I’ve always felt Ole has done well due to the players being up for it and carrying him, rather than anything he’s done tactically. He’s done some good things for sure but a top level manager he is not.
Pochettino has more about him philosophically and tactically, no question.
Yep, thats how I feel too. Mourinho is fantastically toxic when it doesn't work out for him. That means that any manager post Mourinho would get a massive boost simply by not being a **** and improving morale.
We have a good set of players. We have some really good attackers bar the right hand side and Fernandes gave us a top class AM. Unfortunately you can only go so far with morale and at some point, that will naturally dip. It will dip even more when results sour.
We need a manager who actually coaches a style into us (Oles counter attacking style only works against naive opposition and if our forward line are firing on all cylinders) and we need one who can build a system.
What it comes down to for me is that your job as a manager is to take the players you have and get the best football and results you can from them. If you have the 5th best squad in the league, 5th place is the worst you should be achieving to be an OK manager. You can't complain about not getting the players you want when you are getting smashed by teams that have spent 1/10th as much as you. You can't complain when other managers are playing a better brand of football than you with a bunch of Championship players. You can't complain about your squad when 17 teams in the league are spending less than you and most of them are doing a better job than you.
Ole has plenty of good traits but a top manager he is not. I would like to keep him at the club but he is out of his depth and nothing he has done makes me think otherwise or that he is likely to improve to the point of being good enough.
His main selling point for United is that he is cheap, won't kick up a fuss, is likeable and won't rock the boat.