feck they were uninspiring as players too. McLaren didn't win anything before he came as coach to SAF. Carrick nor Phelan won anything before they came to United as players. Carlos ands McLaren instantly changed the dynamics according to SAF. A good leader knows to how to select good subordinates.
Plus if you look at it from a CEO's perspective. Then it makes logical sense. Who are we? We are a club that relies on its history/tradition, a brand that consists of growing out own youth players and a certain style of playing -- not necessarily a sophisticated style but one of attack.
He has the unique quality of not disagreeing with the current CEO on anything. This seems like a way to keep everyone happy, including the fans.
I thought Murtough was involved in the creation and improvement of the women's team? I'll trust Ole on that one. I think it's very good Ed is no more contacted by anyone in the footballing world for transfers. That's putting back football people who care about the club from a footballing perspectives in football positions. It's exactly why I am a big fan of Ole, those structural changes will pay.
100%. You only have to ask why Woodward select the two and it will reflect Woodward's priorities.
You reckon him being here since 2014 is actually a good thing ?
Exactly seems like a lot of people are just happy the vacations are being filled without actually analyzing the situation
My post replied to the series of tweets, which said this new Football Director of ours, is not the boss of Ole's head coach/ manager role. So without that authority, it still requires executive level above hand on intervene if something went wrong with the coaching department. The DOF role supposed to have authority over the manager.
Is it not the same?
It's basically just a move to appease the fans and show them that there's someone else to blame for our transfer feck ups and to save money by doing an internal promotion over getting someone who's specialized in being an actual DOF.
We also have the most inexperienced football people at top level. Ole was already inexperienced as he is then you got the likes of Mckenna, Carrick, Fletcher as Technical director and Murtough is covering a new and important role himself. That on top of two bankers trying to meddle in football affairs as well (Judge and Woodward). It seems that this club has an aversion towards experience, meritocracy and new ideas.
It is. Pirlo can at least rely on an experienced team both on and off the pitch (Paratici, Nedved, Agnelli and co).
SAF brought in coaches when he thought the ones he had weren't adequate. Coaches with different experiences. Even when SAF was already winning trophies.
Sir Alex brought people from outside to inject new ideas. He risked proper revolts because of that (Keane vs Queroz is public knowledge). I can't help thinking that United are becoming far too insular at times.
I don't know much about Mislintat but Monchi was set to fail. Roma was in a financial mess. Roma expected Monchi to sell off most of the crown jewels immediately, buy cheap knock outs as replacement and immediately be successful in the process. Imagine if we ordered Murtough to sell Bruno, Rashford, Pogba, Shaw, Maguire and Martial and then give him 50m to replace them and still expect the team to do well.
That's how he evolved over time, while others just left behind by their obsolete ideas. All best top people do that.
exactly. That was his secret. Sir Alex's brilliance laid in his superb man management not in his tactics. Tactics wise he was great but not brilliant. In fact he didn't develop a ground breaking football system as Pep (tika taka), Sacchi and Cruyff did. However Sir Alex was superb street wise. He understood that football tend to change and eventually every tactic ends up obsolete. Hence why he surrounded himself with the best people he could get his hands on, people who challenged his way of football and who brought new ideas in.
That's only for now. Once Solskjaer gets sacked/moved on, that structure will get streamlined and the managers title will be downgraded to a head coach and his personal scout will be fecked off as part of it.
Women's team doesn't really matter though. Fergie thought it was a distraction, didn't he? Murtaugh seems to have done great with recruiting at youth level though. I can't help but feel United are taking the "United man" approach a bit far though. I think it's generally a good thing but a few different views on the training ground or in recruitment would not be a bad thing. Quieroz and Meulensteen didn't do Fergie any hard, did they?
But that was Fergie in the later stages of his career. He had a fairly generic team, people he was comfortable with at the start -- like Archie Knox, Jim Ryan and Brian Kidd. It was only later in his career he started to bring in external folks.
Knox was a manager in his own right at Dundee while kidd managed Preston. Don't forget that football was far smaller in terms of industry then it is now. Also even back then Sir Alex was a far better manager then Ole is
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He played LB after Alex Greenwood went to Lyon, maybe? Bad joke ... I didn’t know he had worked with the womens team as well, is it something you know?
It was in several articles yesterday that he was basically the one in charge of setting up our womens team. Don't know if he hired Casey, but probably had input. Then worked with her to identify and sign players and whatever other structure around the team was needed to get it up running so fast as it did.
That part isn't true. At least on the continent and in all sports there is a hierarchy and the DOF is above the head coach(managers aren't really a thing around here); the DOF hires the head coach and controls his fate with the CEO.
We don't actually know how other clubs operate exactly.
Howling Mad Murtough?
