I think it's only at United that a fair chance is 4 or 6 years. It's not like that any other top club in the world. We had Saf for 26 years and in 20 of them we were incredibly succesfull. It's never going to happen again.
We are going to continue in being left behind if we stick with bang average managers. Moyes got a 6 year contract. I'm sure he had a vision, but he wasnt allowed more time because our results were terrible. Ole's results are even more terrible. You have earn time by visible improvement and merit by past achievements.
Klopp was excatly ideal for Liverpool because he proved that he could turn a midtable Dortmund into one the best in the world without spending loads of money. SAF work with Aberdeen was world class.
We have nothing to go by with Ole. Our results this season are dreadfull and I don't think being a winner of the norwegian league is much of a qualification to manage Man UTd.
Do you not see how bad our squad was when Ole took over? How many do you miss from Fellaini, Herrera, Sanchez, Darmian, Lukaku, Smalling, Valencia, Young and Rojo? We'd only brought in 2 players plus a cheap kid from the championship until last week, how the hell is Ole supposed to get a tune out of the youngest playing squad in the league, with an obvious lack of talent and a string of key injuries? Comparing the situation he inherited, with that of Moyes is a joke.
The squad needed a major rebuild and to do that, on the limited budget the Glazers were prepared to let go of, required sales before purchases. To lower the wage bill and shift the players who have clearly proven not good enough under successive 'successful' managers.
Under our board, Klopp would have been labelled a failure after his first season and he would not have been allowed the expensive purchases he required to get to the next level.
For me and many others here, it's not set that we want Ole for 4 or 6 years at all. I think you're making that bit up. What we do want, now that he has the job, is to see what he can achieve with a properly balanced and talented squad. We are probably now only 3/4 good signings away from achieving that so hopefully we can get those in the summer and then he gets until christmas time next year to prove if he is good enough to stay.
Having said all that, if Pochettino had won a few trophies before, or there was another obviously outstanding candidate willing to come here, then I'd be quite happy with that too. I'm not taking a dogmatic support Ole at all costs approach. But having watched the obvious mistakes of each of our last 4 managers when they've come in(yes, Ole included) I feel that as much as possible, we need some managerial stability while the squad is rebuilt.