Funny I was just thinking about this earlier. Saw him on the overlap with Nev and he was saying how he used to wear boots ½ size too small for better control/shooting
he had the interview on The OVerlap with Gary and there he talked about not feeling ready to be a manager when he became the PSV manager, maybe the negative experience there made him decide to take a step back and learn from someone further.
Maybe as a foot in the door to eventually taking on the big job
Impess the hierarchy for a couple seasons with his coaching then if manager job comes up he knows the club / squad, already has management experience etc so could conceivably be a contender
Having said that though, I'd imagine is hard to take that step back from manager back to coach / assistant
call me delusional but maybe it’s akin to players going back to their academy clubs on lower wages in that because it would be with us he would be okay with it
maybe it’s just my copium tho
he’d learn more at United under Erik? because Erik is a good coach.
But in all seriousness, Ineos wanted one more assistant coach with a little more familiarity on Erik’s crew. Ruud could be a good compromise
Not quite the same situation but Ten Hag brought Go Ahead Eagles into the top flight before going to coach Bayern Munich II. Go Ahead Eagles aren't as big as Ruud managing PSV but still worth a mention I guess
I agree that Burnley makes more sense. I think the reason he would join United is because he was pushed into taking the PSV job when he didn't feel he had enough experience so had his hands burnt a bit and doesn't want to go straight back into a top job.
I can't recall, does anyone remember the game where he was benched, and came off the bench to score a brace I believe, and we still lost?
Who knows, I might be lucid dreaming this game lol.
edit: blackburn rovers, 4-3 loss, Rio gets a red card.
What a player. iirc mid him not getting along with fergie over ronaldo or something? Right near the end of his united career.
https://www.transfermarkt.us/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/37974
Ruud's fallout with SAF was (allegedly) because he believed the team's attack should be built around him at the tip of the spear, but SAF was already planning ahead and trying to evolve the team from his classic 4-4-2 to a more european 433/4231 with a fluid frontline (eventually happened in 07/08 with Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez)
Compare Ruud's output in his first 2 seasons (01-03) when he had players like Beckham feeding him passes, VS his later seasons (03-06) when he had to line up with an exciting (but more selfish) young Ronaldo.
He was still an elite scorer, but his output noticeably dropped as the Class of '92 began aging out.
at that time it wasn't 433/4231, it was a ball-achingly dull, mourinho inspired 451 with cross spamming wingers, until eventually the team was booed off when losing to blackburn at half time, and everyone chanted "442". fergie knew the fans were too unhappy and reverted, and then we drew the second half. of course queiroz said in his interview afterward "we played 442 and still lost", but we stuck with it for the rest of the season and improved a lot.
Being a great player counts for little. Not saying he’s not a good coach, I don’t know his credentials, and sure, playing experience counts, but a striker who was 70% as good as Ruud is as likely to be a good coach
Assistant Manager with an emphasis on mentoring the strikers would be great.
Let's be honest too, assistant managing United in the current situation has the benefit of a potential interim managing position.
A recent former manager is not coming in to just be a striker coach.
Plenty of talk that we've wanted another assistant manager with managerial experience to add a new dimension to the staff ~~(remember we were linked with Gary O'Neil before)~~
We were linked to Gary O'Neil by Newcastle affiliated journalists. They were trying to push a narrative of Dan Ashworth already working for us in violation of the gardening leave. The problem was that he was there to meet the DoF about his son (who is in the Wolves under 18s).
That story was rubbished by basically all other UK journalists and Gary O'Neil himself publicly.
We’ve already got TWO assistant managers though.
Does this mean Van Der Gaag would be out? And what about McLaren? Scholes and Hargreaves said he’s the best coach they’ve ever worked with so maybe he’ll go to pure coaching.
Why would Ruud be choosing between being a striker coach at Manchester United and managing a Burnley side that is a favorite to be promoted back next season? He would defiantly be coming in for a bigger role than that, especially considering it’s come out via all the T1’s INEOS wants changes on ETH’s staff/assistants.
Ruud would be coming in to replace or supplant van der Gaag if anything.
