As a player he was a club legend, As our manager he more resembles a clown. Just because he is a fellow Norwegian doesn't make him some sort of untouchable.
Ole is not untouchable. Never said that, never asumed that, never will. No one is. Not in the modern football. Hero one moment, clown the next. Remember if Ole did quit after the season, he would have "been further up there with the gods at their table" - but he gambled and sits alone in the basement at the moment, and then reality with the lacking transfers hit him during the summer window along with this and that ..
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I will precise this, i follow United mostly because of Ole at this point (far from alone in my native country, which is nothing but natural), if or when he gets the sack i will be more neutral in an instant (Blackburn/Wycombe are my teams, and with the caf and internet fans overall as a reference, the United fans have not converted me - the matchday fans have though, sadly they are a minority and some of the players and the club as a whole as i know it) .. but what i find funny is that i have been a Ole`s Man United supporter for is it - 9 months, and i seem to know more about United than many of the plastic supporters hanging about - and that is sadly not even a joke. Those mental ones are often the ones screaming the loudest also with their keyboards, and they find eachother and they even make a choir not even up to the standards of a screaming alley cat
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Tony Pullis said something like: `
Rebuilding takes time and to get time you have to win matches` That was Tony Pullis, at United you could double that pressure, it comes with the job (end of story)
To survive until the transfer windows are Ole`s job, of course the summer one are the most important. To get there he have to deserve it (and have the definite luck that also goes with being a manager - and that luck has to be earned to, and supported)
I sincerely mean that if he should get one more summer window, there would be a different Ole next season, with more resources, more demand onto the owners, a more hardened character, better team, coaches, more knowledgable of the game we live and learn - funfact: Ole is not stupid (United are such a large machinery it can`t be all controlled in 9 months. You are a big club remember).
Whoever the manager of this club will be, Ole or anybody else, if the time is not given you are doomed to repeat. That i do know.
Also, every manager should also be tested during times when it`s not going so good. How do they cope with the pressure, how do they come out of it, did you as a manager learn anything? United, Arsenal, Spurs, Watford, Wolves, Everton, Newcastle etc .. all under pressure these days
Football is also sureal. If United (i hope when) .. United wins next match - you are in contact with the top again .. then there is Liverpool (but players will be back for that).
.. as to where i would rate Ole as a manager? Right now he is number 11 in the league .. maybe at 6 after Newcastle
