As a manager gave the team a bump when he first came in but has been poor ever since the end of that campaign. Should have never been appointed based on that alone.
his tactics for me are very very basic more of a motivator than a tactician. Poorest thing for me was last year in Europa League final he didn’t use a sub nearly for the whole game when we were crying out for something different.
It’s such a shame he’s been scapegoated though, McKenna Carrick and Phelan should all be out as well as ole. Hope the club never make a decision based on the old guard ever again, because like all sport if you are taking principles from strategies that are years old ie another fergie you are setting yourself up for failure. If you do not evolve year you year you are a dinosaur in this game and that’s why solksjaer and his coaching will never be remembered fondly.
let’s hope the club never make a decision like that again. Fantastic player awful manager and man manager not a single player has progressed in my view.
Well, he had more than enough time to bring in better coaching staff.
With player recruitment I always say that the criticism or credit to Ole should be limited as it is very unlikely that he is the main voice. The communication from club has been that we have a transfer committee where manger is a very important but not only voice.
But with coaching recruitment - Ole was surely the main voice. Either he really believed that they are world class - which is an astonishing level of delusion - or he thought that having better players and passion is enough to compensate for it (which is not much better).
I was very unsure about him from the start, and lost the belief in him in the first half of 19/20 season, but I still hoped that he would at least recognize his deficiencies, hire subordinates that are better than him in many ways (hallmarks of a good manager in any area), play more youth, advocating that we sign mostly young players for the first team and let a top-class team of coaches develop them. He did noting of the sort and remained in his comfort zone - making friends, talking the talk and taking advantage of high profile signings and individual brilliance.
You can be hands-off, hire great staff and delegate well and be successful. You can be more hands-on in coaching if you are a good coach and be successful. Ole wanted to be hands-off in training with a staff of subpar CVs for Unted standard. On the other hand he still wanted to select the team, without recognizing that he is quite poor at it, not rotating adequately, running players to the ground, rushing them back from injury, making squad players unhappy in the process. Carrick team selections are indirect proof that even his coaching staff disagreed with him in that.
Ole is unfortunately a very poor manager at this level. He is only qualified for an ambassadorial role in my view. But regarding his legacy I think it will be heavily influenced by what happens under Rangnick and in the next few years. If we do poorly then it will remain controversial. If we do well (and especially if we dismantle large parts of his squad and bench or sell many of his signings in the process), his legacy would suffer a huge blow and will remain predominantly of a lost 3 years.
