Realistically, for the first team we need:
RCB - Ball playing, strong, good recovery pace
DM - Press resistant, calm, ball recycler
Rotation players that can be relied upon if there are injuries so the drop in quality isn't massive:
LB
LCB
CM...
It'd be just like United to get this result Yesterday and then not kick on from it. We need a title run form but its still possible, considering Villa re still in Europe and the fixtures they have remaining, it should be them we are looking to...
Mainoo, Garnacho and Hojlund, not because they are worth that now but what they could be worth in a couple years time. Maybe Martinez if he can fully recover from his injury.
Two deflections and a pinball Salah goal... People need to realise that other teams do get chances in games, especially teams that are challenging for titles. Teams still score against City, Arsenal and Pool, we aren't going to avoid giving up...
If you extrapolate the belief held by many in this thread that EtH is holding this team back then you can safely assume we would have been better last season?
We must have stumbled into that 3rd place and a trophy beating City, Pool and Barca last season for some reason right? Can't be anything to do with our clueless fraud of a manager
Crazy how class our squad was last season despite the manager. According to some of you lot we would have been challenging for the league last season if he wasn't in charge
Great post. I know we are moving away from the injury conversation but fans need to avoid looking at this as a binary "should ETH stay or go?" The importance of a manager grows when the structure above them is so poor, now that we are seemingly...