Mourinho Sacked! Solskjær new interim manager

[mmj_uk]

What United have done seems sensible to me. If they'd hanged on to Mourinho until the end of the season he'd have probably wanted £200m to spend in January signing players as only short term fixes and gone into a big strop without it, the fans would have turned on him and the whole club atmosphere would have become toxic. The club need to drop any thoughts of instant success now and build for the long term. Take a few seasons of pain in order to rebuild the boat rather than just keep patching over the holes.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

except Hiddink was actually free and not in a job before

he mas manager of the russian national team?

So why isn't every club appointing the new manager from the coaching staff if its such an obvious and easy transition. Its clearly foolproof....

because not every club has zidane or pep in charge of their youth teams?

also most do for temp solutions fyi. murty at rangers twice for their last 2 sackings.

 

[nicktay2605]

Solskjaer is an interesting appointment. To me it suggests that United either already have someone lined up for the summer or are close to securing someone. I think United feel that they need someone who will come in and restore a bit of confidence and feel-good factor without placing too much of an individual stamp on the squad. Obviously I hope that our football improves under Solskjaer, but I don't think United want a manager who will start changing too much when there's going to be someone new coming in at the end of the season.

Having Phelan back could be a stroke of genius, he's a connection to the Ferguson days and I thought it was a mistake when Moyes got rid of him.

 

[fez]

because not every club has zidane or pep in charge of their youth teams?

Lets see what happens in Zidanes next job before we start thinking hes that special. Pep is a top manager if you give him the top team in the league and he can spend as much as he wants but I think Klopp is better. Taking the best team in the league and spending hundreds of millions to stay there isn't that impressive.

 

[adam cool dude]

except Hiddink was actually free and not in a job before

What does he give though? We are not going to get top four. No chance. Better to take a risk on a season that is already dead in the water. Di Matteo won the champions League in similar circumstances.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Lets see what happens in Zidanes next job before we start thinking hes that special. Pep is a top manager if you give him the top team in the league and he can spend as much as he wants but I think Klopp is better. Taking the best team in the league and spending hundreds of millions to stay there isn't that impressive.

how many other managers do you know who were in charge of top teams which won 3 champions leagues in a row? there has only ever been 3 managers to win 3 period never mind in a row.

if it was such an easy task why has nobody else ever done it with barca, bayern, chelsea, united, liverpool?

people who think any manager could have won it 3 times in a row with madrid are deluded. mourinho hasn't even won it 3 times and he's been at top clubs his whole career.

 

[Kenai]

Molde aren't going to get a bigger name than him so he can pretty much tell them what he wants and they would likely agree.
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I expect the reported £1.8m helped convincing them too

 

[robfosters]

The coverage this is getting is a bit ridiculous now. There are other sports stories out there ffs.

 

[Yas786]

So going from Mou who wasn’t that great to a manager who is even more worse, sacked from Cardiff . This is purely a sentimental appt as he was superb when playing for Utd back in his younger days.

But yes great interim appt there Utd lol. Would have been better to stick with Mou till end of season then look at alternatives.

Geezus I thought the Arsenal board were bad but the Utd board take the proverbial dump down the creek so to speak .

 

[MADEinSTOKE]

Solskjaer is going to seal his ledgedary status when he takes the points of the pool in the return fixture....meaning they get pipped at the post by city

 

[Robbo]

Quite pleased about this. Worth remembering the Norwegian season has finished, hence Molde not being too bothered.

Solskjaer obviously struggled at Cardiff, but a relegation battle isn’t something a lot of good managers would fare well in, it takes a certain type of manager to excel there.

He’s worked with Pogba when he was younger and gets on well with him, he said back in the summer that Mourinho should be looking to build the team around Pogba. Getting the likes of Pogba onside is such a critical thing.

Phelan hasn’t exactly done well since leaving the club either, but there’s no denying his success while assisting Sir Alex. He’s very popular.

Ultimately here, the players are being indulged massively with this new management team. It’s time for them to perform. Woodward himself has said the plan is to unite the club as a whole.

 

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So going from Mou who wasn’t that great to a manager who is even more worse, sacked from Cardiff . This is purely a sentimental appt as he was superb when playing for Utd back in his younger days.

