Poll for who should be next permanent manager. So no option for giving it to Giggsy until the end of the season…
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Giggsy is old news. They have Fletcher now. He has Utd DNA. He understands the club.
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Southgate and Ole lead it so far 
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To be fair his DNA is literally in the club as two of his kids were on the bench recently
(it’s also 50-50 that he wanked into the dirty laundry basket at the end of this last game)
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Leaving his DNA is his trademark. Just ask his brother.
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This United DNA thing… Not sure I’ve ever heard that kind of term associated with any other club. All a bit elitest if you ask me. Give it to Giggseh then, he’s more than generous with his DNA.
And no, this one never gets old.
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There is, but in most cases a good portion of it is a bunch of overrated shite in my opinion. Some of these clubs have been there for 150 odd years, there isn’t one way in which they had all their successful periods.
Some things in football change, some remain the same, some just turn in cycles.
You even hear it at places like Tottenham and West Ham. What, because their fanbases like seeing good football, because they remember an era from way back? No shit, who doesn’t? And good football is pretty general and somewhat subjective in the first place. They couldn’t agree between themselves anyway.
At United, I’ve heard a few times that it’s 4-4-2, wingers out wide, fast, powerful and winning football.
I would never want my club to fall into those traps of history, especially being slaves of a bloody football formation.
I want us to be protagonists and win. Whether in different eras it’s in different formations, sometimes more controlled football, sometimes with more intensity, a bit more on the idealist side or pragmatic one… I don’t care. Success in any of those ways is good for me.
I think Barca in last decades are that one special place where it mattered more than anywhere else. Where that identity was indeed something, from the kids to the first team. Manifested in them having a team that were all part of their academy. I don’t know if we’ll ever see that again, at that high level, in our lifetime.
And of course that a place like West Ham today cannot implement it like clubs that need to build a style of play that needs to dominate every season like Bayern, Celtic, etc.
Clubs trying to implement some general principles of playing and behaviour is something else, of course you try to do that and it raises the chances for your first team to be successful.
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Dude…
You should watch this clip, you’ll fucking love it.
GaryNev basically parrots everything you just said.
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He dared comparing United’s DNA (as in having a strong one) with Barcelona and Ajax.
I know it’s impossible for him to be totally objective (nobody is, in any topic), but dear me some of the stuff I hear sometimes from United-related people. From the world’s biggest club (I mean the bottle to say that when Real are doing what they’re doing in the last decade or so), having a strong DNA comparable to Barca and Ajax, goalkeeper at United being the most difficult position in world football.
Amazing.
A few years ago he said on MNF something like United should be about power, pace and transitions.
Now he says they should take risks, be exciting, etc.
Incredible game of words, because how can one possibly be against power, pace, transitions, taking risks, being exciting.
At the same time, it can mean everything and nothing. Or somewhat contradictory.
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fingers crossed Slot wins the Manager of the Month next then! 
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Yep.
I really would not mind Slot winning the award, as it will likely show that the team has properly turned a corner and not having the current dreadful boring football. Anyway, I am derailing this Mancs thread.
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Penny for Ashworth’s thoughts today. I bet he’s having a good day.
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Quite it shows how silly these sackings are mind.
Anyhow oddly they will be letting Fletcher do it and then appoint a caretaker, which isn’t Fletcher, unless it is, or they are trying to recruit an actual caretaker after sacking them along with the tea ladies.
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We’ll never know…
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Tbf, since he’s worked there he’s been an academy prospect, a first team player, a technical director, a youth coach, an interim manager, an author, visionary, and Dreamweaver
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