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Comforting to see another club being run as badly as we are. Just lurching from one disaster to the next.

Difference between them and us though is they will keep chucking money at it until they are good again. We will keep buying 19 year old prospects
 
White Van Jan said:
they've failed to get anywhere near where they were when Fergie left. That's 15 years (?) of underwhelming managerial appointments.

Looks like theyve fired him for what he said after Leeds. Which means they have no plan - their plan was to keep him long term, however long it too.

They're in absolute chaos.

Last season was the time to fire him - in 15th spot. Now they're equal 5th, 3pts off CL spot.

What now? Caretaker mgr till the end of the season and half the team thinking I'm gonna be sold when the next guy comes in?

Looks like they're unmanageable
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There us a dearth of top class managers, as there are with strikers at the present time.

Ferguson was a one-off. You don't replicate that.

I think they will be calmer and a bit better, whatever that looks like.

Who they go for is anyone's guess.
 
Couldn’t be happening (again) to a more loathsome club
Watching Tv Kerry GIF by Gogglebox Australia
 
CJJ said:
They've likely jumped based on fear of missing out on a candidate somewhere.

(fearing either us, West Ham, or someone else who they think are likely to change maybe)
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If that's the case I think it has to be Maresca. Nothing else has changed in the manager market to make them suddenly give him the push.

Although could also just be the higher-ups throwing a fit after his his comments the other day. The whole idea was that Amorim was their long-term project guy so when he's sniping at the board and suggesting he's leaving in 18 months regardless, that's not gonna make em happy.
 
Notabadsquad said:
There us a dearth of top class managers, as there are with strikers at the present time.

Ferguson was a one-off. You don't replicate that.

I think they will be calmer and a bit better, whatever that looks like.

Who they go for is anyone's guess.
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To be completely fair though, Fergie's win% wasn't that much higher than Mourinho, and only a few % off OGS/ETH.

Different era, far less competitive. You need to be over 60% WR these days (Klopp has this, which is higher than SAF), and 70% is where Pep's City era is at
 
Hampshire Spur said:
Couldnt give a shit about united tbh. Im enjoying their demise. Amount of dodgy decisions they got against us under bacon face over the years.
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Agree, but for the sake of tittle tattle it's a welcome distraction to our sh!t.

I think Xavi or Zidane if they fancy the challenge, but are either builders of teams because that is what they still need?

They can't buy the best players out there so it's going to take some doing.
 
We'd obviously be mad to go for him but a part of me is genuinely curious how we'd look under Amorim.

Always felt that our squad was way, way more suited to him than United's ever has been. We're basically a back 3 squad squished into a back 4, while United are the opposite.
 
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Timberwolf said:
We'd obviously be mad to go for him but a part of me is genuinely curious how we'd look under Amorim.

Always felt that our squad was way, way more suited to him than United's ever has been. We're basically a back 3 squad squished into a back 4, while United are the opposite.
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Very good point. He'd probably do better than Frank and the personnel is much better suited to what he had at United
 
Notabadsquad said:
I think identifying a good set of decisions has become maybe too binary.

Success as in trophies is the metric of some.

I measure it for us at least as being competitive and in the mix for trophies, whilst seeing clear player development.

And yes, I thonk it's getting harder at the biggest clubs because it's nearly an impossible demand.
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It's a lot more than formation. Way too simplistic with all due respect.
 
Furball man said:
Fletcher in 😂
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His twins are about to get a lot more minutes!


Brian Fantana said:
He has been pretty shit there, but that is quite a surprise.

A battle between us, West Ham and Man U as to who is the worst run club in the Premier League. Pretty close run thing.
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I gave it a laugh, but could also cry...


LLB Part Deux said:
When Fergie left it became apparent that, bar a few superstars, a lot of the squad he was so successful with were over-achieving because Fergie made them good players.
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Amazing what a good manager can do, isnt it?
 
White Van Jan said:
I'd say that the current PL lot is the best it's ever been.

No Big Sam, Pulis, Pardew et al.

Hurz, Ariola, Frank, Glasner all doing (or did) well at smaller clubs. Brentford have a system with a guy we'd never heard of.

The guy at Wolves has turned around the performances well (results will follow surely)

Nuno has been good in the past.
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Nah, there was a time like 7-8 years ago when the list of managers at the top of the PL was nuts: Klopp, Pep, Jose, Conte, Ancellotti at Everton, Poch here... that was like a murderer's row of elite managers. Arguably the only truly elite manager left in the entire league is Pep (probably Arteta too but he's won feck all with a billion quid spent so fuck him).

I agree that this is perhaps the best managers the mid/lower table clubs have ever had, though. Interestingly Glanser, Silva & Iraola are all out of contract this summer. Gonna be huge managerial upheaval this summer.
 
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