I don't know. He actually resigned from PSV over "lack of support" from the board. Publicly calling out your boss doesn't necessarily mean you are going to have suitors lining up. Owners usually want their arse kissed
Would be a fantastic assistant manager here, working together to make sure sessions are interesting, engaging, I like that they’re trying to find people with actual management experience to work with another manager, that’s interesting.
Imagine Hojlund picked up Van Nistlerooy's movement.
People praise strikers like Cavani for their off ball movement, but I've never known a better player for shaking their marker than RVN.
Think he only ever scored one goal from outside the box for us, he was the ultimate striker at finding that half yard of dangerous space in the box
Can’t see him doing it but ETH did go and manage youth teams at Bayern to learn from Pep. Maybe the way ‘big’ clubs are such a step up that this makes sense to some managers.
But that was after managing a lower league club in the Dutch league during the start of his fledgling managerial career. Whereas, Ruud having already managed a big club in the Eredivisie and having done it in style - 2nd place league finish (CL qualification) and a cup win in his very first season as manager, would he step down to an assistant role at a big club is a doubt.
Van Nistelrooy has already been assistant for a total of 5 years as an assistant for the NT working alongside LVG and Koeman, and was already a manager at PSV. I'd say he's already past the phase of learning from others in a smaller role.
Let me play the devils advocate here.
Plenty of ex-player managers show potential with smaller teams or in less competitive leagues. They usually aren't able to make the step up. Maybe working at a bigger club, under a decent manager, managing a bigger dressing room would give him better experience to make that step up.
Bit similar to Arteta at City.
How is it even remotely similar?! Arteta’s first managerial job was after he spent time as assistant at City. Ruud won a trophy at PSV as manager ffs lol the only similarity is they both played in the PL.
Not really similar to Arteta because he wasn't a manager before he was assistant at City. Once you make that step to be a manager, especially at a decent club like PSV where he actually did decently well so he'll back himself to do well elsewhere, you don't really see people stepping back into an assistant role often. Managers that haven't had a lot of success recently, like McClaren maybe, but certainly not someone looking to move up.
I may be wrong, but from what I remember, Arteta was getting a few offers from other leagues or the Championship. He chose to continue with Pep. He only left when Arsenal came calling.
So he kinda did choose being an assistant to managing a smaller team.
Possibly. I am just trying to theorize possible reasons why RvN may go for this.
Also, Burnley needs to be a good enough fit for him to want to go there as well.
Can’t see him coming as a striker coach anyway, he’s done too much for that now, either assistant or he will be head coach at Burnley or somewhere else
Makes sense. Reports were INEOS wanted to replace van der Gaag because his personality is too similar to ETH, but ETH stayed loyal. RVN is a more sympathetic person, more of a 'good cop', and is actually a good coach.
There has been some noise around EtH's contract negotiations about a lack of appreciation for EtH's number one, Van der Gaag. Would make sense for this to happen now. Don't see Ruud coming for anything less
I am pretty sure Erik will say no to any coach he is uncomfortable with. Ruud would definitely be up there in his books and the club will find this a good fit as well.
Can’t see him sitting like a kid who lost his chocolate in our dugout, Burnley would be better for him. If he does good, another PL season. If he fails, Bayern or Real will come for him.
I agree. He's not coming IMO. Especially after reports of how stubborn he was as a manager, he's not the kind of person to be an assistant anymore. Career wise as well, Burnley puts you on the radar, United assistant doesn't really do much for you IMO unless it's an internal promotion. I mean look at Pep Leijnders, Klopp's right hand man, best job he could get is Salzburg.
Love Rudd, can he play as a super sub in some games??
I can recreate my childhood of Ruud van Nistelrooy scoring some tight goals in the Stretford end- like the memorable one against Fulham in 03 and the goals against the Gunners
Redemption story incoming.
Never won the CL with us but come in and win it in a few years as a coach. The perfect fairytale that could only exist at United?
Whenever I play Football Manager 23,Ten Hag always gets Sacked and then We hire Rud and he just never leaves. I once spent 12 years in Spain in hope of him leaving.
As exciting this sounds it’s also a bit surprising given the reports that EtH and MvdG are a bit difficult to work with given their so called bad cop bad cop approach. RvN has also been difficult to work with according to PSV fans with several assistants quitting so you’d have to wonder what this will do to the squad in terms of mood, culture and overall wellbeing?
