It’s not knee jerk, the last group game was the middle of December. I remember saying I’ll be amazed if he’s still at the club come November, that’s how bad things were during that time. We were out played by any team with a semblance of organisation. He’s made mistakes time and time again and has shown no intention of learning from them.
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
The SEG guys are as salty as Ten Hag. A good match for each other. Honestly who do these guys think they are? Getting way too big for their boots.
And I like how he says "PR guy". Not agent. A slight insight into the fact that SEG have PR guys working for them and Ten Hag? No surprises there with some of the takes in the media.
This mean Thomas Frank could be new manager?
To be fair SEG is a massive agency which makes the tweet particularly silly.
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Yeah we both know he didn't say that. And it's pretty wild you're saying Ten Hag was the one who said get me Casemiro. Keep making things up though.
Been waiting for this day since the 7-0. Good riddance to this pretender!
No it means Frank has been in a shortlist for top clubs, Manchester United and Chelsea through no supposedly actual substance, so his PR must be phenomenal.
By Christmas he’ll have no hair left
Same, that’s his legacy.
Yeah, he was persisting with a style that the squad wasn't suited to at the time. But you were isolating the CL in your initial post.
He said himself, just last week, he wanted De Jong and Casemiro. Keep up.
I even believe they said this to him. In February.
before he guided us to 2 wins in 12 and managed to finish 8th out of all European competition
They're getting played at their own game and they don't like it.
I don't know why so many people find him "likeable". Guy talks like he's Mourinho with nothing to back it with. Also, he wants new signings, a fully fit team and then his goal would be to "try to aim for top 4 again"? How ambitious. Should have been sacked way sooner.
That was when he was asked if he wanted DeJong OR Casemiro. He said both in light of profile.
He wanted a ball player and a DM. Athletic said he wanted a DM - he had none. The club were made of Casemiro's availability and opted to go for him over Rice because of the lower initial outlay, despite Rice being cheaper on FFP. This is all from the Athletic.
Keep up.
If next season his aim with a healthy squad (with a load of new signings as well) would have been to aim for top 4, what was the goal for this season if everyone had stayed fit? Did he not think this current crop was good enough to aim for top 4? Didn't we finish 3rd last season?
I think he was overdoing it with how confident he was that he was staying, either to almost embarrass INEOS into keeping him or to make him look like he's been lied to and betrayed when he's inevitably sacked.
He cannot honestly think guiding Utd to their worst season in 35 years wouldn't result in him getting sacked? He's not stupid, he has to have known for a while he was never getting another season as Utd manager.
He cannot honestly think guiding Utd to their worst season in 35 years wouldn't result in him getting sacked? He's not stupid, he has to have known for a while he was never getting another season as Utd manager.
Given the timing I think it suggests Frank was an unsuccessful candidate and his PR decided to leak.
Typically you tell the other candidates once you have concluded negotiations with your chosen appointee. Then you go out to other candidates and say thanks but no thanks.
The successful candidate isn't going to leak, unless you are a shit stirrer like Mourinho.
Frank will know from his feedback that the "trigger" has been pulled, but won't know who has won.
When we had this situation with LVG it was all with talk about Mou coming in.
That the new manager isn't being named, says it was leaked by an also ran, desperate to promote themselves as being "in contention" for a top job.
I think McKenna will get offered the job because he will be the cheapest option.
His comments defending Overmars are fecking horrible.
His "heritage" moment. Both were absolutely correct in describing the current state of the club, but neither had the answers.
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That’s me Ten Hag out now.
Those Overmars quotes should make all the ETH in crowd see the light hopefully
A win today puts him joint most successful manager since SAF (I would have Mou ahead though due to a European instead of a domestic). Let's hope he goes out on a high.
Bit baffled, maybe I shouldn't be, by how it's mostly being ignored in here? It's grim.
It's not a good look.
Where is this poll?
The irony is also that those who advocate giving EtH another season would not have advocated to sack Emery at the time in the first place.
He had a good CV and a very reasonable first season (improving on last Wenger‘s season in the League, Europa League final), his second season started as a car crash but it was similar with EtH. And all in all you can make a good argument that he is a better manager than EtH.
Yet they sacked him and it turned out to be a correct decision. As it was correct to sack 95% of managers who were good somewhere else but did not make a step up at the top PL club. Yet people continue to cherry pick Arteta example.
But the question that a reasonable owner/DoF should be posing is not „is there at least one somewhat similar case when a manager turned it around so that we can justify sticking with this underperforming manager?“ but „on the balance of probabilities given his performance and CV is it more likely than not that he turns it around under better structure?“
If you say anything positive you will be chastised.
It's not like they are new either. Pretty sure he has said it before too.
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Not that I was in but now Ive seen enough from that to say out.
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You cannot have a manager in a position like United’s that in anyway tries to sportswash what Overmars did.
Call it virtue signalling or whatever but I’ve found my line.
Call it virtue signalling or whatever but I’ve found my line.
INEOS should sack this guy BEFORE the final. Get rid.
Ding dong!
While city celebrate are lifting the cup maybe we have a separate ceremony for handing ETH his p45? Really overshadow their trophy celebrations
How do you know he was aware about Arnautovic?
Come on Mama Hag, it's disgraceful to throw Erik under the bus straight away.
Still waiting on you to provide the source of this poll
It's his job.
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Na done.Come on Mama Hag, it's disgraceful to throw Erik under the bus straight away.
Injuries he’s had little to no control over which means I can understand our league position.
This he can get in the bin for.
Christ have a little patience ffs