Farewell to Ole

[Jerseybean]

as per the title seems the decision has been made: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59364319

 

[MC RISK77]

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

[Pezo]

6 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

Ronaldo for manager then?

[Coxy27]

9 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

Or it could just be that they've got a rubbish manager, players not performing (who aren't that good anyway, i.e. Maguire, Pogba), and no central midfield.

Ronaldo is world class, even now. He's not making any team worse.

[Selred]

14 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

I think Ronaldo was signed because they didn’t want him going to Man City. They always needed a defensive midfielder though, just such a poorly run club. 

[Super]

He should never have got the job. Top 3 teams have world class managers United have a Championship one. This is why Spurs acted quick to get Conte in.

[WarksRobin]

Zz

[Waconda]

The "Peter Principle".

Good player doesn't require the same skill set as a good manager.

Edited November 21, 2021 by VT05763

[Numero Uno]

30 minutes ago, Pezo said:

Ronaldo for manager then?

I thought Bruno Fernandez was running it?

[And Its Smith]

23 minutes ago, WarksRobin said:

Zz

Zidane is favourite I think. Can’t see that working out too well though 

[Bris Red]

He did well to last the length of time he did. No doubt he has earned an absolute fortune since signing the new deal there and will now have a whopping payout coming his way. Not bad for a pretty poor manager.

Edited November 21, 2021 by bris red

[LoyalRed]

49 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

Players he signed for this season are larger characters than he is.  Ronaldo is still one of the best players in the world and would easily be first pick in every premiership team.  The way Ole has managed Sancho, Van De Beek, Lingard is farcical ... 

[oldstandrobin]

Couldnt care less, cant stand the club, even lost to us a couple of years ago 

[Andy082005]

52 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

Inevitable after that performance yesterday- they were absolutely dreadful.

Anyone else think Ronaldo while a truly legendary goal scorer, was a purely indulgent signing and has made them worse?

I wouldn’t say he made them worse, he just isn’t what they needed at the time. 
 

They should have broke the bank for someone like Declan Rice when they had the chance 

More importantly….get an elite manager . 
 

Even mediocre clubs in the Prem won’t take Ole 

 

[Lorenzos Only Goal]

I generally couldn't care less about United, however the manager isn't the problem there since we beat them Pogba and many others are just there for the money and Ole is just there as long as they want him there.  Seems they downed tools again as they were bored. 

[redsquirrel]

job for grouty? sorry,joey

[Taylor10]

Am I alone in enjoying their demise? Ole seems like a decent bloke but he’s so far out of his depth. In all honesty he should never have got anywhere near that job.

I also don’t think he recruited that well in the summer. I think Sancho will come good, but at that price United didn’t need him. Central midfield has been a problem area for them. I’m also not convinced CR7 was what they needed either, although he’s a machine.

I hope they continue to plummet and the plastics keep going into meltdown. It’s good entertainment if nothing else.

[DaveInSA]

This is such sad news.

i was really enjoying them be sh1t.

I lived in Manchester for years. I abhor United. Such entitled, southern softy, glory hunting manual manipulator fans from London. 

I only hope the next guy continues the rot.

[Roger Red Hat]

1 hour ago, Coxy27 said:

Ronaldo is world class,

Indeed he is, but he does effect the way a team has to play, as he did when he was at Juve. There's a very good article from the Guardian, at about the time he was signed by ManU, explaining why it was a wrong move for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/aug/28/cristiano-ronaldo-held-juventus-back-just-what-is-that-manchester-united-see-in-him

Edited November 21, 2021 by Roger Red Hat

[Sir Leigh of Somerset]

3 minutes ago, DaveInSA said:

This is such sad news.

i was really enjoying them be sh1t.

I lived in Manchester for years. I abhor United. Such entitled, southern softy, glory hunting manual manipulator fans from London. 

I only hope the next guy continues the rot.

Don't hold back, Dave.........

[Show Me The Money!]

Maybe they should go back to David Moyes

[Red Skin]

12 minutes ago, DaveInSA said:

This is such sad news.

i was really enjoying them be sh1t.

