No idea really. Well plenty of ideas but nothing makes any sense, neither does keeping the current one so yeah it's a clusterfeck. Liverpool and City must be pissing themselves laughing at this point in time. Really not sure if Zidane would want to take over this mess. Idiotic planning too if we have to find a manager now.
Our options are limited, who next?
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We will never succeed if we keep employing managers instead of a head coach. There is nobody capable of doing this job the way it's presently constructed
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But that's just it, Klopp was readily available and fit what they wanted like a glove. Off the top of my head I can't really picture anyone like that for United.
Jardim would interest me far more than Zidane. I actually enjoyed his football.
Take Zidanes style with our players, particularly our attack, and it would be crap.
Take Zidanes style with our players, particularly our attack, and it would be crap.
I'd take Wenger or Conte on a two year deal until one of the better managers shake loose.
With him signing a five year contract it would probably go down as the most expensive managerial change in history. Will cost £40M+ to sack Mourinho before we're confirmed to be out of the top 4 (assuming they've got that clause in) and another £40M for Levy to release Pochettino.
This. Why I said we should approach managers under contract if we have to. Zidane is not the right man.
Doesn’t make a difference while the club approach is how it is. Can see the various rants and accusations that would be levelled at every manager mentioned in this thread,
Needs a top team, inexperienced, never won anything before he came here, too similar to mourinho. Living in dreamland if you think putting one man in the middle of the enormous machine that is united while it is run the exact same way will change a thing. Woodward out.
For discussion sakes pretending we’re talking about somebody not coming into a bloody circus of a club then I’d consider. Roughly in order
Conte
Zidane
Carrick/McKenna til May
Pochettino
Gary Neville I shit you not. Our players need a reminder who they’re playing for as much as anything.
Hiring some younger guy like Howe or any number of talented but under the radar German coaches or Italian coach is just turning them into cannon fodder in a fickle world.
Needs a top team, inexperienced, never won anything before he came here, too similar to mourinho. Living in dreamland if you think putting one man in the middle of the enormous machine that is united while it is run the exact same way will change a thing. Woodward out.
For discussion sakes pretending we’re talking about somebody not coming into a bloody circus of a club then I’d consider. Roughly in order
Conte
Zidane
Carrick/McKenna til May
Pochettino
Gary Neville I shit you not. Our players need a reminder who they’re playing for as much as anything.
Hiring some younger guy like Howe or any number of talented but under the radar German coaches or Italian coach is just turning them into cannon fodder in a fickle world.
If the board believe Pochettino is the best option (which I do), they should do it whatever it costs.
Shouldn't be too hard, really. Just need someone who has enough ego, personality and charisma to get instant respect in the dressing room, who has won more than a League Cup trophy, who plays attacking football and trusts the youth, while he himself is being trusted enough to be handed enough funds to get every player he asks for...buuuut at the same time, would be willing to go 9 months with buying nobody, because it's just the last days of September and the January window is problematic, cup-tied players etc. Oh and he should also be unemployed at the moment, or is willing to quit his current club or our poorly run club with huge expectations, being the fourth one in charge in a short time. I'll post my shortlist of managers fitting the bill in after a few.
What's Sir Alex up to these days?
Have Carrick take over until the end of the season.
I wish we would've done the smart thing in the summer and pulled the trigger on José and appointed Sarri.
As of now, considering the limited options, I'd be in favour of bringing him in, too. Proven winner, develops youth, opts for attacking football.
Pochettino or Conte.
If we hire Zidane then I'm going to be truly sceptical.
If we hire Zidane then I'm going to be truly sceptical.
Give it Cantona. 
An experienced caretaker like Hiddink was at Chelsea, for a cleansing of the mind and spirit. Stabilize the ship, and bring the fun back for the players and the fans. This also provides the club with plenty of time to look for a new manager for the summer, with more options to pick from. Maybe Claudio Ranieri?
Tuchel and Sarri were available in the summer.... honestly it makes me wanna cry
Zidane is the obvious one but, I have my doubts he is the right fit for us or could do it. For me it has to be Poch but I don’t see any scenario where we could get him out of Spurs before the season ends. However in the words of Massive Spanner, “it’s fecking Zidane!!”
Woody would love a combination of Zidane manager and see if Becks would be assistant, his brain would explode and we’d actually truly be a Hollywood team. Not adverse to putting Mckena or Carrick in charge for the rest of the season, I actually think they’d bring this team together but failing that Wenger, Keane, Giggsy then work on who we really want/need in the summer.
