| Ole gone 11:06 - Nov 21 with 2046 views | bosh67 |
Possibly the least surprising news of the weekend.
Just looked up his stats there.
Managed 168 games
Won 91
Drew 37
Lost 40
Win% 54.17
Obviously not good enough for Utd and it felt like watching someone starting mould a beautiful clay vase on a kiln and then it suddenly wobbles and falls to pieces.
He was doing okay until they overspent on stars that he apparently had no say in.
Like him as a personality. Far too nice to be a football manager. Hopefully his incredible rapid ageing appearance will reverse out now. Must be a relief for him to be honest. Too many egos to deal with there. |  |
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| Ole gone on 11:20 - Nov 21 with 2004 views | LowerloftLad |
With ole gone I believe that may push Mr Warburton into the top twenty longest serving current managers list, only nineteen more to go. |  |
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| Ole gone on 11:23 - Nov 21 with 1985 views | nix |
Sometimes it's best to put people out of their misery. I could barely stand to listen to his last interview. You have to be really tough to be a football manager. He seems too nice, really. Hope he finds a more grateful set of fans next time and a smaller job. Man U is a hiding to nothing and it'll be decades before they more on from SAF. |  | | |
| Ole gone on 11:36 - Nov 21 with 1934 views | essextaxiboy |
Players through him under the bus , Pogba a few weeks ago Maguire yesterday .
The financial pressures there are huge. [Post edited 21 Nov 2021 11:38]
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| Ole gone on 11:41 - Nov 21 with 1906 views | CamberleyR |
The Ronaldo signing - which he probably had no say in - massively unbalanced the team IMO. |  |
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| Ole gone on 12:17 - Nov 21 with 1793 views | Paddyhoops |
Can't wait for the phone ins . Every man and his dog with a Mancless accent will be having Thier say.
Disappointed myself . Would have given him another 5 years ..at least.
Never mind he'll walk into another huge job in the next few months... Or hang on . On second thoughts , Macclesfield wouldn't have him!! |  | | |
| Ole gone on 12:30 - Nov 21 with 1756 views | Myke |
The problem with Ole and for United, is that he was only meant to be a 'Mr Popular' sop to the fans for six months after the exit of 'the special one' He won a few games in a row, which was nice, but then when he came back against PSG in the Champions League and got through against the odds, suddenly there was a clamour to give him a permanent deal and the hierarchy found themselves between a rock and a hard place. Clearly he wasn't cut out to be a top manager - Cardiff doesn't exactly equip you for that - but it would have been hugely unpopular to sack him. Then this time last year they were -rather amusingly - in with a shout of the title and even Pogba seemed remotely interested so they couldn't sack him then either.
So they ended up with almost a three year tenure for what was meant to be six months and now have a bloated squad of overpaid egos and some very average players, which is going to cost a lot more time and money to sort out than if they had bitten the bullet and made a permanent signing straight after Jose was sacked. | | | |
| Ole gone on 12:38 - Nov 21 with 1721 views | Paddyhoops |
| Ole gone on 12:30 - Nov 21 by Myke |
The problem with Ole and for United, is that he was only meant to be a 'Mr Popular' sop to the fans for six months after the exit of 'the special one' He won a few games in a row, which was nice, but then when he came back against PSG in the Champions League and got through against the odds, suddenly there was a clamour to give him a permanent deal and the hierarchy found themselves between a rock and a hard place. Clearly he wasn't cut out to be a top manager - Cardiff doesn't exactly equip you for that - but it would have been hugely unpopular to sack him. Then this time last year they were -rather amusingly - in with a shout of the title and even Pogba seemed remotely interested so they couldn't sack him then either.
So they ended up with almost a three year tenure for what was meant to be six months and now have a bloated squad of overpaid egos and some very average players, which is going to cost a lot more time and money to sort out than if they had bitten the bullet and made a permanent signing straight after Jose was sacked. |
Great post Myke. Out of his depht from day one. | | | |
| Ole gone on 12:40 - Nov 21 with 1713 views | kensalriser |
| Ole gone on 12:30 - Nov 21 by Myke |
The problem with Ole and for United, is that he was only meant to be a 'Mr Popular' sop to the fans for six months after the exit of 'the special one' He won a few games in a row, which was nice, but then when he came back against PSG in the Champions League and got through against the odds, suddenly there was a clamour to give him a permanent deal and the hierarchy found themselves between a rock and a hard place. Clearly he wasn't cut out to be a top manager - Cardiff doesn't exactly equip you for that - but it would have been hugely unpopular to sack him. Then this time last year they were -rather amusingly - in with a shout of the title and even Pogba seemed remotely interested so they couldn't sack him then either.
