Ah so now your back tracking it has gone from 'no unemployed manager with some reputation wouldn't accept a 6 month contract ever' to being 'the exception rather than the norm'. Make your mind up.
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Still chuffed to see a change regardless who it is. Finally the last 20mins of every game we're winning won't be focused on defending. United fans are about to remember how much they missed playing for more goals in the dying stages of a game
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Surely a WUM.I’m with you on this one mate! Woodward makes a decisive football related executive decision for once then appoints a failed PL manager who got his side relegated in his first season and was sacked only a few games into his second! I’m not buying the knows the club inside out justification either. I could think of a lot better appointments if you want ex players who have managed in the PL - Steve Bruce is twiddling his thumbs and is highly experienced and a club legend surely?
Been listening to TalkSport all day - 47% of fans polled are not impressed. Just another inexplicable decision by the club! Should have gone for Wenger.
At least Mike Phelan is back though - his balloon popping capabilities have been much missed in the dug out!
Anyone tracking flights? 
It certainly feels like what I need.
I want someone to earn their right to be arrogant by achieving things with us. Not fail miserably with us and then point to shit from 10 years ago as evidence its not their fault.
After the last two appointments in particular I have really warmed to the idea of a young and aspiring manager. Better to get the guy who still has it all to prove than the guy who thinks he knows it all already, and is more interested in talking about the medals he has already won than the ones he hopes to win in the future.
But either way, it doesnt matter because even if Ole isnt up to this - and let's face it, more than likely he isnt - he is only an interim manager. So we can just relax and enjoy the rest of a season I had already written off.
Hats off
Thinks it’s a good appointment considering this season is a write off. Really interested to how he sets up his team too.
"Give me a lucky general , than a smart general"
I really think Ole will me one of the lucky generals..
I really think Ole will me one of the lucky generals..
As long as we have DoF in place, he'll be fine but handing egos is another matter, his style of football and tactical is fine, he needs to have dressing room under his control.
Ah , we're in that stage yet. That's fun too!!
Very good post mate. Like you said just enjoy it until the end of the season and see how it goes. I know the odds are against him strongly but he might prove a lot of people wrong and do something special.
There brief is simple:
Play some better football and improve the atmosphere around the club and I have full confidence in them to do that.
Results wise they need to try get us in the top four because it's technically salvageable (In the same way the Titanic is technically salvageable) but they need to ensure we get into Europe and hopefully go on a FA cup run.
Play some better football and improve the atmosphere around the club and I have full confidence in them to do that.
Results wise they need to try get us in the top four because it's technically salvageable (In the same way the Titanic is technically salvageable) but they need to ensure we get into Europe and hopefully go on a FA cup run.
Due to all the big egos he had to play with and with Carrick by his side I think he will be ok mate
Nice.
Mike Phelan, I can say without equivocation, knows his way around a pair of shorts.
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For those wanting an idea of Solskjærs tactical style, here is an interesting article:
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/h...solskjaer-manchester-united-tactical-analysis
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/h...solskjaer-manchester-united-tactical-analysis
Hope you mean short passes
Solskjaer was one of my favorite players growing up. It’s brilliant having him back at the club.
Good luck, Ole!
Good luck, Ole!
Is it real?
Ah. You noticed. No interview. No hype. No players posting - I mean not one word - on social media. No thanks to Mou from players. Sounds like a lock down. Sounds like Woody in the bunker. Betcha negotiations with 2019 manager still underway
I would have preferred L Blanc, but I am happy with the change and have no doubt Ole loves MUFC as much as most of us fans do. He is all about the team instead of aggrandizing his own ego. So yeah, perfect interim manager. He might even surprise us.
Yep!
Did we have interviews with players thanking LvG after he left? Or for Moyes?
This exactly. I don’t understand some people’s doom and gloom about OGS, and questioning his cv as a manager.
Getting top 4 / winning CL / FA Cup would have been a tall order for any interim manager taking over the squad in its current mess. These should been seen as a bonus if fulfilled rather than an expectation.
The key now is bringing positivity and fight back to OT, and playing the way we should be playing, attacking football, on the front foot, the Man Utd way.
Whether we win or lose is not the most important now. Finding back our identity after years of passing sideways and hoof ball is the priority instead.
This I believe in Ole.
Great news. But what the feck is a footballing deputy manager? Assistant has and always will be the correct term please...
This 6 month long audition may create history. Exactly the sort of manager we need right now. Giggs must be ruing not getting into management 2.5 years back.
Anyone who remembers that Cardiff will recall what a shambles that team was before Solskjaer took over. Anybody using that as evidence that he'll flop here needs to remember that.
I still have a 2O Legend t shirt somewhere in the back of my wardrobe, time to dig it up again methinks.
I meant (as did @arthurka) interviews or quotes etc. with OGS. Its v low key so far.
In that respect I was also remarking on how quiet the players are on twitter etc, about anything to do with the change of management
Apparently Giggs has arrived at Carrington. But why?
I was really torn about that appointment. On the one hand, my in laws are Cardiff fans so I have a soft spot for the club and loved the idea he would do well there - he was a very highly regarded young manager at the time. But I also knew the odds were stacked against him there big time. I never really understood why he took the job, he had turned various others down (including, I think, Villa?) and said he was waiting for the right opportunity. Why he thought Cardiff was that I have no idea.
Was he the big Mourinho fan?
He was probably Mourinho.
I agree with interview with OGS. I am glad it is low key though.
Sorry if it's been asked and answered before but is there a presser with the new boss?