….& yet here we are with the club seemingly moving in the right direction.
Wasn't this the exact take everyone was going with through out the Ole's tenure? "This team would be doing so much better with any other decent manager"?
This is a good point. When Ole was in the job a lot were saying a better manager would get much more out of these players, now we have different manager that is also failing it's now because the players are crap.
Yeah good point his ''assessment'' will be surely be biased by the fact the squads form almost to a man has deteriorated and/or stayed crap due to his own management.
This doesn't really make any sense from the perspective of a manager
If anyone with half a brain could say it why didn’t Ole? We had three seasons of playing happy families and trophies are for egos, home truths are needed and it was always going to be ugly. It’s easy for us to say, this and that are obvious but it’s harder for a manager particularly when this group of players has history of downing tools.
Oh, I have no belief that the club will do things right regardless. The Glazers are the real problem.
Wait…you don’t think we need a rebuild?
Because he wasn't qualified to manage the club ? He would've made a decent caretaker until a proper manager was hired.
He doesn’t improve Fred. Fred has been excellent for at least 2.5 years. He indeed put Fred to a more advanced, adventuring position/role sometimes. It fit Fred’s skill set better. But then, we have only one Fred, thus, our midfield issues are often worse.
Would they? I’m not so sure.. who could have come in on an interim basis and led us to fourth? And is that what you want to see next season? More of the same?
We could but players need to step up. Use every single day to train and stop with other things beside football. You don't fly away on vacation in the middle of the season when you play poor or when your team is poor. You stay at home and work out. But our players, as soon as they are "free" fly across the world for own purpose. That is why lot of them are just artificial footballers and it all falls apart when it gets slighty tough.
If he wasn’t, the club wouldn’t be moving him upstairs at the end of the season, if they only wanted an interim to push us into fourth, why on earth would they then keep them around afterwards? And why would they give an interim manager hired solely on the basis of getting us fourth, any input at all into who comes in next? Fabrizio has reported that he was involved in the process… it doesn’t add up
See Conte at Spurs. Came in and won far more than RR with lesser players. It can obviously be done. Even Moyes has outperformed us this year and is a game in hand away from having more points than us.
It's nothing to do with Ole. Look at Ralf's stats. He must be the worst performing manager of the lot. That's not what he was brought in for. Otherwise, Carrick could have just stayed until the end of the season. He might as well have done.
The is one of the main affect due to Ralf’s failure. Everyone lose faith on our squad. Our squad is not as bad as they are projected really.
Conte is permanent manager. its clear half the team dont care for Ralf, or they would play like he wanted them to
Of that we agree. We’ve basically had unqualified interims for 4 years, one was all smiles and thought player appeasement was the way forward, the other is the opposite. Ragnick’s tenure will be remembered better when the dust has settled because it was so short, it’s clear he isn’t an elite coach (which we all knew) but it’s a 6month gig and if his legacy is shit football but clearing out the freeloaders it’s infinitely better than 3 years of shit football whilst dissolving the standards of the club and handing out bumper deals to mercenaries.
Another reason why it wasn’t necessary to hire him. We looked better under Carrick’s one or two matches in charge and should’ve kept him for the season until ETH was hired.
Apparently, Ole’s coaching team is very talented. The problem is at that time, all pundits (many are our former players) were talking absolute nonsense that the whole coaching team must leave. What can we expect from any honorable man in that circumstance? Carrick had to take the decision to leave then even though he wants to help.
Bizarre to give credit to Ralf for these “changes”.
Ralf has built up two clubs from the ground up with one being a regular CL contender. Ralf for recruitment is far superior and that’s the primary reason we have him. The fact Ole still is on your minds shows how deluded the fanbase is as well. Would you rather have Ole still be in charge or have ten Hag now?
See RB Leipzig and see players that have come thru that club. The fact this is even a debate hahaha. Ole was a fecking disaster on recruitment.
They absolutely were not. Mitten who broke the story is categoric in it being nothing to do with Ragnick. He also thinks that despite finding his press conferences engaging he’s been shite and will have little to no influence going forward. Which begs the question: why did we hire a DOF who dabbled in management long ago to one of the hardest interim gigs around considering the circumstances if not to keep him on going forward? Truly bizarre appointment.
I don’t understand why people can’t see the changes being made at the club?
Because Ole himself built the squad, and saying bluntly the squad needs work means he's admitting he's doing a shit job as manager.
Who else could we have brought in?
There you go… 100% agree.
Many neutrals still think the Glazers are "okay" so I do not think their opinions should hold much weight.
I’ve been a skeptic but the process of bringing in ten Hag as well as having Rangnick has been smooth and without the drama of the past. The fact some still believe that it’s solely on the manager is comical, and shows a lack of education and awareness imo. This group of players has downed 3 managers, given up and taken the easy way out because they have been given too much power. Now we have Ralf figuratively pulling their pants down in public and still the mob isn’t happy.
He was only leaving because Rangnick had been brought in. He could have stayed until the end of the season, Rangnick could still have come in and done his assessment from upstairs, leaving the board to carry out their due diligence on Ten Hag or whoever ready for the new season.
How has it been smooth? We've been even more of a laughing stock under Rangnick for 6 months. We may as well have hired the cleaner to take charge of the first team.
