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Castles: Mourinho believes Man Utd squad's broken. Will take at least two transfer windows to repair
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Pretty obvious.
Too many average players.
Too many average players earning top coin.
Too many average players.
Too many average players earning top coin.
This.
That doesn't excuse mourinho. He should manage to get results as well now.
Pretty sure no one would disagree that adding even more top quality players is needed if we want to be on the level of Bayern, Barcelona or Real Madrid. At the same time, I'd say our squad in terms of quality compared to all the other teams in the Premier League is not really that much different.
Agree with this.
does that include his own signings?
This is exactly what LVG said when he first came in. Not saying it's not true, but I think it's got more to do with the psychological aspect than the abilities of the players. Our squad should be good enough to challenge.
Yup.
In fairness to him, its obvious he's done everything he can to get us playing and creating bucket loads of chances in most games.
Definitely has enough quality to get results and minimum top 4 but he needs to get rid of average players on top money and replace with good squad players. Depay, Bastian and Rooney being the main ones.
The day I stop hearing this wretched phrase will be a glorious one.
Bullshit article. With the exceptions of Evra, Nani and Hernandez not one sigle player that was shipped out deserved to be at United based on their form. The players that were brought in were capable. The methods applied werent.
A cliché can only be a cliché if there's truth to it
Same old rubbish every season. This team should be performing better than it is. The difference between us and the teams above us is that they are spending less money and have managers that look like they know what they are doing? So, we need another £1bn before the manager can make it work? Ridiculous excuses.
Don't think it's all about buying. Selling some of the crap should be a priority.
Silly excuse for bad management, get's embarrassing. Liverpool and Chelsea can get way better results with worth squads, likewise Tottenham. On an international level the same..quite some successful clubs with worth squads - Dortmund, Sevilla, Atletico...
Rooney looks like he has just finished his Christmas dinner in that pic.
Agree
Yeah but our team imo isn't all that different from Chelsea in terms of quality. Talentwise we are pretty similar with maybe even being better in a few areas. Difference though is that Conte is getting the best out of average players like Moses pedro and all.
I hope Castles atleast takes his tongue out of Mourinho's crack twice a day for his meals.
If Costa swapped clubs we would swap positions imo, there isn't much difference between us.
That Chelsea side create no more chances than we do against lesser teams. They also lost to Arsenal and Liverpool and are yet to play City.
They've clocked up more points because they recovered from their blip. I think we have too, we're just far more unlucky than they are at this stage.
I thought there would be interest in this. Personally, I think if Mourinho's 'camp' have briefed this piece to Castles they have done him a disservice.
Man Utd should win the title this season. The mentality in the squad is an issue. Yet you cannot put our inability to beat the likes of Stoke and Burnley down to mentality. Too many players went off the boil after losing to City in the league. That is mostly the players' fault. It is also the manager's responsibility to lift the players after a big loss though. Some will argue some of the soft minded players we have won't respond to Mourinho's motivational efforts. I do not think that explains why we could not convert more than one of 61 shots over two games.
I back Mourinho but I don't want excuses and this piece reads like a lot of excuses.
Man Utd should win the title this season. The mentality in the squad is an issue. Yet you cannot put our inability to beat the likes of Stoke and Burnley down to mentality. Too many players went off the boil after losing to City in the league. That is mostly the players' fault. It is also the manager's responsibility to lift the players after a big loss though. Some will argue some of the soft minded players we have won't respond to Mourinho's motivational efforts. I do not think that explains why we could not convert more than one of 61 shots over two games.
I back Mourinho but I don't want excuses and this piece reads like a lot of excuses.
We have ibra rashford and martial. We shouldn't have to complain about striker form.
But Ibrahimovic has been truly wasteful in some key games. You can't point fingers to Mourinho over Conte when there is actually very little difference in the chances created between both teams.
I agree with Jose. We look far better this season under Jose than we have looked under Van Gaal and Moyes. I won't mention Moyes but what a joke Van Gaal turned out to be. He did some good things and there's one or two good kids coming through but what we have now is what you get when you give a bluffer like that hundreds of millions. Schweini, Schneidi, Rojo, Memphis, Blind, Darmian all mostly terrible signings. Everton level players on Man Utd level salaries.
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Agreed. Assuming he means two summer windows (only skimmed the article because of all the horrible adverts). I'd expect us to be pretty close after next summer though.
We would be unlucky if it was for one game. Creating chances and not taking them is a problem in itself
Having Hazard in such form is a big difference too. Our wide areas have had some really poor combinations and performances this season.
I agree there needs to be some selling but we make too many excuses for José.
- He was out of a job for 6 months, all the time to look at players at the very least from an outside perspective.
- He's not a newbie, he is experienced and adapting to this league at the top level should be the least of his problems compared to Poch, Klopp, Pep and Conte.
- He was handed a handsome war chest and he said himself that he was very satisfied with his business, already isolating Schweinstiger before a ball was kicked.
Im not Jose's biggest fan but he has a top reputation and my support for him is because he is the United manager. This is supposed to be his dream job but feels like a subdued nightmare! I'm just tired of hearing that he needs another £1bn to turn the squad around, at what point do we say the manager has to earn his check if he needs to break transfer fees every 9 months.
I agree, but would you blame Mourinho or Zlatan for that?
His job is to get the team playing the right way and creating chances to score. He cant physically put the ball in the back of the net himself.
Personally i think Jose needs more than 2 windows.
Think of how many players we have who are title winning calibre.. De Gea, Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Rashford and Martial when he can be asked. Mata too I suppose
We need about 10 top quality players
Think of how many players we have who are title winning calibre.. De Gea, Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Rashford and Martial when he can be asked. Mata too I suppose
We need about 10 top quality players
Chelsea have had 4 or 5 really good games and all of a sudden they are what we want to be.
Valencia + Herrera. That is actually 8 already.
No matter how good you are you can't click your fingers and turn shit or even just average players into champions. It's a process and I think we're already seeing a change in performances, results will follow.
Herrera is nowhere near title winning quality, nor is Valencia any more
Hazard and Costa, mate.
And then their defense is better than ours, and they have Kante running their midfield...
So the manager is at fault if the striker misses chances?
I'd be more worried if we weren't creating much like last season.