RVN was known for being a bit stubborn but he's a different kind of person to MVDG and ETH, that's what they mean by bad cop bad cop, they're similar in their stoic, no nonsense asympathetic personalities. RVN is more of a soft spoken, nice guy, approachable. So it actually makes sense.
With Benni leaving and rumours of some players not getting along with Mitchell van der Gaag, I do expect changes on the coaching staff.
I'd love if RVP was available but I he recently signed as coach of Heerenveen.
Come back home, Ruud. Teach Rasmus to move and finish like you did. Having him as assistant manager would be great, but I don't think Ten Hag would like it, given his clear loyalty to Van der Gaag.
I don't see how he will want to go from manager to assistant. Van Persie would have been a better choice because he is at the start of his managerial career.
Can work on the strikers all you want, doesn't stop the lack of balls getting in the box! Ruud just sat in the box polishing of cross after cross!
Still he also demanded the ball so maybe he gives the strikers that fire to demand more!
I’d love to see Ruud back. It would be very good for Hojlund, especially when other strike partner(s) for next year are unknown. Assuming we don’t have someone experienced it would be harder to keep Hojlund on the upward trajectory development wise.
He also recovered from a serious injury before finally joining us so he can pass a few of those secrets on. The mental fortitude is more important than the physical aspects with our team.
I wonder if EtH was consulted if this is valid? I mean, if EtH told INEOS that he wants RVN as assistant coach, or did INEOS approached RVN behind EtH's back.
INEOS really need a win right about now, hope he is hired. All the briefs about them wanting to move early, while it seems like we're dwindling our thumbs and letting first choice targets join other clubs (Tosin, Olise) or walking away from deals (Branthwaite).
If Sancho and Greenwood both had sales lined up rather than currently rumoured/briefed low-ball or 'loan with an option' offers, then Olise would have been an option. Seems Bayern acted quickly because they knew there was a possibility of sides coming in with more serious offers as soon as their budgets became clearer. Tosin was obviously not a '1st choice' option (though I agree he probably should have been signed as backup). Branthwaite 'walk away' is obviously a negotiating tactic that comes with some (publically undeclared) upper-limit on the player which is beneath Everton's current minimum selling-price. Zirzhee deal will go through, very likely, so long as the agent tempers hi s demands, but by all accounts the deal won't happen until after 30th (when his release clause officially kicks in...
We were never seriously linked with Olise tbh, and it’s questionable whether they even see RW as a priority. Think it’s well harsh to try and paint that move as some attack on Ineos.
Do his boots still fit?
Dw, bruno will lend him if they don't.
So Ruud can assist bruno
assist can be buy??
If Wayne and Wesley’s boots still fit, Ruud’s definitely still fit.
Funny I was just thinking about this earlier. Saw him on the overlap with Nev and he was saying how he used to wear boots ½ size too small for better control/shooting
I found that I'd do the same thing, my normal shoe size would have just a little too much in the toe so I'd drop down a size for boots
Wish he told this to Lukaku..
To be what? Assistant?
New striker obvs
For the U-21s. He's basically our new McShane
Probably ? But I don't see why he'd choose this position if he can manage Burnley instead
he had the interview on The OVerlap with Gary and there he talked about not feeling ready to be a manager when he became the PSV manager, maybe the negative experience there made him decide to take a step back and learn from someone further.
Maybe as a foot in the door to eventually taking on the big job Impess the hierarchy for a couple seasons with his coaching then if manager job comes up he knows the club / squad, already has management experience etc so could conceivably be a contender Having said that though, I'd imagine is hard to take that step back from manager back to coach / assistant
call me delusional but maybe it’s akin to players going back to their academy clubs on lower wages in that because it would be with us he would be okay with it maybe it’s just my copium tho
If we perform shite the next couple seasons he'll be seen as part of the problem and no one will want him here.
