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An apt description yes
Well we don’t know that, throwing Players who aren’t ready into teams that aren’t performing very very rarely ends well for either party.
England. 2-3. Croatia.
This whole thing about knowing the club. He was here for little more than two years. Twenty one years ago. What does he know? A shortcut to Old Trafford? The best canteen at Carrington for lunch?
The right appointment I think
In the PL you have pep, klopp, conte and tuchel quite possibly the world's top 4 coaches. No matter who comes in it will be a mammoth task to top all of those. Our best bet therefore was the next big thing and that's probably this guy right, what with naglesman at bayern already.
Hopefully he's special, he'll need to be
In the PL you have pep, klopp, conte and tuchel quite possibly the world's top 4 coaches. No matter who comes in it will be a mammoth task to top all of those. Our best bet therefore was the next big thing and that's probably this guy right, what with naglesman at bayern already.
Hopefully he's special, he'll need to be
I had hoped for more tbh, but given our squad I don't think even Pep would have gotten much more out of this season.
We need to clear house, way to many passengers.
It’s vital. In two years none of those could even still be in the league so we have a head start in building for that future. I can see Liverpool and City struggle for a bit after losing such enormous managers but it’s no good to us if we are fighting in 5th. Fail to catch up then and it’s another cycle in the wilderness
So..if tuchel becomes available..does he still become the number 1? He is underperforming in the league(after spending so much and wasted 90 on lukaku) and now real Madrid is having them for breakfast. A team that psg made look average last round.
He was right in that regard. He still played him a lot though. Where he was most certainly not right was deciding that the ideal "main centre forward" would be Lukaku
His rotation of Rashford and Martial on the left was obviously not ideal, but it worked reasonably well in his second season. What really buggered it up was signing Sanchez and playing him on the left as well.
Perisic did do well after United vetoed him, so I'm happy to concede that maybe Jose was right in that instance. What the latter's fanboys are less keen to shout about is all the expensive duds he landed us with. It's hardly surprising the board, in an extraordinary moment of lucidity, began to question his judgement.
Would rather have a Ferrari.
5+1. The United way!
It's risky but I've been going on about how disappointed I am at this side's technical quality for years now, especially in keeping possession and dominating games and if this manager can help us move on from the more pragmatic style we've had in Jose, Ole and in some respects Ralf, then i'm all for it.
I would love to see a United side play with energy and one that keeps the ball well and dominates games. Obviously it takes awhile but hopefully we'll finally move on from this underdog mentality in big games too. Really hope Erik is the guy to help us do this.
I would love to see a United side play with energy and one that keeps the ball well and dominates games. Obviously it takes awhile but hopefully we'll finally move on from this underdog mentality in big games too. Really hope Erik is the guy to help us do this.
You were right to be sceptical this winter but that's not a slight against Rangnick. He walked into an impossible task, & has been neatured since day one here.
How about Ten Hag's results in the CL with a team from the '6th strongest league' in Europe? Whilst we've struggled vs every opponent every time we're in it?
Ten Hag will have an enormous, enormous job ahead. I don't trust this club to give him the backing he needs to he honest.
Read some reports of him saying it will take five years to get us challenging again and quite a few people saying five years in this thread too....five years?
I know challenging next season is unlikely even signing all the right players and moving the right ones on, which wont happen, but five years?
If we made two good signings each season if not including the DeGea just outfield players, we would have a band new eleven in five years. Xavi with little management experience has come into a struggling Barca side that is virtually bankrupt and transformed them in months. Klopp came into a Liverpool side who were doing no better than us where the star players were ageing or wanting to move on and took less than three seasons.
This isnt the mid 80s where Ferguson took over United and took a good five years to get us challenging, no manager in the modern game gets that long at a top club to get them "challenging".
I dont know much about Ten Hag in all honesty, I dont think the right manager is out there at the moment. Hopefully he does really well here but just a gut feeling from all the comments I am reading on him. My initial thought is people seem obsessed with his playing style and coaching and brand of football or "a project" as seems to be the modern phrase, when that doesnt solve our problems, we need a real man manager who is ruthless as well, not sure I sense that from Ten Hag though dont know much about him
This is the first manager that we’ve appointed that was our initial first choice and available, before other clubs swooped in.
