Ole looks like he's aged 10 years in that photo since he got the job.
I think this is all coming to a boil now. We lose both matches, he's as good as gone. I just hope the club does not make another monumental feck up in appointing the next manager. I'm not convinced our current form is down to just Ole's coaching and tactics. The entire coaching staff needs cleaned out if Ole has to go.
He does he is starting to have the similar body language to Moyes sitting slumped on the bench and inane grinning and this press conference today has wound me up. I am NOT saying I've lost respect for him as a player, I will forever be thankful to him especially for THAT moment in 99 however as a MANAGER he isnt up to such a huge task. He has the right intentions and love for the club but so do a lot of people on here- would they be appointed as manager of Manchester United, no of course not! He is also starting to sound like Moyes with what he says the whole needing to put a few wins together sounds nearly as bad as Moyes and his aspiring to City's level it adds to the impression he doesn't know how to fix it more shut your eyes and hope stage.
I think while I loved the run he went on when he first came in, I think it hurt him more than anything, had that not happened and we'd just done ok they wouldn't have rushed to appoint him, the subsequent results may have unfolded or the players would have kept playing to maximum effort as they dont know who the manager was, leading us to get top 4 waiting was a win win situation as if the bad run unfolded we could have simply said thank you for looking after us and stepping in for the rest of the season and waved goodbye.
He doesn't even seem to be feeling any pressure based on that press conference you'd think there would at least be meetings about performance concerns and his plans to get us out this rut which may force him to change things up a bit if he knows he's under pressure but on he grins.
I think it doesn't help, aside from Phelan, he has very inexperienced coaches so no one to "help" him Carrick was appointed by Jose and was going to be learning from him, Phelan has been in Australia and the league has changed a lot since he was last assisting in it and McKenna has been with the youth and weve seen what a step up youth to PL is.
He also said he wanted to work on fitness yet while there have been some improvements we haven't seen the intense press he spoke about- if that's the main thing he wanted to work on I'd expect it to be what we are best at
I completely agree Ole is merely a piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit but as he is one of the biggest ones, being the manager, he is out of his depth and we need to part ways with him as unfortunately the fairy tale we hoped for isn't going to happen its currently looking more like a nightmare
I wonder if the fact so many other managers have been underperforming has taken the press heat off Ole a bit now they are getting sacked their attention will turn to him.
I also wonder if the players aren't looking like they aren't playing for him because he gives them a fairly easy ride. I cant imagine him giving them the hair dryer though I know people have said he can do, he just seems too nice. Obviously Jose was too far the other end of the scale but are the players enjoying being given a lot of rope by him so of course they want him to stay. There was an article in the paper the other day about the various fines Lampard has brought in at Chelsea and they seem to have no problem playing for him, I would compare Ole to Lampard and while they have just lost and are dodgy defensively they have also had the transfer ban and lost their best player yet Lampard is taking them forward and when he is allowed to sign players I can see them progressing more.
Obviously we all know Woodward needs moving to the corporate side only and a DOF appointed however this is a thread about Ole.
As an aside I think we will beat or draw with at least one of Tottenham and City which will buy him loads more time as the board will take the view we aren't "expected" to win. We will then probably lose to Colchester or Everton or something and the cycle will continue
