If Jose had taken over from SAF..

comment by Robb Garnacho (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 minute ago
I suppose the Leicester season would have been the one to target. Pep hadn't got his team together at that point and finished 4th.

In an alternative universe Jose following Fergie may have pipped Leicester to the league had he stuck around. But we will never know will we?
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Jose won the league in 2015 with an average Chelsea side so could have done the same with us and the £400 million we spent during that time
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We didn’t have John Terry and Eden Hazard, though.

comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
I suppose the Leicester season would have been the one to target. Pep hadn't got his team together at that point and finished 4th.

In an alternative universe Jose following Fergie may have pipped Leicester to the league had he stuck around. But we will never know will we?
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Pep wasn’t even City manager that season.

I'd say yes, very possible. Those three years between Ferguson retiring & Pep/Klopp/Conte coming over were (imo) the weakest the PL ever was. We weren't anything special in 2015, we just had the best manager in the league.

If Woodward had given him everything he wanted ahead of the 14-15 season & I've got little reason to think he wouldn't have, he was at his most impressionable & stupid with United's money at the time, could easily see it.

We'd be in a much better place right now had we kept Ole, of that I have no doubt at all.
The run of results that led to his sacking look like a very minor blip compared to the farce that Ten Hag has served up since (despite having a spent hundreds of millions to "improve" on the squad Ole had).

If that run meant Ole HAD to be sacked, then what we have seen since should have seen Ten hag locked up!

The final season that SAF won the title, that side was on the wain and needed rebuilding. It was a mixture of SAF's brilliance and the teams around us not being great that season which saw us succeed.

I honestly feel who ever came in was destined to struggle as we didn't plan very well at all post-SAF.

Jose was starting to be past his best by then, I think the squad would have struggled to change from SAF to Jose's way, although he would have been a better choice than Moyes or LVG.

By the time Jose came to us, he was way past his best and the young guns were over-taking over him.

Most of the managers we have had in haven't been the 'right choice' for one reason or the other, and even now, ETH was probably the right choice but just hasn't coped, regardless of what excuses anyone wants to give for him.
It just shows how tough it is to be the manager of a big club, especially Utd, so will be interesting to see who comes in next.

Nobody would have won the league in 2014. IMHO, the 2013 title was purely down to SAF. It was the weakest squad of the premier league era, bar Leicester in 2015.

When we appointed Moyes I said it was not a good appointment and we should have gone for Jose at that time.

Would we have won another title, maybe. We certainly would not have spent all that summer chasing one very tree like player, that is for sure.

comment by Ralf's Shrugging Shoulders (U13341)
posted 2 hours, 51 minutes ago
Nobody would have won the league in 2014. IMHO, the 2013 title was purely down to SAF. It was the weakest squad of the premier league era, bar Leicester in 2015.
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It was way better than our current squad.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
When we appointed Moyes I said it was not a good appointment and we should have gone for Jose at that time.

Would we have won another title, maybe. We certainly would not have spent all that summer chasing one very tree like player, that is for sure.
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This. José would have made Fellaini his top priority and signed him straight away.

You had to have a buffer manager. Moyes was that man. Someone to prevent the next "proper" manager from the inevitable Ferguson comparisons.

Now, all your subsequent managers are being compared to their predecessors in the post-Ferguson regime instead. Which in theory should make it easier to keep a manager long enough to let them build a side, but in practice doesn't seem to.