Absolutely. Winning the FA Cup would just be considered a bonus after tonight
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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One more supposed banker home win left before we get into the very bleak looking last 5 games of the season.
Time for his stock to skyrocket.
Time for his stock to skyrocket.
Tonight was another reason why he shouldn't lead us into next season.
72% posession. 7 shots allowed. Maybe Wilcox actually did tell Ten Hag to play differently? Maybe Ten Hag had been ordered to play transitional before now? Lots of questions...
No % dropping 
Can see us going on a run now
Don’t be daft. Let’s just stick to one and support him despite how ugly it gets. (To a certain point)
Non of them and in all honestly I didn’t like any of them. I do like Erik though and I hope he is given the support he needs to turn this around.
Let them have their new saviour, and watch them devour him soon enough. I'm with you, it's going to take a leap of faith from upper management for anybody to succeed because I just don't see how any realistic potential new manager will survive this 24/7 coverage.
Pretty much.
What do you like about him? His eyes? His voice? Because statistically he's one of our worst managers
A lobotomy?
I think it's the accent mate
Of defeats?
Some like to jump through hoops to point out all the other factors while ignoring the obvious elephant in the room. A common denominator with all our post-Fergie appointments is that none of them have been remotely good enough to take us further than a second rate cup or, a distant second place finish.
The Glazers, but we'll ignore that hey.
I will be fine with giving ETH another season if he doesn’t start Anthony again or Rashford when he returns from his injury. But fat chance that will happen.
Strange criteria for wanting to keep or sack a manager
Yep, there have been systematic problems above them for sure. Recruitment has been crap but then we have mostly given managers control over targets so they've have to share in blame for that.
Despite how poorly the club has been run, a top manager given the control and the resources the last 5 have received would have did a lot more with them than we've managed since 2013.
It's the exact opposite. Today was the first coherent team performance in a while and it looked like we had a decent philosophy. SHU had two fluke goals out of nowhere.
The team knew exactly what they were doing and found Bruno / the wingers in space plenty of times. That's why we scored four.
Plenty of data to back it up. (Shots, touches in penalty box, shots allowed by the other team, threat created, 10+ pass sequences, PPDA etc.). Anyone who watches that game and thinks that's justification for Ten Hag out needs to get their head checked.
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Well yeah, I literally alluded to other factors in my previous post. Our managers not being good enough and the club being a fecking mess aren't mutually exclusive.
Liverpool's owners were derided until Klopp came along. Suddenly, no Liverpool fan cared about them anymore.
Our owners are clueless, pariah scumbags. But, your second paragraph sums it up.
Not to take anything away, but this Sheffield United defense is on its way to being the worst defense in Premier League history. Probably has quite a bit to do with that as well.
There was definitely a difference today, even if it was just against Sheffield United. I think if we didn't have a makeshift defence we would've won that game even more comfortably, 4-0 maybe.
I like Erik but tonight might have been the last straw. Why does he tell Onana to put opposition players clean through on goal?
And I hate how he instructs every attacking player to shoot straight at the goalie when clean through. Could hear him shouting at Dalot when he was one on one, too, totally unfair because Dalot had every right to take half an hour before lining up his shot.
Bet he doesn’t have the guts to reprimand Bruno for shooting with his left when the ball back to Harry was on.
Not to mention Rashford and Martial seen parked outside McDonalds tonight (on double yellows) after sulking out of the squad through feigned injuries. Completely out of touch with this talented squad of ours.
Give it Dyche ‘til end of season. A bald man you can trust.
And I hate how he instructs every attacking player to shoot straight at the goalie when clean through. Could hear him shouting at Dalot when he was one on one, too, totally unfair because Dalot had every right to take half an hour before lining up his shot.
Bet he doesn’t have the guts to reprimand Bruno for shooting with his left when the ball back to Harry was on.
Not to mention Rashford and Martial seen parked outside McDonalds tonight (on double yellows) after sulking out of the squad through feigned injuries. Completely out of touch with this talented squad of ours.
Give it Dyche ‘til end of season. A bald man you can trust.
I know it was only Sheffield but it was a very good performance.
I agree - in my mind he told Ten Hag results be damned, the season is over, present the football you would ideally like United to play. We're smart enough to not be reactionary if we see progress.
They also had the recruitment though, Klopp didn't just do it with substandard players. They bought extremely well because of the people above Klopp. There is that story about the club pushing Salah on him when he wanted Brandt...
It was much better yes. Something to build on hopefully.
I very much doubt that whatever happens now will make any difference to Ineos plans for the manager at the end of the season.
I wouldn't read anything of beating a wretched SU side at home. By virtue of having far superior players, we were always going to win.
Turn what around? He is the reason we need to "turn around", he burned 400 million and we are worse than when he started, all our lines have problems. He is the main cause of our problems.
Some United fans want this chaos to continue for another season. As Logan Roy would say, you're not serious people.
Our performances at Old Trafford under him have been relatively decent under him, even at times this season. Then the away games come against literally anybody and we get absolutely pummeled all over the pitch.
Doesn't work like that mate. They have to apply themselves. To their credit, they did tonight for the most part.
Yes, they had Edwards who was behind that. But, let's be honest, Klopp, like Fergie, made players play well above their true levels. He's clearly a top manager. Unfortunately, we still haven't hired a manager of that calibre post-Fergie.
No, I have a MS in sports management and sports analytics.
Such a poor manager, even against SU we were still too open. Thankfully SU are one of the worst teams and have no hope of staying up.
Chaos? Was a pretty comfortable win tonight. Controlled the game for large parts and didn't panic when we had the two setbacks. Solid performance.
“Many positives today. The resilience to fight back after losing two times. But also there were negatives. We gave it away, it can't happen, unacceptable, we have to learn from this.”
Eric, mate, we’re 33 games into the season. It’s the end of fecking April. Why hasn’t this been learned already?!
Eric, mate, we’re 33 games into the season. It’s the end of fecking April. Why hasn’t this been learned already?!