Reality is,
he has done exactly as 99% of our supporters have asked...
1) Removed deadwood - He's done more with the squad in 9 months (ONE Transfer window) than Jose did in 2 and half years (5 Transfers windows) for god sake!
2) Promoted and involved youth, Heavily!
3) Addressed key areas in our defence.
You're not one for giving patience clearly cause as I've just proven matter of fact he is doing what was asked of him but because we aren't Barca circa 2008 he has to go?
Every man and his dog knew the players that needed getting rid of. Every man and his dog also knew that we need to bring in players to replace them. Here the club/Ole failed miserably. I know the order came from above but I'm putting the blame squarely on Ole because once he said we're not signing any more forwards because we want to continue the development of Greenwood he put himself right in the firing line. How the club/Ole thought they could get away with only having Martial, Rashford and a 17 year old leading our front line stinks of pure arrogance or stupidity. The same as not signing other CMs. Either way strike one against Ole.
He's promoted youth because basically he doesn't have much choice being so thin on the ground and to be truthful I think he's doing a horrible job of it. How is bringing youngsters on in the 80th minute when we're chasing games going to help their development ? Garner who should getting more minutes was playing excellently for the U23s, got called up to the first team squad, didn't make the bench and when he was sent back to the U23s his confidence looks shot to pieces. Chong looks like a headless chicken when he gets first team minutes. How is Gomes who I think is the best of the lot supposed to progress in his development when Ole is tactically clueless? Which has been proven the last 9 months. Letting Greenwood lead the line is suicide. He's 17 ffs. I can see him having a good season then stagnating completely which is more or less what happened to Rashford. Strike 2 against Ole.
Yes it's true he signed 2 good defenders but once again you don't need to be a brain surgeon to understand this. Our defence was crap. He signed 2 of the most expensive players for their position. End of. James has been another good signing but once again being used wrongly in the amount of game time he's been given. He was hardly discovered by Ole either. If Giggs didn't give the club the heads up about him then right now he'd be playing for Leeds.
People won't agree with what I've written and that's fair enough but what Ole has done outside of the playing side has been pretty basic and really nothing to get excited about but talking about the playing side I really want to know what Ole has done to make people think he's the man for the job? I've seen this question asked so many times on here and the only answers I keep hearing are about getting rid of players, signing players, youth and because he knows the club. Any others?
It's not all doom and gloom. I do think if we get a couple of players in in January, Bruno being one of them and get a tactically astute manager (money talks) we could be pushing for top 4 providing we haven't imploded by then, then in the summer carry on with the rebuild. The top managers are the difference between getting top players in. I'm afraid Ole doesn't fall into that bracket.