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Don’t worry. If they can make the wrong decision, they will. Pragmatic leadership doesn’t exist at Old Trafford
Apparently Frank will be available soon.
Maybe just a head for head swap would have provided the most entertainment
Worrying. They were 6th despite playing a dogmatic system the manpower was ill suited to. With a bit more pragmatic leadership, they might even be quite good.
True but only 4 points separate 5th and 14th and as close to the struggling Liverpool in 4th as they are to Everton in 12th. Very tight!
Shame my boys saw him off as he was comedy gold!
So the next ManU manager/coach one will be the 11th bad and failed manager since Ferguson. Hmm.
Dear Man Utd.
Please can I be your new boss as I'm really good and I love football and that.
Thanks very much,
Wayne Rooney
[oh please, please, please, please let this happen]
I thought maybe Big Sam, but then remembered he's been appointed manager of Venezuela until the end of the season
I was just going to suggest Rooney! Please please please let it happen, it would be SO funny. And it would get him off Radio 5live all the flipping insufferable time. Or would it?...
Dear Man Utd.
Please can I be your new boss as I'm really good and I love football and that.
Thanks very much,
Wayne Rooney. Wilfred Nancy.
[oh please, please, please, please let this happen]
fixed that.
I note Rooney has been quiet on the whole thing on the BBC sport site which is unusual since they seem to be pushing his opinion on everything else this year since signing him up. Makes you think
Big Ange for Man U. He'll have them playing the kind of football they should be playing - attacking, full-on, and completely lacking in any defensive solidity 👍
Another one bites the dust. To be fair, he made Amorim look like Fergie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckgk9g2500no
Just keep all eyes of Emery.
lacks the attacking threat Bogle
I used to teach him, he wasn't very nice
To be fair he didn't look like a Nancy. Martin of the O'Neil next.
I'd like to see Chris Sutton given a go.
Celtic connection, that he mentions from time to time, and as pundits go he's very forthright in exactly how managers are getting it wrong so i assume he must be itching to show how easy it is.
Why on earth did they get rid of O'Neil. He's on record as saying he'd have stayed on if asked.
I always use to question the manager taking the blame when a team doesn't perform. But clearly this one is entirely justified
Rather worryingly, Kieran McKenna did his managerial apprenticeship at Old Trafford. I'm hoping he's seen enough not to risk it if offered.
Why on earth did they get rid of O'Neil. He's on record as saying he'd have stayed on if asked.
I always use to question the manager taking the blame when a team doesn't perform. But clearly this one is entirely justified
I believe (without googling) O'Neil is seen as a bit of a control freak and wants all aspects of oversight which was against the board's modus operandi.
OK, because I am a good guy and don't want to see anyone else suffer, I will take the hit and do the job. And i will do it cheaply to prove my commitment I will only demand 100 grand a week, and a 5 million pay off when they sack me.
I believe (without googling) O'Neil is seen as a bit of a control freak and wants all aspects of oversight which was against the board's modus operandi.
Possibly, but maybe that’s the way that good Managers get to be good Managers? Fergy was well known to be in charge of most things at Old Trafford, as he thought success started from the small things in the Club, and most things are intertwined.
Its well known that many Managers walk out of Clubs as they have little say in some things, such as player recruitment. It’s not good when you’re trying to build a Team when the Football Director tells you they have bought a brilliant left back from Chesterfield, when what you were actually looking at, and hoping for, was the Right Back at Chelsea. I think that was why Rogers left Celtic - it should have been the dream job, best team in the Country, european football coming up, yet the Board/Director of football wouldnt back him, or disagreed with his way forward, so he felt there was no other way than to walk out.
And on that point, the Director of Football was also sacked at Celtic today, as he is clearly liable for the mess they are in on the field now, with appointments that were nowhere near good enough for the top Club in Scotland.
O'Neil is back 🤣
Hmmm, what’s Ole Solksjaer up to?
I think most of us would have Ole back in a heartbeat. At least it was entertaining and there was some passion and love for the game. it ended up being far, far better than what followed.
I think the club is even more screwed now though. It’s even more dysfunctional than it was when he was here, though you’d have thought that impossible at the time. Too many cooks at the top, all with totally different ideas and wildly different goals. There’s no way on earth any manager will be able to weave a coherent strategy out of the present mess of contradictions.
I think it was the guy at the Athletic who summed it up perfectly this morning. He said United isn’t so much a football club any more, it’s an episode of Succession
Bang on! And while they’re all having their boardroom power struggles, nobody seems particularly bothered about what’s going on on the pitch, which is absolutely dire!
Maybe José Mourinho has unfinished business in Manchester.
