Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2018/2019 Part Two

Those instructions from Ole to his players are at least better than Giggs' "Give the fans summin to cheer about" team-talk. No matter what footage surfaces of Ole on another training ground though, we have no idea how he's going to handle this extremely mixed bag of egos and talent at United. I am at least encouraged by the fact that he is a working manager who has been building up experience, unlike the self-entitled Giggs when we appointed him as caretaker manager.

Of course, ideally we'd be getting in the new permanent manager now, and he would have the rest of the season to assess the squad before making changes next Summer. However, I just can't see us being able to bring in that permanent manager in December, not if he's still at another club. Also, I can't see someone like Blanc or Jardim agreeing to come in on an interim basis to be then fúcked out next Summer.

If it was to be Blanc or Jardim, they could be given the job on a permanent basis now considering their availability. The fact that they haven't, and neither has Zidane, says to me that we are waiting until Summer because our next permanent manager is currently managing another club.

As for Olé and Mick Phelan, it will take a couple of games before I'm anything other than happy and relieved that the Jose cloud of misery has been lifted. Unless we get beaten in all or most of our games, I'm going to enjoy watching United over Christmas. As little as 24 hours ago, that was not something I was expecting to do.

Away from the manager - No matter what was going on behind the scenes, Paul Pogba publicly showed unacceptable disrespect to his manager several times this season. Jose wasn't making it easy for a lot of players, but at least the likes of Shaw, Martial and Rashford were publicly backing and respecting their manager. Wheras Pogba was going about with his "I'd be fined if I said anything" bullshít.

In contrast, late last season Pogba responded multiple times with "There is no problem, he is the manager and I respect his decision" when questioned about potential problems between he and Jose, or about Jose dropping him. What changed between last season and this season? What caused things to worsen? Congratulations to Pogba on his WC win, but I unfortunately have little doubt now that that WC win and the personal plaudits have bloated his ego.

Jose had to be let go and was making too many mistakes. However, that wouldn't make me ignore everything he has said during his time at United. Jose is very particular and precise with his words, and the fact that he chose 'virus' to describe Pogba in prviate recently, over any other negative term, is interesting and perhaps something to be wary of. A virus takes over and spreads itself to other hosts. If Jose wanted to call Pogba out on just his football performances, would 'virus' have been the chosen term?

I'm now worry that Pogba is a potential disruptor for any new manager, that he can decide when and if a United manager loses the dressing room. For those who might say "Jose has pulled the wool over your eyes with Pogba", that might be true, or: A silver lining to Jose's bad side is that it helped show us Pogba's. Again, no other United player bar Pogba has come out this season and publicly questioned their manager. Even Martial who got sniped at for attending his child's birth still said "No problems, Jose the man".

Now maybe this will be a once-off for Pogba, that things with he and Jose just got so bad that he had to say something. Maybe he was the unstoppable force to Mourinho's immovable object. Still though, I'm not mad about the behaviour and apparent behind the scenes influence of Paul Pogba at Manchester United.

Well and good if he was influencing and leading the players to run through walls with him on the field and achieve results, but not to lead a mutiny on the United manager.