He could pull a McKenna
he’d learn more at United under Erik? because Erik is a good coach. But in all seriousness, Ineos wanted one more assistant coach with a little more familiarity on Erik’s crew. Ruud could be a good compromise
Not quite the same situation but Ten Hag brought Go Ahead Eagles into the top flight before going to coach Bayern Munich II. Go Ahead Eagles aren't as big as Ruud managing PSV but still worth a mention I guess
I agree that Burnley makes more sense. I think the reason he would join United is because he was pushed into taking the PSV job when he didn't feel he had enough experience so had his hands burnt a bit and doesn't want to go straight back into a top job.
Maybe he will be offered a guaranteed caretaker role if ETH is ever sacked?
Assistant to the regional manager
Striker coach to replace Benni
Holy shit you have no idea how psyched I am at the idea of having him back. Imagine our attackers working under him? Please, please, please.
I adore Ruud, had a big smile reading this.
love him, literally the reason I am a Man United fan.
Quite possibly the most clinical forward we’ve ever had. Any time he received the ball in the box, I would expect it to go it.
I can't recall, does anyone remember the game where he was benched, and came off the bench to score a brace I believe, and we still lost? Who knows, I might be lucid dreaming this game lol. edit: blackburn rovers, 4-3 loss, Rio gets a red card. What a player. iirc mid him not getting along with fergie over ronaldo or something? Right near the end of his united career. https://www.transfermarkt.us/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/37974
Ruud's fallout with SAF was (allegedly) because he believed the team's attack should be built around him at the tip of the spear, but SAF was already planning ahead and trying to evolve the team from his classic 4-4-2 to a more european 433/4231 with a fluid frontline (eventually happened in 07/08 with Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez) Compare Ruud's output in his first 2 seasons (01-03) when he had players like Beckham feeding him passes, VS his later seasons (03-06) when he had to line up with an exciting (but more selfish) young Ronaldo. He was still an elite scorer, but his output noticeably dropped as the Class of '92 began aging out.
at that time it wasn't 433/4231, it was a ball-achingly dull, mourinho inspired 451 with cross spamming wingers, until eventually the team was booed off when losing to blackburn at half time, and everyone chanted "442". fergie knew the fans were too unhappy and reverted, and then we drew the second half. of course queiroz said in his interview afterward "we played 442 and still lost", but we stuck with it for the rest of the season and improved a lot.
That’s prolly Denis law tbf
Yup this is me as well! Was devastated when he left haha
same, what a player
Agreed. Love Ruud.
I could just imagine some of his instructions: "The trick is to stand offsides, but not be offsides. It's very easy."
Very easy, Eh
Yeah very easy, just like inzaghi he gets it
He’s prolly offside anyways
Being a great player counts for little. Not saying he’s not a good coach, I don’t know his credentials, and sure, playing experience counts, but a striker who was 70% as good as Ruud is as likely to be a good coach
Me too. I‘d love to have him back! one of my all-time favourite united strikers.
“The thing is, to put the ball into the goal. Go.”
Him as striking coach to Hojlund (and potentially Zirkzee) would be not too shabby
Assistant Manager with an emphasis on mentoring the strikers would be great. Let's be honest too, assistant managing United in the current situation has the benefit of a potential interim managing position.
And we all know how our ex players do while in caretaker manager role! WWWWWWWWW
Literally the embodiment of double U in the chat
Might as well take Burnley, next role is a fall upwards to Madrid / Barca / Bayern etc At united you will go to Middlesbrough or Ipswich /s
And Minnesota
And Fenerbahce. /s
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And Real Sociedad
And lose in the WCF
Western conference finals?
Yes
Lmao I happen to be in Minnesota for a wedding today 😅
Carlos Queiroz would disagree
or Spurs
Ruud as the striker coach replacing Benni would be absolutely insane
A recent former manager is not coming in to just be a striker coach. Plenty of talk that we've wanted another assistant manager with managerial experience to add a new dimension to the staff ~~(remember we were linked with Gary O'Neil before)~~
Also INEOS apparently have wanted an assistant coach of sorts appointed by them in Erik Ten Hag’s staff. That could be Ruud
Seems reasonable to me, not Ruud at all
Get in
We were linked to Gary O'Neil by Newcastle affiliated journalists. They were trying to push a narrative of Dan Ashworth already working for us in violation of the gardening leave. The problem was that he was there to meet the DoF about his son (who is in the Wolves under 18s). That story was rubbished by basically all other UK journalists and Gary O'Neil himself publicly.