I bloody well hope not! 😂
Have you seen the pictures of Amorim out and about with his wife this afternoon? He looks like a bloke who’s been rescued from a hostage situation 😂
City have been getting some serious injuries in recent years that look like nothing when they happen. De Bruyne had one first a few years back, then it was Gabriel Jesus when the idiot ref told him to stop messing about and tried to drag him to his feet for an injury that kept him out for months, last year it was Rodri and that other prize idiot Keown in commentary was spouting off that he was faking it. And yesterday it was Gvardiol, again didn't look like much, maybe a rolled ankle, but now it turns out he fractured his leg and will be out for the season.
And if you look at yesterday incident it isn't a direct impact injury it just seems to be the twisting force of his momentum as he gets knocked off his stride that causes the damage. It just goes to show how some of these small knocks that takes a players down at game pace isn't just because they are a bunch of softies (always).
The blokes (and it is always blokes) accusing players of being soft are the type who never actually watch football anyway and instead prefer sports where not being ‘soft’ means being in with a serious chance of incurring a pretty major brain injury
Looks like Chelsea have the next fall guy lined up. Lets see if he lasts the season.
Is it time we stopped referrring to them as managers, as thats not really what they are any more, in anymeaningful sense of the word? As Amorim just found out.
They're head coaches and best not get any ideas above their station. There to simply oversea training and stand on the sidelines and take the flack when it all goes wrong, while the owners and their representatives on earth dictate all the important decisions from on high.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp37zvxgg9ko
Just call them what they really are: temporary contractors.
Was listening to The Guardian Football weekly the other day and they were discussing the fact that the sporting directors seem to basically be the managers these days but without the flack or looming sack. Said it's been this way for years in Italy and Spain but there SD are expected to give news conferences and tip up to meet the press.
Celtic sacked their’s, but he did appoint Nancy 😬😀.
Interesting that Richard Hughes at Liverpool seems to be getting more flak than Slot for the lopsided squad they’ve ended up with, despite the splurge. Online at least.
Solksjaer's in line for a return.
When you read his record at United first time round, you'd take that over what has come since - but it's not the same club or league as way back in ~2019.
His record does seem to be subject to a fair bit of revisionism. Martial up front! I had a look back and they were good value for goals at both ends, but I do remember them sitting quite deep with a counter attacking style?
A good night for Arsenal. The City juggernaut seems to be mid-firing, especially when Haaland isn’t scoring.
3 on the bounce for Newcastle with a routine win* against Dirty Leeds at SJP, now up to 6th.
* **** my nerves, I've aged 5 years watching some of the 'defending' tonight. Thiaw, Pope, Botman...must have all had the Liverpool Method video on over the holidays
Game of the season at Newcastle, just mad. And I’m not up to speed with things at Leeds but whether it is players or system but they look transformed from their early season incarnation.
Save of the season, Pickford 🙁
Good second half from Wolves, but they really needed 3 points. What Keane thought he was doing with his hair pulling antics, Ive no idea.
His record does seem to be subject to a fair bit of revisionism. Martial up front! I had a look back and they were good value for goals at both ends, but I do remember them sitting quite deep with a counter attacking style?
To be fair to him, he was making the most of the squad he had. It was entertaining to watch though and more often than not, it worked. I think it was more about Ole’s attitude though. We finished 2nd under him and he apologised to the fans and said it wasn’t good enough. Oh what we’d give to be sat in 2nd now and watching some decent attacking football, with a manager who appeared to care. We've been a long way off that since his departure. I don't need reminding of where we finished last season.
Hanlon's razor and all that (cock-up or conspiracy) but someone at Bournemouth's played a blinder here. "We never noticed that the coffee cup Arsenal left behind had an Arsenal badge on it, and it's purely accidental that it got given to the Spurs manager when he arrived at the ground"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp37w009dwlo
Game of the season at Newcastle, just mad. And I’m not up to speed with things at Leeds but whether it is players or system but they look transformed from their early season incarnation.
On the edge of my seat to the very end and gutted to lose that one, but yes, totally transformed around from pre December ish. Full of confidence and some great performances over the past few games.
Game of the season at Newcastle, just mad. And I’m not up to speed with things at Leeds but whether it is players or system but they look transformed from their early season incarnation.
On the edge of my seat to the very end and gutted to lose that one, but yes, totally transformed around from pre December ish. Full of confidence and some great performances over the past few games.
Just unfortunate we still have the pirate in defence, missing easy headers to put us 1-0 up and then pulling out of the challenge to let Newcastle come back to 1-1. Oh and the pirates mate, the plank in goal.
What Keane thought he was doing with his hair pulling antics, Ive no idea.
I imagine he grabbed onto whatever was close which ordinarily would be a shirt. Bit unlikely to have been deliberately aiming to pull his hair. But maybe we need a rule about players needing to tie girly hair in a bun, or else rule that it’s part of the kit.
Bring Back the Alice Band!