You do, apparently?
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He's taken the Austria manager job and will work with us for 6 days a month
He never was to move upstairs. He always was to be a consultant.
What’s more important right now, this season or next season?
What exactly are you moaning about? A manager with two games left stating facts on a question he was asked directly about transfers? It's not even like he lied, everything he said was pretty much spot on.
Clearly you have an issue with simple comprehension if you derived from a post that said absolutely nothing about RR and top-four, that I somehow meant that
I think there's a lot to be said for this. If there are factions in the dressing room I think they are showing themselves now in the absence of a few faces. Makes you wonder how much different this season could have been if Rangnick had prioritised playing the players who were willing to work for him, instead of trying to accommodate the 'best' players.
Agreed. The scoreline at Arsenal flattered them massively. We were denied two penalties and the game turned on Bruno missing a penalty and Xhaka blasting one in when DeGea had to look around the shoulder of an offside player. However, as you say, its too little too late. We could've and should've done more in other games. Watford at home being a particular embarrassment, so many chances.
Right now, this season obviously. At least for Ralf Rangnick, whose job it is to lead the team in their last two games.
Jesus christ, saying its important we finish in the europa league because the winners get a cl spot and it could improve our uefa coefficient is stretching things. You could just as easily say finishing outside of the europa would give ten hag more time to work with the team and give us a better chance of fourth.
Wonder what his TOR will be. I can't see him involved in recruitment i.e. identifying players for example. But might help Murtough re-structure the scouting department.
That isn't an excuse at all let's be fair here. United isn't a school class room and plenty of Interim managers have went into clubs and had positive effects and success.
This is what I'm "moaning" about: Even without considering the still theoretical possibility of qualifying for the CL, those two games decide if we're playing in the Europa League, the Europa Conference League or not in Europe at all next season. Which will have a much bigger impact on United's future than getting some true stuff said (again) about the squad now rather than in three weeks. Managers generally, and wisely, attempt to keep the focus on the next game, especially if there are a lot of other things to talk about, which there obviously is in our case. His job in press conferences isn't to say things that are true and that we enjoy hearing.
The same Bruno who said we have nothing to play for against Liverpool?
Yeah, that was weird, true enough.
There's no such thing as a free hit for Manchester United. That's where you're wrong. United are the free hit. They are still targeted for the opposition, especially when teams come to OT.
No he wasn't. If that's what we wanted we would have kept Carrick. He was brought in to start the transition to high press and show the club was serious about it. That why ETH came. Short of relegation the results are immaterial.
The Greenwood news only broke at the very end of January (30th or 31st) didn't it?
Has Ralf or anyone at the club actually said this or is this another Caf myth?
Feck me!
I think it's a caf myth but the way Ralf speaks suggest he was of the understanding his job was to be a consultant, audit the club and fill the void until a manager comes in. So I can understand why people feel it's a likely scenario.
Hilarious take. On one hand, you say it’s a Caf myth, then you perpetuate it by saying the board had decided to write the season off.
It's something peddled by idiots
Not really. The fact that you think that just goes to how we are used to a complete lack of foresight and planning at this football club. You have to have plans in place right now to execute in the summer so that you aren't running around like listless fools come July with our supposed targets having been bagged by other clubs.
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The team yesterday really wasn't that different to what he's played in the last few months. The big change was Mata central and Bruno wide. All the other players have pretty consistently been in the team recently, though it's been fairly in and out for some of them
He has always been upfront about our need for a new striker. The one position he specifically name drops. I do find it funny how Rashford has become invisible. It's not Ralf's fault though because he's just too limited. He's a runner with pace and a sweet strike, that's it. No real tools to help proactive teams outside of indiscriminately spamming that sweet strike from every angle. An absolute disaster when asked to play a team game.
They haven't sabotaged anything, they have taken the opportunity to restructure the club while the team is in a state of transition.
Big fan of people on this thread regularly and blatantly making things up whenever they feel like it.
It's really simple even for a top red to understand. You convert to high press mid season with a bunch of obviously unsuitable players, you are not going to do that great. It's screamingly obvious. They brought in Ralf to start a transition process that they knew could no longer be postponed. Of course they might have hoped for top four. But there's no reason to think they could reasonably expected it.
Again, you are just making something up that hasn’t been backed up by a single credible source. Or even a bullshit source. This is a figment of your imagination and calling someone a top red doesn’t make you more intelligent.
Imagination and distortion of reality.
Yeah, quite. It took until the season was over before he thought "I like to effectively have no.10s on the wing in my system, maybe I should try Mata and Bruno and see if that helps to knit things together". I can't wait to finally have a decent manager in charge again.
From what I have seen publicly recruitment was never part of it. I feel it was more of a strategic plan for United. That's his forte.
Don’t disagree with you on the stock. I’m sure the institutional investors aren’t particularly pleased. Doesn’t mean they don’t want performance going forward.They haven't sabotaged anything, they have taken the opportunity to restructure the club while the team is in a state of transition.
The club not qualifying for the CL only hurts the footballing side of United, it barely touches the marketing side so no CL football, less transfer budget, less wages paid out. It doesn't make that much of a difference to the brand in the short term, it may over the long term but it won't next season.
And regarding the stock, it's piece of slow moving shit. It's moved sideways for 10 years, if you own it you aren't making money, in fact you're losing money due to inflation. You'd have to be a moron to buy it.
If they were serious about salvaging the season they would have bought a midfielder or a striker in January and backed Ralf.
