What do you mean? Marshall and Mason were named and chased before Bruce left, the other three weren't. Phelan worked with Keane and Weir previously, and had Norwich connections to help him with Mbokani.
I thought we'd established Phelans had never worked with Weir and he was never at Norwich whilst Mbokani was there.
Which is why I said he had Norwich connections, not that he worked with Mbokani.. Unless Weir joined United in the last three years, Phelan knew him and worked with him. Just checked Wiki, they were at United together.
^^This unfortunately. Plus while it's super sexy that we've picked up 4 points from 3 games (2 very tough). Those around us have mostly also picked up points. Despite all the positive or position is now actually slightly worse, although there are now more teams in the mix potentially. After the WBA game Now We were 1 point off Palace now we are 4 points off Leicester, Swansea and Boro. I am ecstatic we are playing better and picking up points but we need to do it for a prolonged period and at a fast rate then those above AND below us. Not any easy task.
It was said at the time (on here) that the deal to sell the club was as good as a done deal, the Chinese were funding the incoming players. No way was Phelan in the plan to become manager as shown by the club interviewing and approaching others. Phelan was on his way out, no way did he chose who we signed. Although I will say he may have had an input to Bruce's list of preferred targets.
He would have had input on the players that cost virtually nothing I would have thought. Particularly as I couldn't understand why Ehab or others would feel a pressing desire to sign Weir.
I think the main plus at this stage is, on the first table you show, we are 8 points off 15th and looking like we need to finish above Swansea, Sunderland and Palace to survive. Whereas now after an awful run of games (teams we have played not performances) we are now only 4 points off 15th!! If we can maintain that sort of gap until we get Arsenal out the way then it's really not beyond the realms of possibility to see us move from bottom 3 to 15th in the matter of 2 or 3 games. We definitely have more hope I would say now then in the first table you show.
Is there anything worse on this board than someone just posting 'link' and, if there isn't one, smugly assume it's not true? It's worth noting that not everything in the history of the world is on the internet.
Very interesting , we can only speculate on what would have happened this season with Marco Silva in charge from the start
I never bought this. They went to Villa, but Ehab replaced them, then decided to overhaul the coaching staff in January when it would have been better to do it in the Summer and give the team a whole season to bed in. Very weird.
Looking at those upcoming games, you'd think Palace will beat Sunderland and get onto 22 points, however, the rest all have tough games so a win against Liverpool would get us right back in the mix.
I'm ecstatic with what Marco and his team are doing. But let's not kid ourselves, most of us will be baying for his blood if we have a rough spell and a few **** performances in a row. It doesn't take long for loyal fans to turn into a pack of wolves against the manager; most of us have been guilty of it.
I think that would be very silly. He's shown enough to have our confidence and respect for the season. Fans are far too fickle these days.
It is weird, also pretty stupid and short sighted. You'd know better than me but did we replace that many people or just move them up from the youth? As Newland said also it would have been interesting to what could have been if this had all happened in the summer.......
Pennock moved up from youth but I thought we also brought in two, a GK coach and McDonald as assistant. Could be wrong as I don't remember the GK coach's name. So we still ended up getting rid of Phelan, Pennock, McDonald and A.N Other, when we would have gotten rid of a similar number had we just sacked Phelan and let the others move on, with Pennock staying in the juniors.
I think Silva has shown enough to prove he knows what he's on about, as well as having the CV to back it up. If we were to get on his back after 2-3 poor results it would be a tad of an overreaction, particularly as most of us were resigned to relegation before he came in.