Woody would love a combination of Zidane manager and see if Becks would be assistant, his brain would explode and we’d actually truly be a Hollywood team. Not adverse to putting Mckena or Carrick in charge for the rest of the season, I actually think they’d bring this team together but failing that Wenger, Keane, Giggsy then work on who we really want/need in the summer.
Missing out on CL football is more money than Jose's sack clause.
Conte until end of the season..
What?
Come of it.
Get Zidane in, ffs he won 3 champion leagues in a row. I know he had a slightly better team than us, but Jose never won the UCL with Real Madrid and Zidane still had the likes of Juve, Bayern, Barca, Atletico Madrid to deal with. There's no one better on the market anyways. And it's Zinedine fecking Zidane, players will respect him.
Caf:
"We're not becoming the next Arsenal"
Also Caf:
"Hire Wenger"
"We're not becoming the next Arsenal"
Also Caf:
"Hire Wenger"
Get the DOF in first
Please god not Conte. I don't understand how anyone can watch this brand of football and then suggest Conte is a reasonable solution.
Absolutely.
Exactly.
We need to appoint a Dof/Technical director before we take any decision with regards to a new manager, imo. Don't know if it'll be a success or not, but we need someone with better football knowledge than Eddy in there.
Once we get that, imo, we can take two approaches:
(1) Appoint a care taker manager till the end of the season and let them assess the squad along with the Dof. Then in the summer we get a new shiny manager who powered with the squad assessment from the Dof can make the necessary squad changes. Pochettino, Jardim, Zidane - can all be decent options. I am sure there are a couple more who can do the job.
(2) We appoint Zidane, if we think he is the right man, and let him have a season without any pressure of results (Kind of like Liverpool did with Klopp) to assess the squad and implement his style of football. He can use the season as a freebie to get a long term plan going at this club.
This is a 3-4 year project. I don't think there are any quick fixes. Whatever it is, Eddy should be ready to open the chequebook for any new manager.
Once we get that, imo, we can take two approaches:
(1) Appoint a care taker manager till the end of the season and let them assess the squad along with the Dof. Then in the summer we get a new shiny manager who powered with the squad assessment from the Dof can make the necessary squad changes. Pochettino, Jardim, Zidane - can all be decent options. I am sure there are a couple more who can do the job.
(2) We appoint Zidane, if we think he is the right man, and let him have a season without any pressure of results (Kind of like Liverpool did with Klopp) to assess the squad and implement his style of football. He can use the season as a freebie to get a long term plan going at this club.
This is a 3-4 year project. I don't think there are any quick fixes. Whatever it is, Eddy should be ready to open the chequebook for any new manager.
Please God no more Chelsea rejects
Pogba player manager.
He thinks he is daddy big bollox well go and prove it...
He thinks he is daddy big bollox well go and prove it...
Won't happen.
If we get Zidane we're back to square one.
Alternatives? Honestly no idea...
Carrick caretaker till the end of the season?
Alternatives? Honestly no idea...
Carrick caretaker till the end of the season?
I don't think you quite appreciate how shit it would be for us to be out of the champions league.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Knows and loves the club. Unproven, yes, but Mourinho and LVG are meant to be ‘proven’ managers.
"Sir Alex taught me how not to become complacent and always keep the standards up," Solskjaer said.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, he added: "Everything I know about managing top footballers I learned from him."
Knows and loves the club. Unproven, yes, but Mourinho and LVG are meant to be ‘proven’ managers.
"Sir Alex taught me how not to become complacent and always keep the standards up," Solskjaer said.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, he added: "Everything I know about managing top footballers I learned from him."
I wouldn't mind giving Henry a shot, I'm sure he'd set us up to play some nice attacking football, and he seems to like United aswell.
No more old dinosaurs, let's get some up and coming manager who knows the league and has ambitions.
No more old dinosaurs, let's get some up and coming manager who knows the league and has ambitions.
Won the league in Norway when he was allowed to buy lots of players that were too good for the league, really not done much after that, except failing at Cardiff.
Doubt he's good enough for the PL.
Roberto Martinez!
Sir Bobby and me would be happy with that if nobody else.
Sir Bobby and me would be happy with that if nobody else.
Bielsa !
Please not Zidane he’s just flavour of the month. We need to get the right man this time.