Why don't managers gatecrash parties anymore?
What would happen if ten Hag copied Fergie in doing this?
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Why don't managers gatecrash parties anymore?
He didn't fancy the flight to Belfast
To be fair, pre-9/11 you could threaten pilots so they'd take you where ever you wanted to go.
Funny, I was literally just reading about this minutes before the thread was posted.
Are you a peeper?
I think even Fergie stopped doing that sort of thing. The better and more modern way is dropping the player, costing them performance related play or selling them.
Ferguson didn’t need too.
He wouldn’t have kept players with attitude issues at any stage of his time here.
If it came out that Fergie used to brand players arses if they were out of line, would you be shocked?
Ten Hag should just show up in VIP at the club the players frequent while wearing a tight dress, red lipstick but no wig. That's a proper power move that the lads can respect.
when you read the title, then the post, then think I know who posted this, and then you finally read the username to confirm
Or make Rashford play a game in the same outfit.
Aside from Ferdinand, Rooney, Schmeichel etc
How is that better than addressing it in a way that doesn't keep the player in question out of the team and from helping the club achieve it's targets? Anytime a player is dropped for discipline the club is harming itself too unless the end result justifies it.
But how many years did it take him to clear the club of the bad apples?
Yes... would you not?
They delivered on the pitch though and their work ethic was not consistently called into question.
They were world class players. There is a trade off. What attitude issues did these players have btw?
A fine is the obvious answer. That said, dropping Rashford isn't much of a big deal at this point.
I think it's safe to say at least half of this forum would have wanted him sacked by the end of the first season.
higher wages, branding & commercialisation, rise of super agents, vertical integration, celebrity culture, social media clout chasing, and overall player power increasing in the modern game meant that sir alex wouldn't even be able to do what he used to do back then, let alone any other manager now.
one of the reasons sir alex left when he did was him knowing that his man management style was being slowly but surely stifled and knew his overall influence was being shafted from a corporate and cultural level.
one of the reasons sir alex left when he did was him knowing that his man management style was being slowly but surely stifled and knew his overall influence was being shafted from a corporate and cultural level.
would be strung up in social media and sacked as being "cruel" to humans
Big difference is that now everybody has a phone with a camera and a social media account to post on.... players used to get away with all sorts of shenanigans under SAF and we never heard about it unlike now we are almost watching it live!
SAF could not manage as things are, he would be sued for harassment
SAF could not manage as things are, he would be sued for harassment