The Managerial Merry Go Round™

[gbandit]

McKenna’s profile looks very impressive. He’ll clearly have a great career in the premier league overall, making a success of Man U is a huge challenge. I think if he could gut the squad of the longer term players he might be successful there, even with the Glazers still as majority owners

[Big River]

5 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

I think buy in is what a manager lives and dies by, the Ipswich lads haven bought into McKenna as he’s improved all of their careers and they know they owe a big part of that too him. Similar to Howe and Rafa here, the players could see they were improved (and in some instances had their careers saved).

 

At Man U that dynamic isn’t really there, these are all established internationals for the most part and have seen managers come and go. There was noises that his training sessions when at Man U weren’t all that liked.

 

bang on. he'd be far better off going somewhere like Brighton. but, Man Poonited are his boyhood club etc so you can't really blame him. he probably knows himself it's unlikely he'll succeed.

[gbandit]

Frank and Tuchel would be disasters. Poch would be fine but wouldn’t get them back up to being challengers, I think McKenna is their best bet in all honesty but only if he has a lot of control 

[PauloGeordio]

2 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Frank and Tuchel would be disasters. Poch would be fine but wouldn’t get them back up to being challengers, I think McKenna is their best bet in all honesty but only if he has a lot of control 

But will he? 

[Froggy]

Worth noting the leak merchants were feeding the press with stories of how they hated McKenna's training style and compared him to a school teacher. 

 

Granted this was years ago, but some of them are still there. 

[KaKa]

2 minutes ago, Froggy said:

Worth noting the leak merchants were feeding the press with stories of how they hated McKenna's training style and compared him to a school teacher. 

 

Granted this was years ago, but some of them are still there. 

 

They hate the new manager already!

 

This just keeps getting better and better!

[Nucasol]

11 minutes ago, Froggy said:

Worth noting the leak merchants were feeding the press with stories of how they hated McKenna's training style and compared him to a school teacher. 

 

Granted this was years ago, but some of them are still there. 

Meals on Wheels?

[Disco]

4 hours ago, El Prontonise said:

Xavi brought this sacking on himself, flip flopping between leaving and staying and then basically saying they couldn't complete.

Wonder if he’ll bother going elsewhere in a top league. Doesn’t seem to have enjoyed managing particularly. 

[toon25]

4 hours ago, Jack27 said:

Xavi sacked by Barca
 

Hansi Flick taking over

Absolutely mental decision. What a bunch of fuckwits managing that club 

[midds]

Sacking ten Hag is clearly the right thing to do, it's the correct decision, but to leak it (or have it leak out) the day before the Cup Final is absolutely fucking shocking like. As others have said, this is just more evidence that they just don't know how to run a football club - even correct decisions are handled so badly and with such arrogance that they're making enemies even within their own fanbase. They should still be able to make a decent fist of it due to the amount of money they constantly throw at problems but they're very much on the decline in the medium term

[Deuce]

1 hour ago, GeordieDazzler said:

Apparently he’s known since after the Palace game. 
 

 

What’s he mean “a lack of respect and knowledge for how INEOS works”? What a snide little wanker.  

[GeordieDazzler]

3 minutes ago, Deuce said:

What’s he mean “a lack of respect and knowledge for how INEOS works”? What a snide little wanker.  

Yeah the Journos on the Ratcliffe payroll are even less subtle than the ones Man U previously paid 

[GeordieDazzler]

54 minutes ago, Disco said:

Wonder if he’ll bother going elsewhere in a top league. Doesn’t seem to have enjoyed managing particularly. 

When they were talking about him on OTC when he originally announced he was quitting they mentioned that being Barca manager whilst also being Catalan is absolutely exhausting as your are the de facto head of the Catalan Independence movement. They said it’s why Guardiola loves being at City as he can just be a pure football manager and not also seventy other things. 
 

Hopefully he tries his hand elsewhere at a progressive club, he has some good ideas but could never really fully realise them at Barca. Him and Pirlo jumped to the big jobs too quickly and when both clubs were in situations where it is almost lose/lose. Bit like Shearer in our relegation season I suppose. 

[Nucasol]

12 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

Yeah the Journos on the Ratcliffe payroll are even less subtle than the ones Man U previously paid 

They’ve spent so long fawning over the tax dodging cunt they’ve lost all objectivity.

[jack j]

Rooney to Plymouth apparently

How the fucks he walked into another championship job for fucks sake

[The College Dropout]

14 minutes ago, jack j said:

Rooney to Plymouth apparently

How the fucks he walked into another championship job for fucks sake

By being the best English player of his generation 

[Dokko]

6 hours ago, jack j said:

 

 

The loud mouth cockney manc youtubers already turning on ratty

 

 

[jack j]

15 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

By being the best English player of his generation 

Hopefully Gazza gets the sunlund job next week then

[Wolfcastle]

43 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

By being the best English player of his generation 

Like Gazza and Bobby Charlton except already with a provenly horrific record in this new line of work.

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2024 by Wolfcastle

[Disco]

5 hours ago, GeordieDazzler said:

When they were talking about him on OTC when he originally announced he was quitting they mentioned that being Barca manager whilst also being Catalan is absolutely exhausting as your are the de facto head of the Catalan Independence movement. They said it’s why Guardiola loves being at City as he can just be a pure football manager and not also seventy other things. 
 

Hopefully he tries his hand elsewhere at a progressive club, he has some good ideas but could never really fully realise them at Barca. Him and Pirlo jumped to the big jobs too quickly and when both clubs were in situations where it is almost lose/lose. Bit like Shearer in our relegation season I suppose. 

Fair like, can see how the pressure would tell but at the same time when you’re a Qatari lottery winner you don’t need to bother. Would be interested to see what a manager he really is though. Might be a drop off but seems ripe for Porto or Benfica. 

[LiquidAK]

11 hours ago, jack j said:

Rooney to Plymouth apparently

How the fucks he walked into another championship job for fucks sake

South West back in the big time @54

 

[54]

8 minutes ago, LiquidAK said:

South West back in the big time @54

 

Eurgh, for such a well run club, that is an absolute stinking appointment

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

I’ve heard Rooney works on a contingency basis with no money down.

[Abacus]

47 minutes ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:

I’ve heard Rooney works on a contingency basis with no money down.

 

[GeordieDazzler]

 

Boo hoo. It’s called being Man United manager, it comes with the territory. 
 

I love that we don’t whinge about the press or refs, it’s just a total waste of energy.