So it's done? I kinda think we should have gone for him in 2018 instead of ole but hopefully he makes things right.
I’m so Erekt Hen Tag right now.
My only concern with ETH is how he's going to adapt from having really good technical footballers to having the likes of Maguire, AWB and Fred. I'd love to see us play like his Ajax side but we just don't have the players 
I know this sounds like fence sitting but oh well...
This could be stroke of genius appointment or complete egg on face moment. I just hope it's been thought about and he gets time even if he fails for top 4 in first year.
We need to start appointing managers with a philosophy, with a clear identity.
I just worry the patience won't be there or he just turns out to be the wrong one.
Ajax and Man Utd are very different beasts
This could be stroke of genius appointment or complete egg on face moment. I just hope it's been thought about and he gets time even if he fails for top 4 in first year.
We need to start appointing managers with a philosophy, with a clear identity.
I just worry the patience won't be there or he just turns out to be the wrong one.
Ajax and Man Utd are very different beasts
Could say that about most managers post Sir Alex. 5-10 too late.
Feel better about this though. Get in!
He'll get backed, certainly very well in this first summer window. We spunk money for fun, he'll get plenty to play with. Not worried. Will we spend it well though? That's the bigger question.
That would have been a truly mental appointment back then. Much rather be hiring him now than then.
It doesn't feel like they'll be any inbetween with this one, he'll either be brilliant or a complete walking disaster
He's going to have to work and adapt fast to the league.My only concern with ETH is how he's going to adapt from having really good technical footballers to having the likes of Maguire, AWB and Fred. I'd love to see us play like his Ajax side but we just don't have the players
It's more a question of wise spending, recruitment and overall operational functionality. He's going to work with the same personell save Fletcher who've been part of failed regimes
You just don't seem to want this to work though, do you? Constantly looking for the most negative of angle.
Maguire is pretty much the same as BlindMy only concern with ETH is how he's going to adapt from having really good technical footballers to having the likes of Maguire, AWB and Fred. I'd love to see us play like his Ajax side but we just don't have the players
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If the reports are true that he said it will take 5 years for him to make us "challenging" for a title, then how did he ace his managerial interview? Most top manager will take 2-3 season and if they had the same resource as our last manager, it will take 2 season. Unless they said that they will not back ETH and he will have the same budget as spurs, even then 5 years is a bad estimation. We already have a good foundation and it shouldn't take to long for him to have us challenging.
Rumor has it he is super brutal and doesn't accept poor performances and has a very clear vision on what he demands. Might surprise us if they hold true.
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That's what you think. I've mentioned this already. The same applies to anyone else taking the helm. I'm ready for Ten Hag if he's indeed the clubs choice but there's a long and tough road ahead with the same people in different roles at the club in the operational hierarchy
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The real concern is about how he approaches the job. If he comes in like 2003 Mourinho with a high self confidence and conviction in his principles, forces players to buy into his way from day 1, he could be transformative for the club.My only concern with ETH is how he's going to adapt from having really good technical footballers to having the likes of Maguire, AWB and Fred. I'd love to see us play like his Ajax side but we just don't have the players
If he instead approaches the job like Moyes did in 2013 thinking getting the job in itself is an achievement and an end game, the players are going to walk all over him.
I hope he’s ambitious and determined to succeed one way or another.
Nonsense. You can't go from 9 years of rubbish to beating unstoppable teams like City and Liverpool to the title within 2 years. 5 years would be a sensible estimate
Higginbotham has nailed that to be fair.
Is this legit or another windup?
Please tell me this is real. King Eric the 2nd hath come
Please tell me this is real. King Eric the 2nd hath come
The blessing in disguise is that half the squad are out of contract or want to leave anyway, he might be the first manager since LVG who's not walking into a squad full of deadwood (ok they'll still be a few but not as many as we've had in the past)
He’s 4 points clear after winning 22 of his teams 28 games this season, what an absolutely bizarre thing to nit pick about.
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