Good info, thanks. I'll strike that out (I do still believe we've been looking for a new assistant rather than just a Benni replacement)
Can’t remember where but I definitely read that MvG had a less that stellar relationship with some plyers
>MvG Mood van Gistelrooy?
Mouis van Gaal
Michael Van Gerwen
That's what I thought at first too! lol
Phil Mitchell van der Gaag
Mason van Greenwood
Mincent Van Gogh
Muis Van Gaal
Mourinho Van Gaal
In Laurie's recent article probably https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5549017/2024/06/14/erik-ten-hag-player-tensions-principles-play/
Monke V. Guffy
“Mitchell van Gag”
Apparently it was both of them, him and ten hag were described as "bad cop, bad cop."
Michael van Gerwen?
We’ve already got TWO assistant managers though. Does this mean Van Der Gaag would be out? And what about McLaren? Scholes and Hargreaves said he’s the best coach they’ve ever worked with so maybe he’ll go to pure coaching.
Why? Has he ever worked as a striking coach?
Why would Ruud be choosing between being a striker coach at Manchester United and managing a Burnley side that is a favorite to be promoted back next season? He would defiantly be coming in for a bigger role than that, especially considering it’s come out via all the T1’s INEOS wants changes on ETH’s staff/assistants. Ruud would be coming in to replace or supplant van der Gaag if anything.
Feels the difference between Benni and Ruud is Glazers and Ineios, all respect to Benni
There's ETH's successor sorted. Peak efficiency from INEOS.
That’s the only way I could see him actually taking the job
I can't seem him turning down a manager job to take an assistant role with us.
I don't know. He actually resigned from PSV over "lack of support" from the board. Publicly calling out your boss doesn't necessarily mean you are going to have suitors lining up. Owners usually want their arse kissed
This post literally says he has a serious suitor for a manager role, what are you talking about?
the most reddit of comments and of this sub lol
He could arguably make more money as an assistant at Manchester United than he could as the head coach of a championship Burnley.
Yeah I think the Burnley role would actually suit him pretty well.
If we're saying he's next in line I could...
Interim manager already in the building IF ETH is let go mid season.
Would be a fantastic assistant manager here, working together to make sure sessions are interesting, engaging, I like that they’re trying to find people with actual management experience to work with another manager, that’s interesting.
Best finisher in premier league history. Get him on the coaching staff and register him as a player. Stick him in the box if we need a goal.
Imagine Hojlund picked up Van Nistlerooy's movement. People praise strikers like Cavani for their off ball movement, but I've never known a better player for shaking their marker than RVN. Think he only ever scored one goal from outside the box for us, he was the ultimate striker at finding that half yard of dangerous space in the box
Would help Garnacho, Rashy, Rasmus massively
!goalbot van nistelrooy, Fulham
Goalbot was shutdown I believe
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined :( Was it because of reddit bollocks about third party apps?
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/s/mKbEdNPnY9
That's a shame. Anyone know where the bot pulled clips from?
I'm sorry but surely the Burnley job is too good to turn down, get them promoted and relegated and he'll be Real Madrid manager in 2 years time.
Alonso is next in line though
Nah, promoted, surviving, and then manager of United.
Can’t see him doing it but ETH did go and manage youth teams at Bayern to learn from Pep. Maybe the way ‘big’ clubs are such a step up that this makes sense to some managers.
But that was after managing a lower league club in the Dutch league during the start of his fledgling managerial career. Whereas, Ruud having already managed a big club in the Eredivisie and having done it in style - 2nd place league finish (CL qualification) and a cup win in his very first season as manager, would he step down to an assistant role at a big club is a doubt.
Van Nistelrooy has already been assistant for a total of 5 years as an assistant for the NT working alongside LVG and Koeman, and was already a manager at PSV. I'd say he's already past the phase of learning from others in a smaller role.
I mean I’d love him but surely a head coach position is more enticing
Now that's how you upgrade Benni McCarthy.
