Based on last season's league table we're currently on course to finish 9th. With the same points that Leeds finished with.
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And Conte could've been got on an 18 month contract. Nothing long-term.
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There’s little change from other seasons, just less luck.
Of course but we have some absurd romantic notion that recreating SAF's greatness using Chinese knock offs is the way to greatness rather than ordinal modern thought and excellence. You reap what you sow and all that.
If I didn't support United I'd probably find all of this absolutely hilarious
This is one of the reasons why although we are one of the world's biggest football clubs but will always find it tough to be a winning machine like Madrid who are less reliant on all time great genius managers like SMB and SAF creating an era greatness. We simply do not demand excellence. As a fan base, as a football club.
This.. In fact not much has changed since he started, except when we bought Bruno, we started seeing more moments of brilliance, and Mason kicked on, other than that, not much changed tactically. This season, with the squad we have now, and us finishing second somehow last season elevated the expectations, so he tried to switch things around a little to meet the expectations, and has failed miserably and been nothing short of embarrassing. It’s like he’s caught in between, when plays like the previous seasons, the luck is not on our side as much anymore, so our wins dried, and the 20% of times he try’s to switch it up, he fails.
Your man is a c##t.....can't believe folk sharing this shit like it Is interesting
who’s “your man”? all I know about the guy is he works for talksport. they are clickbaity nonsense in general, that doesn’t inherently make them incapable of stating true things however. I happen to be in alignment with the statement in the tweet thus I posted it.
I used to oppose this opinion and thought he was just average. But the more I reflect on this city game, the set up, the length of time it took to change it, these kind of decisions wouldn’t even be made by an average manager. It’s absolutely shocking that we set up today like that. I’m getting more angry thinking back at it. He knew city don’t play with a centre forward yet he went with a back three. He knows we have hurt city on the break with pace and he played zero pace in the team today. If this shit was going on with Mourinho there’d be riots.
Well, they wouldn't be saying anything even if they were actively in the process of writing up his termination papers. It's not as if board members loiter outside the stadium after the game, giving interviews about how strongly they're considering sacking the manager.
Usually we will hear a lot of very strong "leak" to the press/credible sources if the manager going to be sacked soon.
To be fair you’ll hear a torrent of briefs if/when the board want to assert Ole is safe for now.
Yesterday’s setup was criminal. As you said, everyone knows that City plays without aCF, still we played 3 at the back. City’s wide players are their biggest attacking threat and so united wingers had to defend most of the time effectively making it 5 at the back all the time. And then, along with the 2 DM’s, even Bruno had to come deep to cover the holes in midfield which totally isolated Ronaldo at front.
If it was any other manager, indeed I can’t believe anyone would clap after the disgrace of second half. He has forfeited the game and his plan was not to try to come back, but only to minimize the damage in order to save his job. Ole before the club. Absolutely despicable
Never underestimate ego of elite sportsperson. Ole, i dont think will ever give up the dream of managing United. This opportunity is once in a lifetime for him.
Somehow turn this into praising Jose, typical
Completely disagree. This is a fair expectation from someone who is purportedly a "club legend". Gattuso walked away admitting that things won't work. And he didn't take the compo either. That's what legends should do.
He passed that test though - win against Spurs was enough, Atalanta bailed out by Ronaldo and avoided losing, yesterday he knew that in order to keep his job all he needed to do is to avoid humiliating result like 0-6. One win in three is okayish for a manager of his level, I’m pretty sure following the “board being impressed by Spurs win” it was already decided he stays until the end of the season bar some freak results, so now it’ll be all about damage control and trying to finish games with results that allow Ole to continue with his bullshit “but we are so close if only we converted chances”
Well said. United dna does not mean winning, ecxellence or success, it means be a nice bloke. What a joke we have become
A win against probably the worst team in the league on the night. A team whose manager got sacked off the back of defeat by the worst manager in the league at the moment. Yeah that win says a lot.
But didn’t you notice the context doesn’t matter with Ole propaganda? Second in the league last year, never looking at our performances or how badly our competitors did, hailed as a giant success after shambles in Europe and domestic cups. Same with City loss yesterday - it was only 0-2, therefore not so bad.
If the Board are going to stick with this man in charge it should be made known via an open statement.
Oh they won't do that as they know it's a death sentence. They will just cling on as long as they can to the sinking ship.
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