Manchester United

[duncs pigeon]

The sexual tension between @duncs pigeon and @EverTheOptimist is the only thing that brings me in here lol

I think the kopite tit has me on ignore cos he never replies to me

 

[Blues Harp]

Meanwhile we were saddled with Martinez Koeman Allardyce Silva Ancelotti and now Benitez
Thanks Billy liar and Moshiri.

 

[catcherintherye]

Great appointment for them, i posted yesterday how they should give him the interim and then keep him on, he's one of if not the best football mind in the game today, he'll fix the academy, scouting, coaching and recruitment.

Fergie will be gutted about this, he won't get much say now with Rangnick calling the shots, i reckon they'll go for Ten Haag as manager in the Summer as well and not Poch.

If this doesn't work for United though then i don't know how they get back, continuing the Fergie way since he retired has been a mess, he really needs to go to pasture and stay at home as it's going all Matt Busby again who's shadow cast large over the club and he couldn't stay away in the 70's and 80's and Fergie is doing the exact same thing with the meddling of choosing players, manager's and going to training sessions, this appointment is about as modern and progressive as you can get right now, it has to work for them, seems like the last throw of the dice.

I'm really looking forward to seeing him work, how quickly he gets his style across, Rangnick should have been in England 10 years ago, really fascinating guy.

I'd agree it's a great appointment, if they give him time. That's the big IF though.

 

[Nymzee]

I'd agree it's a great appointment, if they give him time. That's the big IF though.

He’s not getting time. It’s an interim deal then a consultancy role.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[EverTheOptimist]

Consultancy role is baffling, tells me they just do not trust the process of overhauling the club like Rangnick would do, he would put a lot of noses out of joint, and get better people in the positions of coaching and recruitment, it's like they are dipping their toe in with Rangnick giving him such a minor role after this season and continuing trusting the process that's been a mitigating disaster since Fergie retired.

Murtough and Fletcher combined don't have 1% of the football IQ Rangnick has.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Unconvinced the shower of bluffers they have in their squad will react (positively) to him.
I see it as more of a massive payday to trial him for 6 months and see what’s going on with Conte after that.

 

[duncs pigeon]

Consultancy role is baffling, tells me they just do not trust the process of overhauling the club like Rangnick would do, he would put a lot of noses out of joint, and get better people in the positions of coaching and recruitment, it's like they are dipping their toe in with Rangnick giving him such a minor role after this season and continuing trusting the process that's been a mitigating disaster since Fergie retired.

Murtough and Fletcher combined don't have 1% of the football IQ Rangnick has.

How do you know so much about the running of the worlds biggest football club?

 

[barneygumble]

Consultancy role is baffling, tells me they just do not trust the process of overhauling the club like Rangnick would do, he would put a lot of noses out of joint, and get better people in the positions of coaching and recruitment, it's like they are dipping their toe in with Rangnick giving him such a minor role after this season and continuing trusting the process that's been a mitigating disaster since Fergie retired.

Murtough and Fletcher combined don't have 1% of the football IQ Rangnick has.

It’s not baffling.

Manchester United stopped being a football club a long, long time ago.

If Rangnick pulls the Ronaldo’a, Pogba’s, the sellable, marketable players like Cavani, they’re losing appeal.

United is a brand, and the reality is, as long as they’re there or there about and shoehorn all the players in, then they’ll make revenue.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Looks like he has agreed a temporary deal as he will take up a role afterwards. They should get him in as DoF.

 

[FellisElbow]

Rangnick, Tuchel, Pep, Conte, Bielsa all in English football. Can only be a good thing.

and Benitez.......


...runs for door, giggling

 

[MinaxMason]

How well Rangnick does at their club will probably depend on just how much leverage the board will be giving him...

Could honestly see some pretty heavy power clashes going on...

 

[twoblue]

And Rangnick to Man Utd…

Not good enough for Everton though, n two separate occasions.

It’s a strange choice.

 

[Martin Alvito]

PSG are never winning the CL,this season or beyond,they play in an absolute dross league, they missed the boat that covid season and blew it. Their league is a stroll every week by the time the knockouts come they are undercooked while the top teams especially in England are firing on all cylinders, the season they got to final, the restarted football season all the big teams were undercooked and it helped PSG, Qatar should have not invested in a french team, holy grail is the CL but doing it with a French club was naive as french teams are historically atrocious in Europe, no matter how much Petro dollars they throw at PSG,nothing will change when they have no competition in Ligue 1 testing them every week.

All they have to do is get hot at the right time. Three two-legged ties and a one-off, and that's it.

It's a little harder than, say, the NCAA basketball tournament, which unfolds over three weeks and is single elimination. That tournament has had the odd shock winner, much like the FA Cup. That said, if 2012 Chelsea can do it, PSG can do it.

You're correct that they had a better chance, as far as the structure of the competition goes, to pull of a stunner in 2020 when it was a series of one-offs. The Bavarians came out of the long break like a house afire, though. No one was stopping them.

If there's a reason PSG can't this season, it's that this year's iteration isn't playing the kind of team ball Tuchel had them playing. Pochettino is obviously still trying to figure out how to manage that much ego in one dressing room. He may not figure it out. Hard to blame him for wanting to try, though.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Looks like he has agreed a temporary deal as he will take up a role afterwards. They should get him in as DoF.

That may well be exactly what he is angling for.

They could do a lot worse on that front. The man who built Leipzig is uniquely qualified to take United's riches and show Klopp how to gegenpress using them.