you prove obvious and genuine potential. Liverpool fired Rodgers who became sort of a laughing stock and got Klopp after getting fired from Dortmund.
By using ones eyes and mind. I've always maintained that Rodgers was underrated. It didn't end well for him at Liverpool but he clearly did a very good job (I've said so for awhile) at Liverpool and building their team and eventually coming close winning the premier league. Whatever the results were at different times, he did some strong work at that football club. It's only the fickle crowd who felt he was some sort of fraud.

Ole is different. I can't see the potential and just sticking with someone like that isn't going to reap any rewards. Time doesn't magically make you great just like players who weren't good enough for the football club remained so, until they were discarded. Patience is directly correlated to potential /ability. As I said before you have patience in Greenwood not Keiron Richardson just like you do in Klopp not Ole. 1 year in and he's got were terribly coached. No coherent system or improvement. This is NOT his level.
 

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That's because the decision to sack him is made in Tampa not in Manchester. As soon as Woodward gets the instruction he will leak it like he did with Moyes and Van Gaal. If you remember correctly, Moyes never seemed under pressure at all and when he got the sack he was busy preparing for the summer transfer window.
I don't know. With the others I felt they were dead men walking. With Ole I'm not hearing the noise one should hear at this stage.
 

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I don't know. With the others I felt they were dead men walking. With Ole I'm not hearing the noise one should hear at this stage.
Ole is their perfect manager - reduced expectations and won't rock the boat because he can't believe his luck he is in the job. Only a relegation battle will get rid of him because there is still a huge section of the fanbase who won't hear a word said about him.
 

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Ole is their perfect manager - reduced expectations and won't rock the boat because he can't believe his luck he is in the job. Only a relegation battle will get rid of him because there is still a huge section of the fanbase who won't hear a word said about him.
This is nonsense, if Man Utd wins, the owners win.
 

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I don't know. With the others I felt they were dead men walking. With Ole I'm not hearing the noise one should hear at this stage.
I could be wrong but I think there were no noises when Van Gaal and Moyes got sacked, it was leaked just 24 hrs or so before but I think both men were shocked to be sacked. Especially with Moyes, the consensus was that he had a six year deal and this club would never sack a manager so early.

The reality is only Avram and Joel Glazer know what will happen, Woodward is just given an instruction to execute. This will happen with Ole, I think the decision to get rid has already been made but maybe the timing of it all.

After all they have sold this long term project B.S so they have to find suitable circumstances where it would be easy to spin. A very bad defeat at the hands of either Spurs or City or from both could be the moment they need especially with the added spice of Jose handing it to us at OT.
 

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Ole is their perfect manager - reduced expectations and won't rock the boat because he can't believe his luck he is in the job. Only a relegation battle will get rid of him because there is still a huge section of the fanbase who won't hear a word said about him.
Who are they?
 

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The decision making at our club makes me want to cry and punch a wall at the same time. There are things which are so obvious but fecking Woodward and the Glazers are unable to do. Why don't they realize that sacking managers would make them look bad for a couple of weeks but if the new manager has a quick impact, they would be themselves in a better position. Watching this shower of shit is a lose-lose scenario for everyone associated with the club. Except Ole.
 

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I could be wrong but I think there were no noises when Van Gaal and Moyes got sacked, it was leaked just 24 hrs or so before but I think both men were shocked to be sacked. Especially with Moyes, the consensus was that he had a six year deal and this club would never sack a manager so early.

The reality is only Avram and Joel Glazer know what will happen, Woodward is just given an instruction to execute. This will happen with Ole, I think the decision to get rid has already been made but maybe the timing of it all.

After all they have sold this long term project B.S so they have to find suitable circumstances where it would be easy to spin. A very bad defeat at the hands of either Spurs or City or from both could be the moment they need especially with the added spice of Jose handing it to us at OT.
There were solid rumors around December that LVG had been sacked and replaced by Mourinho. He went on for another 6 months.

Don't remember for Moyes except that I used to pray every morning for his sacking and it felt like a burden had been lifted of my head once he was sacked.

I genuinely believe if we were to compile our top 10 moments post Fergie, 3 of them would be the days the managers were sacked.
 

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There were solid rumors around December that LVG had been sacked and replaced by Mourinho. He went on for another 6 months.

Don't remember for Moyes except that I used to pray every morning for his sacking and it felt like a burden had been lifted of my head once he was sacked.

I genuinely believe if we were to compile our top 10 moments post Fergie, 3 of them would be the days the managers were sacked.
I definitely remember several rumors of us being linked to LVG prior to Moyes getting sacked. I think they were all coming from non English sources though.
 

