Well the options that are available now are gone really.
Conte is top 4 manager in world football so was a no brainer really.
Who's left now?
Poch Rodgers Ten Haag.
None available till the summer. None as good as Klopp Tuchel Pep Conte.
The concern now is are we just giving Ole the entire season? What would be the point in that?
For fans of Utd or for the Glazers?
That’s what you really need to focus on at this point.
The Glazers clearly don’t want a manager who will do any of the following…
1. Override any of their high profile, ‘Disneyland’ transfer targets.
2. Complain about how the club functions from a footballing POV.
3. Be demanding of them to be competent owners.
The Glazers DO want a manager who does the following…
1. Provides a shield between themselves and the furious fanbase.
2. Has an emotional link with the fanbase that keeps the fans placid and patient.
3. Is incredibly grateful to simply be managing in the PL (let alone at Utd) and will be completely servile to their requests as owners.
When understood from that POV, you can see how the needs for the Glazers are very different than the needs of the fanbase - and their behaviour as owners over recent years has made that the gap between their needs and the fans’ needs bigger and bigger.
The current Utd manager has given them a really nice, easy situation for 3 years and during that time, their decision making as owners has atrophied even further and grown even more flaccid - and in turn, so have the ambitions and standards of the Utd fanbase.
Then when another club / owner acts quickly, decisively and shows higher standards it stuns the fanbase and reminds them of the reality they’re in as a club.
The Glazers are dithering and reluctant to act because the situation for them has been pleasant the last 3 years.
Levy, who is famously combative and actually seems to enjoy conflict and asserting himself, will want a manager who gets his squad in order.
Levy is actively CHASING Conte while the Glazers are running from him.