I meant let go. The idea that we arent signing permanent players beyond the managers contract because it is set in stone that he will leave then and there is a fear of burdening any new manager is a series of wild assumptions married together that also fly in the face of the numerous examples of things that have happened in the last year that do go beyond the end of this season. Venkys have turned the taps off, theyve done it before and there is no need for elaborate assumed theories to try and explain it all. I very much doubt that any decision has been made to be honest.

Of course, but as a Rovers fan, I would want what is best for Rovers.

Say he signs a new deal tomorrow, out of interest, would you want Chile to qualify even if it meant missing numerous games for us next season? The Chile novelty against the potential loss of points for us?

It is all a giant assumption that he is definitely being sacked at the end of the season, if they have come to the conclusion that he is to be sacked, it makes absolutely zero sense to drag it out. If thats your assumption, is there any scope for that decision to either change or be brought forward? Recruitment shouldnt be focused on the contract of a manager anyway. Pickering and Edun have both signed on long term contracts presumably well past the date to which Mowbray will be at the club, as with the renewals of the likes of Dolan, Wharton, Rankin Costello, Dack and Buckley. Mowbray has bigged up Ash Phillips and includes him in first team training even though he has admitted in training that the potential benefit and potential of him will not be seen by himself but by future managers. The managers contract should have no bearing whatsoever on recruitment and based on my examples, that isnt the reason.

It was what Mowbray said repeatedly in the summer. Dont want to go into the FFP debate again, an assumption you have made that I disagree with, best to leave that there. Regarding the last paragraph, again its a huge assumption. It is certainly not a logical way to run a football club, to have a year without basically any scope for permanent signings because youve pre decided that the managers time is up yet wont let him go yet, its risky and illogical without factoring in what happens in that time if Mowbray either took us down, took us up or even got a play off place. I dont think a club should ever put recruitment on hold for a year based on such reasoning and I doubt that Venkys have thought up such an elaborate strategy.

I think that it is easy to look at Ronaldo and his lack of pressing but as touched on it is far from just him who doesnt put a shift in and that comes down to the manager. Fernandes, Pogba and the wide men dont graft either and they all will contribute far less regularly going forward than Ronaldo. I remember under Mourinho when he got criticised for making Rashford do the hard graft going backwards but ultimately it led to far more success than Solskjaer will achieve. They have plenty of quality so they will win games mainly against poorer opposition through individuality but they wont compete with the teams they ought to be competing with under Solskjaer because the players dont seem to be disciplined and organised especially out of possession.

Not a normal way to run a club to just hold off the usually continuous process of signing players when possible to improve the team because you have already decided that a managers time is up, but you arent going to let him go just yet. If and when we dont spend, that wont be the reason. The reason that we didnt spend in the summer and the owners didnt reinvest the Armstrong money is because of how tough they have had it financially in India, so I suspect that regardless of the circumstances, things such as league position, managerial situation etc, it hasnt changed in 6 months.

Theyve undoubtedly not spent money perfectly (unsure how much of a say that Solskjaer has over that?) but the side is not well drilled at all, they arent well disciplined, its unclear how he wants them to play, the wide men dont track back etc.

Will no doubt be another window of frugality and excuses.

If United didnt have Ronaldo and his constant late goals then they really would be in the shit to be fair.

Would he really reject the United job on the off chance that he gets the City job (far from certain) when Pep has had enough? I think they would overlook them if it meant considerably better results. Either way, such petty reasons should not be sculpting the planning of a football club. We have a similar situation here, Dyche is a far better manager than Mowbray and he is Burnley manager now, would most Rovers fans welcome him? I reckon so and I certainly would.

Again he wouldn't be someone that I would personally choose but Brendan Rodgers would be a gigantic improvement on the inept Solskjaer and if it came to it, I'm sure that he would move as soon as possible.

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What an incredibly naive and ignorant way to remove any responsibility towards a manager. I presume when we lost 7 nil and Mowbray was understandably on the chopping block that you just solely blamed the players for that too? They despite more than long enough in the job are so reliant on individual brilliance to win them games because they are far from well drilled or disciplined. With the players they have and the money spent they should at least be competitive with the other big teams but they arent. You look at Chelsea, Abramovic again made a strong decision to bring in a top class manager and he has Chelsea playing a specific style and is getting the best from them in much less time. If you dont think that a good manager could get much more from an underperforming set of talented players then we clearly dont watch the same sport.

