Manchester United Rumours

30 Sep 2024 11:37:51
Ed002 is southgate the main and likely option we look to if ten hag is sacked?

{Ed002's Note - He is one of the options.}

30 Sep 2024 16:25:41
Ed002 is graham potter still an option.

{Ed002's Note - I understand that he has been discounted for now following discussions.}

30 Sep 2024 19:10:20
Ed002 could Mckenna be an ootion and attainable? With his style and united history would be a smart move or thomas frank and Allegri is available, maybe a option we could look at? Thank you.

{Ed002's Note - Another consideration but availability will be an issue. Frank will not be an option, Massimiliano Allegri strikes me as very unlikely.}

30 Sep 2024 22:19:26
I quite like the idea of Nagelsmann and wonder if he is under any consideration?

01 Oct 2024 00:59:04
Is it safe to say Tuchel is our number one choice followed by Southgate. Can you please providee us a list of order of preference. Thank you ed.

{Ed002's Note - Not at this time - Manchester United has a coach.}

01 Oct 2024 10:45:46
Ed002 could van nistelrooy taking over be an option we look at?

{Ed002's Note - Ruud van Nistelrooy - the soft option - perhaps give him the job until the end of the season.}

01 Oct 2024 11:28:29
Ed002 - if EtH was to depart, would Nagelsmann be an option?

{Ed002's Note - No.}

01 Oct 2024 11:55:53
ED002,

Appointing RVN as an interim manager might be a fairly decent idea. Appointing a new manager when the season has already started isn't ideal and some manager are known to not be keen on doing this.

Is the option if Fernandes leaving still on the table?

Or has that ended when he signed a new contract?

Thanks.

{Ed002's Note - Bruno Fernandes (AM) ME still beckons after an offer from Al Hilal was rejected by the player. Al-Nassr are willing to pay a premium fee to Manchester Unted and provide the player with significant compensation. A wildcard may be Bayern Munich who his agent approached - but they would not be interested if any significant fee was demanded.}

01 Oct 2024 12:18:50
Thanks ED002,

In surprised the club didn't sell him in the summer. It's time he moved on.

01 Oct 2024 12:49:10
Ed if you don’t mind- who would you appoint if you were involved with the club?

{Ed002's Note - Thomas Tuchel.}

01 Oct 2024 13:14:43
Thanks for all your answers Ed002: can imagine you’re getting lots of questions about ETH issue now!

So really sorry to be one of those posters but, given that RVN has been part of the failing results (and presumably coaching etc) so far this season, if he does get the job, do you think he’ll make any difference, or just more of the same? (Does he have a decent reputation in your higher-level football circles? )

Again, any response will be very gratefully appreciated! (And thank you for your precious time! )

{Ed002's Note - Realistically it would be a placeholder appointment until a new coach arrives.}

01 Oct 2024 13:55:40
Wallace all the Eth in people are pleading for time, whilst Erik has had 2 and this is his 3rd year our entire coaching set up has only been here this season they may deserve time he has had it.

01 Oct 2024 14:34:52
Sorry DB, bit confused:

You’re saying that, if given the job, RVN should get more time to prove himself?

01 Oct 2024 14:37:03
Thanks Ed002: makes sense I guess to keep RVN to the end of the season to give hierarchy time to deep dive into researching permanent replacements and get the manager they really want next Summer.

01 Oct 2024 14:31:05
Ed002 can I ask why potter has been discarded? Thought he would be a good choice with ineos and ashworth links.

{Ed002's Note - Graham Potter - I understand that he is down the list following discussions.

01 Oct 2024 14:31:05
Ed002 can I ask why potter has been discarded? Thought he would be a good choice with ineos and ashworth links.

{Ed002's Note - We are not going to get into any detail right now. This all started in the summer.}

01 Oct 2024 18:14:41
Wallace what I mean is you can't lump rvn and other coaches with Eth they have only been here a few months ten hag hasn't.

I wouldn't be concerned if a new coach or interim coach kept them all for this season at least.

02 Oct 2024 12:30:00
What makes Southgate stand out as an option, out of interest?

{Ed002's Note - The club have previously been interested, he has support from the club and his relationship with Ashworth.}

03 Oct 2024 08:12:38
Southgate rumour mill in full overdrive today.

03 Oct 2024 08:36:06
Please god no to Southgate. His football has been shocking considering the players available to him.

Tuchel any day over Southgate, but preferably Frank.

Tuchel is great tactically and no doubt is passionate, but has had bust ups with players and upper management.

Frank is a coach with great man management skills, passionate and tactically astute. At Brentford, he has shown he can work well within a structured environment and with the club's mindset.

EtH needs to get some fire into the players and tweak some tactics to get some wins going as his tactics have been found out. It's unfortunate, as we all wanted him to succeed, but I think the writing is on the walls and it's down to him. He has been back in the market heavily and these are his players not performing.

