Recent content by Red-17

He is the cause of our players looking run ragged. You don't see City midfielders or Arsenal midfielders looking exhausted 60 minutes into a home match against a relegation team because they probably have 70% posession and only need to make short sprints to press and win it back every few...

Not sacking him certainly guarantees we won't beat City so I don't really see the harm in trying.

He's also clearly dispelled the myth that he is a pushover defensively, he has looked miles better winning balls back and pressing than Rashford and even Garnacho in the limited minutes he's been afforded. With our season already a wash, it's pretty ridiculous how little he is playing.

Exactly, he is not Arjen Robben or a player who is going to single handedly take the game to the opponent like Garnacho, but he is someone who can play quick football, keep possession, and pick out dangerous passes. That is a much less valuable set of skills in a disorganized team though, and...

Set up Garnacho's shot, had a shot blocked that was on target from his own teammate, won the ball back a few times. Not terrible for limited minutes playiing in a floating position with no clear organization. Still not sure why Ten Hag is allergic to playing him and Mainoo at the same time, one...

Yeah I think the problem is all we every expect from our wingers is hard charge dribbling and runs in behind because we so rarely slow the play down to try and control the ball and push up the pitch as a collective. Amad or even Sancho are not going to stand out if you want to spray 50 yard...

The last time we ranted about poor assistant coaches it was McKenna and Carrick who are both now successful managers who have turned around Championship clubs, so there is pretty good reason to not judge an assistant solely on the performance of the team when we have no real knowledge of what...

We had about as easy a run to the League cup final last year as possible, and have been incredibly fortunate to make it to the FA cup final this year with Liverpool having missed a chance to wipe the floor with us (not due to us stopping them) and then drawing a championship team in the semi and...

Probably fed up of watching Rashford and Wan Bissaka dribble down the wing and cut back into traffic for the 100th time and decided he' just do things himself.

Because getting mad that a high pressing attacking midfielder gets dribbled by frequently is asinine. If you want someone to take risks and try and win the ball back, which the manager clearly does, then he will inevitably get it wrong or gamble sometimes and get dribbled by. Casemiro being in...

Pretty baffling that we play him as the wide fullback making overlapping runs on his weak side and then procede to invert Dalot playing on his strong side. Surely we would be better off inverting the fullback who is already not going to be offering useful width and actually have a fullback on...

This is the key for me. The biggest reason none of our young players or signings progress is because we have not had a recognizable and effective style of football for ages. It’s all well and good saying ETH has done well to bring through Garnacho and Mainoo but 2 more seasons of them playing in...

Exactly. You don't get the benefit of the doubt for not having the right players when you don't even attempt to play in that style in the first place. If we were trying to control games and had some careless giveaways and defensive mistakes leading to us losing or drawing games but there was an...

I mean what hierarchy? There's no one left. The CEO and director of football are both gone and their replacements are either at other clubs or on gardening leave. Not surprising that ETH has the run of the place at the moment. God knows how shocking our transfer planning will be for the coming...

But not as stupid as just marking no one and not stepping out to close down a man dribbling free into your box. The center back is the one who has to be taking control there, and his inexperience cost us there.