He had a big squad that had finished 2nd
@bosnian_red just months before he came in, the squad he has now is 100% on him.
Tell me
seriously, would you be backing Neil Warnock if he'd come in and gutted the squad like this, made all the same decisions etc? If we fail to win tonight against fecking Burnley at home, Ole has a PL win-rate of 37% for this season. Read it again man, 37%.
So you think it was entirely his decision to sell everyone and chose not to sign anyone? Not a fecking chance. So many times he said one thing of like how if we sell we're going to have to replace... only to then just replace everyone with youth players because the board couldn't sign anyone. It's a joke. Nobody gets our squad to this current state by choice, unless it's forced on them by those actually making the financial decisions.
And no, I'm not fully backing him or whatever. He's not complete trash, but we've seen this with manager after manager since Sir Alex left. The board is fecking inept, can't build a squad and give the manager what he needs, so the manager always has to somehow put pieces together and then ultimately gets blamed. Yet it's happened with every manager we've picked so far (a list that includes a couple of serial winners). They aren't blameless, but they definitely aren't the main reason for our situation. That lies firmly at the feet of Woodward and the Glazers.
And yeah, 37%. Sounds about right for a squad with only youth players as bench options, and a midfield of only McTominay (injured), Matic, Fred and Pereira. Don't even mention the biggest fluke of a 2nd place finish. No point in including Pogba as we basically might as well sold him in the summer, as he hasn't played this season and we haven't replaced him. Not sure what you're expecting more than a fight for 4th, being in 5th place. Just look at the players we pick from ffs! yet here we are, 3 weeks into the window, and we haven't signed anyone. Ole said after a few injuries earlier "we just have to get to January" basically saying we'll boost up the squad so we aren't so reliant on being injury free. Yet here we fecking are.
Can't believe anyone can shit on the manager so much anymore. Ignore whether he is good or not. No manager will do anything with 0 support from the board. No quality manager will even want to come here with the board as is, because it's a job that you can't win in.