Ole Sack Watch

Should we replace the manager ?

  • Yes - Its time to make a change

    Votes: 3,004 87.8%
  • No - Give him more time

    Votes: 449 13.1%

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Bebestation

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Weird. This is the reason that Ole stays, and will stay. Any "non-Utd DNA" manager comes with a certain solid percentage of the fans who just hate hate hate them. When times get tough, the percentage of hate reaches a level that it can't be ignored.
For Ole, there's always an underlayment of good will -- threads about "And Solskjaer has won it!" and how he's nice to the tea lady (when those other non-Utd managers were soooo mean). He can survive anything...blame will get shuffled off onto someone else, no matter how ridiculous.

Why would the club get rid of him? He's not totally incompetent. Fans like him, players like him (no real demands), he doesn't rock the boat.
But Hodgson wasn't exactly Liverpool was he like the original post said?
 

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Ofcourse, fans are important part. But i disagree that we accept mediocre status. I don't even think we are mediocre. Champions League and top 4 show that. Now, we haven't won title in a couple of years but that doesn't mean we are mediocre.


We don't have to tolerate everything. But we don't have to be Watford or some other club sacking managers 3-4 times a season.


A fan isn't meassured in how much you sing or how little you booo. A fan is a fan. I'm not a person that signs when I'm watching, that doesn't make me better och worse then any other fan.
A behemoth club like Manchester United is held and judged by different standards, we should be going for trophies and dominate teams, not just top four and barely win matches, and it’s not matter of entitlement, we are the most successful club in England, we dominated for decades, we are among the highest spenders in the sport, we don’t get judged the same way Brighton, Watford, etc do. We are mediocre, would Bayern, Real, City, Chelsea, etc be happy with top four and no trophies?
 

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I don't think its oppo posters who are pushing the number up. There are a small contingent who still have a nostalgic soft spot for a "United DNA" type manager. When you combine them with a number of Norweigian posters who are pro-Ole, along with a few oppos, you get the 15% number.
There are also some of us who just don't think sacking Ole right now is the best way forward, as I don't trust the hierarchy to replace him correctly, the squad is a bit of a mess in terms 7 million attackers and a weak midfield and some huge egos and contracts that probably won't be resolved until next summer. Plus i don't think the best managerial candidates will be available to them.

So sacking him now and bringing whoever we can get and have them limp through the season doesn't seem the best way forward in terms of the long term. So think we are better of waiting to let Ole go at the end of the season.
 

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AKA he's getting the season if it's the last thing Ed does :lol:

How a win against one of the poorest Spurs sides in a decade helps in any way shows how much expectations are on the floor now.

Meanwhile, Conte to Spurs and Emery to Newcastle means we might just have the worst coach out of all the bigger clubs in the league
This “United DNA” shite is an absolute myth and the quicker we move on from it the better.
 

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I fully expect us to miss out on top4 and end up sacking Ole at the end of the season. I don't think we'll get a new manager during the season if the board are dead set on one of Ten Hag, Poch, or Rodgers, whom I've listed in order of preference if it comes down to those 3.
The only possibility I can see that does not involve waiting until the end of the season is if Poch gets sacked for PSG bailing out of CL in the round of 16 or quarters.
 

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So we're actually choosing to basically operate with a manager on a game by game basis but wouldn't pull the plug for one of the best current coaches in the world because they are only worried about the long term?

Does anyone else see how that doesn't make any sense? "Hey guys the long term only matters (that way we can always talk about the future and trick fans into thinking we care about winning) but our manager is hanging on by a thread depending on the outcome of each game"
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
 

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I don't think its oppo posters who are pushing the number up. There are a small contingent who still have a nostalgic soft spot for a "United DNA" type manager. When you combine them with a number of Norweigian posters who are pro-Ole, along with a few oppos, you get the 15% number.
This post needs to be pinned in the thread. Spot on.
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
I'd say we have a 50% chance of it if Ole stays in charge. Because he's completely hands off in management it keeps certain players happy so if they go on a run of form at the right time we could finish top 4. That also allows us to go into awful runs of form, so it probably depends how long/when the two happen for the rest of the season. Also depends if Kane is actually just done with Spurs or if Conte can motivate him and the rest of the squad. Leicester/us/West Ham/Spurs/Arsenal will probably all occupy 4th at some point during the rest of the season, not sure who finishes there at the end.
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
Of course. Whatever the manifest limitations of Ole as a manager, the fact is that we have a squad crazy stacked with attacking talent, and that alone will win us plenty of games. If Spurs buy well in January and summer then next season could be a different story though.
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
I think we will. We have very good squad full of capable players to produce individual brilliance.

Especially now Ole revert back to defensive set up with 7 defensive players (probably 532) and in attacking third leave it to players like Ronaldo, Bruno, Cavani, Rashford, Greenwood and etc to produce their magic.

And we don't have other strong top 4 contender this season. Now, Conte is at Spurs and they may be the team to watch to challenge us for the last spot at Top 4.
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?

Yeah 100% I think we will finish in it and quite comfortably too come end of season.


