Sean Thornton
I say a little prayer….
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If the Prince is selling the club, then he has no motivation to consider our long term future, it's not his decision.
His only interest is to help us stay up this season, we're still only a few points behind safety
wouldn't surprise me if a record low points keeps you up this season, so it's still worth fighting for.
but surely he won't want to spend much and more importantly he won't want to restrict new owners to being forced to
pay a lengthy contract to a new manager. Think any new owner will like the idea of coming in and being able to start afresh with a new manager of their choice.
This is why I would think the Princes ideal situation is to appoint a manager as a stop-gap, just for 1 season, low salary with a massive "avoid relegation" bonus.
There are very few managers that would accept crap terms but have an ego where they might fancy their chances of winning that lucrative bonus.
These would need to be managers with little to lose, so almost on the scrap heap, can only think of Big Sam and Wilder who might take such a contract.
If we're not being taken over and/or the Prince plans to stay for a few years then suspect he will think long term and go for an up and coming young manager.
The rescue acts choosing the cheap option have tended to work well at United.
Blackwell was brought in to replace Robson, no one liked the idea but it was accepted because it was only for 1 season.
Blackie did so well for us, taking us up the league resulting in a playoff final, he earned a contract extension.
When we got rid of Slav, again we choose the cheap option giving the job to the Academy manager Heckingbottam.
This lacked ambition but again it proved to be a success, we rose up the table and finished in the play-off semi final.
However there's a theory that Hecky only did well because he was lucky to have 2 of the best players in the league
in Gibbs-White and N'Diaye to help his team turn draws into wins.
In the last few decades when ever we've shown ambition by paying out big transfers for players or big salaries to managers it's never worked.
Where as the irony is when we've bought some bargain bucket players or choose the cheap option for managers, they've been our bigger successes.
Umpteen paragraphs of supposition and irrelevance to totally miss the point.
What exactly does Wilder have at this level that suggests he could do a Warnock and save us?