But yes great interim appt there Utd lol. Would have been better to stick with Mou till end of season then look at alternatives.

Geezus I thought the Arsenal board were bad but the Utd board take the proverbial dump down the creek so to speak .

United have had the op to remove the cancer before it spread any further by sacking Mourinho. Keeping him in a holding pattern until the end of the season would have made things worse.

It is difficult to get top managers mid-season so this appointment tick all the boxes as to what is required. As it stands the club weren't getting top 4 anyway and everyone was happy to tell us how we were getting humped out of the CL by PSG so in that sense the pressure is off.

All Solskjaer has to do is play some more attacking football, get the fans back onside, put a smile on peoples faces again - that not a huge managerial expectation. We can see if these players were simply suffering under the Mourinho regime or are actually money grabbing malingerers between now and the end of the season and the new manager can take action accordingly. Plus you would hope that Ole will be able to work with the forwards at the club who look shot of all confidence.

For me is a fine appointment, and in these circumstances a bit of sentimentality is no bad thing.

 

[BaZ87]

Solskjaer hasn't been appointed for his abilities as a manager, he's been appointed for the single reason of lifting the mood around the club and getting the supporters onside. It's clear that they're far more qualified managers around that could/would have taken the job but ultimately if they're not good enough either then you're best off going for somebody that the fans will get behind. It's not simply about lifting the mood around the club either, it now puts the pressure back on the players to perform - there's not going to be a "Solskjaer out" brigade that will make excuses for the players anymore as there was with Mourinho and would have been had Utd appointed a Hodgson or similar, the players now have no excuses.

Yesterday I thought the timing was a bit mad but I've just looked at Utd's fixtures and it makes perfect sense now. Given the mood at the club you wouldn't have been surprised had Utd dropped points in any of their next few games vs Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth and Newcastle. Suddenly all those games look fairly straight forward and Utd could/should be walking away with maximum points from the Christmas period.

Solskjaer is going to seal his ledgedary status when he takes the points of the pool in the return fixture....meaning they get pipped at the post by city

You know times are hard for the Mancs when success is gifting City the title

 

[The Running Man]

The coverage this is getting is a bit ridiculous now. There are other sports stories out there ffs.

Such as?

 

[fez]

how many other managers do you know who were in charge of top teams which won 3 champions leagues in a row? there has only ever been 3 managers to win 3 period never mind in a row.

if it was such an easy task why has nobody else ever done it with barca, bayern, chelsea, united, liverpool?

people who think any manager could have won it 3 times in a row with madrid are deluded. mourinho hasn't even won it 3 times and he's been at top clubs his whole career.

The team Madrid had was easily one of the best of the last 20 years. Absolutely stuffed full of world class players, well settled team with one of the best players ever to top it off. I'm not suggesting he is **** but taking a settled and ridiculously good RM side to 3 CL titles doesn't mean that he is a brilliant manager. How many managers walk into a job like that? Managing a team like that isn't the same as building a side or restoring a side to the top of a competitive league who are struggling. Like I say, lets see how he gets on at the next club he takes over.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

United have had the op to remove the cancer before it spread any further by sacking Mourinho. Keeping him in a holding pattern until the end of the season would have made things worse.

It is difficult to get top managers mid-season so this appointment tick all the boxes as to what is required. As it stands the club weren't getting top 4 anyway and everyone was happy to tell us how we were getting humped out of the CL by PSG so in that sense the pressure is off.

All Solskjaer has to do is play some more attacking football, get the fans back onside, put a smile on peoples faces again - that not a huge managerial expectation. We can see if these players were simply suffering under the Mourinho regime or are actually money grabbing malingerers between now and the end of the season and the new manager can take action accordingly. Plus you would hope that Ole will be able to work with the forwards at the club who look shot of all confidence.

For me is a fine appointment, and in these circumstances a bit of sentimentality is no bad thing.

I don't see any manger doing any better with those players especially the back line.

Mourinho sets up not to concede and to nick the odd goal against good opposition. Playing attacking football with your backline and your forwards aren't good enough to outscore opponents unlike barca / liverpool.