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Usually under Ole after a terrible performance (there's been many) the morning after I've not felt a sense a sacking is near, I do now, I feel it in my bones.

But maybe I just need to put the heating on.
 

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Just get rid, he's becoming more of a joke with every presser. When you come out with " I think there's loads of evidence these boys are closer to winning games rather than losing games" oh really would that be the 8 minute purple patch at Bramhall Lane after the previous 70 mins of dog toffee or maybe he meant the 2nd half yesterday?? Moyesesque kind of verbal diarrhoea.
 

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if I was Woodward now I’d get Poch locked down and announce it publicly that he is to replace Ole in summer who will move into an ambassadorial role.

might be a bit shit for Ole but it addresses the elephant in the room and lifts the pressure for the rest of the season which is a bit of a write off anyway (or at least will be by the end of December)

it also gives a slightly more dignified send off to a club legend than sacking him after a slow motion train wreck of a season.

might lift the players a bit as well to know that the current situation is temporary and they can play with more freedom as per his caretaker stint.
 

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Usually under Ole after a terrible performance (there's been many) the morning after I've not felt a sense a sacking is near, I do now, I feel it in my bones.

But maybe I just need to put the heating on.
He;s got loads of friends in the media, so they are going to do their utmost to go easy on him, so you won't see a multitude of big back page headlines, it's more blame the players and business as usual attitude

Already seen several big articles citing how much the players are letting the team down. They ripped Jose and LVG to shreds week in week out, but now the tone is always ''Poor Ole his hands are tied, young team,' needs to be backed'' Sir Alex had a slow start and other bs.

Honestly when this charlatan gets sacked, I will be popping open a big bottle of champagne and do a little jiggle dance with Glory Glory Man Utd blaring out of some Bosh speakers in celebration.
 
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Instead of Poch, I would prefer Brendan Rodgers. Apparently he has a clause in his contract, so should be possible to get him. Good football, gets results, know the league very well. Go get him Woody, and then sack yourself afterwards.
 

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Gone after the City game, after also being beaten by Spurs which makes it all the worse given it would be by the manager he replaced.
 

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He should have been sacked long time ago. But, he is an elite who has friends in media, and thus they have build a “fake” aura, hype about himself. He is so lucky to get the job, and even more luckier to remain in the job. Thats twice lucky.
 

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Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if we beat Spurs and Man City, then draw 1-1 at home to Everton then lose away to Watford

In regards to sacking Ole as soon as this week, who knows? For all we know Ole's time could have been up and Poch lined up before Poch even left Spurs.

Or Ole will still be here this time next year and we're in 10th place again, with a number of our terrible players at other clubs doing and playing extremely well.

Heard recently that there could be multiple universes as well as our own, how might one go about travelling there? We might have a young Alex Ferguson in one of them.
 

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Usually under Ole after a terrible performance (there's been many) the morning after I've not felt a sense a sacking is near, I do now, I feel it in my bones.

But maybe I just need to put the heating on.
No chance we sack him two days before another game. He’s here to stay. We’re fecked.
 

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Whilst I am still in the minority and wants Ole to see out the transfer window at least, with a hope of 2-3 players coming in (a man can dream, right?), I get the feeling he has blown his chance. A win yesterday would have kept the wolves from the door should we get beat by both Spurs and City (I think we will unless we get a midfield miracle), but I think this week has an inevitable outcome.

If they are going to sack him, then lets not give Jose or Pep the opportunity to gloat about it. Put him out of his misery before the game on Wednesday and lets just plough through the next 2 games with a caretaker - I don't see the point in prolonging the situation.

If they are sticking with Ole this week, then I suspect he is getting the transfer window to change things around, regardless of results this week, which would make me happy but only if the club is going to back him in the window - a CM and striker are an absolute minimum if we have any chances of making top 4.
 

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If he goes we can still save the season, 8 points behind Chelsea. Title is over 100%, 22 points behind Pool already, yes 22! Ole has a win %of 24% since he was made permanent. The worst in the league probably. The longer we leave it, the longer we prolong the crap. It is just propaganda from ex players keeping him in the role. Ole is clearly out of his depth, stupid tactics.
 

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If reports are true then the club has gone down the sewer, no standards whatsoever. At this rate we could be relegated in a couple of years.
 

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If he goes we can still save the season, 8 points behind Chelsea. Title is over 100%, 22 points behind Pool already, yes 22! Ole has a win %of 24% since he was made permanent. The worst in the league probably. The longer we leave it, the longer we prolong the crap. It is just propaganda from ex players keeping him in the role. Ole is clearly out of his depth, stupid tactics.
The title was over before the ball was kicked once. This squad was never going to be good enough to win the premier league.