Fire myself and bring back the Squidward
You've just been hired as the Director of football (DOF), what do you do?
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Give myself a pay rise and tell the fans to give me 4 years because that's how long its took for Klopp to turn Liverpool into what United used to be.
I would sack Ole, put Lingard and Lindelof on transfer list, do maximum possible to bring at least one striker even on loan (but better two), then I would start looking for CDM player and RW at top level.
I would start looking for players with more qualities than that they can can run (like James, Lingard, Pereira, McTominay), definitely hard working players but with brain and quality with the ball. We would go with 4/3/3 or 4/4/1 with just one defenisce midfielder and five ofensive players with different qualities. I would go for Bruno, but not for 60 mil. pounds.
I would start looking for players with more qualities than that they can can run (like James, Lingard, Pereira, McTominay), definitely hard working players but with brain and quality with the ball. We would go with 4/3/3 or 4/4/1 with just one defenisce midfielder and five ofensive players with different qualities. I would go for Bruno, but not for 60 mil. pounds.
I would look at it with 2 views
First Now till the enbd of the season and then long term
First what now. Let us assume we get everyone fit and we can buy 1 player at a reasonable price
I would buy Ziyech. Ajax are no longer in the CL and have promise that he can leave at a reasonable price
I would adopt different approches for home and away games
First home
Teams defend in mass against us and catch us on the break
Team
de Gea
Laird Maguire Shaw Williams
Fred Mac
Pogba
Ziyech Martial Rashford
Subs Gomes Garner Jmaes
Away
de Gea
AWB Maguire Shaw Williams
Fred Mac
Pogba
James Ziyech Rashford
We need solidity in defense
For the counter we need the speed of James
Long term
I have never been a fan of Maguire. He is an 80M carthorse. We luckily have a a gem in Mengi. Keep Maguire till he is ready
Mejbri could eventually replace Pogba. We need an attacking right sided player and a box to box midfielder with good defensive skills. I dont believe in a pure DM
We have never used one before and I dont see the need
First Now till the enbd of the season and then long term
First what now. Let us assume we get everyone fit and we can buy 1 player at a reasonable price
I would buy Ziyech. Ajax are no longer in the CL and have promise that he can leave at a reasonable price
I would adopt different approches for home and away games
First home
Teams defend in mass against us and catch us on the break
Team
de Gea
Laird Maguire Shaw Williams
Fred Mac
Pogba
Ziyech Martial Rashford
Subs Gomes Garner Jmaes
Away
de Gea
AWB Maguire Shaw Williams
Fred Mac
Pogba
James Ziyech Rashford
We need solidity in defense
For the counter we need the speed of James
Long term
I have never been a fan of Maguire. He is an 80M carthorse. We luckily have a a gem in Mengi. Keep Maguire till he is ready
Mejbri could eventually replace Pogba. We need an attacking right sided player and a box to box midfielder with good defensive skills. I dont believe in a pure DM
We have never used one before and I dont see the need
I would also make sure the following never played again for United
Jones
Lingaard
Pereira
Chong
Rojo
I also believe that Shaw's best position is LCB.
Jones
Lingaard
Pereira
Chong
Rojo
I also believe that Shaw's best position is LCB.
Feud with Woodward.
Sign a LB, CDM, CAM and CF.
Sell Shaw, Jones, Lingard and Mata
Sack myself and appoint Ole as Director of Football just to allow everyone to save face aslong as he hires Pochettino as Manager.
Pochettino with the current squad plus 4 new signings will guarantee top 4 and potentially challenge for the league.
Simple.
Sign a LB, CDM, CAM and CF.
Sell Shaw, Jones, Lingard and Mata
Sack myself and appoint Ole as Director of Football just to allow everyone to save face aslong as he hires Pochettino as Manager.
Pochettino with the current squad plus 4 new signings will guarantee top 4 and potentially challenge for the league.
Simple.
Sell Jones, Lingard, Lindelof and Pereira. Bring Smalling back immediately.
Do you want fans to tear down Old Trafford?
Declare CAF my advisory board. Rubber stamp the 6th post of each thread.
It would get a lot of social media clicks, and sponsors like that. I’m thinking in terms of what my employers are after.
First I would go to the medical/physio department and find out why we have so many injuries. If they can’t tell me, hire someone that can and do whatever it costs to sort that out.
Next up the data science team.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.li...46ZA3X3ZL44LT-sbro4LGjNYPJhdZ8rXNbpHbrQOWswaI
Go find out what our scouts do and fire our negotiation team. Get some new ones in.
Find out what coaching support Ole is getting. Hire and fire accordingly.
Start advertising Jones and Lingard. Melt down the new Lingard statue the previous DoF put up.
Next up the data science team.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.li...46ZA3X3ZL44LT-sbro4LGjNYPJhdZ8rXNbpHbrQOWswaI
Go find out what our scouts do and fire our negotiation team. Get some new ones in.
Find out what coaching support Ole is getting. Hire and fire accordingly.
