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.
We’ll never know…
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
Scottish
Well after Busby and Ferguson they might be on to something. Oh… Moyes…
Manager isn’t the root problem, is it?
I think they’ve tried everything else, haven’t they?
My mind must be playing tricks with me…
Wasn’t it only about 15 months ago that they sacked an underperforming manager just a short time after previously backing him in the transfer market?
History repeats itself…
Everything is an experiment of some sorts.
In football you often get reactions to what was most recent.
Back in the time when he wanted United to be powerful, pacy, strong in transitions and more counter-attacking, that was a reaction to them trying to play more controlled football.
Now when he wants United to take risks and play exciting football, even in that game of words it doesn’t sound much different, he probably doesn’t want United to be fielding 5 defenders and midfield pairings of Casemiro and Ugarte (understandably so).
Tottenham went for a few winning coaches post-Poch after they couldn’t make the final step, but then went a step or two back with them, so needed a new “Poch” in order to get closer, which they’re still trying to do with some idealist and some pragmatic options.
The more a club fails to get back to serious success, the more the fanbase becomes desperate (though it also depends how big the club is, some smaller ones just accept a new reality). And some shouts within can be really wild. But it’s not surprising. The club itself is in a process of trying to turn the page and it takes time.
We’ve all seen it with our own clubs, how many times the majority of the fanbase thought or felt “this is the one, this is the combination of people above, coach and players that will make it work”… and then it proved not to be the case, but even more time needed.
Here we go again. 
Anything at least slightly different to that, it’s not their great DNA.
This is amazing.
It was never about the formation not being suitable. It’s about them being attracted to a man who thought his atypical formation was a piece of magic and had nothing to fall back on when it was shown not to be the case and was content to blame all those failings on the players not doing the formation well enough
The amount of fawning going on here after @sbym offers a prize is borderline disgusting.
Pretty much my entire youth following the reds - Evans was in charge when I became a fan. 30 years of no league title.
United last won the PL in 2013 - that’s only 13 years - I want it to carry on for a good few yet.
I don’t care that much about it all, but it would be fascinating to go back through archives and hear what Neville said about each of United’s new managerial singings, what he said just before the sacking, and after…
Basically, I suspect he just says all sorts based on the wind when it comes to United.
What?
It’s similar what he says, but changes a bit from time to time. Also the words someone uses, can be different.
