So, who is favorite for Man UTD job

The reason ManU is going for an interim manager is that the owners don’t want Ed Woodward to have any say in the next choice. Woodward is leaving at the end of the year and the Glazers will want to get to know their new CEO before letting him loose on big football decisions. So ManU is going to tread water for 6 months. Perhaps Ferguson will select the new permanent manager.

Woodward has been the heart of the problem for at least the last 5 years, in fact ever since David Gill left in 2013. Woodward is a commercial fella but knows next to nothing about football and yet has been making those decisions including giving OGS a 3-year deal just this summer.

Commercial income is all the Glazers really wanted from Woodward, income from sponsored training kit, TV deals etc, to sweat the ManU brand in order to pay the debts they incurred in buying the club and have hung around the club’s neck like a dead albatross. They are not that interested in what happens on the pitch, but arrogantly just expected to win all the time, as occurs in large franchises in US sports.

They forgot that football mediocrity is a snowball, with a deteriorating squad of players. Woodward is the cause of the 7 or 8 year slump, including van Gaal, Mourinho etc. I exclude Moyes because he could have come good, as he has shown at West Ham, despite his stupidity in dumping SAF’s coaching team straight away. But Woodward had to look “in control” in sacking Moyes once the Champions’ League revenue for that following season disappeared. And it’s good to see the result of their hubris getting to them finally.
 
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Poch must be favourite.

I don’t think he would leave the Italian National side having just won the Euros but Mancini would be top of either Manures or Newcastle (I know Howe is appointed) would be the most experienced and proven for either job for me.
He can manage the big-ego (I said manage NOT Massage!!!) and he’s a proven “winner”🙄🚌🚢
 
Archibald Knox said:
I exclude Moyes because he could have come good, despite his stupidity in dumping SAF’s coaching team straight away. But Woodward had to look “in control” once the Champion League revenue for that following season disappeared.
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A minor point, and this might be another Woodward foul up, as I understand it Moyes was under contract at Everton until 30 June (???) and United didn't want to pay to release him early, thus he didn't have time to form a relationship with the existing coaching staff and needed to hit the ground running on 1 July, hence he brought his own coaching staff with him.

Thus it wasn't a decision that was entirely in Moyes hands.
 
Anyone who can carry on the good work done by Ole in spending loads of money on individuals and making no attempt to pull them together into a team would be great!!!
 
With Carrick now in charge, what is going to change over the next 6 months until the end of the season? The Glazers are hardly likely to give him a pot of cash to spend in January. But they do need to offload Pogba, Fred etc and get in a few replacements like a good DM to revitalise the squad or they will finish mid-table at best. Kalvin Phillips if they can’t get Declan Rice?
 
The interesting point about the OGS saga is that, such is the prevailing dominance of the richest 6 or so clubs in the Prem, that we have now got to rely on them self-combusting with mistakes to bring any competition at all into the league. Even so, they will likely not all fcuk up at the same time. They did in 2016 allowing Leicester to sneak through but it’s not going to be common. At the moment, the wheels have come off Arsenal, Spurs and ManU, but the other big 3 forge on and it’s going to be interesting to see whether NUFC can shake off their traditional incompetence with the Saudi’s mega-riyals blood money.
 
Seasideandy said:
Whoever it is has one big problem and that is Ronaldo.
From what i see, he is part of the problem. The players feel that at every opportunity, they must ensure he is given the ball and this just creates countless mistakes leading to them losing the ball.
They say no one man is bigger than the team but CR7 seems to think he is the exception to the rule.
If the next manager fails to grasp this then nothing will change (lets hope that nothing does change)
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What a load of bollocks. United had problems far before CR7.
 
Archibald Knox said:
The reason ManU is going for an interim manager is that the owners don’t want Ed Woodward to have any say in the next choice. Woodward is leaving at the end of the year and the Glazers will want to get to know their new CEO before letting him loose on big football decisions. So ManU is going to tread water for 6 months. Perhaps Ferguson will select the new permanent manager.

Woodward has been the heart of the problem for at least the last 5 years, in fact ever since David Gill left in 2013. Woodward is a commercial fella but knows next to nothing about football and yet has been making those decisions including giving OGS a 3-year deal just this summer.

Commercial income is all the Glazers really wanted from Woodward, income from sponsored training kit, TV deals etc, to sweat the ManU brand in order to pay the debts they incurred in buying the club and have hung around the club’s neck like a dead albatross. They are not that interested in what happens on the pitch, but arrogantly just expected to win all the time, as occurs in large franchises in US sports.

They forgot that football mediocrity is a snowball, with a deteriorating squad of players. Woodward is the cause of the 7 or 8 year slump, including van Gaal, Mourinho etc. I exclude Moyes because he could have come good, as he has shown at West Ham, despite his stupidity in dumping SAF’s coaching team straight away. But Woodward had to look “in control” in sacking Moyes once the Champions’ League revenue for that following season disappeared. And it’s good to see the result of their hubris getting to them finally.
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It would be quite easy for the owner to simply exclude Woodward from the appointment process for a new manager. The reality is that Utd just weren't prepared for the eventuality of ditching Ole at this time and have been very poorly run as a football club both on and off the pitch for ages now. The Glazers priority has been a running a commercial business not a football club and was why they were active in the European Super League to cream off more profit
 
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bfcpete said:
It would be quite easy for the owner to simply exclude Woodward from the appointment process for a new manager. The reality is that Utd just weren't prepared for the eventuality of ditching Ole at this time and have been very poorly run as a football club both on and off the pitch for ages now. The Glazers priority has been a running a commercial business not a football club and was why they were active in the European Super League to cream off more profit
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Agree. There is no plan in place at United. On the pitch activity appears secondary to off the pitch activity.
 
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