Give me a break with this central midfield non-sense. Ole has had 6 transfer windows to sort it out. It simply doesn’t rank high enough on his priority list.
Challenging the league, is that your minimum expectation right?
If Pogba was manager, Neville would only give him eleven to seventeen months. It's a double standard.
This is the truth. Van Gaal wasnt world class and the Jose we got was the broken Jose, not once but he had been broken three times before joining us.The thing that irritates me the most is he keeps banging on about how we’ve tried going down the ‘world class’ manager route and it hasn’t worked. No Gary we hired 2 managers who were world class at one stage in their career but not when we hired them. It’s Man Utd we should be going after the absolute best managers possible all the time, just because one doesn’t work you don’t just dismiss the rest. You wouldn’t operate that way if it was players you’re looking to sign, oh we’ve tried the world class talent route so now we’ll go down the bang average one.
So our central midfield options aren’t shite? We both know that they are; we saw as much at the weekend. There are a few issues with your response, really.
Like Fergie would.
Why? We've already tried signing high profile CFs in Lukaku and Falcao and they didn't work out so it's best we go for average number 9s now. Totally makes sense.
I don’t necessarily believe that high profile managers will all fail. But I agree with Neville that the ones we employed did fail. I’m also saying that his isn’t a controversial viewpoint, in addition to the other bullet points listed which are also non-controversial.
I agree with your point but Neville described them as world class managers which I think is quite different. You can argue the case with Mourinho, but I don't think anyone can claim LVG was a world class manager when we appointed him. Even with Mourinho, despite his success there were red flags prior to him joining that things could go tits up. I don't think our assessment on high profile or world class managers should be based on what happened with Mourinho. It just comes across as an extremely simplistic argument by Neville not taking into account any context.
It's a very silly viewpoint because the focus isn't on Mourinho or LVGs transfers, football ideology, tactics etc but the fact that they once were great managers.
He didn't say high profile. He said world class. Neither Mourinho or LvG were world class when they came to us. They were both well past their best and that's been proven by their records since us too.
Well we do if City are spending the same? It’s not as if City are standing still, the further behind we fall then the more it will take to get back to level footing.
Still better than the entitled fan solution, which is always sack the manager and roll the dice again.
High profile. World class. My point still stands; he said nothing particularly controversial.
City have lost their two most influential players of the last decade in the last few years and Ferdnandinho is 35, it's not like they've just been buying players for the sake of it like they used to. So I don't really buy the idea that they are just strengthening an already perfect side. We have arguably had a better window than them already. Liverpool haven't really bought anyone. Chelsea, fair enough.
There is a clear distinction between the two though and you obviously intentionally said high profile because calling either world class is laughable.
Would he? We've also got the likes of VDB and Pogba who can slot in as CM. Meanwhile Bruno can play in a deeper role if needed, with Sancho/Lingard/Mata playing as an AMC and we've got Mejbri coming up the ranks. United have choices.
Both he and Scholes have been advocating him for years. And probably any professional pundit as well. Anyone can see what Kane could bring us.
Kane is a great striker. He's not a Batistuta or a Shearer but very few are. However he's 28, he had his share of injuries and Spurs would want its ton of flesh for him. Its simply not worth it. Gaz should know that.
Bringing this one up again. IF Ronaldo signs, he will be that guy. Opposing defenders and midfielders won't dare take their eyes off him and it will transform what our midfield is capable of.
Can someone tell him to say he wants a midfielder too? Preferably before the window closes thanks.
Neville will come out with that then bemoan why we haven't signed a midfielder after we drew against Southampton.
Was about to post that too.
That's all well and good but with Ronaldo (or Cavani for that matter) on the pitch against Southampton, we win that game. Two or three times we flashed the ball across the six yard box to nobody, those two players are there to tap it in nearly every time.
I doubt it. He seems to be the only person that doesn’t see we need a CDM. He kept saying Kane and when Sky uploaded it onto Instagram all the top comments where we don’t need Kane we need a DM. Everyone can see it but I don’t think Gary can
I feel like Neville wants to reserve expectations as to not put too much pressure on Ole, I think all the former United players now turned pundits do that. I'm not Ole out but surely with these signings there should be more expectation from our former players turned pundits. I mean a team that finished second last season that have added Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane should definitely be in the title race and in all honesty be expected to win. I think it's a bit hypocritical tbh as if Klopp, Mourinho, Pep and Tuchel managed this squad and failed to win the league it would definitely be deemed a failure.
What exactly does he mean by that?
Yep it really did seem like that. It didn't help that hasselbaink was asking for a simple yes or no(Which he couldn't answer himself!)still with the players we've add of course we should be winning the league, now that doesn't mean it's a guarantee as there are also other great teams trying to win the league but we should be very confident.
Tbh I'm just guessing he didn't know how goals Ronaldo scored last season.
Neville asked Jimmy if he thought United would win the league and he said "I don't know". This is the thing with the pundits trying to heap pressure onto United because of the signings when they're confronted with the question "so do you think United have the best team in the league and therefore should be favourites?" their response seems to be "ermmmmmmmmm, I.... I'm not..." - none of them actually believe we've got the best squad outright.
He means in the context of forward planning, Ronaldo isn't a longer term solution to the extent Lukaku, Kane or Haaland might be. He's arguably not even a medium term one, at 36.
Lukaku and Kane are 28! There isn’t much forward planning there
