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Was never the man to lead us to proper glory, but loved the job and loves the club. Nothing would have made me happier than to see him succeed, absolutely loved him as a player. He’s a winner, has the desire, I just don’t think he has the skills to be at the very top, and that’s what United need. Fortunately, I think ETH has the lot. |
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Solskjaer was right man for the time. Inherited a team 3 pts off mid table at Christmas - couple of pts ahead of Watford & Bournemouth. Reinvigorated club on pitch & in stands - runners up & 3rd place finishes. Shifted emphasis to youth: Rashford played his best football under him before Ronaldo arrived & spoiled the party. Greenwood obv. emerged before he committed personal hari kari.
Above said, he was clearly only ever good enough to be a stop-gap manager, without the progressive understanding of tactics or system management to progressive beyond. But that's fine. Far better to have had him come in than persist with Mourinho, under whom the avg age of squad & contract situation would have careered off an even steeper cliff in tandem w/ Woodward. |
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Like others have said, probably wasn’t good enough but in the end it doesn’t change a thing about Ole. Loves the club, tried his best despite having Woodward . Is a club legend and will always be one. |
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Lots of revisionism here. Maguire as captain looks awful in hindsight, but who would have got the armband in his place at the time? Didn't we also have the best defensive record in the league his first season? It's not like he was putting in the same sort of performances that we've seen since. Made sense at the time. |
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He wasn't good enough at the top level but signing Ronaldo was a big part of his downfall.
Ronaldo made himself look like a dick in the end because he obviously just didn't have it at the top level to play every week. He was a good squad player but wanted to start every match, on the Piers Morgan interview didn't he basically say he can still play at the top level, CL etc? Ended up in Saudi. |
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Much as we all love him, the elephant in the room is that Ole didn't turn out to be anywhere like as smart as we'd hoped he would be.
In hindsight, his comment about "building the team around Pogba" prior to him coming in should have been a red flag. The 'set us up to fail' presser was £#%&!ing excruciating. |
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he brought some much needed optimism to the club and he had us going on some ridiculous runs of form. brought us bruno, had martial in the best form of his life, had pep's number, more top four finishes than either jose or lvg gave us, plenty of positives about him.
ultimately it amounted to nothing however, and while i absolutely loved a united legend leading us in a (albeit very brief) title charge, i'm happier now with erik at the wheel. i don't think ole could manage egos the way erik clearly can. speaking of which, i have a theory that ronaldo returning was the beginning of the end for ole. |
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