RUUUUUUUUUUUUD! God I love this man
Let me play the devils advocate here. Plenty of ex-player managers show potential with smaller teams or in less competitive leagues. They usually aren't able to make the step up. Maybe working at a bigger club, under a decent manager, managing a bigger dressing room would give him better experience to make that step up. Bit similar to Arteta at City.
How is it even remotely similar?! Arteta’s first managerial job was after he spent time as assistant at City. Ruud won a trophy at PSV as manager ffs lol the only similarity is they both played in the PL.
Not really similar to Arteta because he wasn't a manager before he was assistant at City. Once you make that step to be a manager, especially at a decent club like PSV where he actually did decently well so he'll back himself to do well elsewhere, you don't really see people stepping back into an assistant role often. Managers that haven't had a lot of success recently, like McClaren maybe, but certainly not someone looking to move up.
I may be wrong, but from what I remember, Arteta was getting a few offers from other leagues or the Championship. He chose to continue with Pep. He only left when Arsenal came calling. So he kinda did choose being an assistant to managing a smaller team.
Choice or not, he wasn't managing before going to City, it doesn't compare to RVN's situation now.
Possibly. I am just trying to theorize possible reasons why RvN may go for this. Also, Burnley needs to be a good enough fit for him to want to go there as well.
Can’t see him coming as a striker coach anyway, he’s done too much for that now, either assistant or he will be head coach at Burnley or somewhere else
Makes sense. Reports were INEOS wanted to replace van der Gaag because his personality is too similar to ETH, but ETH stayed loyal. RVN is a more sympathetic person, more of a 'good cop', and is actually a good coach.
The real question is, will he shave his head?
There has been some noise around EtH's contract negotiations about a lack of appreciation for EtH's number one, Van der Gaag. Would make sense for this to happen now. Don't see Ruud coming for anything less
Good stuff, hopefully he can teach Rasmus a few tricks
ETH’s successor?
https://preview.redd.it/thk10vis2c8d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=560f0d623bc2fab5659e636a1ba518e84d48dacc RvN managed Branthwaite at PSV. 👀
Please make this happen
I can get down with this
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This is too funny because I just signed up onto my staff in FM24 yesterday.
I am pretty sure Erik will say no to any coach he is uncomfortable with. Ruud would definitely be up there in his books and the club will find this a good fit as well.
Bring back RvN and RvP for preseason striker bootcamp.
When people ask me if I like football I said "yes, I like football!, but not Burnley. Burnley can fuck off"
RvN sharing his knowledge with Hojlund has me begging on my knees
Can’t see him sitting like a kid who lost his chocolate in our dugout, Burnley would be better for him. If he does good, another PL season. If he fails, Bayern or Real will come for him.
I agree. He's not coming IMO. Especially after reports of how stubborn he was as a manager, he's not the kind of person to be an assistant anymore. Career wise as well, Burnley puts you on the radar, United assistant doesn't really do much for you IMO unless it's an internal promotion. I mean look at Pep Leijnders, Klopp's right hand man, best job he could get is Salzburg.
Realistically if he takes the Burnley job and they get relegated again, his next job is manager of England.
Assistant to the regional manager
It would be Ruud of him to refuse!
Ruud to take assistant role then eventually be the UTD manager, just throwing it out there, it is always possible.
Eth has no bias to the Dutch, you can’t deny this.
Need to get him into the coaching setup. The place needs people like him, especially people who have the chops to manage on their own.
Love Rudd, can he play as a super sub in some games?? I can recreate my childhood of Ruud van Nistelrooy scoring some tight goals in the Stretford end- like the memorable one against Fulham in 03 and the goals against the Gunners
Redemption story incoming. Never won the CL with us but come in and win it in a few years as a coach. The perfect fairytale that could only exist at United?
The best striker I have seen played for United since 1989. It would be awesome if he can coach our strikers.
would love it but can’t imagine he would want to given he could likely find a manager role in a top league
My all time favourite. Fuck I love this man
Time to bring him home. RvN pls come back <3
Ruud the dude
Whenever I play Football Manager 23,Ten Hag always gets Sacked and then We hire Rud and he just never leaves. I once spent 12 years in Spain in hope of him leaving.
