People say he's an interim, but doesn't he have a deal for a consultancy role at the end of the 6 months? Hard to imagine he won't have an input in who will be the next manager. Who's to say he won't pass on what he's learned about the squad to whomever is taking over?
Exactly this. The consultancy stuff for two years is the main draw and reason we did this. The 6 month interim gig is basically assessing this bloated, disjointed squad that Solskjaer has constructed and then taking it from there when appointing the new guy.
Ralf is not on a 3 year permanent manager deal. I would understand peoples frustrations more if that was the case. Us going with him and not opting for the seemingly open goal that was Conte may represent a shift in direction at Utd, as Conte represents us sticking with our old ways like we did with Jose and LVG in my opinion. While we can’t definively say that Conte is over the hill at this point (like Jose and LVG were), Conte is very whiny and will throw his toys out of the pram if he doesn’t get his way, plus he doesn’t play the most easy on the eye football, and people complained like feck over this even when Jose was manager and we won games.
Opting for Ralf on the face of it seems like we’ve decided to try something different from what we’ve been doing previously. I have no idea whether it’s going to work but I’m glad we’re not the incarnate of ‘definition of insanity’ now. It could fail. It could be amazing. I wasn’t expecting Ralf to play orgasmic football at the drop of a hat like some people appear to have expected, but I hope towards the end of the season that I can see a system in place at worst… but then again Ralf is basically working with the squad Solskjaer built, which has a slow £80m centre back, a £50m right back who can’t attack, a £40m guy Solskjaer never used despite buying him and said guy is at the end of his tether by this point and has entrusted the limited McTominay and Fred to be his first choice central midfield, seeing that he has not bought any central midfielders other than the £40m guy who could be tried there.