Recent content by glazed

I heard it suggested that ours were more strenuous. Can't say I know if it's true or not.

It's unlikely to be one thing only. But ETH admitted when Hojlund got injured it was a product of his intense training techniques. Now that's all well and good when you have a young big squad, but we don't even have 11 players we can trust to play in a high press, let alone 22. So he was cutting...

He's also asking why the injuries are happening. Is it down to the training or the bad facilities or the purchase of injury prone players? Is this ETH's fault or the club's?

Yes there is. ETH is over training the players. And they had no pre-season because of a stupid tour. And we have rubbish facilities. Plus the lack of an operational tactical structure on the pitch means everyone has to work twice as hard to compensate.

Reasonable except Erikson is made of tissue paper. We might as well have gone down to ten men. Throw in a central defense with Casemiro towing his caravan around the pitch and you are inviting any team to attack. Yes you could have reasonably expected to hold on, and we did. Just. But it was...

Sunday finally flipped me. Taking off Mainoo for Erikson with an eye to the midweek game was just suicidal. I get why he did it but it almost cost us the game.

Because they're too old and/or too slow. They can only defend deep. When we had Martinez and (the less than ideal) Varane fit and playing regularly in central defense, or Shaw standing in, we looked way better.

In a situation like this I would listen to someone with lots of doubts over someone with none. All of the players in the squad are decent dedicated players if given in the right environment. That's the challenge now. Ditching the manager may or may not be a part of that. I say this with "no...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/04/23/manchester-united-game-model-jason-wilcox-identity-transfer/ Ducker's article is interesting, identifying the "Frankenstein squad" as the key problem. ETH simply cannot impose a coherent style of play on such a disparate group, any more that...

He's obviously getting sacked at the end of the season so it's a bit pointless, this thread.

The important thing is to first get in a fully functional sports department that has decided a particular style of football going forward, so that the next manager is mainly a coach. After that we can start getting in the players we need in a coherent and professional manner. Without that, no...

The problem players are Varane, Lindelof, Maguire, Evans in defence. In midfield it's Casemiro, Erikson, Amrabat, McT. They're not bad players as such but when you are trying to play fast transition, high press, high energy football they simply aren't cut out for it. They're either too old or...

I don't think a new manager would make much difference. The squad is in a very badly executed transition where there is no midfield or defensive solidity. They would have to revert to low block counter attacking but having already blown the season, what would be the point of that? Going forward...

I never seem a manager win a game and still lose his job quite so dramatically

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