You dont think that Solskjaer is a poor manager? Wow! Everytime they play a good team they get swatted away and cant even compete, which considering their squad and the money spent is not good enough. Because even compared to those 2 clubs, United are I would suggest quite possibly bigger, certainly more wealthy. Solskjaer hasnt been able to get a consistent tune out of a number of expensively assembled players but other managers will surely fancy a bit of that. Not sure why Pochettino has quite the reputation that Bielsa was a bit of a throwaway suggestion but I dont think hed be able to turn United down. Leeds are not in the same ball park as United and have an unholy amount of injuries but he has done such a good job there, it was purely as a short term suggestion assuming that the various European managers wouldnt join yet of which there is no evidence and in my own absence of a serious in depth knowledge of potential other candidates across the world. Solskjaer is an inept loser but im sure wed agree that wed like them to "continue to struggle! Nagelsmann is a top manager but the situation isnt the same.

Would be an interesting appointment, he has done a good job in Scotland although Celtic have been very much in transition so it has been a one horse race, but he has also done well in Europe during his time there. That being said, I suspect that the Sun are jumping the gun, I read underneath the article on twitter that he is over in London doing some commentary/punditry work.

An absolute disgrace. Can it be questioned at the next fans forum please, it simply is totally illogical.

Absolutely no chance of Jones.

I suspect that it makes no odds as he won't be a Rovers player then anyway, but if he had have been, surely Chile not qualifying for the World Cup would be ideal from a Rovers perspective.

To be honest, I am not sure. I don't doubt that 3 of the very best managers in world football are at the current top 3 teams in the same league. I also can't profess to know European football well enough to recommend many managers outside of the obvious ones, Simeone, Ten Hag, Allegri etc, but I am sure that there are plenty of other top quality managers across the continent. Pochettino wouldn't be top of any list, at Spurs he did improve things but he never won anything and his spell at PSG has been unremarkable it seems, and Ancelotti didn't do anything at Everton. But it is easy to underestimate the size of United and how attractive a job it is in the here and now. The thing is, and I am not sure if it is something that you strongly agree with, no idea, Solskjaer is such a poor manager. Years into his tenure, he couldn't be further away from having a plan, hence his recent desperate attempt to move to 3 at the back, part of the plan considering the signing of an 80m winger in the summer? Clearly not, the tactics are hope that Ronaldo gets you out of the shit, which does happen at times but is not a coherent plan. To be honest, even someone like Bielsa as a short term suggestion wouldn't be absurd. A massive improvement on Solskjaer, a man with a very specific way of playing, well reknown training methods and also someone who would definitely move and who doesn't demand anything longer than a years contract. The Kahn comparison is not a valid one, Kahn crucially is not a former manager, especially not one who has overseen an unprecedented spell of constant success in charge. Everytime an opposition team score, or Solskjaer is questioned it pans to Ferguson in the crowd, he is lingering like a bad smell.

Lets be honest, United are a massive club with a giant budget and can reasonably expect a "worthy manager." I think they could get a top, top manager, although they have acted too late to get Conte. I suppose as you said it may depend on who is available.

It shows how bad the Venkys tenure is that even that bald cretin is merely a symptom of that disease. It is maybe worth reading that just as a reminder too that as Mowbray frustrates basically us all and has outstayed his welcome, he certainly never deserves comparisons to Kean.

It would not be difficult for Man United to find a better manager than Solskjaer. I also think that the continious presence of Charlton and Ferguson overlooking things is unhealthy, they need to look forward. Hopefully they keep Solskjaer as he is a shit manager.

Absolutely incredible that such a big club let such an incompetent manager continue just because he was a former player and scored an important goal.

There is also a growing fascination with style of play based on patronising and flawed principles of what is boring and what isnt. McCarthy and Hughton got sacked because their results werent very good, football is based on results, not categorising types of managers into pigeon holed ideas of how football should be played.