It's lazy thinking to place the blame squarely on Ole's shoulders for the dreadful situation we find ourselves in right now. The club was in crisis long before he took the job on a permanent basis. It's been on a relentless downward spiral since SAF retired and David Gill moved on (two figureheads who were instrumental to our success during that period) only to be replaced by the infinitely inferior David Moyes and Ed Woodward. The latter being the main culprit here, a trio of failed managerial appointments and transfer expenditure in the region of £800 million resulting in some of the worst transfers in the clubs history, many of whom remain at the club to this day.
Woodward, and by extension the Glazers seeing as it was them who appointed him, is equally at fault as Ole. If not more so. Sacking Ole will achieve nothing if Woodward remains CEO. He has to go along with Ole. In fact, a restructuring of the clubs backroom staff from the chairman through to the tea lady is necessary at this point. Sack the lot, including a large portion of those primadonnas masquerading as professional footballers for gross under-performance, and begin anew.
After 5 minutes I saw the problem.
McT and Fred were right in front of the defence. Huge gap between them and Mata and Rashford.
Ole simply should not have started with Fred and Mata. I'm not sure if Jones is injured. If not he should have been played with McT.
Perhaps Tuanzebe would have played there with McT if Lindeloff had not been injured?
Ole needs to think on his feet.
But the lion's share of the blame lies with Woodward letting Ander go...And not replacing him.
That is the barest minimum. But even then we needed another midfielder.
We are in a relegation fight already and it is early October.
Unlike 74 which I remember, we wont bounce back the following season. The Doc was a fantastic manager. He brought us back immediately by staying top from the second game if my memory is correct.
De Gea's interview is telling. We are in serious trouble.
We need to stabilise the season and look for a solid manager. I would go for Howie. If not him someone who has seen the ups and down.
But for immediately if Ole is let go as I see he will be if not now but after a humiliating loss to Liverpool, we need a caretaker like Big Sam or Keane even.
Fergie would end up dying.
Dangerous times.