We're not judging individual surgeons, though, are we?
Shame, because Martial could use some lessons.
Because we keep hiring subpar employees which points to a problem with the HR department. But that wasn't the question, the OP asked if we are cursed, we are not, we are just not as competent as the competition when it comes to human resources management.
Interesting point.
We'll take two equally talented students and ask them to take any competitive exam in a year's time. Give one of them excellent specialized coaching understanding the student's strength and weakness and give the other student nothing but the basic materials needed. Who is going to do well in the exam?
Indeed. Compare this to what the clubs known for better coaching and development does and it is clear what's different in our club. Even at Dortmund, which changes managers frequently, young players still develop well - do they have a coaching organization independent of the manager? Ditto Pool and City, where Klopp and Pep are known for improving players (Whom they selected in the first place). To be fair to Ole, he has improved our attacking players. To borrow from the NFL, perhaps he is better suited as an "offensive" coach rather than an overall manager.
And remind me, how do you judge our coaching? Have you observed it?
To be clear - I agree 100%.
They don't change managers frequently because they don't have one. They change head coaches frequently and inevitably most head coaches tend to bring their own coaching staff with them.
It is not on the field we really miss it the most. It is outside the field we need better leadership and coaching. From the full staff and not just Ole.
Agreed. Maguire is a perfect example of this scrutiny. He was a good defender for Leicester and England, which is why we bought him in the first place. His £80m fee didn’t help, but as soon as he signed for us there were a lot of people gunning for him before he'd even kicked a ball, including our own fans. You've even got irrelevant d***heads like Van Der Vaart having bizarre potshots at him. Is It really any surprise he isn't looking like the player he used to be?
Agree completely with all this. Ole has sorted some of the glaring problems out I’ll give him that.
I'm not really following. If players consistently don't look like they are well coached then they aren't well coached, you don't need to be on the training ground to make that conclusion. Details are only useful if you try to determine where is the exact problems within the training process, it could be communication, the application of the technical/tactical drills or simply the belief in ineffective training concepts by the coaching staff, none of us can answer that but we can all agree on the fact that one or several of these things are going wrong, simply because the coaching staff's goal isn't to see players stagnate or regress.
Honestly, you'd think that after years of underperforming and not getting their money's worth - with several changes in the manager's seat - that the Glazers would want a change in CEO or at least shift him to operating strictly the business side of the club. How Woodward still has a job baffles me, any other company would have made some sort of change in leadership by now.
Brilliant post... totally agree with you.
Just a side note, Jose definitely doesn't have spurs playing anything special. In fact their football hasn't been too far from what he played here
Who are these rotten appels though? People said it was Sanchez and Lukaku so they are gone. He persisted with keeping Pogba so if he is the bad one then it is just stupid.
I'm not trying to say he's setting the world alight, but they're not regressing like we did under Mou. They're also still scoring a lot of goals, for a supposedly defensive, mourinho mindset.
It's not that complicated.
Can't you see the irony of talking about keyboard typing coaches and then proceeding to talk as if you yourself are a manager?
Very nice analogy.
True although comically Ole bought players that were more suited to Mourinho's vision than his, a massive conundrum for the next manager
Such a dumb argument to use. How do you think those penalties happen? It's us working the ball into the box.
Also, although it's great Carrick was with us for so long it's good to get an outside perspective. Phelan has bounced around a bit but we have no real influence from any major European countries, other leagues, other innovative ways of thinking. You look at the clubs who have done well recently and you have big coaching teams and tactically fanatical managers (Klopp, Pep, Conte) - there's a reason we keep buying better players and yet the gap has grown in recent years and it starts and ends on the training pitch.
I don't get the point of these questions? So only the Manchester United staff are only allowed to talk? It is blatantly obvious that teams with managers who coach well perform better consistently, whereas teams that rely on individual brilliance always has ups and downs.
