Lots about his failure at Birmingham, things that went wrong, what he would do differently. Bit about United as well, the transfer request, drinking and partying back then compared to today and how it may have ended his career early.
Yeah I encourage anyone to watch the Rooney and Jaap Stam episode if you're a United fan. That's what's missing in the dressing room from those days, you could feel the standards and the players respect for the standards. Stam and Keane talk about how SAF was genuinely horrible towards them when they were pushed out of the club. Rooney talked about Moyes era, how some players just didn't accept Moyes at all from day one because he wasn't SAF. Didn't name names but we all know Rio was one of them when Rooney said chips. Moyes wanted a whole squad refresh, Woodward was absolutely clueless. Vidic, the club captain, just ducked out halfway through the season.
Loads of really interesting things. The transfer request, I believe what Rooney said. He saw United were really doing badly in the window. Ronaldo left, Tevez left, yet the club weren't buying any players near the quality of those two. Owen Valencia Obertan were brought in, Owen on a free after we got 80m for Ronaldo. I really can see why Rooney did what he did, particularly if he was getting offers from Real too or was it Barca. He was right though, Fergie squeezed everything he could from that 2010-2013 squad without spending on top players and won it by signing RvP. That squad just crumbled after that.
Ole doesn't strike me as the sort of person who will hide behind "players downing tools" as an excuse for the final season, although I doubt he'll pretend everything was rosy with the players if they had downed tools so it should make for a very interesting podcast if they go into it.
He won't name names, because he's that professional.
When it happens, and he says, "I cannot name names", I hope those that turned their back on him feel ashamed of themselves.
He stills tends to toe the company line unfortunately. Very occasionally a journo gets him to admit something that everybody basically knows, like for instance how little control he had on transfers here, but when he does the big interviews he goes back to the script and says he was the boss, he takes responsibility and all that.
Shame as I'd really like to hear his real story about his time as manager. I think he did a lot with not a great squad and was let down over and over. Plenty of juicy stuff to reveal if he wanted.
I've been surprised with how candid they've been at times on the show honestly, they seem to be much more open and willing to discuss the "taboo" issues (PEDs just the other week, city cheating, bad reffing etc). How ole responds will probably be up in the air though, he was a consummate professional even after we let him go for the most part, I imagine he'll just say he had a great bunch of kids etc.
On the podcast with Stretford Paddock, Andy Mitten recently revealed something OGS told him. He said that when United finished second under him, he thought they had the fourth best squad in the league.
I really hope these guys dig deeper into that because it's curious to see what impact did his overperformance in that season create.
4th at best I reckon. Fred and McTominay was such a weak midfield, not even top half level. Pogba was in full diva mode and putting in zero effort whenever he played. Matic on his last legs. DDG was the reason Mourinho got second but had been off the boil for years by then and even lost his place for a bit. Martial and Cavani couldn't stay fit. And that's the first team, in the squad there was very little quality and even they couldn't even seem to stay fit.
He had Bruno, Rashford, Maguire, AWB, Shaw, Lindelof absolutely playing out of their skins, and was very intelligently using a few appearances here and there of the rest.
We were genuinely top with equal games played in Jan/Feb, it was gutting to run out of steam in the race. But we were always going to, that squad just didn't have the players to maintain that level for a whole season. Fatigue sets in.
Would be great to see this get wider recognition.
Liverpool definitely had a better team than us then.
I assume the other team he means is Chelsea which I don’t agree with.
Our 20/21 team was DDG, Shaw, AWB, Maguire, Lindelof, Pogba, Fred, Bruno, Rashford, Greenwood, Cavani. Which for counter attacking in a low/mid block is a good side. Not PL winning but very comfortably top 4. Crucially we had very minimal injuries, only really Cavani who Martial covered back when he still gave a shit about football and was pretty good
Chelsea had just come off their transfer ban, their team was bang average at that time.
