No discrepancy in logic, not from me anyway. I have been more than happy to criticise players for playing shit this season and in the past. I attribute blame to all responsible parties. Non playing staff and playing staff. I’ve credited Ole in the past if he’s got things right (city away especially)
But again it’s why I’m talking about using a bigger sample size.
As for Sheffield United they caught everyone by surprise last season and played at a maximum. As we’ve seen with promoted clubs who have generally below average individuals as they do, a small drop off in your output and you’re fecked. With us because we have far superior players we can get away with half arsed performances a lot of the time.
But you implied that our players would "do much better" under different coaching staff, which may well be true, but i think there is a simple lack of evidence here.
I cant think of many players who has clearly regressed under Ole compared to previous managers. Shaw might be one, but hes not been the same since his legbreak. De Gea is another, but he was on a downward trajctory long before Ole took over, while the likes of Rashford, Martial and Fred have clearly improved
The big thing that has been a problem under Ole has been lack of consistency and people also use this as proof that we are not coached. It sounds reasonable at face value, but honestly i think its a simplistic conclusion. If the bad games are the result of bad coaching, then where does the good games come from? Does Ole simply tell them to "go out and have fun" and let the players make it up as we go along? I find that hard to beleive. If Oles attitude was that cavalier and careless, i doubt he would have much support from the players. because most of them have played under other managers and most of the actually want to win big things so i doubt they would stood by such a careless/clueless manager
That being said, i do think Ole gives the players more freedom than other managers, and especially someone like LvG who, as we all rememeber, was a complete control freak without it resulting in much