Indeed. But the biggest football club in the world is also an old boy's club that retreats to memories of its glory days more than a decade ago everytime there's a crisis. The United Way is apparently winging it with pals and occasionally striking jackpot with a last minute hurrah.
Emergency Board Meeting called to discuss the future of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
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Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Howard Nurse is slow news but he's reliable
Make your mind up lads.
I don't but I can see the board worried about it since CL money is their bottom line. That game will be the only thing they care about.
This your in the know thing or a general comment?
No idea if headline is true but the times is true gutter press these days, worse than the sun..
The Times are full of shit.
ps I hope ole goes tomorrow, i love the guy and this is painful watching him struggle and squirm. Out of his depth at this level from day 1
The Times are full of shit.
ps I hope ole goes tomorrow, i love the guy and this is painful watching him struggle and squirm. Out of his depth at this level from day 1
You feck
He has gotten a free ride for the majority of his tenure.
Sure working at United is a lot of pressure, as is working at any PL team. Why ridiculous? After all this even, and the man is still in a job.
Because it's Howard Nurse I'm assuming he's just found out about another emergency board meeting that occured last year.
What have you heard?
He's one of the small few I tend to rely on. Let's hope he's bang on tonight.
The board needs to resign first and foremost and then Ole goes alongside. They have been bumbling idiots over many years and decisions. Do we really have confidence in the board to make the right decision? If the Glazers had any business nous they should have questioned Woodward and his associates' many moons back.
That's more than possible
I actually like Simon Jordon but the lack of self-awareness when referring to Sky Sports as vultures while he is employed by Talksport is kinda funny
It’s obvious now, I feel we are just finding a replacement before it’s official
If they sack him tonight then what exactly was the point of keeping him over the international break? Every single time something needs to be done this lot of wankers just exacerbate the issue by prolonging it.
Nothing. His gone though. They are moving back to Norway.
They just waiting for answer. Rides over. Get off and buy another ticket
Agreed. He is annoying but I don’t tire of listening to him as contradictory as that sounds.
Boom!
According to Howson (SP) who clearly got great links with the club, there as no emergency board meeting at all. The club had already sacked Ole and are now discussing the severance package with Ole's agent. It makes sense really. Its very rare to have 2 emergency board meetings so close to one another on the same topic.
How do you know what they are moving back to Norway?
It's hardly rocket science. Howard Nurse is sitting on the fence in that tweet. I could have guessed the very same and most likely be correct.
The word "likely" is his get-out clause.
100% mate.
Everyone knows this Sultan but they never will. That's the problem.
haha
They either couldn't get far enough in negotiations with any new manager, or they assumed, probably like a lot of us, that we'd still be able to swat Watford away, however crap we'd been, and at least buy a bit of time.
It's really poor timing now, critical game up in a mere 3 days makes this all a bit messy to say the least.
We have to work out who is going to be sacked from the backgrounders and someone else will have to caretake us through at least Tuesday.
Knowing if we lose that we could technically have it out of our hands for the last game, even with a win.
They genuinely thought Ole could turn it around or felt that getting hammered by Liverpool and City at Old Trafford was fine.
Here are the possibilities:
1. Stick by Ole as Fergie says give him one last chance
2. Stick by Ole as there is no-one else
3. Sack Ole and give it to Neville, Keane, and Scholes
1 or 2 are equal certs. All the Glazers care about is revenue and will only be worried about the CL.
If they sack him I will be shocked.
1. Stick by Ole as Fergie says give him one last chance
2. Stick by Ole as there is no-one else
3. Sack Ole and give it to Neville, Keane, and Scholes
1 or 2 are equal certs. All the Glazers care about is revenue and will only be worried about the CL.
If they sack him I will be shocked.
Just let this be over with quick, eh? Bring in Zidane or that Ajax guy, or almost whoever but Rodgers
Well he’s not is he pal?
I get that, but it leads to another question. Last month the board briefed the press that Ole had three games to save his job, and yet it looks like we didn't have a backup plan in the works in case he got punted. Also considering how long it takes us to negotiate anything you'd think that big questions need to be asked about the effectiveness of our senior management to do anything.
Bleh, this whole thing is just yet another example of us being too slow and too useless to have contingencies in place, or even an overall strategy. I bet the business' Vision Statement is a half written sentence in crayon that says "Football make money good (revise before publication)".
Hearing ramblings of Fletcher/Carrick to take over as the interims until a replacement is found.
Rob Dawson from MEN specifically.
Rob Dawson from MEN specifically.
They also gave new contracts to the backroom staff. This knowing they would hardly be headhunted by other clubs.
The thought was a break would see memories fade. Under no circumstances we were meant to lose to Watford, you then battle against Chelsea & toss the coin against Arsenal.
I genuinely believe they’re shell shocked by just how bad things have been. The usual bounce back just hasn’t happened.
Maybe he’s gone to sign Griezmann?
because that’s where he’s from.
We can laugh but SAF to the end of the season would buy the time. The players would play for him and the shock factor alone would get him to the end of the season. Then hire Tag.
Griezmann told him.
Yeah he has and you’re right to point it out.
But it was always an easy thing to say -cheap talk and he always said, if Solskjaer proves me wrong I’ll hold my hands up.
We can all do that about any manager who hasn’t already proved himself a winner. He happened to be right, of course, but he deserves no credit for that. He does know a bit about the “mechanics” of running a football club, the “optics” of this and that, how to “peddle narratives” and people being “indexed” to, er, stuff. He’s a bag of wind but it can be fun to listen to him and I agree with him about our club’s shitty way.
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