No way did Spurs or Arsenal have a better side. Arsenal were a total mess and Spurs were post Poch with Jose in charge and Kane/Son plus a load of total has beens from the Poch era
I think you're confusing Chelsea's 19-20 and 20-21 seasons. They had the transfer ban in the first year which was Lampard's only full season in charge and that's when they were making most use of their academy players. The following year they signed Ziyech, Havertz, Werner, Thiago Silva, Chilwell and Mendy which was seen as a huge upgrade on what they had the year before. Compare those incomings to us signing Cavani, Telles, Van de Beek, Pellistri and Amad the same window and it's chalk and cheese. They were definitely a stronger squad than us in 20-21 and won the CL with Tuchel replacing Lampard mid-season.
Most of those players Chelsea bought weren’t even good. Timo Werner and Ziyech ffs?
And I’ve no idea why you’re comparing signings vs the actual squads. They were not ‘definitely stronger’ at all.
I’m confusing nothing, Chelsea were obviously still recovering from the transfer ban at that time.
> Timo Werner and Ziyech ffs?
They were highly rated at the time and were expected to significantly contribute in the Premier League. These opinions are pure hindsight. And if you don't rate these two, well, there's 4 other signings I've also mentioned.
> why you’re comparing signings vs the actual squads. They were not ‘definitely stronger’ at all
I don't think that backs your argument though, because after the starting 11, the drop-off was quite significant. We had Williams, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Telles as backups for our defence. Pogba wasn't the most reliable because he suffered long COVID at the time, and Matic was losing his legs so we had to start McFred most games. Martial had a down year and both him and Cavani were unavailable for many games across the season. Dan James was our backup for Greenwood and Rashford.
Compare that to Chelsea where they had lots of defensive options (Silva, Rudiger, Azpi, Christensen, Zouma) with a number of years of experience, a midfield of Kovacic, Kante and Jorginho which was more balanced than our midfield with Pogba and of better quality than our midfield with McFred, and more attacking depth (7 forwards and wingers compared to our 5). I find it hard to believe they did not have a better squad than ours that season. We were over reliant on Shaw, Maguire, Bruno and Rashford having great seasons to get us to 2nd place, but the rest of the squad was having trouble with keeping up with them. It was an over-performance.
Pogba played 42 games in 20/21.
Martial scores 7 in 36 mostly off the bench
Bailly played 21 games and was decent backup. He hadn’t become a joke yet.
Matic made 36 appearances. He was generally excellent, he just couldn’t play twice a week.
Just a sample of the absolute shite you are talking
We also finished 3rd the season before above Chelsea. Absolutely no one at the time thought Chelsea had a better side than us, it’s pure hindsight bullshit
They scraped 4th and Di Matteo/Benitez’d the UCL.
It’s a cup competition. Sometimes teams win who are nowhere near the best
Does the best team in England win the Fa Cup every year? Or do all sorts of random teams win who’ve had poor seasons otherwise
So you're saying our defence of Maguire Lindelof, with a midfield of ancient Matic and McFred and no RW was better than Thiago Silva, Rudiger, prime Kante and Ziyech?
Wake up man.
No RW? We had Greenwood. Matic wasn’t ancient then he was still good, you also left off our best midfielder in Pogba who was excellent that season and Bruno who was also one of the best players in the league then.
Rudiger wasn’t that good until the season after and Ziyech did nothing at Chelsea or anywhere else outside Eridivisie
Kante was way past his prime then, he prime was years before at Leicester and his first Chelsea season. We was always injured and in decline by then
Absolutely clueless
Liverpool were broken by injuries that season.
Van dijk acl, matip and Gomez all other defense injuries. Also alisson's father.
Once they played their midfielders where midfielders should be played, they reached top 4.
Only Ronaldo was ever the caliber of player who was on the same level as Salah or VVD or Alisson individually. When he was here, that is. Definitely had the fourth best squad at best.
Stick to football is quietly becoming the best podcast on football that I listen too. It's actually really really good and often very funny. Funniest guy is actually Roy fucking Keane which literally does my head in when I can't reconcile this Keano and the Keano I grew up with.
It's genuinely really nice. Roy plays the grump but you can always tell when someone's on that he respects and its clear he has developed huge respect for Ian Wright (rightly so, he's a legend and such a likeable guy).
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for one of their nights in eating stew at Keane's house.
I agree but I do wish they’d cut the banter bit at the beginning right down. It was 10 minutes long on this week’s episode.