Strangely enough, I think his system would work better without Bruno Fernandes. Bruno's style is to attempt the spectacular, look for the cutting pass and create things. However, his passing accuracy has always been an issue. Right now his passing accuracy for this season is 81% passes completed.

That's nearly ever 1 in 5 passes going astray. While not discounting the chances he has greater and the fact he's been our best player over the past few years, his passion and drive for the team is immense. The risks he takes are just a little to frequent for this team.

I'd like to see him rested and a more stable midfield adopted (Ugarte, Case and Mainoo) to see if we can get things to gel together. Retaining possession while maintaining solid defensively will help us work play for our attackers to be better positioned before the final pass.

This isn't me saying I don't like Bruno in the team but just that alternative approaches need yo be taken and the club should realistically look to cash in on him whole they have the option to do so.

26 Sep 2024 13:39:51
Hi Ed002,

Do you know if the United hierarchy are losing confidence in Ten Hag please and if they’re thinking of replacing him soon?

Results are pretty poor and there seem to be questions about how well he is implementing a more possession based style of play, his team selections and his substitutions- plus other issues such as communicating his ideas.

The next International break might seem an opportune moment to make a change perhaps?

Many thanks for an information you feel able to reveal about ETH’s current position.

{Ed002's Note - He should have been replaced in the summer. The board will have serious concerns now and no doubt options will be considered and Ashworth will be a key part of the decision process.}

26 Sep 2024 15:00:14
Ed002

Thank you and agree. May I ask if Eddie Howe would be considered given the Ashworth connection?

{Ed002's Note - There would be plenty ahead of him.}

26 Sep 2024 15:16:34
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply Ed002, very much appreciated.

26 Sep 2024 15:48:01
Hi Ed, Is it true Ole was asked if He'd accept to return to Utd as manager?

{Ed002's Note - By a journalist - not the club.}

26 Sep 2024 16:17:02
What are the options now in order of preference?

{Ed002's Note - There is nothing to discuss now.}

26 Sep 2024 22:36:22
I imagine it will cost a pretty penny to remove him this year?

27 Sep 2024 02:59:50
Hopefully not, Spenno. Given that the only reason they didn’t get rid of him in the summer was because they couldn’t get the person they wanted in to replace him, you’d like to think they’d have put a lower severance payout in his new contract. At the very least, it shouldn’t have gone up.

27 Sep 2024 09:19:07
He didn't get a new contract.

27 Sep 2024 09:54:15
The next few games could be key for EtH to show that there is significant improvement and to get us up the table a bit. Unfortunately they are not easy games with Spurs and Villa with Porto inbetween in the Europa.
There will be many more metrics other than wins that they will be looking at but it will not have been lost on them that the fans at the FC Twente game seemed to be turning a bit. That can be overcome with a few good results but if the board are not 100% convinced then they may start looking at options again.
Lets remember that there are some managers available that if you believe the noise in the summer the board were keen on (Tuchel, Southgate - please no! )

After the break there is a run where we will be favourites so if he can ride out this period he could get a breather assuming we pick up points.

28 Sep 2024 00:08:56
Just go all out and get Arteta.

28 Sep 2024 02:48:56
You do know that Arteta is an Arsenal fan, burnleyred? You really think he'll throw away what he's up to for a year as a well paid scapegoat for the shambles at your club?

28 Sep 2024 18:32:37
Ten Hag might be rubbish, but he has still won more than Arteta SW.
Five years £700m and one FA Cup, shocker.

28 Sep 2024 18:36:36
3 years 700m, 1 beat city cup (yehhh) 1 league cup an 8th place finish 🤦‍♂️ shocker.

28 Sep 2024 21:51:28
I’d take OGS back over ten Hag any day of the week.

29 Sep 2024 01:51:31
True, Grim, he did win the league cup. Better then to leave Arteta alone and give Ten Hag a new contract, serial winner that he has proven himself to be (;

29 Sep 2024 11:44:02
Arteta lost his first 3 league games in his third year and had managed 4 points from first 5 games.

Arsenal fans were calling for his head and the whole stadium was booing. people have short memories and revisionist.

The spend amount that keeps getting quoted is just lazy stuff go to Transfermarkt and add 3 numbers, can't be that difficult.

If beating city was a yeaah why has no one else done it the England since Guardiola has been here yeaah.

29 Sep 2024 18:25:14
Enough is enough. Get rid of Ten Haag and bring Ole back until the end of the season.

29 Sep 2024 18:53:35
Can't wait to see him gone.

29 Sep 2024 20:19:21
I think he's gone now. position untenable now.

29 Sep 2024 21:40:02
Ole is nowhere near good enough. People have short memories.

29 Sep 2024 22:52:48
No idea why Ole is getting mentioned, a journo asks Ole a question, Ole answers and now its bandied about as a credible alternative.

