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it's interesting that arsenal made the exact same choice as united: they appointed as their coach a "legend" of the club, a foreigner in both cases (and in both cases a scandinavian by the way), at the beginning of his coaching career. despite united all in all doing not so well under solskjær.

Yeah. And in both cases coping with the loss of their greatest-ever manager. Apparently Ljungberg was more popular with the players than Emery, so doesn't seem like the worst stop-gap though.

Man Utd's problem wasn't hiring Solskjaer initially, it was keeping him on after the season ended.
 

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Yeah. And in both cases coping with the loss of their greatest-ever manager. Apparently Ljungberg was more popular with the players than Emery, so doesn't seem like the worst stop-gap though.

Man Utd's problem wasn't hiring Solskjaer initially, it was keeping him on after the season ended.


Idk if you meant to roast United by saying that Mourinho was their greatest manager or not but lol
 

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Does it really matter? Ljungberg, seriously? :lol:

PL quality :lol:

It matters. He will be manager till they appoint fulltime manager, no manager will agree to be manager for just few weeks/months, that too for a club like Arsenal.
 
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Idk if you meant to roast United by saying that Mourinho was their greatest manager or not but lol

:lol: I meant this is part of the process of Man Utd replacing SAF. Clearly still something they haven't resolved, and OGS certainly isn't the solution
 

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it's interesting that arsenal made the exact same choice as united: they appointed as their coach a "legend" of the club, a foreigner in both cases (and in both cases a scandinavian by the way), at the beginning of his coaching career. despite united all in all doing not so well under solskjær.

I think the two cases are a bit different. Ljungberg was Emery assistant so it was expected Arsenal would appoint him as the interim coach. Teams usually appoint the assistant or the youth team coach as the caretaker. On the other hand, Solskjaer was at Molde when Man Utd decided to hire him.
 

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David Luiz and Mustafi are the worst CB combo that Arsenal EVER had.
 

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It matters. He will be manager till they appoint fulltime manager, no manager will agree to be manager for just few weeks/months, that too for a club like Arsenal.

Ole disagrees.
 

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David Luiz and Mustafi are the worst CB combo that Arsenal EVER had.

Honestly. What an insulting starting duo. Ranocchia and Bastoni would be a better pair.
 

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Ole disagrees.

How? There are 100s of caretaker managers who didn't get full time contract, just because few of them got doesn't mean everyone will.

Arsenal are trying to sign managers and till then he will be caretaker manager, if they can't get one now then he might get run till the summer (if he is permitted as there are rumors that he lacks the badges to go beyond Feb).
 

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Christ Dele Alli, chill out.
 

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Mou needs to buy better players in January.
 

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Mourinho has enough quality to climb a few spots. If his bench players Lo Celso and eriksen bore him then he can send them our way.

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He will need reinforcements and will ship some low motivated players so Marotta needs to be ready.
 

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Mane missed two one-on-ones that had me laughing my ass off :lol:

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Fucking Everton missed some crucial opportunities to score, this game would have been much closer than it looks.
 

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The things I would do to have Firmino in black and blue.
 

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What a letdown, but not unexpected really.

The old Mou would've never let his players lose such a game.
 

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The things I would do to have Mane in black and blue.
 
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