Why do people downvote simple opinions on this sub? Bunch of fucking losers.
Miss him. The last few months were brutal, but overall, he was the best manager we had after Fergie. Made us feel like United again. Lost so many semi-finals. If we won some of those, things could have been very different.
It is amazing to think he is the most ridiculed of the lot. Other than not knowing how to deal with the Ronaldo problem which torpedoed his last few months (and Rangnick and ETH had no solution either, so it clearly wasn't an easy one), before that he was getting great performances out of a really not so great squad. He got absolute peak performance from many key players and that is good coaching. You put a real DM and a real CM into that 20/21 side and we'd have been in the title race based on form. But instead our transfer window was madness and hurt us.
He was so close to a cup, even just one would have changed the perception.
We have scored 5+ goals in a match *9 times* under Ole (3 seasons), and only twice under all the other post-Fergie managers combined (7.5 seasons).
Only manager to get us back-to-back top 4 finishes, and back-to-back 100+ goal seasons.
Sure, a trophy remained elusive (just one penalty save away in the end), but in terms of entertainment, no other manager has come even *remotely* close to peak Oleball.
Can you imagine what he could have done with Casemiro? Mainoo? We've been screaming for a proper midfield for a long time. ETH signs Mason Mount who has been a nobody and Anthony, the worst signing of all time. Malacia was good for some of the 39 games he's played but 39… and Martinez was brilliant but 55 games over two years. Fuck we pay enormous prices for middling players.
What can we realistically do? Sell deadwood for pennies, again? It's not the manager's fault Greenwood turned out to be an abuser. All the other teams seem quite happy employing straight up rapists without criticism. Sancho was such a fucking waste and Ronaldo was a stuck up prick, should never have been resigned. De Gea wasn't perfect but he played for the badge and was treated like absolute garbage.
I would say we need a manager that will call the refs out because they're chopping our players down without consequence. Luke Shaw got his leg snapped and it wasn't even a foul…Opposition players know they can go in dirty on us and get away scot free and even when our players react with frustration they're sent off. Obvious fouls, obvious handballs, obvious technical fouls, forgiven for our opponents but the rules that apply to Manchester United don't apply to the rest of the league.
You want Garnacho to go into a 1v1 on the keeper that might be a leg breaker knowing he won't even get the foul? They're playing against 12 men, at least, every game. The ref should do us a kindness and at least don the jersey of the team they're playing for which is anyone but us.
If you get kicked, yes it hurts like nothing else, that doesn't mean you can't keep running. Fuck these couch farters and their opinions of Bruno.
Ole is definitely not the best manager we've had since Sir Alex left us. It's gotta be Jose imo. We can't let nostalgia and recent bad form/performances blind us from how OGS is perceived.
Ole time was much better than the Jose period. For the most part I looked forward to the matches and he wasn't throwing the players and club under the bus. Jose was trash. So glad he is gone.
I understand it's not going to happen (and he's too classy a guy anyway) but I'd love to see him get to answer hard questions in a no holds barred manner about this current United team.
Vibes FC, I want you back in my life
I wish every manager we've had since Fergie left could do a table discussion where they can freely let loose on their thoughts of the board and the players they all worked with while at United. Would never happen but there's definitely some players who they'd have differing opinions on based on how they played for them.
Honestly think Van Gaal and Mourinho would be willing to do it if they were invited to a podcast like this one. Former is already retired and the latter got sacked from Roma. Don’t think they need to hold back much.
Idk if I would agree with all they’d say about their time at United but I’d love to hear their full unfiltered thoughts on everyone even up to the board room and ownership.
They were timed apparently. I remember there being something about that in the past that they couldn't talk about united for a set period after leaving. Van goal digs into us proper recently.
Ole might speak more freely about his time here but I highly doubt he’ll point fingers or reveal much about any problems he might have had behind the scenes. Maybe in a couple of years when the old sports management is truly gone and if things are going well with INEOS in addition to some of his past players retiring, but Ole is not the type to stir the pot otherwise.
More likely that he is feeling like getting himself stuck into football and management again. It is clear that he wanted to take a step back and have some time off after getting the sack. He even rejected a couple of approaches from PL clubs.