So they ended up with almost a three year tenure for what was meant to be six months and now have a bloated squad of overpaid egos and some very average players, which is going to cost a lot more time and money to sort out than if they had bitten the bullet and made a permanent signing straight after Jose was sacked. |
Now you put it like that it seems such a terrible shame. Poor old Utd.
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| Ole gone on 12:40 - Nov 21 with 1712 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Ole gone on 11:36 - Nov 21 by essextaxiboy |
Players through him under the bus , Pogba a few weeks ago Maguire yesterday .
The financial pressures there are huge. [Post edited 21 Nov 2021 11:38]
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To some extent, yes, but he needed throwing.
It's not just him though, their whole 'plan', whatever the hell it is, in the transfer market has been scattergun and confused to put it politely. Van de Beek is a proper player, but they don't know what to do with him. If they can't get a tune out of Pogba, sell him. The laughable belief that Lukaku was not good enough. Signing Sancho with zero plan. Signing Ronaldo just for the social media likes. Wan-Bissaka looks lost. Signing Ronaldo has chopped the legs off of Fernandes, which anyone who watched Portugal in the Euros could see would happen, because Ronaldo cannot bear anyone else to be the star.
The whole club is an absolute mess, and I've got no idea who they could possibly get to sort it out, but as Myke says, it'll take years. Their ideal manager would be someone like Klopp (obviously ot happening) or Ten Haag, but not a chance they will give someone like him the 5-6 years he'd need to overhaul the culture. They are such a big club, that what you really need is an enormous figure, like Beckenbauer used to be at Bayern, to run it, then have a top class coach concentrating on the team. |  |
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| Ole gone on 12:57 - Nov 21 with 1675 views | ted_hendrix |
Yet another nobody who will now be hugely financially rewarded for being bloody useless at his job.
Is there another industry out there that rewards failure?
Come to think of it does anybody care?
Ole????? do me a favour FFS, you couldnt make this nonsense up. |  |
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| Ole gone on 16:30 - Nov 21 with 1507 views | TGRRRSSS |
Ole was always out of his depth but he had as lot of fortune that allowerd him to stay far longer, including probably the Pandemic which maybe (with BCD) helped him finish 2nd last season, despite never looking like winning anything.
Not sure United aren't about to repeat the mistake though with the interim before the interim before the man they want.... or someone permanent....
Ironic that Spurs probably had the best ever 3-0 defeat and United the worst 3-0 win last month.
Which in many ways typified the OGS rein. |  | | |
| Ole gone on 23:06 - Nov 21 with 1301 views | Hastings_Hoops |
“Wayne Rooney’s Manchester United” - has a nice ring to it. 🤞🽠|  | | |
| Ole gone on 08:03 - Nov 22 with 1146 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Classic case of when new money comes in and it doesn’t know what to do and has limited knowledge of what it should be doing or why.
This club had a unique insight into how not to handle the changing of an institution in Sir Matt, but appear to have followed the exact same route with Fergie. I know they won the league in his last season, but United were showing signs then that their dominance was waning.
OHS was hardly a signing that left the football world quaking in their boots or one you felt they had to make quickly before the Reals, Barcas or Chelseas of this world were going to beat them to his signature.
They look all at sea. And as with us, it’s taken years to overcome Fernandes’ folly and I can’t see United doing much anytime soon.
That said…fcuk ‘em! |  |
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| Ole gone on 09:29 - Nov 22 with 1083 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
'You show me how to control wild f***ing multimillionaire egos, and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, entitled, multi billionaire football know nothing owner'
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| Ole gone on 09:51 - Nov 22 with 1042 views | daveB |
They seem to sign players without having any idea how to fit them in the team, Sancho is the prime example.
They should have sacked him last year and gone for Poch, is quite farcical that they are after an interim manager again |  | | |
| Ole gone on 10:27 - Nov 22 with 998 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Fuk em.
96' minutes for fxache. | | | |
| Ole gone on 11:09 - Nov 22 with 958 views | traininvain |
| Ole gone on 09:51 - Nov 22 by daveB |
They seem to sign players without having any idea how to fit them in the team, Sancho is the prime example.
They should have sacked him last year and gone for Poch, is quite farcical that they are after an interim manager again |
Ronaldo signing is the main problem for Sancho and probably a key reason why Solsjkaer’s got the sack. It’s completely changed the way they need to set up as a team and resulted in fewer opportunities for Sancho.
This is worth reading: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/nov/21/cristiano-ronaldo-is-the-b |  | | |
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