Next permanent manager | Poll updated

Who should be the next permanent manager?

  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 113 7.4%
  • Erik ten Hag

    Votes: 1,300 84.7%
  • Julen Lopetegui

    Votes: 10 0.7%
  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 79 5.1%
  • None of the above

    Votes: 32 2.1%

  • Total voters
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That’s the fecking worst thing about how this club operates, they wait until top 4 is mathematically impossible before pulling the trigger and by that time it’s too late to salvage anything. It means you lose the chance to turn things around and turn a potentially shite season into a good/excellent one. Chelsea and Tuchel being the prime example, under Lampard last season things started off terribly and If they’d stuck with him they’d probably have finished the season trophy less and outside the top 4 but instead they acted quickly by replacing him with Tuchel who went on to secure top 4 and win the CL!
I think he should get the next 3 or 4 games but if there isnt a turnaround its time to act quickly and replace him. I just cant see them doing it though, a huge proportion of the match going support will back ole regardless of results.
 

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This team is ready to win, add a top class midfielder and it's among the very best around. However, it isn't a Conte team, there's no target man in the mould of Costa or Lukaku, the wide forwards are more about flair rather than defensive effort, and the 3-5-2 he's played at Chelsea and Inter wouldn't suit us either.

In my opinion Ole has earned this season to see if he can take us to the top level. If not, then we need to bring in a manager to build on the progress he's made, rather than falling in to the same short term thinking trap that gave us Mourinho and a 3 season rebuilding job after he left.
Sorry, dude's been manager long enough and shown little to nothing on the pitch. he's built a pretty decent squad but he can't coach. Almost anyone would be an upgrade and we should pull the trigger.
 

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Rodgers is a decent coach but he's not good enough for United.

Beside the way his team collapses completely by the end of the season is a very worrying sign. Happened at Liverpool and both his Leicester seasons.

Good coach but he's at his own level now imo. United are bigger than him.
 

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Yes would love to see that. Also I would ask him to bring in his youth coaches setup. The way they find gems is ridiculous.
That's kind of the problem with Ten Hag isn't it? I think he's a brilliant coach but you're only hiring him. You're not getting the decades-old Ajax support structure that enables him and his squad to be as proficient as they are.
 

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I can’t say who but definitely not Conte. We need a manager who is gonna have a playing style we would love because absolutely no one guarantees silverware and even winning that silverware doesn’t help much if we end up worse of like in case of Mourinho . Anything else is unacceptable.

Rodgers, Bielsa, Marco Rose, Mancini.
 

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There’s also a novel idea here, I know, but you are not required to stuck by a manager, if he doesn’t deliver, then out he goes. You just have to pay him off, or work clauses in his contract.

This obsession with a ‘long term manager’ is verging on a disease now. Fergie was an anomaly, Wenger was an anomaly.
Exactly. 2-5 years was the norm anyway, us and Arsenal just got lucky.
 

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Every time we lose there is this kneejerk reaction that we need a new manager. It’s an absolute joke, entitled fanbase all over

Say we did get Conte in, are we gonna see these same posts over and over and over again?

It’s fecking tiresome. Just get behind the team for christ sakes, it’s like no one has been through the highs and lows of y’know actually supporting a team. We’re not gonna win all the time, fecking hell man
It's not knee-jerk ffs. We ended last season terribly and have been shite for 6 out of 8 games this one.

United are on the verge and have been for a good few years. For any alleged knee-jerk negativity there is an enthusiasm after a single win with pro Ole guys ridiculing doubters.

I don’t know if I'm fully Ole out just for now but to call those who are 'knee-jerk' is ridiculous. What's certain is that we do have a good squad that should yield better results and performances.
 

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Anyone with tactical flexibility and who preferably has reached the latter stages of the CL.
 

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Rodgers is a decent coach but he's not good enough for United.

Beside the way his team collapses completely by the end of the season is a very worrying sign. Happened at Liverpool and both his Leicester seasons.

Good coach but he's at his own level now imo. United are bigger than him.
His Liverpool side was mediocre bar Suarez and he nearly won the league.
Thanks again Slippy G :lol:.

His Leicester side is also very average yet he's almost gotten them champions league football 2 seasons running and won them an Fa Cup.

Yes those 2 sides tended to fade a bit late on in the season buts that's because they had/have zero quality in depth, something we currently have an abundance of. Look how much Guardiola rotates at City. Do you think he could rotate like that with the squads Rodgers has had, not a chance.
When Rodgers had the best squad in the league at Celtic. He absolutely dominated, even achieving an unbeaten season. He'd do very well with our current squad, his playing style is more suited to a top team like us.
 

