The number 1 attribute would obviously not be developing young players. If it was, we'd all be pretty happy with Ten Hag as that's one thing you can't deny he's done well.
It's probably not having a defined system and a determination to stick to it either. Ten Hag does have a system he won't budge from, even when the players he needs to make it work are missing and what he has is woefully unsuited to it.
The obvious answer is that the number 1 attribute should be winning football matches or at the very least not allowing us to slide into relegation form. I realise that that may come across as a curt response though, so I'll say that a new manager should be able to adapt to what he's got every week. That means having a style of play that isn't totally reliant on having a superhuman DM or a left winger in the goalscoring form of his life. Crucially, it means being able to come up with a plan that doesn't fall to pieces when Licha and/or Shaw are unavailable.
I didn't know we were fecked after any of our defeats this season. I knew we were fecked when those two players were ruled out. It's not a great look when you know your manager definitely won't be able to find a solution to an injury.
This is a great point, as well as the obvious traits like Courage, integrity, intelligence, tactical acumen, for me number 1 is
Flexibility, ETH is stubborn beyond belief he never changes his system for no team and that’s why he’ll never be a truly elite coach, all of the great coaches are able to adjust when they know their opponent cause a threat, either before the game or in game. Our coach is so convinced by his 4-1-2-3 or 3-1-6 formation that he is often out thought in many games.
The Club just took 6 points from our last 7 PL games which included City, Chelsea and Liverpool but also Fulham, Everton, Bournemouth and Brentford.
Injuries are also a major issue at all the other teams, not to have least got 10 points from those games, suggest this clown will never learn, when your conceding 25-30 shots a game your playing relegation football, survival football and no Manager Coach should ever be allowed to do that with the cost of the players and the wages paid, but also to ETH he’s paid an awful lot more than Thomas Frank, Marco Silva, Sean Dyche, Andoni Iraola so you would expect a lot more from him he’s been out thought tactically by coaches like Roy Hodgson, Nuno Espirito Santos and Roberto De Zerbie, these coaches were mostly deemed not good enough for a Top 6 team then why is he?
De Zerbie regularly has his number, probably finds it’s so easy to break down a lacklustre United.
The fans can’t take any more risks, with young managers right now, we need to get a safe pair of hands, should Madrid blow up at the end of the season Ancelotti would be available, if not he will be in 12 months, so let’s find a now solution right now on a two plus one year contract who we can sack easily if necessary.
I hate myself for saying this but Potter might be an option on that short of a contract, he’s tactically clever, adjusts to the scenario clearly was awful at Chelsea but there was mitigating circumstances, he will adjust his team to play 4-3-3 4231 3421 343, I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d actually sack ETH after the Coventry game win or lose?
That gives Potter 6 maybe 7 games to bed in before the real hard work starts. Southgate would truly be the worst option imaginable, Potter could be an unmitigated disaster as we know already he struggles to manage so many top egos, but clear the deck for him with young players and you never know, he won’t win the Fa Cup but neither will ETH, maybe you bring in Hansi Flick and maybe he could but then it’s highly doubtful. Now if we could sign Naigelsmann, that’s the best current option but I think he’s going back to Bayern, if England play Germany, Southgate will be exposed even though he has the better players. Unless Ineos pull a real Rabbit out of the hat and Jean Claude Blanc has convinced Zidane, I just don’t see any other option than Potter right now, he’s free so won’t effect PSR, he’s known by Ashworth and INEOS and Berrada probably prefers him to Southgate and his football is easy on the eye.
