If ten Hag was sacked tonight, who would you have as an interim?

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Decision needs to be made before that surely, before other top clubs start hiring

Genuinely think the lucky bastard has saved himself with the last second offside
You don't need to sack a manager to start looking for a replacement, that's just short sighted, with proper succession planning we'll have a shortlist with someone lined up before anyone gets moved on.
 

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Mourinho doesn’t owe us anything so he wouldn’t be bothered about winning for us.
He’s not got a job and his reputation is in the gutter these days. Would be a good chance for him and us.
 

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We have literally nothing left to fight for. Only a crazy person can think we are beating City in FA Cup final with this bunch of clowns, so it is the best to have an interim that can never in million years become permanent like Ole did, and at least there will be some fun irony and commercial success in appointing a youtuber as an interim. It really is a win-win scenario, if you think about it
Then put me down as a crazy person. We've been surprised by this bunch so often this season. Why not another time, only positive for a change? I mean when you think about it, in this competition it hasn't mattered who we've played - Liverpool or Coventry, it's the same bloody match, and we somehow scrape through. I back us to gloriously fluke it in the final, and I back it to be such a flukey fluke that future flukers aspire to fluke so flukily.
 
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You don't need to sack a manager to start looking for a replacement, that's just short sighted, with proper succession planning we'll have a shortlist with someone lined up before anyone gets moved on.
My point still stands. Decision would need to be made sooner before the top clubs start hiring.

Manager A is hardly going to turn down a firm offer from Bayern or Barcelona when United still haven’t decided what to do with Ten Hag
 

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Ole would be the best bet. Unfortunately loads of you nutters would be screaming for him to get the permanent gig, though.
 

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Genuinely, jokes aside - reading this thread reminds me how uninformed the majority of our fanbase are. I don't think I've seen a single 'sensible' post.
Looking for an interim not the next messiah
 

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Darren Fletcher. SJR comes in and tells them all to buck up or feck off before the first training session.
The players need to know they are complicit in much of what’s gone on and need to show improvement.
 

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Ole, let's get that mega new manager bounce like last time

Helps that he has a really good record against Pep, has beaten Pep more than Pep has beaten him

Knows how to get the best out of Bruno and Rashy too, which could be key

Other decent choices like say Mourinho wouldn't accept an interim role
 

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I'd take Ole as interim for one season (24-25). If he's open to it.
 

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Then put me down as a crazy person. We've been surprised by this bunch so often this season. Why not another time, only positive for a change? I mean when you think about it, in this competition it hasn't mattered who we've played - Liverpool or Coventry, it's the same bloody match, and we somehow scrape through. I back us to gloriously fluke it in the final, and I back it to be such a flukey fluke that future flukers aspire to fluke so flukily.
I hope you are right. Never will I not want us to win, especially a cup final, but this team is not just horrible, it's also getting increasingly worse as the season ends. Injuries, indifference, uncertainty about the future...
 

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My point still stands. Decision would need to be made sooner before the top clubs start hiring.

Manager A is hardly going to turn down a firm offer from Bayern or Barcelona when United still haven’t decided what to do with Ten Hag
If your point is that we need to publicly sack Ten Hag in order to start lining up another manager, then that simply isn't close to true.

I expect that we've already started succession planning, as any sensible football department would do no matter how high the club is flying, and any offers we make will be concrete. A manager is hardly going to turn down an offer from us just because we haven't announced to the press that he's been sacked.
 

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Just interim, would love Jose back. The press conferences and interviews will be entertaining at least. Out of the current squad who are the ones likely to have problem with him? Shaw, more injured than playing this season. Martial, just injured. Rashford, all the better if Jose keeps him out of the team rest of this season. The rest I can’t think of any who would have issue with him, yet. So if it’s just short term interim, Jose would be good.
 

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If your point is that we need to publicly sack Ten Hag in order to start lining up another manager, then that simply isn't close to true.

I expect that we've already started succession planning, as any sensible football department would do no matter how high the club is flying, and any offers we make will be concrete. A manager is hardly going to turn down an offer from us just because we haven't announced to the press that he's been sacked.
But that wasn’t my point at all

Just that a decision needs to be made now rather than at the end of the season
 

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But that wasn’t my point at all

Just that a decision needs to be made now rather than at the end of the season
Fair enough, in which case I agree, but I hope nobody learns of the decision until the end of the season, as that'll undermine us.
 

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All we really need at this point is someone with a basic understanding of tactics and some motivational skills. We're obviously not going to transform the way we play overnight, so we should focus on keeping it simple, doing the basics right, and getting players motivated to beat City. CL qualification is gone so beating City is all we have left. We sure as feck won't do it with Ten Hag
 

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Fair enough, in which case I agree, but I hope nobody learns of the decision until the end of the season, as that'll undermine us.
I’m not sure. I don’t want him to leave until the end of the season. But I wouldn’t be against an announcement before then - which as much as I hate to say it, would likely motivate the players for the final
 

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This looking for a manager lark is a doddle. Between us we've just done INEOS' job for them in about 20 minutes!
Quick call to Tuchel's agent to find out if he can quit on May 9th after they lose to Madrid with 2 games left in the Bundesliga, find out it's an no for financial reasons and he's offended we even asked. Only report the first part to INEOS to cover my ass, collect my cheque for consultancy, move on.
 

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I’m not sure. I don’t want him to leave until the end of the season. But I wouldn’t be against an announcement before then - which as much as I hate to say it, would likely motivate the players for the final
I think it'll have the opposite effect, as it usually does. If a manager is on their way out, players naturally lose a little bit of motivation, happens all the time.
 

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I think it'll have the opposite effect, as it usually does. If a manager is on their way out, players naturally lose a little bit of motivation, happens all the time.
The thing is, the manager shouldn't matter that much any more. The guys above the manager are now the ones that should be shaping the squad, so they have to answer to them. ETH or whoever will simply be their coach going forwards.