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Someone who plays attacking football, will drop 2 holding midfielders and not rip up the squad
 

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His Liverpool side was mediocre bar Suarez and he nearly won the league.
Thanks again Slippy G :lol:.

His Leicester side is also very average yet he's almost gotten them champions league football 2 seasons running and won them an Fa Cup.

Yes those 2 sides tended to fade a bit late on in the season buts that's because they had/have zero quality in depth, something we currently have an abundance of. Look how much Guardiola rotates at City. Do you think he could rotate like that with the squads Rodgers has had, not a chance.
When Rodgers had the best squad in the league at Celtic. He absolutely dominated, even achieving an unbeaten season. He'd do very well with our current squad, his playing style is more suited to a top team like us.
I'm not saying he's a bad coach, he's definitely a good one. I don't think he's world class though. United can do better imo.
 

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Yes would love to see that. Also I would ask him to bring in his youth coaches setup. The way they find gems is ridiculous.
I watch both academies and United have similar gems.

Laird, Mejbri, Mainoo, Forson, Shoretire, Hansen, potentially Elango would all be massive at Ajax. Main difference is that Rensch, Timber, Gravenberch receive playing time and at United we give Mata, Jones, etc new contracts.
 

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Insightful post, I'd hope so.

Would he have been involved in the hiring of Solksjaer I must ask?
From my understanding of it, from what's in the public domain. Solskjaer came in as a caretaker manager and the club were looking for a permanent solution at the time. But as we all know the results improved and they gave Solskjaer the job fulltime. I don't believe he was a serious consideration but his appointment has helped us to stabilize the club which was important imo.

And if i'm not mistaken, Bout, Lawlor and Court were added to a newly formed transfer committee in 2018 during Mourinho's tenure as manager which gave our recruitment staff power in who we recruit. Which reportedly didn't go down well with Mourinho who some say went into self sabotage mode. And Bout imo is also our most experienced coach even if he's employed as the head of global scouting currently. He's worked as a coach under LVG and Jupp Heynckes who requested to keep Bout after Bayern sacked LVG. So I believe the recruitment team will have a huge influence on appointing a new head coach.
 

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Someone who can cope better with adversity in games whether that's injury to 2 key players or a red card
 

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You do know we have a Molde manager?
Crazy how people just ignore context isn’t it. Even more in this case because Potter’s Scandinavian experience is actually just as, if not more, impressive - taking a team up 3 divisions, getting into Europa (knocking out Galatasaray, beat Arsenal at the Emirates but lost return leg) on a shoestring. Winning a domestic cup as well. But he had to go to Swansea then go to Brighton whereas Ole goes straight in at United.
 

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This team is ready to win, add a top class midfielder and it's among the very best around. However, it isn't a Conte team, there's no target man in the mould of Costa or Lukaku, the wide forwards are more about flair rather than defensive effort, and the 3-5-2 he's played at Chelsea and Inter wouldn't suit us either.
If Conte is that tactically inflexible than you're right. John Murtough needs a manager ready to work with what we have.
 

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Ole will probably get us 4th and that will be enough for the glazers.
Murtough needs to get tough when Deadwood Woodward has finally gone in December and start looking for a new manager and get onto joel glazer saying this football isnt good enough and 4th place wont placate the fans.
 

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I'm not saying he's a bad coach, he's definitely a good one. I don't think he's world class though. United can do better imo.
What's world class? The only world class coaches are probably Zidane, Conte, Pep and Klopp. And in each and every one of them you would probably be able to find something to be disappointed by. Rodgers has done a lot to deserve credit. His side often play beautiful football. He managed to achieve almost the unachievable long before Klopp did. His Liverpool side played beautiful football back then and he did it mostly playing bang average players with the exception of Suarez and Sturridge. He was amazing at Celtic and has done very good at Leicester, more than good.

All in all, he is right there with Haag, Nagelmann, Rose, Potter, etc. He'd have us play amazing football and deliver way better results than Ole has done. And at the end of the day, isn't that what we want? We're never getting Pep or Klopp, so we can forget about that.
 

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No it's true. Some here mock anyone who dares to talk about patterns of play, modern football and systems in order to defend Ole's haphazard football. Some here were mocking Nagelsmann all the time because some were convinced he's a better manager than Ole.

There're indeed fans here who think modern football doesn't exist, something invented by young football fans and Ole's way is the real football way.
I think these types just take tribalism further and defend our manager at all cost. If we had a tactics nerd coach like Tuchel they’d be gushing about his patterns of play and modern football.
 

