I find it weird the opposite way personally, put Pep or Klopp in charge and i still believe we'd be where we are, i dont believe 1 person (ie the coach/manager) is at fault for our poor performances over the past 10 years and the issues are much deeper.
I think the same.
Do fans here think a Klopp United reign would yield United getting Salah for 35 million ? Not just that, Klopp actually wanted a different player but the Liverpool structure overruled and got Salah. Do people think Woodward would have chosen Salah ?
That’s only one thing. United have consistently spent more , given bigger contracts, sold poorly and struggled to sell players. How would that have impacted Klopp , particularly stuck with the likes of Martial and a sick note Jones taking up a spot.
I think people have low standards when they pine for some great manager to come in and sort out United. Given uniteds spending, every single manager we have hired and any manager half decent , should be making top 4 every season. There’s so many average managers who have won things at top clubs in England and Europe. Pep and Klopp aren’t the only managers to win things.
Madrid , Bayern, Barca and city have won trophies with managers who either didn’t go on to bigger things or weren’t exactly considered world class.
The ONLY reason United NEED some magical manager , that nobody really knows exists, is to compensate for the uniquely incompetent way that the club is being run. Like Boehly at Chelsea, a shite owner can spend a fortune and at the same time undermine a manager/squad if there is no meaningful plan and no culture of excellence.
The United appointments were destined to fail. It does not mean “they were good enough”. But I don’t think fans targets and glazers targets ever matched up. If we had a season like Jose’s 2nd he’d be manager for life under glazers , that was never enough for him or us. Incidentally, Jose was a busted flush after United, I don’t understand how anybody can delude themselves to think that pretty much most signings and managers form/careers collapsing after United was just an unfortunate coincidence.
How United was being run was and has been the problem. Managers simply the scapegoats.