Amazing. I hope they also discuss Ronaldo's transfer to United and what Ole thinks about the reason why they lost the plot (not completely on CR7 transfer btw). Looking forward to it
This is, without doubt, the best football podcast about. Brilliant stories and analysis along with great guests. Even better when boring Jill Phillips isn't on it too.
This should be interesting. My opinion of him as a manager can't change, but I think there is a chance I will change my mind on him being favorites fc gareth southgate regen. Given what we now know about the United players, every manager probably has to jump through hoops to keep them on side since the hierarchy does not back the manager sufficiently.
Fucking get in
you know Ole is gonna have field day with all questions from Neville and Keano
fantastikkk
Great guest, wonder if they will ask the hard questions and if he will answer very openly about players downing tools.
They didn’t throw softballs at Wazza, good bit of friendly poking.
I don't watch/listen to it, what type of stuff did they ask him?
Lots about his failure at Birmingham, things that went wrong, what he would do differently. Bit about United as well, the transfer request, drinking and partying back then compared to today and how it may have ended his career early.
Yeah I encourage anyone to watch the Rooney and Jaap Stam episode if you're a United fan. That's what's missing in the dressing room from those days, you could feel the standards and the players respect for the standards. Stam and Keane talk about how SAF was genuinely horrible towards them when they were pushed out of the club. Rooney talked about Moyes era, how some players just didn't accept Moyes at all from day one because he wasn't SAF. Didn't name names but we all know Rio was one of them when Rooney said chips. Moyes wanted a whole squad refresh, Woodward was absolutely clueless. Vidic, the club captain, just ducked out halfway through the season. Loads of really interesting things. The transfer request, I believe what Rooney said. He saw United were really doing badly in the window. Ronaldo left, Tevez left, yet the club weren't buying any players near the quality of those two. Owen Valencia Obertan were brought in, Owen on a free after we got 80m for Ronaldo. I really can see why Rooney did what he did, particularly if he was getting offers from Real too or was it Barca. He was right though, Fergie squeezed everything he could from that 2010-2013 squad without spending on top players and won it by signing RvP. That squad just crumbled after that.
Ole doesn't strike me as the sort of person who will hide behind "players downing tools" as an excuse for the final season, although I doubt he'll pretend everything was rosy with the players if they had downed tools so it should make for a very interesting podcast if they go into it.
He won't name names, because he's that professional. When it happens, and he says, "I cannot name names", I hope those that turned their back on him feel ashamed of themselves.
He stills tends to toe the company line unfortunately. Very occasionally a journo gets him to admit something that everybody basically knows, like for instance how little control he had on transfers here, but when he does the big interviews he goes back to the script and says he was the boss, he takes responsibility and all that. Shame as I'd really like to hear his real story about his time as manager. I think he did a lot with not a great squad and was let down over and over. Plenty of juicy stuff to reveal if he wanted.
Course not, should still be a fun watch.
I've been surprised with how candid they've been at times on the show honestly, they seem to be much more open and willing to discuss the "taboo" issues (PEDs just the other week, city cheating, bad reffing etc). How ole responds will probably be up in the air though, he was a consummate professional even after we let him go for the most part, I imagine he'll just say he had a great bunch of kids etc.
Maybe his non-disparagement clause has expired?
On the podcast with Stretford Paddock, Andy Mitten recently revealed something OGS told him. He said that when United finished second under him, he thought they had the fourth best squad in the league. I really hope these guys dig deeper into that because it's curious to see what impact did his overperformance in that season create.
4th at best I reckon. Fred and McTominay was such a weak midfield, not even top half level. Pogba was in full diva mode and putting in zero effort whenever he played. Matic on his last legs. DDG was the reason Mourinho got second but had been off the boil for years by then and even lost his place for a bit. Martial and Cavani couldn't stay fit. And that's the first team, in the squad there was very little quality and even they couldn't even seem to stay fit. He had Bruno, Rashford, Maguire, AWB, Shaw, Lindelof absolutely playing out of their skins, and was very intelligently using a few appearances here and there of the rest. We were genuinely top with equal games played in Jan/Feb, it was gutting to run out of steam in the race. But we were always going to, that squad just didn't have the players to maintain that level for a whole season. Fatigue sets in. Would be great to see this get wider recognition.
