29 Comments

  1. Dismal-Cause-3025 on

    I don’t see any point in Ole or Carrick replacing Fletcher.

    Edit: All the comments about experience. Yes of course. Doesn’t mean they will be good. Reasonable to say from experience they will probably be bad. No one thinks they will be brilliant put it that way.
    Fletcher is unknown.

  2. Longjumping_Map_2947 on

    I wish he wouldnt come back, for his own good. The club will fuck him over again, looked like it took him ages to get it over it last time.

  3. Just a bad feeling he’s not the right man for this job in this moment.

    Love him to bits and backed him all the way last time but I just don’t see any sort of bounce on the cards because all the usual ingredients for a bounce are missing. Amorim hadn’t lost the changing room, morale wasn’t rock bottom and we aren’t woefully underperforming expectations.

    You can argue any of those three points but:

    1. Look at how all but a couple of players sent a goodbye message to him.

    2. Results haven’t been the best but everyone is still pulling in the same direction, it’s nowhere near as toxic as it was under Mourinho or ten Hag.

    3. At the start of the season most people said we would do well to come somewhere between 5th and 7th and that’s where we are and always a win away from Top 4.

    We have obvious, serious gaps in our first XI and the squad is bare thin. I genuinely think it’s a big challenge to turn this squad of players into a team that consistently wins in this league.

    Onto the league and it’s being criticised left right and centre for how weak it is this season. I’d argue the opposite – from 2nd down to about 15th there are teams capable of winning against anyone. Its stronger in depth than it has been in years and that’s translating to a season where exactly that happens – nobody is able to find consistency (even the leaders Arsenal are faltering often) because everyone can genuinely beat everyone else. That’s not a weak easy league, that’s a strong league and it makes for a tough season and that’s the context managers should be judged.

    It’s going to be very tough for whoever comes in and I just don’t expect any sort of uptick in form and climbing up the table.

  4. Fuck it. If we’re gonna languish in mediocrity for the next ten years at least let’s do it with someone we like. Give him a lifetime contract right now 

  5. Ole is my #1 favorite United player ever, and I was excited for manager run Pt 1. Mostly for sentimental reasons I guess – but that’s the problem: we tie Ole to the great Class of 92 years and the immense resurgence of the club. Those days are behind us and the game has changed. Not just on the field, but off it as well.

    No offense to Ole, but we need a manager that has the tactical nous for the modern game, and can manage players in this day and age. I really do wonder how the post-SAF managers would have thrived *without* social media, because SAF pretty much only had to deal with the The Mirror or The Sun, where in today’s society and social media, it’s like tabloids on steroids.

  6. I dont understand why so many people are questioning bringing him back. Ole knows the club along with a few of the lefttover players from his tenure. And hed only be signing until the end of the season, so we can still go get someone else over the summer when theres more availability. I dont see the downside.

  7. People realise he’s without McKenna and Carrick this time right? And we’re not playing behind closed doors anymore like Covid times?

    I would lower the expectations immediately

  8. Love Ole, but why are we going back to an already failed experiment? Did he do well at Besiktas or something? Feels like the idiots running the club are just looking for a feel good story to help fans forget how incompetent they all are.

  9. FlyingSpaceElephants on

    Carrick for me. We don’t need to go down the Ole road again just because we remember the honeymoon days when things were good. It’s like going back to an old ex because we only remember the first six months. It ended really badly. We got smashed by everybody towards the end. Don’t really want to watch 6 months of up and down results with Maguire, Shaw and Dalot in the back 4