One thing I can't get my head around is how defeatist people are. Ole not been great at all this season managing the squad, been bad actually, but I'm pretty confident he get us in there. He has been solid enough in that regard, and has built a squad very capable, besides struggling with it this season,

Mad way everyone is now pretending he's the worse manager alive.
 

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He left his last 2 jobs after falling out with the club and text his star striker at Chelsea telling him he was gone. He wins a few trophies, sure, but he does it in a very volatile way. Our board are on the stand for a lot of things, being wary and ultimately steering clear of conte isn’t one of those for me
Not really. He basically started a near decade of dominance at Juventus which continued for years and years after his departure. There was nothing volatile about that. The volatility at Chelsea is overrated. One not so good summer where the club themselves signed B-grade players he didnt want (and nobody should want) and a stint that involved a league + FA cup. He didn't do them any damage and won them trophies. At Inter he gave them a league title after ages and left them in a position ready to win many league titles. If the ownership decided to sell their best players, that's not really him being volatile.

Winning consistently while being confrontational (SAF was confrontational) vs winning feck all and being everybody's friend. Only one winner (the guy who actually wins).
 

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Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
Probably, because we have a gross amount of quality talent at our disposal. If the players decide they want to play for the badge, that should be enough to pull them through, assuming the league stays the way it is. However, if (and he probably will) Conte improves Spurs to any tangible degree, we are in trouble.

Either way, anything we do will be despite Ole. He's shown in the past 3 years that he's pretty much a non-factor in our games as he provides nothing in the way of tactical setup, training prep nor motivation for the team. Quite easily in the bottom 3 managers in the PL quality-wise and yet he's managing the biggest club in the PL. We have fallen far and the day the club as a whole realize this, it will be too late to claw our way back up.
 

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The irony is I think one of Conte or Rodgers will end up pipping Ole to it. Its the least we deserve tbh. Extra marks if its Moyes :lol:
Most likely. We will win the "Avoided the Scum Conte" trophy.
 

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Of course. Whatever the manifest limitations of Ole as a manager, the fact is that we have a squad crazy stacked with attacking talent, and that alone will win us plenty of games. If Spurs buy well in January and summer then next season could be a different story though.
I think we will. We have very good squad full of capable players to produce individual brilliance.

Especially now Ole revert back to defensive set up with 7 defensive players (probably 532) and in attacking third leave it to players like Ronaldo, Bruno, Cavani, Rashford, Greenwood and etc to produce their magic.

And we don't have other strong top 4 contender this season. Now, Conte is at Spurs and they may be the team to watch to challenge us for the last spot at Top 4.
Probably, because we have a gross amount of quality talent at our disposal. If the players decide they want to play for the badge, that should be enough to pull them through, assuming the league stays the way it is. However, if (and he probably will) Conte improves Spurs to any tangible degree, we are in trouble.

Either way, anything we do will be despite Ole. He's shown in the past 3 years that he's pretty much a non-factor in our games as he provides nothing in the way of tactical setup, training prep nor motivation for the team. Quite easily in the bottom 3 managers in the PL quality-wise and yet he's managing the biggest club in the PL. We have fallen far and the day the club as a whole realize this, it will be too late to claw our way back up.
So the common consensus is we are just hoping our attacking firepower somehow drags us to 75 pts.
 

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The fans are the most important part of any club and can drive change. Ours in large seem to accept mediocre status. That's fine if that is what you're into.
Can we do one with 'Self proclaimed Top Reds out'?
Agree with this completely but Viera shouldn’t be mentioned in there with the ‘struggling’ managers! He’s a great coach!

It is incredible that the biggest club in the PL and one of the richest clubs on Earth has somehow managed to employ easily the worst manager in the entire league.

It’s incredible really. Like… how?

How are people not losing their jobs over that?

Imagine being the richest guy in your city and driving around in an old Nissan Micra because your grandad won a rally in completely different type of Nissan 30 years ago…

It’s insanity.
Does anyone seriously think we can get the 4th spot in the league this season?
The irony is I think one of Conte or Rodgers will end up pipping Ole to it. Its the least we deserve tbh. Extra marks if its Moyes :lol:
Aaaaaahhhhhh…. The negativity…. Bathe in it. Revel in it.

I have switched to Ole out since the Leicester debacle, but I can’t support this kind of crap. People openly hoping we shit the bed vs Atalanta and City. The hyperbole in these posts is just alarming. Ole isn’t the long term solution for us, but I’d rather have him than half the managers in the league. Absolutely no nuance allowed here in the Caf. No gray area. You either are 100% for Ole or you are 100% for sacking him immediately and kicking him in the balls as he leaves.

If you want to call me a Top Red for injecting some common sense into this thread, so be it.
 
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@peridigm nailed it I think.

Poch getting sacked is surely the only thing that’ll get us anything other than a Darren Fletcher caretaker mid-season now.
I really do feel like Conte was their last possibility of getting a manager mid-season. Brenton would feck Leicester off too I guess, just as he did Celtic but that’d be fecking depressing.