I cannot believe for one minute Sir Jim would even have thought about it, I am sure he and his team have ideas of who they want, OGS won't even be discussed and mentioned as an option.

30 Sep 2024 08:21:02
Amen to that oakbark.

30 Sep 2024 08:51:55
At least Ole tried to play entertaining football and got on well with the squad. He also had a good record against the big six, save for that 5-0 thumping at home against the scousers.

He probably isn’t the man for the job in the long-term (although let’s remember that he too had to deal with all of the same issues that the Ten Haag apologists are constantly bleating on about), but between him and Van Nistelrooy, I do think he could steady the ship between now and the end of the season.

The alternative seems to be rushing out and signing Southgate to a long-term deal, which I don’t think any of us want. Ole until the end of the season will give the new management structure time to scout and secure the right manager, which we haven’t had since SAF left.

20 Sep 2024 23:58:08
United linked with Chris Rigg from Sunderland with a quote “ he’s the closest thing to Brian Robson that I’ve sen”
Robbo was the best player in the team back in the 80’s if he’s half as good I’d be impressed
Any truth in it?

21 Sep 2024 08:37:52
United have been tracking him for some time now so there's hope.

I would be happy if he and Nypan each signed in the New Year and remained at their current clubs - on-loan - until season's end.

Just imagining those two joining Mainoo, Kone, Ugarte, Collyer and Gore to create depth of incredible quality to our midfield for years to come makes for a vision of real progress for the club.

The legacy of the great moronic pit-dig that was Brexit is now finally being managed with purpose, instead of the stumble-stew we saw before, and I'm keen to see how it pays off.

21 Sep 2024 09:00:01
Hyperbole statement and hard to see another player like Robson again.

Watched the kid from Leeds a few times last year that spurs bought I think for big money and he is not worth it.

Vermeeren who were linked with a couple of years ago similar player but better passing range went for half that to Athletico and now out on loan somewhere.

21 Sep 2024 11:31:46
like the look of the kid we have possibly got from Arsenal -no announcemnet yet - looked at a few clips of him, reminds me a bit of Greenwood, similar style and movement both just seem to have a nose for goals.

22 Sep 2024 13:13:05
How do you lot think rigg wants to come to you lot?

22 Sep 2024 19:32:24
Ork, your use of vocabulary delights me 😂😂😂.

23 Sep 2024 10:09:33
Albey,

Because we are one of the biggest clubs in the world with loads of money mate, surely you don’t need to ask that, he might not come to us but we still have a bit of a pull, especially on some young players at the moment it seems.

{Ed002's Note - Chris Rigg (CM) Kiddie spotted by Chelsea scouts when watching another Sunderland player. Of an age where he can reach the position of being Club Developed as well as Home Grown. Liverpool and Manchester United have sent scouts.}

23 Sep 2024 16:30:11
Hi Ed002

I hope all is well with you. In terms of as you say sent scouts, clubs like Liverpool, Chelsea, United how many players do they scout annually and is this a weekly occurrence where multiple players are being scouted.

{Ed002's Note - Scouts attend at least one game a week and often work for multiple clubs. Senior scouts will look to specific players based on the advice of the scouting system.}

20 Sep 2024 12:44:51
Hi Eds,

Quite a few reports of us looking at Sverre Nypan from Rosenburg.

Ineos seem to be making efforts to sign promising young talents.

Is.

{Ed002's Note - Sverre Nypan (CM/AM) Union Berlin has declared an interest in taking him next summer to replace loanee Woo-yeong Jeong. Manchester United has a declared interest.

Nothing to do with Ineos - they don't decide on the targets.}

21 Sep 2024 23:31:24
Really?

10 Sep 2024 00:52:27
Ed are we still interested in Benjamin Sesko?

No.}

12 Sep 2024 09:34:39
Good player, but with both Zirkzee and Højlund at the club and with young lads like Wheatley and Obi Martins looking to break into the first team over the next 2-3 years I'm not sure we need another young striker who needs game time to continue his development.

Especially as we typically play with just one striker. Normally at best one gets 60 minutes and another comes on for them for the last 30 minutes. That leaves two (3 if we signed Sesko) not playing.

I don't think we need another striker, certainly not a young one. Maybe there could be an argument for an older (32+) striker who is happy to have a similar role to Evans. Someone who's really there to pass on their experience and help develop the younger lads in training, occasionally playing during an injury crisis.

12 Sep 2024 11:21:04
Agreed that we could use a more experienced player in our pool of strikers, but I'd argue that from what I've seen Sesko is a million miles ahead of what we have already.

12 Sep 2024 14:15:15
Spenno, I wouldn't say that. The Bundesliga is notorious for giving forward players lots of good chances due to the prevalence of transitional styles of play the majority of teams adopt.

Sesko looks a great young player, but I don't think he'd get any more chances or score more than the likes of Højlund and Zirkzee if he was in our team.

13 Sep 2024 09:18:50
Well I guess you’re right then!