Ole is becoming a bit of a cliché manager "the united way", "this club " "I spoke to sir alex", lots of references to the glorious past, plenty of cheer leading, no real substance though after the initial freedom once the not so special one left. If you put the top 6 managers in a group, he sticks out as a novice with no managerial credibility.
Big job in the summer, their best 2 players in Dea Gea and Pogba clearly don't want to be there.
I really can't fathom how the United hierarchy reasons.
I mean, shouldn't they be aware of the new manager bounce? I mean everyone knows this and at a football club - during the recruitment and monitoring phase, this should be a well-known fact backed up by statistical research? It should be one of those things that's a given and therefore would not contribute towards your employment.
Why jump the gun like this anyway - and appoint the man before a rigorous end of season review? It's almost like they just decided- "Fuck it- let's get this one annoying thing out of the way quickly. There ya go!. Next!!.."
It's like they've got children running that club.... or a bunch of clowns!
Ferguson made all the decisions for years. Never had to know anything about Football and never saw the need to. As long as their wallets were bulging with cash, they didn't want to know. Now he's gone, they "gi't over to Ed!", who makes the footballing decisions himself- aka Christian Purslow and it's just one calamity after the other. One impulsive, fan-like decision after another.
Glad we have someone like Henry- who realizes his limits and appoints people who know more about certain things, including Football, than him- and he just signs the cheques.
For all the doubt in a "
Liverpool Way"(there definitely is one and United embraced some of it
)- one thing that I am extremely grateful for - and I think many of us are- is the fact that one of the "truths" we cling to, having come straight from the lips of Shanks himself: '
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.'
GMs/CEOs certainly fall into the category of "Directors".
Ignore that and we're getting out the pitchforks! Even if we forget, it will come back if the hierarchy shows disdain for it. We recognize that that is one of the ingredients of success at a Football club and if it's ignored, we're almost certain not to make it.
Moores had his faults, but he stuck to just signing the cheques! Henry just signes the checques- He's left Footballing decisions to Football people.
Only once has this truth been despised by our club (against our will of course) and that was when Purslow was put in charge of our club- and we recognized it and acted accordingly. And we hated it!
United as a whole- does not seem to be aware of something like that or to be opposed to alternative; and long may it continue!
