Which Post-Fergie manager tenure disappointed you the most?

1. Jose made me hate the club and everything about it. He made it a chore to watch games and his pressers were just classless.
2. LvG: towards the end of LvG's charge I was actually excited about the team. I thought he had set up a style even though most of his actual term was dead boring. This was the first of many times Woodward's obsession with "CL qualification or out" policy really hurt us in the long term.
3. Ole: Ole made me believe. He gave me a glimmer of the United that I had first fallen in love with and then couldn't follow through on it,. I hope he learns from his mistakes if he gets a second chance - mind you this is the only tenure where I actually believed we could get back to the elite. That's why this sticks so much with me. I just don't see any way back for our club unless someone who was here during the Fergie days drags us back.


The rest honestly doesn't even register for me as I just fell out of love with football after Ole's firing. Rangnick was a joke, ETH was hyped but almost always destined for failure in my view, Amorim was just very rigid for no reason, and Moyes should have never been hired.
 
Probably have to go with ETH ultimately. He did win some hardware but did so much damage with the disastrous signings. Amorim was too rigid and naive...but also saddled with the trash left over from ETH.

Ole got a bad rap but he didn't ultimately have what it took to pull them out of the tailspin they were in at the end.

Morinho and Van Gaal were overrated.

Moyes was just the wrong guy at the wrong time.
 
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Jose. Realising he didn’t lie when he said finishing 2nd in 17/18 is one of his biggest achievements. Obvious exaggeration but we’ve come nowhere close to that points tally post SAF.

He’s the last one I truly believed would win the league and the truth is he got nowhere close.

The others were disappointing but my expectation was filled more with hope.
 
Its between the first 3. Just because i didn't expect much after that.
I didn't have much faith in Moyes and wasn't especially surprised or disappointed. Van Gaal i was surprised by and Mourinho even more so. Mourinho in particular lowered my expectations to such a level that there wasn't much room for disappointment. I'd say Amorim still managed to be disappointing despite that.
 
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Probably Mourinho cause he was the only one I thought would win the league within his time at the club.

Not so much what he did, I just had higher standards of him than the others.
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Agree. It’s also the regret had we got him when Fergie left, I think he would have been a success.

In retrospect he was past it. We all knew it would end in tears, but I thought we would get some success beforehand.
 
Amorim looking at results, especially the loss to Spurs and his god awful performances overall.

But good I hated EtH, all of him….eh.

Mourinho is Mourinho. You hate and love him.

LvG. Strange man and equally strange football.

Ole was fun and brought some good memories and some “old” United back after Mourinho.

The rest had too little time. More or less forgotten.
 
ETH as he was the one I was most excited for and had the highest hopes for followed by Amorim. I didn't have any expectations for Amorim but everything was just so meh, quickly thought his 'charisma' just masked the bleakness of what we were seeing.

With Mourinho, I kind of expected things to end sour but ultimately Mourinho had the highest level of all the managers. He's the only manager, I had animosity towards after he left too. The others I don't or didn't care how they got on once they left.
 
Amorim was basically a disaster from day 1. There was no honeymoon period, he was in crisis mode about 4 or 5 weeks in.

The biggest disappointment for me is ETH. There was that period where we beat Barcelona then won the League Cup and it looked like it really might be the start of something special. And then pretty much everything after that, bar the FA Cup win, was horrendous.
 
Most disappointing has to be Ten Hag. After a genuinely promising first season (third-place finish, League Cup win and FA Cup final) there was real belief that he could be our long-term answer. Instead what followed was steady decline, culminating in some truly poor recruitment decisions in the summer of 2024, draining resources we could ill afford to waste.

That said ‘most disappointing’ does NOT mean ‘worst.’ The worst, and comfortably so, was Amorim. He’s leapfrogged Moyes in my book. His tenure delivered basically NOTHING of value: no tactical identity that stuck, zero improvement in results (rather the opposite) and no momentum built for the future.

Recent set-piece semi-competence aside a complete waste of time with little to no other redeeming factors at all.
 
I had low expectations of Amorim, and never wanted him to be our manager - so I wouldn’t say he ‘disappointed’ me as such. He is comfortably the worst though, and our worst ever, certainly in my lifetime.

All of them offered promise though, so their failures were all disappointments due to none of them ultimately restoring glory.
 
Disappointed - Amorim. I had high hopes and he said all the right things. But in my opinion he was just a mediocre manager with a huge ego.

Upset/Angered - ETH. I think he was corrupt and did significant damage to the club.
 
van Gaal and EtH.

The others I expected shit football from bar Amorim who I had no clue about. I thought these two were going to finally get us playing good, possession based footy but nope.
 
Mou was the only one that I really thought would win us a title. So in that highest-hopes-highest-disappointment manner, I would say Mou.

As for who was the absolute worst - clearly Amorim
 
In terms of disappointment, I'll say Amorim because I was so excited when a young supposedly promising coach like him was appointed. Especially after beating the noisy neighbors on the eve of joining us. However he was truly a disaster shocking disaster. Mourinho was a manager I never liked seeing in our dugout, I never loved him because Mourinho represented Chelsea to me. He was always a rival, I even stopped watching some of our games - didn't watch the Europa final. Boy I wished Ole well, he got us to the Europa final (not like Amorim's) but the return of Ronaldo put him in a tricky situation, the team chemistry (and harmony) broke down. Let me end the post here. Wishing us better luck in our next manager, we need to get back to the top and immediately too.
 
All the nerds promised me that the likes of Ten Hag and Amorim would solve our problems. In reality they were both worse than Jose, Ole and LVG. Hell, Amorim, the biggest nerd hero of the two, was even worse than Moyes!

Luckily I knew better than to fully trust them. Therefore the disappointment was rather mild. Especially after being disappointed so many times previously.
 
Van Gaal for me. I was expecting ballsy, exciting total football and instead we got some of the most dull performances I’ve ever seen. Great press conferences though.

Ten Hag for similar reasons too, though obviously he had nowhere near the pedigree of LVG.
 
Mourinho. I thought we'd at least win a title before he possibly imploded.

Van Gaal second. I thought we'd at least play good football. Pre-season in 2014 burnt me forever in regards to taking anything from pre season again.
 
Mourinho.
I genuinely thought we'd win the league, as he always won league titles for teams he managed.
In the first season, we won 2 trophies.
The second season was the one we'd be going for the league. We got 2nd.
The third season....the less said about that, the better.
 
LVG easily as expected big things and thought he could be a good fit.....didnt expect much from all the others and didnt really know Amorim
 
ETH, easily. I loved how his Ajax team played and he had us playing some pretty decent football that first season. After that it was a train wreck.

I would say LvG, but I dont blame him. Look at the absolute shit players Woodward provided him with. He actually performed admirably with that squad and I think given some time and proper recruitment he would've come good. But his style was also a bit too rigid given our history.

Moyes and Jose went exactly as I thought they would. Moyes always looked in over his head and Jose was always going to get decent results by playing boring football and then end up self-destructing.

Amorim and Ole I had no real expectations for one way or another.
 
Ten Hag for me. A Dutch coach who didn’t understand the importance of midfield is absolutely sacrilegious. So many other things he did that I personally felt let down by. Every other manager played and thought in a manner I broadly expected, but ETH’s poor performance felt like a roundhouse to the liver.
 
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