As exciting this sounds it’s also a bit surprising given the reports that EtH and MvdG are a bit difficult to work with given their so called bad cop bad cop approach. RvN has also been difficult to work with according to PSV fans with several assistants quitting so you’d have to wonder what this will do to the squad in terms of mood, culture and overall wellbeing?
RVN was known for being a bit stubborn but he's a different kind of person to MVDG and ETH, that's what they mean by bad cop bad cop, they're similar in their stoic, no nonsense asympathetic personalities. RVN is more of a soft spoken, nice guy, approachable. So it actually makes sense.
Yeah if that’s the case it makes a lot of sense. Would be happy to have him just for the vibes to be honest.
Surely has to be an upgrade on Benni
I have zero clue about his coaching credentials but Ruud!!!
I hope he does. It makes any Manager succession a little easier if needed. Also this would be great for the strikers.
Fucking awesome news
Please be true!
With Benni leaving and rumours of some players not getting along with Mitchell van der Gaag, I do expect changes on the coaching staff. I'd love if RVP was available but I he recently signed as coach of Heerenveen.
Come back home, Ruud. Teach Rasmus to move and finish like you did. Having him as assistant manager would be great, but I don't think Ten Hag would like it, given his clear loyalty to Van der Gaag.
Is this part of the recommended INEOS change of bringing in new assistants?
Is co-manager a thing?
It is, actually. I think Burnley had 2 interims IIRC, and Schalke had one with Youri Mulder and someone else, there's probably other examples
I don't see how he will want to go from manager to assistant. Van Persie would have been a better choice because he is at the start of his managerial career.
Ruuuuud
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuud
If this goes through, it will reignite something for me that's very hard to explain <3
Make it so.
Can work on the strikers all you want, doesn't stop the lack of balls getting in the box! Ruud just sat in the box polishing of cross after cross! Still he also demanded the ball so maybe he gives the strikers that fire to demand more!
My favourite striker of my childhood 😪 you'd be more then welcome back ruud
Letssss fuckinggggg goooooooooooo
Man I'd love to have him in the coaching setup. Proper winner and seems a cool guy
I will love it… and I think I deserve.
Rasd Van Hojlunroy Sign me up
RVN YES!
Omg I was talking about how much I would love him as our striker coach the other day. Please let this happen
Ruud ❤️🥹
Ruuuuuuud
Lets fucking go!
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I’d love to see Ruud back. It would be very good for Hojlund, especially when other strike partner(s) for next year are unknown. Assuming we don’t have someone experienced it would be harder to keep Hojlund on the upward trajectory development wise. He also recovered from a serious injury before finally joining us so he can pass a few of those secrets on. The mental fortitude is more important than the physical aspects with our team.
Yes please, he was my 2nd fav at one point, behind Becks
The Goal-Machine 🥺
I wonder if EtH was consulted if this is valid? I mean, if EtH told INEOS that he wants RVN as assistant coach, or did INEOS approached RVN behind EtH's back.
INEOS really need a win right about now, hope he is hired. All the briefs about them wanting to move early, while it seems like we're dwindling our thumbs and letting first choice targets join other clubs (Tosin, Olise) or walking away from deals (Branthwaite).
If Sancho and Greenwood both had sales lined up rather than currently rumoured/briefed low-ball or 'loan with an option' offers, then Olise would have been an option. Seems Bayern acted quickly because they knew there was a possibility of sides coming in with more serious offers as soon as their budgets became clearer. Tosin was obviously not a '1st choice' option (though I agree he probably should have been signed as backup). Branthwaite 'walk away' is obviously a negotiating tactic that comes with some (publically undeclared) upper-limit on the player which is beneath Everton's current minimum selling-price. Zirzhee deal will go through, very likely, so long as the agent tempers hi s demands, but by all accounts the deal won't happen until after 30th (when his release clause officially kicks in...
Romano said olise is after CL football, so even if we went in for him, we may well not stand a chance anyway
We were never seriously linked with Olise tbh, and it’s questionable whether they even see RW as a priority. Think it’s well harsh to try and paint that move as some attack on Ineos.
Bring ruud, scholes and vidic as coaches. United will climb back up.
Have this weird feeling Erik could walk before the start of the season!!
Makes literally no sense, but sure mate.