Recent content by AR87

I have a lot of sympathy for Ten Hag with regard to the situation he stepped into with a club in disarray which provided very little support to help the manager with scouting and recruitment. Additionally, he's had to deal with a drawn out sale of the club hanging over his head. It's been...

Yeah, generally you need time to actually turn over a squad. A competent recruitment team capable of good decision making on the recommendations of scouts and analytics staff usually help achieve that. Every manager we've had since Ferguson has been setup to fail because of how much...

Wasteful and braindead performance

I took, can't believe a 19 year old winger doesn't make perfect decisions.

I've even doubted his value as a squad player, but with this type of goal scoring he is absolutely that. Has been vital for us in a season where we're struggling for goals. Deserves plenty of credit. A first XI player? No, not if we want to control matches and get back to the top domestically...

And Ronaldo was clinical. If you don't want to do any defensive work then you need to be a consistent goal threat, every season. Rashford simply isn't at that level, and if he can't or won't do what's required defensively for the team then he's not a player the manager can afford to continue to...

Disagree. They banned those journalists for not adhering to appropriate standards that ensure fair reporting. The fact they failed or refused to do so is worthy of a ban for those involved. Simply airing the grievances is toothless. It sets the standard that the club will not actually act to...

The issue that United raised is that they were not allowed to comment for the story, right? I actually think that it's completely BS for a journalist to run the stories that were run and deny the club/manager to respond or comment. They obviously would deny the story and refute the claims, or...

Mourinho signed Matic to be that player and then after that we just stopped trying despite Matic clearly being past his best.

Other managers, including Pep, have called out players publicly and in far more castigating fashion. Once he didn't pick Sancho for the squad against Arsenal the question would be asked and he can't just make up an injury, especially given how we saw Sancho react to the truth, that he wasn't...

What would have happened if ETH said nothing that would've been of much more value? His performances were shit as was his effort, and he's been poor for the majority of the 2 seasons prior as well. Other clubs know this, because they have scouts who have eyes and watch football. ETH didn't say...

I think ETH doesn't trust Amrabat in the air because he's not very good at it, so he erred on keeping McTominay on over him to pair with Eriksen. Don't think he's a world beater, but that first half performance was a collective failure from the setup to individual performances. In the second...

Selling Fred is fine, and I say that as somebody who always thought he was a good squad player and gets unfairly criticized. He was 30, had 1 year left on his deal, and it made sense to sell him since ETH was not keen on retaining him. The issue is we needed to bring in a CM in a mor timely...

It is tactical, so if you have an issue with it take it out on Ten Hag, not the keeper simply following instructions.

Those passes would achieve nothing and are exactly what Burnley were hoping for him to do. He's trying to draw defenders to himself so that when he does play it to the CB they have time and space to try to play the ball forward. I have no idea why him passing it earlier to Lindelof or Evans...