elmo
Can never have too many Eevees
So Ole's job is just go put out the starting eleven and subs now? Because I could swear player development is part of the manager's role and he's failed big time in it with most of the squad stagnating since Ole got here.But if we look away from the youngsters and the back up players (James, Telles) 4/5 of his signings have played very regularly and have been one of our more consistent performers. There is this myth going around on here that Maguire is a bad fit because he lacks pace, which is just rubbish imo. The most important attributes for a CB in a high line is strength, positioning and aerial dominance. Pace is nice, but if your CB's constantly end up in footraces with strikers who weigh 30 punds less than them, you are going to be in a lot of trouble. AWB is not the best offensive fullback in the world, but hes still only 23 and has plenty of room for growth. Brunos stats speak for themselves
Our recent bad run, the biggest culprits (according to the caf) have been DDG, Lindelof, Martial and Rashford. All of them was banged on to be in our "best XI" last year but have been pretty diabolocal lately and none of them signed by Ole.
DDG has regressed badly since his peak season in 17/18 and is now costing us points rather than gaining us. Lindelof is just not that talented and a bad fit for such a physical league. Martial? Who the feck knows whats up with him.
Also the claim that he should be "getting more out of x player" is based on what? Rashford and Martial right now can for sure do much better, but what other players have a higher ceiiling that Ole cant unlock? Van der Beek?
Under Ole's stint so far, only Bruno and Shaw can be considered playing well and up to the level that we should be targeting for. Everyone else has been either short of the quality needed or just inconsistent. It's on Ole and his coaching staff to figure a way out to fix this but it's been 2 years plus and we're still seeing the same shit.