Only the club know why they have turned to Ole instead of countless other ex Manchester United players plying their trade at home and abroad as manager. I can only think that his style is what they think we need right now and unlike Giggs, Carrick, Butt etc he has nothing to do with the previous failed regimes. It's familiar but it's still fresh.
All those media outlets criticising the move and people calling into TalkSport saying we should have got Poch or Jardim or Zidane are kind of missing the point.
We need a rebuild internally in the way the club is structured, how things operate between the manager and boardroom, how we tackle transfer targets, how we prepare for games, how we handle the media, how we handle different kinds of players. Right now it's about more than simply throwing an A Lister into Fergies old seat and hoping things work out.
Most United fans who have not been happy with Mourinho have also been unhappy with our failings in all of the above. This appointment gives the club time to sort a lot of those things, or at least put us on the right path, and with Ole coming in to steer the ship from a match to match perspective then that side of things is in a trusted pair of hands.
Ole is not going to ask for 200m to spend in January. He'll understand fully what is expected.
Any other caretaker coming in, be it Jardim, Blanc, Zidane, whoever. They're going to be treating this as an audition. They'll want money to spend. They'll expect to be able to go for at least one January target and they won't care that the club is trying to sort all these other issues out as well. I hate the term Manchester United People. But right now we need all the Manchester United People we can get if we're ever going to get our identity back as a club. We seem to have lost our way terribly .
I understand Oles appointment. I'm not looking for him to get us top 4 or win the champions League. I'm looking for him to instill a bit of pride and togetherness in the players. I want him to ask them to look at the badge on their shirts and realise what the feck is at stake every time they step out onto that pitch. Decades and decades of hard earned - yes hard earned, not bought - success being chucked under a bus for the sake of one shitty half to the season? Don't think so.
Meanwhile the board can do what they need to in order to set us up for 19/20 and beyond.