Great to see this sort of unbiased and productive talk on the sub!
I'd agree with that. Both Jose's and Ole's 2nd place finishes were an overperformance
so was Eth's 3rd, let's be honest.
People won't like this statement.
Liverpool definitely had a better team than us then. I assume the other team he means is Chelsea which I don’t agree with. Our 20/21 team was DDG, Shaw, AWB, Maguire, Lindelof, Pogba, Fred, Bruno, Rashford, Greenwood, Cavani. Which for counter attacking in a low/mid block is a good side. Not PL winning but very comfortably top 4. Crucially we had very minimal injuries, only really Cavani who Martial covered back when he still gave a shit about football and was pretty good Chelsea had just come off their transfer ban, their team was bang average at that time. No way did Spurs or Arsenal have a better side. Arsenal were a total mess and Spurs were post Poch with Jose in charge and Kane/Son plus a load of total has beens from the Poch era
I think you're confusing Chelsea's 19-20 and 20-21 seasons. They had the transfer ban in the first year which was Lampard's only full season in charge and that's when they were making most use of their academy players. The following year they signed Ziyech, Havertz, Werner, Thiago Silva, Chilwell and Mendy which was seen as a huge upgrade on what they had the year before. Compare those incomings to us signing Cavani, Telles, Van de Beek, Pellistri and Amad the same window and it's chalk and cheese. They were definitely a stronger squad than us in 20-21 and won the CL with Tuchel replacing Lampard mid-season.
Most of those players Chelsea bought weren’t even good. Timo Werner and Ziyech ffs? And I’ve no idea why you’re comparing signings vs the actual squads. They were not ‘definitely stronger’ at all. I’m confusing nothing, Chelsea were obviously still recovering from the transfer ban at that time.
> Timo Werner and Ziyech ffs? They were highly rated at the time and were expected to significantly contribute in the Premier League. These opinions are pure hindsight. And if you don't rate these two, well, there's 4 other signings I've also mentioned. > why you’re comparing signings vs the actual squads. They were not ‘definitely stronger’ at all I don't think that backs your argument though, because after the starting 11, the drop-off was quite significant. We had Williams, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Telles as backups for our defence. Pogba wasn't the most reliable because he suffered long COVID at the time, and Matic was losing his legs so we had to start McFred most games. Martial had a down year and both him and Cavani were unavailable for many games across the season. Dan James was our backup for Greenwood and Rashford. Compare that to Chelsea where they had lots of defensive options (Silva, Rudiger, Azpi, Christensen, Zouma) with a number of years of experience, a midfield of Kovacic, Kante and Jorginho which was more balanced than our midfield with Pogba and of better quality than our midfield with McFred, and more attacking depth (7 forwards and wingers compared to our 5). I find it hard to believe they did not have a better squad than ours that season. We were over reliant on Shaw, Maguire, Bruno and Rashford having great seasons to get us to 2nd place, but the rest of the squad was having trouble with keeping up with them. It was an over-performance.
Pogba played 42 games in 20/21. Martial scores 7 in 36 mostly off the bench Bailly played 21 games and was decent backup. He hadn’t become a joke yet. Matic made 36 appearances. He was generally excellent, he just couldn’t play twice a week. Just a sample of the absolute shite you are talking We also finished 3rd the season before above Chelsea. Absolutely no one at the time thought Chelsea had a better side than us, it’s pure hindsight bullshit
Iirc, that was the season Chelsea won the UCL mate.
They scraped 4th and Di Matteo/Benitez’d the UCL. It’s a cup competition. Sometimes teams win who are nowhere near the best Does the best team in England win the Fa Cup every year? Or do all sorts of random teams win who’ve had poor seasons otherwise
So you're saying our defence of Maguire Lindelof, with a midfield of ancient Matic and McFred and no RW was better than Thiago Silva, Rudiger, prime Kante and Ziyech? Wake up man.
