Ralf Rangnick | ex-interim manager | does anyone rate him?

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Why would it be similar? Because he has a similar complexion and similar accent?
Both of them were visionary managers with a clear plan on how they want to play. Both had periods of time in and out of football, are fun when speak about tactics.

Both have been seen as their colleagues as great teachers / tacticians.

Both young introducing youth and try to have more say about the whole structure of the club.

They do share planty of things.
 
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Hopefully when all the excitement wears off tomorrow, everyone can calm down a bit with the over-excitement of this appointment. The aim at the end of the season IMO is to make top 4, so all the talk about his philosophy, powerpoint slides and interviews is just that, talk. There was a similar excitement here when LVG was appointed and he actually was a world class manager at a point unlike RR.

I get why the mood is positive, I'm also happy with this appointment but we need to be realistic here. Top 4 will be a struggle as will the next round in the CL. His style of play sounds promising but that's all it is a style of play, there's no guarantee it will get us where we want to be. So let's just be patient and save the OTT praise for when he actually does start putting points on the table for us.
 

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I'm honestly more excited about the fecking two year consultancy. That's how entertaining football has been recently.
 

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I can't see Poch being our coach with Rangnick at the club. Poch has always craved power and hence Daniel Levy abandoned the DoF model to appease him.

Welcome to Manchester United, Adi Hutter
Mauricio Pochettino: I'm not in charge of transfers, maybe Spurs should change my job title
"Maybe the club need to change my title description, because my job now is to coach the team. It is not a question for me, it is a question for the club. Maybe the club are going to change my title description.

"Of course I am the boss, deciding the strategy to play, training, mentality, philosophy in my area, but in another area, I think I am the coach."
 

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Ten Hag is the disciple of Cruyff and the total football concept.
Thats what i thought which is why I'm asking: why do people think Rangnick's appointment makes it more likely we'll go for Ten Hag over say Poch, or any other manager? Seems like a complete leap in logic to me.
 

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I'm only speculating and using both Tottenham and PSG as a reference, it would be strange that Pochettino is said to want more power at both clubs and that it has nothing to do with him but the people he was working with. A few articles about his interest for United also suggested that the traditional manager role was a big plus, that role seemingly doesn't exist anymore since we now know that Murtough has the DOF role and can exercise his influence including when it comes to choosing the head coach.

My point is simply that there is a clear lack of consistency from all parts if Pochettino is actually the target and if Pochettino wants the job. Surely you can see that from the outside that inconsistency is obvious?
To me this seems to open the door to pure head coaches, guys that are happy and thrive in that role and don't have to be convinced that it is what they want.
But the problem is that he allegedly want that power, in theory and ideally you are right but it's not the case. Otherwise Pochettino would have no reason to want to leave PSG until the end of his contract, he would accept his role and do his job as a head coach.
This is what happened according to reports and Levy has since gone back to the model after sacking Poch and hiring Paratici.
Ok, agreed. But then let's turn it around. Which top club is there where Pochettino would have more power than at Manchester United and where he would not have to work under/alongside a DoF? Man United was the only exception left, really.

And adding to that, the newly introduced DoF structure might have been strengthened, or doubled down on, with Murtough bringing in Rangnick to support him, but it's still not that encoded into the club as it is at all other top clubs, isn't it?

By the way, I'm not saying that this means Pochettino can or will be hired, or Ten Hag wouldn't be. Just saying, Pochettino might agree to swallow the pill and it could work well.
 

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He's just a bit of German Bielsa, he's won fcuk all but for some reason he's thought of as some sort of footballing oracle.

Anyway, he's done some good work at smaller clubs, but that's all a totally different ball game to Utd. His relative success as a coach is more akin to Harry Redknapp that anyone else in England from what I can tell. Let's be honest nobody would be jumping up and down if he were hired by the club at any point in time.

I'm not jumping out of my skin thinking this is going to be some sort of miracle appointment. But it seems he does his best work behind the scenes. It'll at least be interesting to see how it turns out.
If he teaches us to press properly and play to a system he will be worth it. And the idea of him helping our future development by looking into our recruitment, academy and playing style, after the 6 months then I’m ecstatic. I’m not dreaming he’s the next Klopp but we’ve been so rudderless on and off the pitch that to me he’s the Messiah.
 

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WTF, I thought Phelan wasn't doing any coaching. He's just the coaching Phil Jones at this point.
He doesn't and apparently he wasn't being used as much recently which makes me question why the feck he was given a new contract not long ago.
 

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Do you watch us play?

From Tuesday



Been our most consistently pressing forward this season

He's played most of his senior football in Germany in a pressing system, pretty sure he'll be just fine and one of the players to benefit greatly from this..
Juan Mata, hang your head in shame!:D
 

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Thats what i thought which is why I'm asking: why do people think Rangnick's appointment makes it more likely we'll go for Ten Hag over say Poch, or any other manager? Seems like a complete leap in logic to me.
The only reason I can see that people are making that assumption is that Pochettino has seemed to want more control and this appointment brings in another person that would be above him, from a style of play Rangnick is not a fully perfect match for any likely successor although he is more in line with Pochettino than Ten Hag but the structural change probably works better for Ten Hag. You would hope that they have considered the impact of this appointment on their potential permanent targets.
 

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The feck were people expecting in regards to our coaches? Our new permanent manager will sort that out, no point in the interim overhauling the coaching situation just to face the same again in six months.
 

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So the old coaching staff will remain, but Ragnick will bring his own guy with him as well? Sounds okey to me, as long as they get out in the summer.
 

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Not too surprised that they could stay on. Hopefully the rumours about Rangnick bringing Kornetka are true though, in which case the old boys will have diminished roles as coaches and will follow Rangnick and Kornetka's lead
 

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Not too surprised that they could stay on. Hopefully the rumours about Rangnick bringing Kornetka are true though, in which case the old boys will have diminished roles as coaches and will follow Rangnick and Kornetka's lead
Exactly. Carrick and McKenna will benefit from this. They were both rushed along too quickly.
 

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Carrick and McKenna I can understand. WTF is the point of keeping Phelan on?
 

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Regarding the first question that's his problem. :D
And regarding the second question that's kind of the key point, would it be sensible for United to seriously go in that direction just to abandon or undermine it a bit more than a year later? Is that what a well run club would or should do?

If we assume that United is now well run, then i would be surprised by the appointment of Pochettino unless Pochettino accept the role of head coach without complaints. Also I don't know about ten Hag, I have no certitudes on who is going to be the main target, since it's the most common the club increased the pool of candidates.
 

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Not surprised our coaches are being kept on, and not too bothered either hearing that Ragnick is bringing his assistant. The permanent incoming manager will likely bring their own staff in this summer anyway.
 

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The feck were people expecting in regards to our coaches? Our new permanent manager will sort that out, no point in the interim overhauling the coaching situation just to face the same again in six months.
Exactly. It would be a nightmare trying to put together an entire temporary coaching staff. I don't think Rangnick is gonna be able to convince all his first choice people that they want to upend their lives to come work a 6 month gig.
 

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I'm delighted with this appointment. Interim Manager for six months, to give the club time to get the manager they really want, then two years to train the coaches and advise other guys who are relatively inexperienced in their roles. He's a real football visionary, and his knowledge, drive, expertise and experience is exactly what the club needs to modernise and progress.
 

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I get that we're not in a position to kick all of these guys out of the club but at least one of them should have left with Ole. How must Ole feel knowing that these four are equally responsible for the state we're in and yet he was the only one to be singled out?
 
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