It’d be embarrassing sacking him so soon after appointing him, it would be the board very publically admitting they’d fucked up in the first place.
There’s a strong chance he won’t last next season, especially not if he continues to look so clueless and spouts so many empty cliches about the past (that only works when the results are going your way). Another summer of Woodwood’s transfer dealings won’t help either. The fans are still with him and hopeful (deluded?) enough to think he can do a job there. Once they’ve lost faith he’s done for.
I know at the minute people are all ‘they’d never turn on a United legend like Ole’ but they said that when Moyes began plumbing the depths: ‘they’re not a sacking club’ and when Jose lost the plot ‘he’s a proven winner, they won’t turn on him...’
Every year they don’t get it right just brings more pressure, makes everything more fraught and desperate. It’s already a massive rebuild job they’ve got on and it’s happening at a time when everyone around them is getting stronger and their previous huge financial advantage is being whittled away at. It’s a tough job for anyone, let alone the manager of Molde.
They’ve not just fallen from the perch, they’ve somersaulted backwards right off it, fallen 25 floors and landed in a swimming pool full of rancid shit.