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Zidane's even more of a risk, he had a prime Real Madrid squad with basically a world class player in every position given to him. No one knows if he can build a squad or not.
The thing is...does Zidane need to build this squad from scratch? Hasn't Ole pretty much laid the foundation already? Now only CDM, a stellar ST (Haaland) and we are set.
 

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Ole will probably get us 4th and that will be enough for the glazers.
Murtough needs to get tough when Deadwood Woodward has finally gone in December and start looking for a new manager and get onto joel glazer saying this football isnt good enough and 4th place wont placate the fans.
If you take Ole off, and put a donkey as a manager we would still make top 4.
 

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I want the circus to end right now. And I think Zidane is not the right man to take over, Conte is.
 

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The thing is...does Zidane need to build this squad from scratch? Hasn't Ole pretty much laid the foundation already? Now only CDM, a stellar ST (Haaland) and we are set.
I just don't trust Zizou's tactical and technical acumen. Who were his coaches in Madrid? Those would be the key.
 

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I watch both academies and United have similar gems.

Laird, Mejbri, Mainoo, Forson, Shoretire, Hansen, potentially Elango would all be massive at Ajax. Main difference is that Rensch, Timber, Gravenberch receive playing time and at United we give Mata, Jones, etc new contracts.
Good post.

People don't understand that you have to give youngsters a chance to develop their game and Ajax pride themselves on doing just that. There's also many players who don't make it and are forgotten, but the fan looking in from the outside only sees Frenkie de Jong, De Ligt, Gravenberch etc.
 

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What's world class? The only world class coaches are probably Zidane, Conte, Pep and Klopp. And in each and every one of them you would probably be able to find something to be disappointed by. Rodgers has done a lot to deserve credit. His side often play beautiful football. He managed to achieve almost the unachievable long before Klopp did. His Liverpool side played beautiful football back then and he did it mostly playing bang average players with the exception of Suarez and Sturridge. He was amazing at Celtic and has done very good at Leicester, more than good.

All in all, he is right there with Haag, Nagelmann, Rose, Potter, etc. He'd have us play amazing football and deliver way better results than Ole has done. And at the end of the day, isn't that what we want? We're never getting Pep or Klopp, so we can forget about that.
I want Zidane or Conte personally. Don't have any problems with both. Both are the kind of managers United deserve to have.
 

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Anyone else just not excited by Zidane? I know, 3 champions leagues and all that but isn’t he similar to Ole? i.e a man manager who lets the players figure it out once they’ve stepped over the white line?

I feel like we need our own Pep or Tuchel but who?
 

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Anyone else just not excited by Zidane? I know, 3 champions leagues and all that but isn’t he similar to Ole? i.e a man manager who lets the players figure it out once they’ve stepped over the white line?

I feel like we need our own Pep or Tuchel but who?
At least Zidane has shown he's a winner.
We need to win anything at this point.
 

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Does your problem is that he doesn't stay for + 4 years at a single club ?

Because I don't give a shit about that as long as he wins trophies here and will leave a solid team for his successor regardless.

Which guess what ? Is what happened in his previous 3 clubs, won trophies and left behind a solid team that kept on winning.

Since when any team hire a manager on the basis of him staying +4 or 5 years anyway ?

The Chelsea side he left won EL and finished 3rd the next season with Sarri, they didn't need a rebuild or a reset. He left inter due to problems with the transfers, after winning the league and now Inter are as good as they were under him last season, and Juve kept on dominating the league for several years after he left them.

So yeah, there's nothing "short term" about the teams he managed. Just because he himself didn't stay for 5 years doesn't mean his clubs collapse once he leaves.

Time for us to start acting as a proper big club and hire managers for the fecking present first. The current team is an elite and most of them are actually not that young. De Gea 30, Shaw 26, Maguire 28, Varane 28, Pogba 28, Ronaldo 36, Bruno 27, Cavani 34, even Rashford is 24 now. Most of the squad's best players are in their prime already, or approaching the last half of their career. It's time for us to actually win something with them, because 4 years from now on we'll start thinking about replacing the likes of Varane, Maguire and Bruno. Pogba might be leaving soon as well.
Chelsea won the EL because he'd dropped them down there, and Lampard did a great job in that first season with youth players. He's absolutely a short term pick, and would be Mou at United 2.0
 

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Is it still allegri who guarantees success according to you geniuses ?
Literally no one wants Allegri. All people want is a coach with a proactive style (i.e. not Allegri) who can point to having built at least 1 successful team in a top league. Is that too crazy as a prerequisite at United for you?
 

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Sorry, dude's been manager long enough and shown little to nothing on the pitch. he's built a pretty decent squad but he can't coach. Almost anyone would be an upgrade and we should pull the trigger.
That's just hyperbole, but this isn't the thread for it so I won't get into it
 
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