No, he shouldn't be given until the end of the season, he should be gone already and should never have been renewed
People need to be able to differentiate between Ole the player and Ole the manager.
If they'd just not renewed him, he'd have left with a warm reception, and thanks for the green shoots he'd started to lay
We are now already going backwards, and could be back to square one at this rate.
Of course his mates will defend him, though I'm sure I saw somewhere Gary Neville were quite scathing.
He's protected by what he did as a player, hence why the fans won't turn either. If this was a manager who had no links to the clubs history, he'd be getting absolutely hammered. I seem to recall Scholes being quite scathing towards previous managers, I used to enjoy listening to him. I think he'd be the same with Ole if there was no history there.
Even if we get absolutely annihilated by Liverpool Sunday, the fans won't turn. It'll be an absolute cauldron of hostility, but they will turn their anger on the Liverpool fans. If he uses cowardly tactics against them and we still get battered, I think he will have lost the likes of Ronaldo/Bruno et Al in the dressing room, if he hasn't started to already
We need to be ruthless like Chelsea were with Lampard. Look what their season ended with. Yes it would have been a dream scenario for him to come back restore the culture and lead us to trophies. Unfortunately he's shown for a while now he's not capable of doing so, and it's time to thank him for the foundations he's laid and move on before it turns into a nightmare.
With this squad, bar the DM option, he should have nowhere to hide. SAF won multiple trophies with "worse" sides.
Would Ole have won a trophy, let alone the treble, with the 99 team?