Do you lot ever give it a rest? Jesus, it’s not even really that negative a thread, he’s simply asking what people want from or expect from United. Stop, take a breath, think about the thread for a second, then either answer the question or bit of advice, don’t bother posting your negativity. Just go out of the thread and go to another, it’s not a hard concept.
@simplyared If Jose can get what he wants right which is pretty basic football then i’ll guess I can except his version of counter attacking football. There were signs at the weekend that it could be coming but the passing when it mattered or the choices taken were just not good enough on the pitch, we take an age to do anything. Part of it I feel is down to the fear our team plays with about abandoning position or taking a risk.
Counters for me are opportunistic, there isn’t always a structure to them it’s just good footballers understanding what is happening, you have the ball, you see space, attack that space, and see if you’re support can help you or is in a better position.
We when we used to counter at our best we bombed forward and everyone joined in to me now the likes of Martial, Lukaku and Sanchez should all be getting in to the box, Pogba and Fred backing them up sitting on the edge of the 18 yarder, Shaw or a RB getting to or beyond the 18 yarder to put in a ball depending on the situation Matic covering the midfield backed up 2 CB’s who have also pushed up to the half way line. Just squeeze the space and force teams to punt it against us so we can just sweep it up.
I just can’t buy in to Jose’s logic of you’re safer without the ball, that isn’t football for me, Football is expression, go out express yourself and have fun doing it and trying things to make people go wow and inspire generations to try similar stuff, that is football to me.
I’m content being 3rd 4th for a season or two whilst a manager gets his stuff together and that we can see what is evolving on the pitch and moving in the right direction which is within the values of the club. Eventually we will need to return to the top of the tree, which the way the league is now, is just not going to be easy.