It's s simple question - what subs should he hsve made and when?
Real Madrid only scraped past Vilareal on Sunday, after they subbed their best players off to rest them.
Are you serious?
Why? It’s not like our owners have demonstrated any sort of aversion to pedestrian CL qualification and decent but not winning cup runs. If they hired, say, Conte or Zidane or another name they’d be in the Glazers’ ears every day looking for expensive players. Ole doesn’t have that currency built up so he gets what he gets and gives good press.
Where has this utter myth that we don’t spend big on players come from?
If I were a player I will seriously be hesitated to join a manager who is at his the best mediocre. Players want to play for Pep or Klopp because they know they will be even better players when training under world class managers/coaches.
I don't really understand the comparison to City really, I can't see any similarities in the match.
It's not about luck, Ole just let the game pass him by. We should've won the game in normal time if Ole was more tactical aware. Let's say we spend money and go buy players, will you trust Ole to win you the CL or even the PL? he is the man before the man tbh. Hope he does proves me wrong.
Bottling 4 semi finals and 1 final?
I’d give him another season because as disappointing as it was to lose the final we’ve still made progress this year. I think he deserves to be backed with one more transfer window to get the players he wants and then have another crack at it. If he fails to deliver after that then it’s time to part ways definitely.
Yes we bottled it against City and Chelsea. Any time a team loses they bottled it. Good post, would read again.
This.
Cavani I think. For not challenging a hilariously bad cross from Bruno. Might be wrong though. Cavani was furious
I barely know a single player for Villareal and yet you could tell they were drilled and had a plan.
Did you miss his quotes last week?
'Summer tournament, short pre-season, new signings couldn't bed in, it's a process, we'll challenge in 2025/26'
Rashford should have been hooked at half time and bring either Mata or VDB on, probably VDB and move Pogba up on the left.
Exactly. He has the Glazers putting on the handbrake
Yes absolutely
He's not lost to PSG, Barca, Real etc.. It's Villareal. Let's not go on about "quality", we didn't lose because of that. Unless you want to tell me with a straight face that Villareal have better players.
It’s all very well talking the talk but you have to be able to back it up. There is nothing to suggest he can at this stage. Conte walked from inter because they wouldn’t back him to take the club to the next level. Ole would never do something so bold.
Yes if you lose 4 semi finals and a final that's bottling it. That is why spurs are seen as bottlers because every major game they have had over the last few years they have lost even though it was against hard opponents. Also Chelsea? Come on only man City are a legitimate great team everyone else is atleast on par with us. So yes bottled
Of course he isn't. He is the owners perfect manager. Could you imagine them with Conte. He'd have left after a week. Would be interesting if he got off to a bad start to next season.
The truth is that United have spent the most money of any club in Europe over the last 5 years (the last 10 transfer windows) other than City.
Well then why do we even have a manager? Sack Ole, save £10m/year or whatever he is on, let the players manage themselves. Out of all the football supporters in the world we should understand and appreciate what a really good manager can do like nobody else but instead we got people saying that manager's position basically means feck all.
Yes it was Cavani, and Cavani was furious.
I think it was Luke
Its laughable, isnt it?
That's usually the case for the vast majority of football teams though. That's why they are squad players and not in the starting XI. I'm sure Villarreal's squad players aren't as good as their starting XI but they still made five subs and consequently looked fresher and were the better team in extra time.
They have Foyth, Capoue and Albiol in the starting 11
We say the same shit every year.
