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Listening to TalkRadio in the drive home last night they were talking about the Manchester derby. The reporter said that Ole had read the team the riot act and warned them that they’re position at the club is at stake and that he will have a clear out.
Now call me a cynic but I believe this is the United friendly press preparing for a mass defection by the star players who see the place as toxic and has lost its way. The spin will be that Ole has lead the clear out where in reality he’s ineffectual as a man manager.
Would you trust OGS with 100million squid? Fucked if I would.
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Well to be fair he could hardly piss it up the wall more than his 2 predecessors.Would you trust OGS with 100million squid? Fucked if I would.
Listening to TalkRadio in the drive home last night they were talking about the Manchester derby. The reporter said that Ole had read the team the riot act and warned them that they’re position at the club is at stake and that he will have a clear out.
Now call me a cynic but I believe this is the United friendly press preparing for a mass defection by the star players who see the place as toxic and has lost its way. The spin will be that Ole has lead the clear out where in reality he’s ineffectual as a man manager.
I agree & to be fair to their fans they've stuck by himNah, United have needed a proper clear out for a few seasons. Too many average players, and too many exceptional players who think they can coast through games.
It remains to be seen if OGS is the man to sort their issues out, but I suspect his good will with the fans will allow him to get rid of some big names and replace them with unproven youngsters etc.
Ole is right about City. They are one of the most dirty teams against teams at a similar level I have seen. They basically put a bounty on Kane in the first leg. Because city don’t get punished does not mean they are not a dirty side.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48028390
Nah, United have needed a proper clear out for a few seasons. Too many average players, and too many exceptional players who think they can coast through games.
It remains to be seen if OGS is the man to sort their issues out, but I suspect his good will with the fans will allow him to get rid of some big names and replace them with unproven youngsters etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/24/manchester-united-footballing-pompeii-solskjaerFronting up as ever, Ole Gunnar Solskjær came out to stand with players and applaud the stands. But it was still hard to shake the feeling the team in the sky-blue shirts had spent their evening in a kind of footballing Pompeii, the club that time forgot, stuck cranking out the same jangly playlist, staring back at the past while the present ebbs away.
None of this is Solskjær’s fault. He is simply the latest hired hand to find himself staring into that vacuum of leadership and planning, a job that is simply too big to fix from the factory floor. In Solskjær’s case there has been something particularly painful about watching that retro-schtick, the obsession with the shadow triumphs of the past, go from a source of inspiration to a source of stasis.
United are a long way off being anywhere near where they think they should be. This is the point, they had a fortunate run under Ole when.he started, but now it's normal business the lack of quality is starting to show across the team. They are where their performances have put them. There is no deserving in football. Their glory days are fading as teams.around them are ever improving.
They'd be better off accepting a 3/4 season rebuilding process. Didn't Ferguson teach them anything? Theres no buying their way out of this, unless they have a spare 400+ million in current market conditions.
This is it in a nutshell. They need a solid long term plan to work to with consistent buying in line with that plan. Multiple managers + multiple plans = short term, expensive buying & no consistency.
It is an interesting point of fact though isn't it. There they were doing sod all for Mourinho and along comes Ole with his ex player reputation and suddenly they are transformed. I admit the sides they played during that period weren't first class opposition but certain individuals looked totally different class to a couple of weeks previously.
Placebo effect ?? whatever it was it's now gone and the board will rue the day they let emotions rule and handed him a long term contract. Why did they do that ? It's not like he was going to go anywhere else....I can only assume it was to appease the frustrated fans .
At the moment he is being forgiven and allowed to make his excuses but once he dips into the transfer market and starts to build "his" squad there will be no hiding place.
Then his inadequacies and lack of experience will be laid bare for all to clearly see.