Better to hope our squad can make up for the shortcomings of the coaching team and give us an exciting season regardless, and that the club then have the foresight to bring in a new guy regardless. At this point I really don’t think there’s a single option that’ll excite if we lose tonight and get twatted by City so be careful what you wish for I guess :(
 

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I just feel resigned that he's here for a while now. Not even upset about it, I'm almost beyond caring at this point. If the club doesn't care, why should I?
 

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since Ole became manager of Man Utd
these clubs had
3 manager at Barcelona
3 managers at Real Madrid
3 managers at Tottenham
3 managers at Juventus
2 managers at Chelsea
2 managers at Munich
2 managers a Arsenal
2 managers at Inter Milan
1 manager at PSG
They won totally 27 titles
while Ole won zero.
 

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A behemoth club like Manchester United is held and judged by different standards, we should be going for trophies and dominate teams, not just top four and barely win matches, and it’s not matter of entitlement, we are the most successful club in England, we dominated for decades, we are among the highest spenders in the sport, we don’t get judged the same way Brighton, Watford, etc do. We are mediocre, would Bayern, Real, City, Chelsea, etc be happy with top four and no trophies?
And we buy some of the worlds best players alongside producing them.
 

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I just feel resigned that he's here for a while now. Not even upset about it, I'm almost beyond caring at this point. If the club doesn't care, why should I?
Same. I cancelled BT sport today because who cares. We aren’t winning the CL this season. I’ll stream it or listen to the radio. The football is crap and we’re going nowhere with Ole.

Literally we’ve only got the FA cup to play for this season.
 

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We’ll beat City on Saturday and then lose to a Watford. That would be peak Ole.
 

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And we buy some of the worlds best players alongside producing them.
Yes! Our squad is as good as any of the top clubs in the world, too many sentimental people are quick to find excuses.. ultimately, this all falls on the board and the Glazers, true they spend, but they don’t know how to run a football club, and us fans have to deal with their shortcomings.
 

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Conte confirmed as Spurs manager so the field for a replacement has narrowed. Not sure who would come now if they do sack Ole. I would like ten Hag as he is Dutch and therefore will play good football. Also comes from a big club that have won the CL/European Cup four times so will understand the expectations and also won’t be carrying any ‘DNA’ baggage. Perhaps an interim manager until the summer as I can’t see Van der Sar letting him go mid season. I also have cancelled all my sports subscription to avoid the excessive drumming and noise at games plus the ‘punditry’ after each game. The pictures are better on the radio and I save £50 per month.
 

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With Conte joining Spurs, that now means that all of the current managers at the traditional 'Top 6' clubs in the division, all have at least one of the following trophies on their managerial CV's:
- Champions League
- Premier League
- FA Cup
- League Cup

...oh apart from Ole!!
 

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Hey everyone, I've kept all my subscriptions and still plan on watching the matches and rooting for victories, crazy I know...
 

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Same. I cancelled BT sport today because who cares. We aren’t winning the CL this season. I’ll stream it or listen to the radio. The football is crap and we’re going nowhere with Ole.

Literally we’ve only got the FA cup to play for this season.

I mean this in the nicest possible way, football is not for you, it would be in your best interest to take a step back from United.........and realise you are doing the fan stuff the wrong way.


God forsake we are only in the FA cup apparently............I could just imagine how nearly every other Fan of all the other clubs in English football would be looking at your type and laughing at what you think it is to support a team :lol:
 

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And we buy some of the worlds best players alongside producing them.
I love Ole. I love the few coaches who I'm familiar with but they are not up to it. Sorry. They're not good enough and may never be. Who would buy and own one of the nicest private jets you can buy but only hire a student rated pilot to fly it? Someone being paid billions to paint the plane with sponsorship logos and let it sit in a prime viewing spot?
 

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Aaaaaahhhhhh…. The negativity…. Bathe in it. Revel in it.

I have switched to Ole out since the Leicester debacle, but I can’t support this kind of crap. People openly hoping we shit the bed vs Atalanta and City. The hyperbole in these posts is just alarming. Ole isn’t the long term solution for us, but I’d rather have him than half the managers in the league. Absolutely no nuance allowed here in the Caf. No gray area. You either are 100% for Ole or you are 100% for sacking him immediately and kicking him in the balls as he leaves.

If you want to call me a Top Red for injecting some common sense into this thread, so be it.
Common sense :lol:
 

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Aaaaaahhhhhh…. The negativity…. Bathe in it. Revel in it.

I have switched to Ole out since the Leicester debacle, but I can’t support this kind of crap. People openly hoping we shit the bed vs Atalanta and City. The hyperbole in these posts is just alarming. Ole isn’t the long term solution for us, but I’d rather have him than half the managers in the league. Absolutely no nuance allowed here in the Caf. No gray area. You either are 100% for Ole or you are 100% for sacking him immediately and kicking him in the balls as he leaves.

If you want to call me a Top Red for injecting some common sense into this thread, so be it.
Any United fan talking about nuance after being smashed 5-0 in 50 minutes (could have been double figures if they kept going) at home by Liverpool and no trophy after 3 years of management is either deluded, a wum or a troll.

Absolutely ridiculous lack of standards and understanding of the level we should be competing at. You are exactly the reason why the Glazers can play around with United and feel they'd never catch any heat like at Barcelona or Real.
 
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