I lived in Manchester for years. I abhor United. Such entitled, southern softy, glory hunting manual manipulator fans from London. 

I only hope the next guy continues the rot.

Depends what era you grew up in.  The glory hunters were all Liverpool fans in my day and Man Utd were in the second division.  Still got 60,000+ in that division though. 

 

Edited November 21, 2021 by Red Skin

[Eddie Hitler]

24 minutes ago, Lorenzos Only Goal said:

I generally couldn't care less about United, however the manager isn't the problem there since we beat them Pogba and many others are just there for the money and Ole is just there as long as they want him there.  Seems they downed tools again as they were bored. 

 

Long term they are a run of the mill big club like Aston Villa.

They struck lucky in the mid 90s by having half a dozen top class youth players come through at the same time as their appointing a decent manager.

This made them pretty much unstoppable for a dozen years.

Then that core of the team started to retire and Ferguson, seeing this and that the whole team now needed a rebuild, sensibly stepped down.

The Glazers want to keep taking money out of the club rather than pushing it on to compete with Man City so the future will be like the present: hoping each season to try to nab sixth or seventh to get into Europe.

All of those plastic fans who started to support Man Utd in the 90s are going to have few highlights in the future.

And the manager's office will have a revolving door installed as nobody can make them a top three team on the Glazers' budget.

[weepywall]

18 minutes ago, DaveInSA said:

This is such sad news.

i was really enjoying them be sh1t.

I lived in Manchester for years. I abhor United. Such entitled, southern softy, glory hunting manual manipulator fans from London. 

I only hope the next guy continues the rot.

But apart from all that, you quite like them ?

[Sir Geoff]

Should have pulled the trigger 18 months or so ago when Poch was available. He would have been the perfect fit imo.  They have now missed out on Conte, a serial winner and will end up with either Zidane who seems to not really want the job, unless he is paid a barrel full of money or Brenda Rogers who will probably crash and burn within 2 years, as well.

Tbf the only manager who will be able to manage all those egos would be Zidane imo.

Funny though, hope they do just enough to qualify for the Europa Conference league next season. That will be fun for their glory hunting London based fanbase. NOT

[slartibartfast]

1 hour ago, Jerseybean said:

as per the title seems the decision has been made: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59364319

 

I saw the thread title and thought that Rob F has had enough !   

[2015]

Can't stand them and will be gutted if Ole is sacked. Was doing such a good job

[Curr Avon]

Now sacked according to Sky Sports News. 

Ole at the dole.

Edited November 21, 2021 by Curr Avon

[One Team]

16 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

I saw the thread title and thought that Rob F has had enough !   

I thought the same mate, thought @Olé had left OTIB or even worse!

[Leveller]

35 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

Long term they are a run of the mill big club like Aston Villa.

They struck lucky in the mid 90s by having half a dozen top class youth players come through at the same time as their appointing a decent manager.

This made them pretty much unstoppable for a dozen years.

Then that core of the team started to retire and Ferguson, seeing this and that the whole team now needed a rebuild, sensibly stepped down.

The Glazers want to keep taking money out of the club rather than pushing it on to compete with Man City so the future will be like the present: hoping each season to try to nab sixth or seventh to get into Europe.

All of those plastic fans who started to support Man Utd in the 90s are going to have few highlights in the future.

And the manager's office will have a revolving door installed as nobody can make them a top three team on the Glazers' budget.

That’s a bit of an odd historical perspective, perhaps based on your age? Were you around in the 1960s? Granted they were not a glamour club before Busby in the 1950s, but the Busby Babes era, the Munich air crash, the Best/Charlton/Law combo, the first European Cup win in 1968 meant they were THE glamour club well before Liverpool’s emergence in the 1970s. So the Ferguson era was a re-emergence from a period in the doldrums, and I’m sure they had plenty of glory seeking fans nationwide, well before the Beckham/Giggs/ Scholes etc team came along. There were football and gloryhunters before the Premier League.