Start advertising Jones and Lingard. Melt down the new Lingard statue the previous DoF put up.
Worth a try in that position, as Lindeloff/Maguire partnership looks flawed.
Brilliant! I especially enjoyed the Pogba bit.
Reset the wage bill.
Restructure the academy and swell it with players to commoditise it for future use.
Fix scouting network to only focus on the best 18/24 year old players with potential for growth into world class players.
Restructure the academy and swell it with players to commoditise it for future use.
Fix scouting network to only focus on the best 18/24 year old players with potential for growth into world class players.
I am afraid sponsors might not want their brand associated with the worst attacking player in United over the last 20 years or more. He has broken the wrong kind of records.
Just get VDS in.
Invest £100m per year in the youth system and scouting network instead of lining the pockets of agents for a couple of high profile transfers which seem to be ineffective anyhow.
Advantages
Better for the community, with more club interaction in the region
Successful players from the system are more likely to be loyal to the club
Lower acquisition costs for player
Fewer interactions withleeches agents trying to line their pockets when bringing players to us
Disadvantages
Mid table existence for 10 years
Fans want short term success, you may not last to see the fruits of your labour
Advantages
Better for the community, with more club interaction in the region
Successful players from the system are more likely to be loyal to the club
Lower acquisition costs for player
Fewer interactions with
Disadvantages
Mid table existence for 10 years
Fans want short term success, you may not last to see the fruits of your labour
Hire a director of football
Punch Ed Woodward, Joel Glazer and Avram Glazer in their faces. Resign. Take the first available flight to a non extradition country.
I know, but he has enough experience as CEO, football know-how, and United DNA in him to be able to do the job.
I would fire Ole and hire a female coach, to cause shock and diverge media's attention to some parallel debate, giving me time to think what to do, because i have no idea.
Find out what in the name of feck is going on. Exactly what kind of funding there is for transfers, Ole's plan and how hamstrung he considers himself currently. Everything else would be based on that.
Try an blag 6 months to earn a couple million quid then resign, citing the fact that I am completely unqualified for the job.
Then I'd probably spend a couple of weeks in Mexico with the mrs. Get into property maybe.
Then I'd probably spend a couple of weeks in Mexico with the mrs. Get into property maybe.
VDS is already the CEO of Ajax. Why would he take a director of football role at another club? If we hired VDS it would be to replace Woodward and that probably won't be happening in our lifetime.
The hope is that we could get VDS in to do the football side and leave Ed to do the sponsorship deals with combine harvester partners
Fecking resign, I couldn't be bothered trying to deal with that mess.
Good post. Something strange is going on with the amount of injuries this season. Ole claimed we were going to have the fittest squad in the league and then this is the end result? Someone or something is to blame and it needs sorting out. (Personally, I think the players trained too hard over the summer to be in peak fitness for August and started to burn out).
Same with transfer negotiations. We identified Haaland as a prime target and the deal fell through. Meanwhile he goes to Dortmund for €20m? Same with Fernandes. We’re willing to let him go over a few million euros? Something is wrong there too.
The only thing I would add is that I would sort the Pogba saga out once and for all. Either get him a new deal, or sell him for a kings ransom and be done with it.
Spend nothing until the summer, then sack Ole, hire Pochettino (if he'll come), give him total control over which players are bought or sold within whatever budget limits are set … then resign because there's nothing else that needs doing.
Kick Woody in the balls.
I think it really depends on whether or not Woodward is part of our future moving forward. Because it is easy to appoint someone for the sake of it and have him toe the line in accordance with the owners or CEO. I don't think we should appointment anyone if Woodward is going to remain as CEO. I'd rather he gets sacked and the club starts afresh with a new management team in place. Even if we appoint someone, Ole will need someone whom he can trust and that automatically means Woodward will eventually oppose him.
Because United are about 30 times the size of Ajax?
It is blind hope with no basis in the reality of what is happening with the club at the moment. I get that it is a hope, but Woodward hasn't given any sign at all of any inch of the structure of the club moving from a higher up corporate level. We've seen a stream of internal decisions that have galvanised this strategy. PR hires, endless leaking to the media, zero mid term strategy on managers and recruitment and pretty much separating out the academy restructure and promoting an internal hire without any actual resources to make structural change.
It's a lesser business role compared to the CEO, let alone that of your home town club. It would be like pursuing Bruno and then tabling a contract making him the kit man at United. You wouldn't just yell "United are about 30 times the size of Ajax! WHY ISNT HE SIGNING."
What I suggested in that post I made which utilised the full capabilities of XenForo 2.
Not my hope.... other people's.
I don't think VDS would leave and I don't think Ed would dilute his role.
In the short term:
-Set pieces
-Set pieces
-Set pieces
Attacking and defending. Hire the right consultant.
-Set pieces
-Set pieces
-Set pieces
Attacking and defending. Hire the right consultant.
Yeah, fair enough. Anyone who has worked in high corporate knows these things won't be changing any time soon.
Sign the contract. Drink the days away then hand in my resignation after two weeks and walk away with a tidy severance package.