I think he's got a very big influence currently and he's made sure all the right people are in the right place. That's not taking anything away from Ole either who is doing a terrific job backed by quality like Phelan and Carrick
I agree with this line of thinking. OGS is his own man, and I don't think a puppet manager would ever work, even with SAF as the puppetmaster. OGS he should use every possible advantage available to him, and one of those is SAF, one of the greatest football managers of all time.
Phelan/ Carrick is typical of the united set up under the SAF - an old calm head who seems pretty grounded and down to earth and a younger potential manager in training.
I know this is the anti-rs thread, but this would be like them going back to the boot room and getting that set back up to generate the next winning management team- which I think they blew when they binned off Souness, who looked to be in the process of ridding the club of its spice boy era - thankfully it's so long in the distant past that the boot room idea there might as well be an old wives tale. Have United looked at why the rs failed so miserably after Dogleash rode the coat tails of it, and realised that they didn't have much longer to rectify a similar mistake before it blew up in their faces and it was 30 years later without a league?
