Man Utd Thread:

NAG1 · May 15, 2024, 01:18:47 PM

Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on May 15, 2024, 01:02:41 PMffs please not Southgate, he has wasted England best chance to win something over the last few tournaments. The English seem blinded to his incompetence. He speaks well to the media and is a likeable guy but is tactically brain dead

The latest I've seen is Thomas Frank being linked. Interesting one, has the EPL experience and seems to be able to set a team up.

That being said I'm not sure they will move on ETH simply due to the lack of quality options out there at the moment.

gawa316 · May 15, 2024, 02:12:37 PM

Quote from: tiempo on May 15, 2024, 10:11:39 AMWould you rather ...

McKenna

Ah leave the poor cub alone, utd would ruin him

gallsman · May 15, 2024, 04:08:01 PM

Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on May 15, 2024, 01:02:41 PMffs please not Southgate, he has wasted England best chance to win something over the last few tournaments. The English seem blinded to his incompetence. He speaks well to the media and is a likeable guy but is tactically brain dead

They lost a final on penalties and then lost to a team who missed out on retaining the WC on penalties. I don't think that's down to Southgate "wasting" anything.

tiempo · May 15, 2024, 04:28:47 PM

Quote from: gallsman on May 15, 2024, 04:08:01 PM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on May 15, 2024, 01:02:41 PMffs please not Southgate, he has wasted England best chance to win something over the last few tournaments. The English seem blinded to his incompetence. He speaks well to the media and is a likeable guy but is tactically brain dead

They lost a final on penalties and then lost to a team who missed out on retaining the WC on penalties. I don't think that's down to Southgate "wasting" anything.

Agree

Kane missed a gilt edged chance in WC SF v Croatia, beat on pens in Euro final, Kane missed pen v France in WC

Has to be Southgate now while he's hot surely, how many overlooked Van Dijk before he appeared to surprise many in becoming a stellar player, I see Southgate as the managerial equivalent

Blowitupref · May 15, 2024, 05:02:58 PM

Tuchel is favourite with the bookies and punters to become the next Man United manager. His spells with PSG,Chelsea and Bayern Munich was short and would likely be the same if he became United manager.

On Southgate he's former Aston Villa player and if and when the Aston Villa job becomes available would they bring in him as manager? Doubtful I think as he would likely be seen as downgrade on current manager Unai Emery.

AustinPowers · May 15, 2024, 06:24:20 PM

I don't think Southgate is any big shakes , but he'd be better than ETH. You might see somewhat safety first style football, but he has better knowledge of the PL than ETH did (as that clearly shows ), and I reckon he'd steady the ship and tighten things up at least.

I'm not clued into the European leagues so I don't know who else would be a good fit at united ( other than Ancelotti, perhaps), but as we've seen, continental managers to the PL are much riskier as the game in Spain/Italy is different. So in that respect, Southgate would probably be the best of a mediocre bunch of british-style managers , at this stage

Milltown Row2 · May 15, 2024, 10:15:46 PM

Not the result the media wanted

The Trap · May 15, 2024, 10:46:40 PM

Feck me Utd fans are easily pleased. One win tonight and everything seems OK and ETH has to stay next season. Every other team will hope he stays! They have been absolutely terrible.
Just have to hope they don't get hammered by City in the final.

Milltown Row2 · May 15, 2024, 11:03:36 PM

Quote from: The Trap on May 15, 2024, 10:46:40 PMFeck me Utd fans are easily pleased. One win tonight and everything seems OK and ETH has to stay next season. Every other team will hope he stays! They have been absolutely terrible.
Just have to hope they don't get hammered by City in the final.

Jesus if they are terrible, how bad are Newcastle?

snoopdog · May 16, 2024, 07:40:35 AM

Spurs had a great season and they're only 6 pts, 2 wins better than a bad United side. If United by some miracle win the Cup, Ten Hag has had a better season than the Farewell Flopp. The main issue with that team is being constantly over run in the middle. 1 correct purchase could be worth an extra 10 points next season, but it's not too often utd get it right in the transfer market this last 10 years or so.

jcpen · May 16, 2024, 07:49:05 AM

Quote from: snoopdog on May 16, 2024, 07:40:35 AMSpurs had a great season and they're only 6 pts, 2 wins better than a bad United side. If United by some miracle win the Cup, Ten Hag has had a better season than the Farewell Flopp. The main issue with that team is being constantly over run in the middle. 1 correct purchase could be worth an extra 10 points next season, but it's not too often utd get it right in the transfer market this last 10 years or so.

That's an embarrassing post on so many levels

quit yo jibbajabba · May 16, 2024, 08:16:26 AM

I heard of an old mate in the pub on Sunday make the same argument about Pool v Man U, tho in his defence you'd hope he had had a few

thewobbler · May 16, 2024, 08:20:55 AM

Quote from: snoopdog on May 16, 2024, 07:40:35 AMSpurs had a great season and they're only 6 pts, 2 wins better than a bad United side. If United by some miracle win the Cup, Ten Hag has had a better season than the Farewell Flopp. The main issue with that team is being constantly over run in the middle. 1 correct purchase could be worth an extra 10 points next season, but it's not too often utd get it right in the transfer market this last 10 years or so.

Spurs had a great [ start to ] the season.

Milltown Row2 · May 16, 2024, 08:50:05 AM

Quote from: snoopdog on May 16, 2024, 07:40:35 AMSpurs had a great season and they're only 6 pts, 2 wins better than a bad United side. If United by some miracle win the Cup, Ten Hag has had a better season than the Farewell Flopp. The main issue with that team is being constantly over run in the middle. 1 correct purchase could be worth an extra 10 points next season, but it's not too often utd get it right in the transfer market this last 10 years or so.

Couple of pool fans caught

Sorry, one, the other is a neutral

NAG1 · May 16, 2024, 08:59:06 AM

Take it for what it is, an end of season open game that United came out on the right side of for once.

I've said it before on here, I think they need a season out of Europe completely, but one sure thing is, that they don't need to be competing in the conference league.

If by some miracle they happen to win the cup they at least they would get into the Europa which probably would help with PSR and player transfers. But that Thursday Sunday schedule is a joke over the season.