Every UTD manager since SAF has divided opinion and will do until we win the league a few times. SAF divided opinion in his first few seasons, I remember the 'Fergie Out' days.
Absolute nonsense.
The manager's job is to influence the signings the clubs makes, guide them, motivate them to play for them etc.....
Under a different manager Bruno may not have been the player he was last season.
If we had signed 'x' instead, they may have been just as good.
Shoulda coulda woulda....the bottom line is Ole, Bruno and Utd finished above Chelsea and they don't like it up 'em
The bigger pictures that often get left out of the discussion.
Ole definitely needs to win hardware at this point, but when I think of where the squad was emotionally and positionally when Ole took over, he had a lot of work to do. I think things were a mess behind closed doors, too. He's trying to build a team that can challenge for more than one season, though, and I'm good with that. I see a trade off between one trophy now and probably a drought, as players go in and out of a revolving door, and another season or two without (this past season) followed by several successful seasons with a stable core.
As to the OP, Ole definitely has what it takes to keep a group of guys headed in the same general direction. The thing that makes him better than most is that he did it almost immediately (to the extent that he needed to) and has sorted personalities out in fairly short order. He's also been pretty careful, as far as he has the influence on transfers, to bring in personalities that mesh. That's hugely important to long-term success.
As for someone mentioning how other things got handled, I think Lukaku did himself in. For all the moaning on the Caf, he definitely did not fit the style of play Ole seeks (sorry if I think he has one), even as an unfailing "Plan B" that some believed in. Then he pulled his stunt in the preseason and sealed his own fate. Herrera was out before Ole had a grip on things to keep him (and Ole himself indicated he would have). I do think Van de Beek was foisted on him, yet even Donny has good things to say about Ole. I think it's the front office that's botched the whole Romero situation - everyone knows where Romero stands in Ole's plans after bringing Henderson back in; he should have been sold off or let go.
The only problem I see going forward is improving the talent level of the team while keeping former starters happy to sit on the bench. That time is now, and Ole only gets one shot. If he can get over that hump in the short term and they start winning the hardware, it becomes easier because players want to stay on the gravy train.
As for his coaching acumen, he's shown numerous times that he is far from tactically naive. You don't come in 3rd and then 2nd in the league on tactical naivete. He is stubborn on occasion. But every manager has his flaws and the question is: Can they succeed in spite of their flaws? So far, Ole has maintained the proper trajectory. The certainty from some that he's going to suddenly drop off is unwarranted from what I've seen.