So what you’re saying is we need to be patient - because Ole is building a team that a new manager can then go on and win with....
but would it not also make sense to bring that ‘magnificent’ manager in now? Someone who can make the right tactics and subs etc? I don’t get your point of why the need to wait
Because there is a difference between a manager building a squad from scratch to fit his tactics and a manager coming to Manage a group of players whilst having the ability to buy a 20% extra players to adapt to his specific tactics.
For example, what did Van Gaal do? After Moyes failed so badly we went for a strong manager that could control and build his team from scratch. He sold everyone useful, he bought everyone he thought fit his philosophy. In his last season he was arguably successful to a small degree but his football was boring.
What happened next? We went for the manager 90% of our fans regarded as the manager who will guarantee us success (before anyone saw his faults). We ended up getting a manager that wanted to scrap all tactics and players bought in Van Gaal's period (Martial, Shaw, Sub version of Rashford, Blind, Depay, making the tactics revolve around Lukaku and Mkhitaryan etc buying Sanchez or CB'S like Bailly & Lindelof ).
The thing is for the last decade we have had no structure. We have managers come do as they wish at United and build United the way they dreamt it to me. This is partly because SAF was arguably a manager of United that had so much authority that he could build United as he wanted to; he wasnt just a manager like Conte or Sarri at Chelsea that picks and chooses his players for 3 years and calls it a day. So what happened when he left? We ended up with managers that had such a high authority to build United the way they wanted.
Now with Ole, we have an ex United player that knows elements of what bought success here at United under our best manager of all time. (Its well known that SAF's style of management was much different to building a team to transcript a bunch of tactics; which came partly from the assistant managers and he was a manager that focused on a wide variety of things like mentality, effort and man management). Ole knows the DNA of United, what is needed to be a player at United. He knows which ones are good enough in mentality even before they kick a damn football ( why he let go of Sanchez, Lukaku, Lingardz Dalot and so many more). He knows the type of competition he went through as a player (being a striker that competes with 3 others at the least) and if the players cant handle that they are not good enough (Martial Vs Shaw). The focus on the u23, the players bought for them but has a way to the first team if good enough. The players with leadership like Bruno, the less leader of Maguire yet still the captain of England, the possible targeting of Grealish the captain of Aston Villa etc (I'm sure we will snap up some captains from other clubs soon).
I could go on and on. What Ole knows is what United is. He isnt a title winning manager but the reason he is doing okay is because he is relying on building that United DNA first.
What we end up when Ole will no doubt be sacked is a good bunch of players, less deadwood, players that score last minute goals, players that run around like battery rabbits until the day they retire, we may get 2 players for every position or style off football (2 fullbacks for each position- one attacking and one defensive, 2 Box to Box midfielders, 2 AM, 2 strikers, 2 LW, 2 RWs etc).
What we then get is a balanced squad that is good enough for United but maybe not good enough for all the titles to be won by a specific tactic. That's when we go for a title winning manager who needs to add the finesse players that tactically suit him on top of the united players to go for the titles. If he wins the titles but fails in 4 years all the next manager has to do is decide which of the previous managers specifc players are not needed anymore before adding his own. The United DNA will be there rather than being able to be completely destroyed as we saw during Van Gaals and Mourinhos era when both regarded there to be a lack of players that were good enough to manage so ended up building the club to their views.