James Olley

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395 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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ESPN FC · The Football Reporters: Will cautious Arteta cost Arsenal the title? · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

I think we've said this for a while now that,

post Alex Ferguson United haven't had a proper backroom staff a kind of a senior first team coach and Steve Holland has come in I think already you can see the difference that he's made he's made United much more organised I think you know Harry Maguire as you know has played with Holland with England and he knows what he can do as an organiser and I think even Diogo Dalot you know I think I've been critical of Dalot a lot on this podcast but at the Emirates it looked like Dalot with the penny had dropped that

pick your moment don't look forward all the time when you defend do it you know in a line and be organised in a week 10 days you can see that Steve Holland has had an impact it's a good appointment isn't it Steve a brilliant appointment it's a bit of a coup that isn't it I mean you all know better than anyone about what you can do but from the outside looking in

he's not a popular i mean i've got to say you know this he's not the most popular coach with players he can be hard and people have told me that it can be quite hard it can be cold it can be arrogant at times he's got a bit of bite about money yeah but he's got the track record that backs up he's worked at chelsea yeah he's worked at in england i mean with chelsea works you know under marino under ancelotti he's worked with the best he's worked with england got an under period of great success you know you can say what you want but they still had a successful period of england

So he's got credentials that I don't think any coach since René Moulinstein or Carlos Queiroz have had at United.

And he comes with those credentials and he can see that the players are looking around thinking, we've got a bench that knows what he's doing.

You know, Ruben Amrim's reputation took a bit of a battering during 14 months at United.

It took an even bigger battering the two games since he's left because it's like, what were you doing?

What was Ruben Amrim doing that made this team so inhibited and so poor?

I mean, obviously, it's only two games, we know that, but it's two games against Man City and Arsenal.

So Ruben Amrim must look at himself thinking, I was so stubborn, I was so inflexible, my coaches have worked good enough.

Oh, does he?

But abandon the system and go back to be pragmatic.

Is that guy going to get his hair cut, do you think?

Are we getting to five wins?

Is that fan finally going to get his hair cut?

It seems that way, doesn't it?

Yeah, I think there's obviously a chance.

I mean, it'd be foolish of United not to consider him because if he starts with wins against the two best teams in the country, you know, Pep Guardiola said on Friday that Arsenal are the best team in the world and they've gone there and won, so...

You have to consider him.

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