Recent content by bonsaiboy

I don't think we lack physicality. I think that we get penalised for being physical more than other teams, so our players have become a bit shy.

I wouldn't say this was scraping a win. We dominated for the majority of the match and scored 3 goals. If we hadn't conceded the two - freak - early goals we'd have been saying it was a comfortable win. What *is* clear to me is that we have a problem starting and finishing matches. It takes us...

Honest question, what do you want us to be outraged at? The human rights stuff or the outrageous money stuff? If the latter, this is (hopefully) a different story. We've always had the revenue to spend big even without owner investment - in fact, even with our owners taking money from the club...

Yes.

For me, the results don't particularly matter. He needs to show that he's learning how to manage and influence games that aren't going according to plan. He needs to show that he'll drop players who are out of match form, even if they train well. Basically, needs to show that he can improve as a...

If we'd have brought Henderson on and lost, the inquisition would instead be asking why we didn't keep de Gea on.

Sanchez has really killed our wage structure. I know that from a business perspective signing a player on an inflated wage for 'free' might amortise similarly to an expensive player on a lower wage, but when salaries are so out in the open it was always going to end badly. I hate this, but I...

We currently lack: Siege mentality. Every team is going to raise their game to try to beat us, we should expect it and work to stop it. It always seems to take us by surprise. Fitness. We struggle to maintain our intensity for 90 minutes. Strength in depth. When our first XI is disrupted, our...

That will only happen if we allow it to, and there will always be an exit route (even if it's hard). Besides, the issue of Federal Europe is not one that was at the forefront of anyone's mind in 2016 -- back then it was all about freedom of movement, the threat of Turkey joining the EU, etc. and...

We've invested plenty in the team recently, it's just that it's been done extremely poorly. For me the summer showed that the club had lost confidence in Mourinho and so were reluctant to spend big just to end up with a new set of players that would be out of favour after a few poor...

I don't want Ole to fail - on the contrary, I hope he succeeds as it's refreshing to have a manager who gets the club and its traditions. But what last night does show is that our failings as a team aren't entirely down to the manager and their motivational or tactical style. Some people were...

Fred was not cheap. Dalot is 19 years old and was bought for the future. Grant was bought as backup and cost us pennies. As to Alexis, he is costing us around £20m per year so even if we didn't pay anything in terms of a transfer fee, he's still a significant investment. We spent £90m on Pogba...

That shouldn't be a shock. We've got a lot of good players, but we also have a lot of mediocre to poor ones, particularly when you look past the first eleven. It wasn't a shock that with the right motivation we could pull ourselves up a level to start beating the weaker teams in the league, but...

I think this makes a lot of sense. I know that there are other, bigger name managers who are out of work right now, but realistically it was always going to be hard to bring someone big in on what's basically guaranteed to be a short-term contract. Barring some sort of miracle where we win the...

As long as Corbyn's position remains to Brexit, they won't want to call one because they believe he might win it. If he shifted his stance to remain (or at least to a second referendum with the option to remain), then they might consider it because the GE would then be fought on that point...