I’m not saying you just go out blindly and pick someone off the street and give him time. For a long term model to succeed you obviously need sporting directors and other senior staff who know what they’re doing. That seems to be our biggest post SAF problem, but hopefully the new modern structure will mitigate that.
You make it sound like we’ve been very patient with our managers, but we’ve had, what, 5-7 in a little over 10 years depending on whether you include caretakers or not. That’s mostly due to inept decision making from the bosses, probably influenced by the expectations from fans that United must win next year. First they thought we could just replicate SAF even though there were so obvious structural problems, then they panicked seeking instant success with Mou and LVG, then they hired a former player mostly because of his link with us…
What we need is proper top level management with modern leadership and scouting who find a group of suitable candidates from which we pick the one best suited to implement his own style of play over time. Then we buy him players he wants for key positions and give him time to succeed.
With Tuchel I fear we get another one or two seasons manager. I think we need one who stays for a decade building success gradually.
Why are we the only club in the world that needs a 'long term' model to be successful? Why do we need gradual success instead of winning games today?
If we have the right structure in place behind the manager then they are responsible for the long term project, not the manager so it doesn't matter how long the manager gets. His job is to solely get the best out of the team he has at his disposal, not decide that he's responsible for a full squad overhaul because the players he currently has can't play to his style so he's going to force shitness on us for 3 years until he's brought his own players in, which it sounds like what you're advocating for in our next manager, which will ultimately lead us down the same path we've been going down for years now.
Lets be clear about a few things that need to happen for United to be successful moving forward, the manager in charge needs to win games now, not in 3 seasons time when he has his 'own players'. We will all have patience with whomever comes in as long as there is clear progress, not a shit load of excuses and bad decisions. The structure now in place need to be responsible for recruitment of players and managers moving forward so they can have a long term perspective on squad building.
Your point also doesn't make sense, what do you think the new structure are going to do? Just sit behind the manager and watch him feck up the squad with his own recruitment? Bringing in players he's coached before or from the same management group? Once you remove this responsibility from the manager you realise he's incredibly indispensable, he's not part of the long term planning unless he's winning and forcing the issue, or at least building towards something positive. Also, what happens if we give the wrong manager 10 years? How much damage would that do to the club? Backing someone for the sake of a fallacy like manager + time = SAF. There's not a single scenario where a manager should be given 10 years at United for the sake of it unless of course they're winning major titles regularly.
