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Omar Berrada | Man Utd CEO
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Emotions run high in the immediate aftermath of a game like Sunday's, which is why the journalists time the release of these quotes as they do. They know it'll enrage people, its what they bank on.
In truth I thought the quotes were actually quite ambivalent and far from a whole hearted endorsement. But angry fans won't see past the bit that supports him staying on.
Very true. Seems like our new world class management did the same. Comments from the CEO earlier in the thread:
“We have had a busy summer so far, with transformation on and off the pitch. We welcome Joshua Zirkzee, Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui to the club; four excellent talents with a bright future here. We are delighted that club captain, Bruno Fernandes, has put pen to paper and committed his future to United and Erik ten Hag has extended his contract on the back of our FA Cup success. Dan Ashworth has joined as Sporting Director and Jason Wilcox as Technical Director. We are building a strong and talented football structure to work with Erik and ensure that we are focused on long-term success. We are also looking to build a world-leading non-football leadership team, which I know will help us to thrive.”
FA Cup success is the new benchmark at Manchester United folks.
Rightly or wrongly, we made the decision to keep ETH for this season and give him another go. If we're backing him, we can't have him enter the season with an expiring contract. Triggering a 12 month extension was absolutely the right call in the circumstances.
Pep Guardiola has entered a season on an expiring contract. Someone should tell him and City that they can't do that.
If you think the situations are even remotely comparable then I don't know what to tell you.
Ha ha!!!
"If we're backing him, we can't have him enter the season with an expiring contract."
Try telling me why we can't do that?
It's simultaneously possible for us to be shit and be the architects of that, and unscrupulous journalists to be trading in click bait. I don't see why you're insistent on seeing a dichotomy here.
As I think I've already made clear in this exchange I think ten Hag should have gone long ago. I would have sacked him before Christmas last season and at no point since have I seen anything to change my mind; I accordingly think INEOS have made a mistake in keeping him and are continuing to make a mistake the longer he stays.
However I can also recognise that humiliating defeats to your rivals move the needle. Those who (somewhat inexplicably in my opinion) still had faith in him, like INEOS themselves, are influenced by results like that, and to deliberately represent out of date quotes as a reaction to that result is purely and utterly an exercise in emotionally manipulating fans into clicking on articles by pissing them off further.
We're already swimming in enough shit as it is. I hardly think we need to accept people enriching themselves by rubbing a little bit of said shit into the wounds.
This.Some awful donkeys around!
I find it astonishing that the new CEO and Sporting Director had no say in ETH's contract extension. Surely that could've waited till they joined?
Still saying the right things. Seems a very smart guy. He’s talking the talk, he must be given time to show he can walk the walk.
Pleasing he’s not as headless and reactionary as some Caf posters.
They are probably covering their backs from a legal perspective. Find it very hard to believe they would not have been in the decision making loop at the end of last season.
I wouldn't interprete to much in those statements. It's well possible that they gave green light to that, but they will never confirm that in public as formally they were not yet working for United. So legally they weren't allowed to be involved in that decision at that time, but inofficially they still could have had (limited) input.
He's not going to eviscerate or criticize the manager publicly.
Pretty sure ETH's job is on the line over the next month or so(he should be getting sacked regardless).
Pretty sure ETH's job is on the line over the next month or so(he should be getting sacked regardless).
How did they make him look like a fool?
ETH was never ever going to be sacked three games into the season. The absolute soonest it might potentially happen is after another three, and even then we would probably have had to lose all three for it to happen. More likely it'll take until after the Aston Villa game if the next five games go badly. In the meantime Berrada, Ashworth, etc will fully back him publicly.
Do you know Pep has ultimate authority and respect from hierachy at City and total authority in the dressing room? He is bugger than any player at City and is the one deciding if he will extend not City? On one hand he is having them at the balls, on the other he can stop whenever he feels like it. He will decide not the club. So situation is totally different to United's where United had to extend managers contract if not for uncertainty it would generate, loss of whatever he has left of the authority in the dressing room and pure fact they were able to trigger extension for one year on the base of original contract.
So, why wasn't he sacked in the summer if he barely has any authority left?
Seems like you lot will do just about anything to justify the decision of sticking with ETH, even though it contradicts with your arguments and reasoning.
So he's buggering the players and having them at the balls with one hand?
Is that part of the 115 charges?
Someone should tell him to stop winning.
If he replied no comment to that question, the media will run out of ink. "Berrada coy on Ten Hag Future", "CEO doesn't comment - Ten Hag future in doubt", "Man Utd CEO has no say in manager's future", "Ten Hag's job may be on the line - CEO declines to comment".
Nah only having City management at the balls. Should be a chargeable offense just for shits and giggles to make it 116 offenses.So he's buggering the players and having them at the balls with one hand?
Is that part of the 115 charges?
How can we be sure he is not City spy?
Shits turning into a John Le Carre novel
Because if they were going to spy or sabotage, they probably wouldn't waste their time targeting us.
Never bought it in my life but Elon Musks algorithm obviously noted my interest in United and a United poster I follow quoted it which pushed it to me…. third hand.
One (of a few) of the downsides of Twitter
We can. It's a complete fallacy that generally rely on two extremely flawed ideas. That the manager isn't going to ignore mid to long term plans and that players won't respect the manager's authority. Both of these things could happen but in both cases it's a good thing to actually know that your players and manager have the wrong mindset.
Good post.
In fact I heard this morning that the statement was recommended before the Liverpool game but it was not released until after.
Omar Berrada out, letting McTominay leave sealed the fate of this great club :'(