comment by Big McTominay (U22257)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Clockwork Red (U4892)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
comment by Big McTominay (U22257)
posted 8 minutes ago
Ed appoints the best men for the job available at that time, and then backs them with signings.
I'm really not sure what else he (or eany other CEO for that matter)could do.
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Under Ed’s stewardship, United have gone from champions to also-rans to, as it stands, mid-table mediocrity or worse. Any “CEO” who oversaw such a dramatic decline in another industry would be under severe pressure; for instance, as a school principal, if your institution falls by an Ofsted ranking, you’re often gone even if you didn’t teach a single one of those inadequate lessons.
The footballing decisions aren’t going well - terribly, in fact. Giving a manager a new contract and then not backing him. Making a new player the top-earner without anticipating the problems that would cause. Whatever on earth was going on in the summer of 2013. No continuity between managers meaning permanent flux. These are the reasons why people criticise him.
As the article says, though, training and tactics I don’t blame him for and think we could be a (more) successful club with or without him.
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Tou cant put where we are on Ed alone. He had to succeed Gill and replace SAF. Surely you accept that's ot an east job?
Then he is reliant on the manager, coaches and players pulling their weight, which they arent.
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I have written ten or more paragraphs saying precisely this
The real problem?
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posted on 8/10/19
comment by Big McTominay (U22257)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Clockwork Red (U4892)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
comment by Big McTominay (U22257)
posted 8 minutes ago
Ed appoints the best men for the job available at that time, and then backs them with signings.
I'm really not sure what else he (or eany other CEO for that matter)could do.
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Under Ed’s stewardship, United have gone from champions to also-rans to, as it stands, mid-table mediocrity or worse. Any “CEO” who oversaw such a dramatic decline in another industry would be under severe pressure; for instance, as a school principal, if your institution falls by an Ofsted ranking, you’re often gone even if you didn’t teach a single one of those inadequate lessons.
The footballing decisions aren’t going well - terribly, in fact. Giving a manager a new contract and then not backing him. Making a new player the top-earner without anticipating the problems that would cause. Whatever on earth was going on in the summer of 2013. No continuity between managers meaning permanent flux. These are the reasons why people criticise him.
As the article says, though, training and tactics I don’t blame him for and think we could be a (more) successful club with or without him.
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Tou cant put where we are on Ed alone. He had to succeed Gill and replace SAF. Surely you accept that's ot an east job?
Then he is reliant on the manager, coaches and players pulling their weight, which they arent.
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I have written ten or more paragraphs saying precisely this
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