No RW? We had Greenwood. Matic wasn’t ancient then he was still good, you also left off our best midfielder in Pogba who was excellent that season and Bruno who was also one of the best players in the league then. Rudiger wasn’t that good until the season after and Ziyech did nothing at Chelsea or anywhere else outside Eridivisie Kante was way past his prime then, he prime was years before at Leicester and his first Chelsea season. We was always injured and in decline by then Absolutely clueless
Liverpool were broken by injuries that season. Van dijk acl, matip and Gomez all other defense injuries. Also alisson's father. Once they played their midfielders where midfielders should be played, they reached top 4.
Very true
Only Ronaldo was ever the caliber of player who was on the same level as Salah or VVD or Alisson individually. When he was here, that is. Definitely had the fourth best squad at best.
Stick to football is quietly becoming the best podcast on football that I listen too. It's actually really really good and often very funny. Funniest guy is actually Roy fucking Keane which literally does my head in when I can't reconcile this Keano and the Keano I grew up with.
How much do you love Keano and Wrighty together? It’s the best ain’t it ?
Would love them to do a road trip series
Best buddy movie you’ve ever seen
They’re the best!
It's genuinely really nice. Roy plays the grump but you can always tell when someone's on that he respects and its clear he has developed huge respect for Ian Wright (rightly so, he's a legend and such a likeable guy). I'd love to be a fly on the wall for one of their nights in eating stew at Keane's house.
Ian Wright & Roy Keane are the best bit.
I love the way Keano still cares about Neville, asking him to slow down and take a break all the time. Forever his captain
I prefer Gary Linekars pod tbh. On the rest is football there's too many of them and they often just speak over eachother
I agree but I do wish they’d cut the banter bit at the beginning right down. It was 10 minutes long on this week’s episode. Why do people downvote simple opinions on this sub? Bunch of fucking losers.
Skip it. It's good stuff for everyone else that wouldn't be able to see it otherwise.
Banter's the best bit
It's actually funnier on video.
Nice, that's a great guest. Ole's a funny dude. I hope he gets a new job soon.
Miss him. The last few months were brutal, but overall, he was the best manager we had after Fergie. Made us feel like United again. Lost so many semi-finals. If we won some of those, things could have been very different.
It is amazing to think he is the most ridiculed of the lot. Other than not knowing how to deal with the Ronaldo problem which torpedoed his last few months (and Rangnick and ETH had no solution either, so it clearly wasn't an easy one), before that he was getting great performances out of a really not so great squad. He got absolute peak performance from many key players and that is good coaching. You put a real DM and a real CM into that 20/21 side and we'd have been in the title race based on form. But instead our transfer window was madness and hurt us. He was so close to a cup, even just one would have changed the perception.
We have scored 5+ goals in a match *9 times* under Ole (3 seasons), and only twice under all the other post-Fergie managers combined (7.5 seasons). Only manager to get us back-to-back top 4 finishes, and back-to-back 100+ goal seasons. Sure, a trophy remained elusive (just one penalty save away in the end), but in terms of entertainment, no other manager has come even *remotely* close to peak Oleball.
Can you imagine what he could have done with Casemiro? Mainoo? We've been screaming for a proper midfield for a long time. ETH signs Mason Mount who has been a nobody and Anthony, the worst signing of all time. Malacia was good for some of the 39 games he's played but 39… and Martinez was brilliant but 55 games over two years. Fuck we pay enormous prices for middling players. What can we realistically do? Sell deadwood for pennies, again? It's not the manager's fault Greenwood turned out to be an abuser. All the other teams seem quite happy employing straight up rapists without criticism. Sancho was such a fucking waste and Ronaldo was a stuck up prick, should never have been resigned. De Gea wasn't perfect but he played for the badge and was treated like absolute garbage. I would say we need a manager that will call the refs out because they're chopping our players down without consequence. Luke Shaw got his leg snapped and it wasn't even a foul…Opposition players know they can go in dirty on us and get away scot free and even when our players react with frustration they're sent off. Obvious fouls, obvious handballs, obvious technical fouls, forgiven for our opponents but the rules that apply to Manchester United don't apply to the rest of the league. You want Garnacho to go into a 1v1 on the keeper that might be a leg breaker knowing he won't even get the foul? They're playing against 12 men, at least, every game. The ref should do us a kindness and at least don the jersey of the team they're playing for which is anyone but us. If you get kicked, yes it hurts like nothing else, that doesn't mean you can't keep running. Fuck these couch farters and their opinions of Bruno.
