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

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He should do it. This consultancy role will be BS anyway. I doubt he'll have his say in any important or that his opinion will be of any importance.
 

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Rumours coming out of Austria that he’ll become their new national team coach. Announcement tomorrow.

Here’s the article in question:
https://kurier.at/sport/fussball/se...vor-verpflichtung-von-ralf-rangnick/401989865
Considering Ralf is slotted to work less than a week per month (according to reports so a bit dubious how accurate that really is, considering the role seemingly isnt even completely fleshed out), combining the two roles in periods should be more than manageable. That is if the role does in fact contain so few hours worked. Given the nature of "giving advice", its certainly something that can be spread out over long periods of time with less and more activity as needed.
 

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I mean, even if he takes it, his consultancy role is surely not going to get in the way of him taking a job at the Austria national team? He'll be on call like once a month or something for United so why can't he do both?

It's certainly a bit confusing when he talks about his role at the club and making it sound like its a big thing though
 

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Yeah not sure why he couldn't do both roles. Unless he just doesn't want to stay with us.
 

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IF this happens, it surely just points to what fans have known all along. That people's faces at the top may have changed, but the mindset driving the club certainly hasn't!
 

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Would all seem a bit pointless if he left after 6 months, the whole point of it was the 2 year consultancy afterward. Ultimately we could've had anyone stay to steer the ship.
 

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Doing both jobs ? That actually further proves that his consultancy role won't be of a big value to earn his full concentration.
 

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Good luck to him if it’s true. But surely he can carry out both roles anyway, especially as they’re not at the World Cup?
 

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Mates, let's not fall into the belief that United's future is in the trash without Ralf. I like Ralf and I hope he does serve in a consultancy role but we can somehow manage without him.
 

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Doing both jobs ? That actually further proves that his consultancy role won't be of a big value to earn his full concentration.
Tbh Ralf is 63 years old. I doubt he would have signed up in the first place if the consultancy role required his full concentration.
 

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It means nothing tangible has come out of the board.
Meaning if the board saw it fit to give him a genuine role it would have been with genuine compensation in tandem.

This is on the board not wanting his service rather than Ralf abandoning the sinking ship
 

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Ralfs just going to be a part-timer for us as I thought. It makes sense if him and Murtough supposedly read off the same hymn sheet, and if Paul Mitchell comes in then Ralf isn’t really needed for the day-to-day that people may want him to be, since there’s two guys who will do things he‘d do anyway.

Let’s not forget Ralf is in his mid-60s and probably wants something less stressful at this point, and nothing says a retirement job like an international job for a country like Austria (which is close to home for him) and then going into Manchester a few days a month.

I personally think he’ll become less active as time goes on. You could probably say it’ll take those two years that he has with us before we’ve caught up with everyone else in terms of how the club hierarchy is run.
 

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Ralfs just going to be a part-timer for us as I thought. It makes sense if him and Murtough supposedly read off the same hymn sheet, and if Paul Mitchell comes in then Ralf isn’t really needed for the day-to-day that people may want him to be, since there’s two guys who will do things he‘d do anyway.

Let’s not forget Ralf is in his mid-60s and probably wants something less stressful at this point, and nothing says a retirement job like an international job for a country like Austria (which is close to home for him) and then going into Manchester a few days a month.

I personally think he’ll become less active as time goes on. You could probably say it’ll take those two years that he has with us before we’ve caught up with everyone else in terms of how the club hierarchy is run.
Zoom meetings ftw.
 

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If he’s only going to work about 6 days a month for us then i imagine he won’t be impacted by this
 

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Bit puzzling that anyone would look at the job he's done as interim here and think he'd make a great coach for their team. His talents are clearly better suited to sitting behind a desk.
 

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Considering Ralf is slotted to work less than a week per month (according to reports so a bit dubious how accurate that really is, considering the role seemingly isnt even completely fleshed out), combining the two roles in periods should be more than manageable. That is if the role does in fact contain so few hours worked. Given the nature of "giving advice", its certainly something that can be spread out over long periods of time with less and more activity as needed.

As I thought then.

 

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He was never (unfortunately) going to be doing a full-time role here. If he was taking on a club management position then there would be an issue and he wouldn't really be able to continue with a consultancy role, but managing a national team should be fine.
 

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Bit puzzling that anyone would look at the job he's done as interim here and think he'd make a great coach for their team. His talents are clearly better suited to sitting behind a desk.
Well Chelsea/AC Milan wanted him.

I think it’s our lads not wanting to follow instructions
 

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We brought him in for a consultancy role, his role as a interim manager has been subpar and potentially cost us the top 4, that would have been mitigated had he had stayed and help us get a modern system in place.
But now he's just buggering off without even having started his job.
 

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IF this happens, it surely just points to what fans have known all along. That people's faces at the top may have changed, but the mindset driving the club certainly hasn't!
Why? The consultancy only ever was going to be a minor role to make up for the contract he had in Moscow. He can still phone it in. Nothing about it has to do with the mindset of your club.
 

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We brought him in for a consultancy role, his role as a interim manager has been subpar and potentially cost us the top 4, that would have been mitigated had he had stayed and help us get a modern system in place.
But now he's just buggering off without even having started his job.
he isn't though

it's a part-time consultancy gig and can easily be done alongside his new role
 

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You missed out the part where he said not all managers do this. So it isn't common in Germany at all. Reading comprehension not your strongest attribute then?

It reeks of amateurism and lack of control over the squad.

The manager picks the fecking captain. End of story.
Probably reading into his wording a bit much. Most managers will clearly see who is the leader in the dressing room and will have a select few senior players they really trust. In that sense ‘the dressing room’ almost creates its own leader but he’s not setting up an anonymous poll for them to vote ffs.
 
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