It’s best just to laugh.
Get Ole in , it’s a no brainer. What could go wrong ?
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Nikola wants Ole.
When it says he’s in “pole position”…
Does he realise it’s a very slippery pole?
Or will it mean he has to dance in his underwear while Big Jim stuffs fivers in his pants?
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Born in the 90’s and wasn’t following football in the whole of that decade, but from what I know and keep learning about that era, we were an absolute shambles as a club, stuck in the past.
I don’t think United’s past 10+ years are exactly that (I mean, having two managers is simply wrong in any era, like Napoleon said a bad general is worth more than two who are good), but it has some similarities.
You get stupid shouts from public club-related people and fans regardless if things are going well or not. But the fact that they seem unable to move on from their people in a way proves the mess they’re in. The shouts of giving it to Roy Keane, because what… he’s passionate and will shout at them. Great. Go for it, if you ask me.
Fact remains that Ole secured 3rd and 2nd place in two of his full seasons, I don’t know if he will takeover until the end of the season. It just seems that they’re stuck with those ex-players options, knowing the club (but what club is it these days?) and the great DNA (would love to know what it is and what’s the worth of it).
A lot of questions are still there on and off the pitch. They could have a few scenarios: CL, EL, Conference or no Europe at all. A little bit like our 22/23 season.
I don’t even want to imagine what the last looks like, we never had it at Liverpool in my following.
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Liverpool have gone through periods of being run as a professional sporting outfit and others where it is like a gentleman’s club with little respect to commercial or professional aspects.
With United, they have always had the commercial side sorted, but they have relied on enigmatic managers. For all their success, they have only ever had three league wining managers: Ernest Mangnall, Matt Busby, and Alex Ferguson. I suspect that they are still stuck in that mindset of needing a big central personality, rather than an integrated sporting setup.
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Something like this?
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ha ha ha
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No… need to drop several divisions, they haven’t yet dropped one like the last time.
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I’m sad he thinks they’re finished.
It’s like the best sitcom ever and I don’t want it to end. It’s like 12 year old me watching the closing credits of Return of the Jedi and realising its done. There isn’t anymore.
Jim make it not so. Please carry on doing the same thing(s) and expect different results. I emplore you.
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Couldn’t have done it without Barry White.
Its worth stating - guffaw - that never in our 30yr period of struggle did we ever drop this consistently low, perhaps we got this bad during Souness time and maybe Hodg, but not 12yrs of consistent turbulence off the bottom and back down. Goldridge is right to call it out, it’s been consistently abject for over 12 yrs. The club is toxic and has no clue. Its needs a substantial rethink, requires no less than a complete rebuild, for the 6th again!
What the adventures at United and us pre FSG tell us is that it all stems from the top. I don’t think it’s possible for a club to have success without competent ownership. Utd could get Klopp in and it wouldn’t matter.
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We were never this bad even with H&G. Sure they almost managed to run us to the ground , but we weren’t rotten. There’s something rotten about United.
We were definitely this bad. Quite a bit worse in terms of the sides actually being fielded when you think about the teams Hodgson put out. The fundamental difference is that that was in the midst of crisis, moves like Joe Cole were acts of desperation taken by unqualified people in the absence of resources to look for better options. It was not sustainable or stable by definition, just part and parcel of the broader crisis.
What ManU have managed to do is make chronic mediocrity both sustainable and stable.
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Does this mean that in 16 years, United will be managed by Jar Jar Binks?
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Oh, it’s real. The comments, the comments…
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