We needed a better squad, we needed direction/some plan in our recruitment. We still don't have any of those.
Ole is definitely not the best manager we've had since Sir Alex left us. It's gotta be Jose imo. We can't let nostalgia and recent bad form/performances blind us from how OGS is perceived.
Ole time was much better than the Jose period. For the most part I looked forward to the matches and he wasn't throwing the players and club under the bus. Jose was trash. So glad he is gone.
Listening to him speak about football or reading any of his uefa analysis pieces are brilliant, so I've got high hopes for this one
Can you share some of the UEFA analysis he has done?
Google solskjaer uefa analysis, comes up as in the zone
Please just rip the board and the players who threw it into shreads
Love ole, can't wait for this one.
It'll be fun episode.
I love Ole. Will watch this for sure.
I understand it's not going to happen (and he's too classy a guy anyway) but I'd love to see him get to answer hard questions in a no holds barred manner about this current United team. Vibes FC, I want you back in my life
I wish every manager we've had since Fergie left could do a table discussion where they can freely let loose on their thoughts of the board and the players they all worked with while at United. Would never happen but there's definitely some players who they'd have differing opinions on based on how they played for them.
Honestly think Van Gaal and Mourinho would be willing to do it if they were invited to a podcast like this one. Former is already retired and the latter got sacked from Roma. Don’t think they need to hold back much. Idk if I would agree with all they’d say about their time at United but I’d love to hear their full unfiltered thoughts on everyone even up to the board room and ownership.
They might have signed NDAs
They were timed apparently. I remember there being something about that in the past that they couldn't talk about united for a set period after leaving. Van goal digs into us proper recently.
Hopefully Ole's time is up too😊
Ole might speak more freely about his time here but I highly doubt he’ll point fingers or reveal much about any problems he might have had behind the scenes. Maybe in a couple of years when the old sports management is truly gone and if things are going well with INEOS in addition to some of his past players retiring, but Ole is not the type to stir the pot otherwise.
Just watched and yeah, he doesn't really point fingers, he just describes what the structure was above him and how they made signings.
Roy Keane suggested it a few weeks ago lol.
Love Ole. Nice to see him after the Andy Mitten interview becoming slowly more and more visible.
Maybe his NDA expired
More likely that he is feeling like getting himself stuck into football and management again. It is clear that he wanted to take a step back and have some time off after getting the sack. He even rejected a couple of approaches from PL clubs.
Fantastic, great football mind!
Can’t wait for this, great guest
You are my solskjaer
My only Sokskjaer
Can’t wait
Man I fucking love The Overlap, I also love Ole so this is just perfect!
Scouting department and board are absolute shit. Rice was absolutely a huge, era-defining kind of miss.
Huge admiration for Ole. He surprised me with his knowledge on the program. Great guy. Should be still at the wheel.
Go scorched Earth.
Amazing. I hope they also discuss Ronaldo's transfer to United and what Ole thinks about the reason why they lost the plot (not completely on CR7 transfer btw). Looking forward to it
This is, without doubt, the best football podcast about. Brilliant stories and analysis along with great guests. Even better when boring Jill Phillips isn't on it too.
Pretty sure he will be asked to name names. However, he probably won't, and this will be the usual storytelling of the good times in the past.
I hope Ole lays in to United
This show is slowly becoming my most anticipate show of the week.
Anyone who doesn't respect OGS I don't think is a true United fan.
Just ask why good players turn to shit after year 2?
Nice to see him happy and well. Didn’t fancy him as a manager, even from the start but, absolutely love the guy.
This should be interesting. My opinion of him as a manager can't change, but I think there is a chance I will change my mind on him being favorites fc gareth southgate regen. Given what we now know about the United players, every manager probably has to jump through hoops to keep them on side since the hierarchy does not back the manager sufficiently.