Benni McCarthy joins United

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Hope Wilcox will bring a better coach for our strikers to learn from and to set some patterns of play
 

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We'll always have that couple of months when Rashford could head the ball.
 

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Type of appointment that was made because of 'vibez' and not credentials.
 

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Seems a bit negative for negatives sake to slag the bloke off seeing as none of us actually saw him doing his day to day job.
Never stops the caf experts to give their expert opinion on things they are clueless on.
 

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Seems a bit negative for negatives sake to slag the bloke off seeing as none of us actually saw him doing his day to day job.
We all seen it on the pitch though. Our attacking play was awful. Not saying it’s solely down to him though.
 

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Based on his lack of credentials and bang average managerial and coaching career
People here were wanking 23 times a day seeing him high five Rashford at the end of the game where he headed the ball into goal. We have no idea of what the staff do and the limitations they're operating under. The same lot who slagged McKenna are the ones wanting him to manage United. Best not to comment based on our ignorance.
 

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Based on his lack of credentials and bang average managerial and coaching career
Yeah this. It's amazing to see people defend him because we don't sit at Carrington all day. He's achieved nothing as a coach and has been the striker coach for a team that finished -2 GD.
 

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Yeah this. It's amazing to see people defend him because we don't sit at Carrington all day. He's achieved nothing as a coach and has been the striker coach for a team that finished -2 GD.
-1 GD. But it's good that he has been held accountable for that.
 

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Yeah this. It's amazing to see people defend him because we don't sit at Carrington all day. He's achieved nothing as a coach and has been the striker coach for a team that finished -2 GD.
A side that scored more goals than Artetas Arsenal that finished 8th from a shitty XG. If anything it's showing his coaching on chance conversion is strong.
 

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A side that scored more goals than Artetas Arsenal that finished 8th from a shitty XG. If anything it's showing his coaching on chance conversion is strong.
Hard to argue with that! I find it a bit weird for a coach (not a manager) to be so out of shape though.
 

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While it can't be conclusively proven that he was bad at his job our fecking embarrassing goal difference the past two seasons doesn't reflect well on him as a specialist attacking coach does it? Probably the right decision to get rid.
 

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While it can't be conclusively proven that he was bad at his job our fecking embarrassing goal difference the past two seasons doesn't reflect well on him as a specialist attacking coach does it? Probably the right decision to get rid.
Conceding 200 goals will always lead to a bad goal difference.
 

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If INEOS didn’t want to renew his contract and let him go then what does this mean for ETH? He brought him in and it’s not fair to get rid of his back room team unless you’re getting rid of him. Are we gonna replace him with another attacking coach specialist?
 

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If INEOS didn’t want to renew his contract and let him go then what does this mean for ETH? He brought him in and it’s not fair to get rid of his back room team unless you’re getting rid of him. Are we gonna replace him with another attacking coach specialist?
 

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If INEOS didn’t want to renew his contract and let him go then what does this mean for ETH? He brought him in and it’s not fair to get rid of his back room team unless you’re getting rid of him. Are we gonna replace him with another attacking coach specialist?
If he wants to stay he'll accept Ineos' judgement on which members of his backroom staff are good enough to be here. A couple of top coaches added to his team could help him turn things around.
 

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If he wants to stay he'll accept Ineos' judgement on which members of his backroom staff are good enough to be here. A couple of top coaches added to his team could help him turn things around.
I agree. Aslong as like you said they do actually bring in top coaches. You can always tell if the teams coached proper by the way they play on the pitch.
 

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Based on his lack of credentials and bang average managerial and coaching career
I'm genuinely curious as to what credentials you're talking for a "forwards coaching" role (which I think is the official role with us?)? I'm not even sure other big clubs have this role, and if they do/did (like defence coach, GK coach etc.), then what are the credentials of those individuals?

I'm asking because i honestly don't know, but I can't recall seeing any prominent names, outside of possibly ex-pros who end up in some of those roles. McCarthy has some experience as assistant manager and also as head coach (albeit in a shitty league like ours here) where he did quite well here locally. I'm thinking as an ex-pro who reached the highest levels of football (& winning the UCL) and with some actual management experience, surely for the role he has with us, his "credentials" aren't that shocking?