I don't see it getting any better until a world class centre half and an actual LB playing there instead of young. Valencia your RB played his first half of his man who career as a right winger. he's only been any good there due to his physicality young gets found out as he might be fast but he's not going to win any battles in the air or against a physical opponent. plus he's not a natural defender who has been trained to track a line and track opposing players at the same time.

also just because you played attacking football under fergie doesn't mean it's the "united" way. fans need to understand different managers have different play styles. under fergie you may have played that way but that doesn't mean every manager has to play that way if so then you need to hire managers with an attacking style.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

The team Madrid had was easily one of the best of the last 20 years. Absolutely stuffed full of world class players, well settled team with one of the best players ever to top it off. I'm not suggesting he is **** but taking a settled and ridiculously good RM side to 3 CL titles doesn't mean that he is a brilliant manager. How many managers walk into a job like that? Managing a team like that isn't the same as building a side or restoring a side to the top of a competitive league who are struggling. Like I say, lets see how he gets on at the next club he takes over.

why didn't anyone do it with barca - messi, xavi, iniesta, fabregas, busquets, mascherano, pedro, puyol, pique, alves and co?

why didn't anyone do it with real madrid before zidane? you do know zidane played there as part of the galacticos where they had a team people could only dream of now. every single superstar of every top international team playing there.

what he did wasn't easy regardless of the team he inherited. otherwise so called top managers would have done it by now with other top sides.

 

[fez]

I don't see any manger doing any better with those players especially the back line.

Mourinho sets up not to concede and to nick the odd goal against good opposition. Playing attacking football with your backline and your forwards aren't good enough to outscore opponents unlike barca / liverpool.

He didn't get fired because he was unlikely to outscore Barca/Liverpool playing attacking football but because he was a massive ***** outside the matches, picked bizarre teams, killed players confidence and got nothing from the players he had spent hundreds of millions on. Oh, that and we are pretty much mid-table and losing to teams that are utter dross. Not just losing but being completely outplayed. He would still be here if he hadn't holistically ruined every aspect of managing the club. Its quite impressive how spectacularly he failed in every part of being a modern manager.

 

[fez]

why didn't anyone do it with barca - messi, xavi, iniesta, fabregas, busquets, mascherano, pedro, puyol, pique, alves and co?

Because you need a large slice of luck to win the CL. RM had that. I would also argue that the RM team under Zidane was better in general than Guardiolas Barca at their peak. They had a ridiculous midfield and Messi but if you made a combined team it would have more RM players in it than Barca.

why didn't anyone do it with real madrid before zidane? you do know zidane played there as part of the galacticos where they had a team people could only dream of now. every single superstar of every top international team playing there.

what he did wasn't easy regardless of the team he inherited. otherwise so called top managers would have done it by now with other top sides.

Dear lord, I'm not saying it wasn't hard or that it wasn't impressive but it doesn't prove he is a top manager. You seem incapable of accepting that I can think he is a good manager without being convinced he is top class. Hes managed for 3 seasons. See what happens at the next club he goes to. By your wisdom he will take pretty much any top club to a CL win because hes so magical.

 

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I don't see any manger doing any better with those players especially the back line.

Mourinho sets up not to concede and to nick the odd goal against good opposition. Playing attacking football with your backline and your forwards aren't good enough to outscore opponents unlike barca / liverpool.

I don't see it getting any better until a world class centre half and an actual LB playing there instead of young. Valencia your RB played his first half of his man who career as a right winger. he's only been any good there due to his physicality young gets found out as he might be fast but he's not going to win any battles in the air or against a physical opponent. plus he's not a natural defender who has been trained to track a line and track opposing players at the same time.

also just because you played attacking football under fergie doesn't mean it's the "united" way. fans need to understand different managers have different play styles. under fergie you may have played that way but that doesn't mean every manager has to play that way if so then you need to hire managers with an attacking style.

That back four conceded only 28 goals in the league last season and there is no one telling me that Pogba Rashford Martial Lukaku and Sanchez have been playing to their full potential this season. There is FAR more talent in this team than has been displayed since August.

Man Utd have played attacking football under their two most successful managers in their history which has spanned over 50 years. It IS the way United have tended to play when cups have been lifted. I would also argue that what the fans want is just progressive football, it doesn't have to be 5 forwards attacking at all costs but equally we don't want to see starting games against lower opposition with the mentality of not losing before thinking of winning.