Schrodinger's manager. The manager is both the most important person at the club, and we must back him, at the same time he is just 5% of the results.
I call this, for the lack of a better word, total nonsense. As we saw when SAF left and we hired Moyes, with virtually the same team, we dropped from 1st to 7th. We will see the same when Pep leaves. We will see Liverpool going back to mediocre next season. We saw Real going from UCL winners to shit to UCL winners depending on the manager. We saw Inter going from triple winners to shit when they replaced Mourinho with Benitez.
And hopefully, one day we will see United becoming good again when we finally hire a good manager.
Nownow, you’re not really sincere here with the Schrödinger allusion. Or was Ferguson one manager from 1986-1990 when he had us at 11th and 13th, and then a completely different being from 1991 and onwards?
I think you understand very well that there are many, many factors influencing the performances and the league positions, and that the manager is just one of those factors, often the biggest factor, but not necessarily. Money is a bigger factor, normally, and Ferguson after PLC and TV economy was part of a better United than before PLC and TV economy, not a different manager. Pep with money is a completely different prospect than Pep without money, who might even be a lot worse package than Dyche without money?
Ferguson with a malfunctioning club structure wasn’t a dead cat that came alive, but a man who in cooperation with several other key figures worked together to change that club structure in a way that reaped actual first team performances only after five years of hard work.
Nowadays, only idiots like Ed Woodward expect an economist and a manager to be able to affect a club that broadly between themselves.
If we see Uniteds performance levels rise over night, we will not know wether it is a Solskjær bump or the evidence of a great manager coming in the door. Ten Hag a year ago looked like a brillant manager in most outsiders’eyes. Now he looks like a moron to many. It’s not two different excistances or entities, it’s the same manager trying to chip in with his 5% while trying to affect other factors in the club that will increase the positive influence over the next few or several years.
People like to be certain, because they don’t like to be uncertain. I am not certain what will happen if Ten Hag has another year at United, or even two. What I am certain of, is that there are a lot of people who feel like they know what’s going to happen, even if they actually don’t. The clue to The Schrödinger Mystery, is the box that prevents us from knowing.
