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  1. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Thread locked during matches

    Yeah, I can agree with that. Would rather back the manager. The timing of it is so poor. It's like deciding to perform that long-awaited open heart surgery when the body is in sepsis. Amorim will likely have to deal with largely this group for the rest of the season. Just hope he atleast gets a...

  2. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Thread locked during matches

    Martinez isn't great at defending wide channels. Mainoo is a dynamic 8 whose skill set is under-utilized and defensive weakness exposed as one of the 2 central mids (if anything, he'd probably be more suited to the left-sided 10). Amad is a right winger who should stay right. Bruno is a central...

  3. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Thread locked during matches

    Yeah, he can't do anything about the LB problem. What he can do, though, is play Mainoo, Mazraoui, Bruno, Garnacho and to some extent even Amad and Lisandro in their right positions. I think he's overcomplicating it. All he had to do was learn from ten Hag's mistakes. Make Amad a starter and...

  4. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Thread locked during matches

    It's hard to highly rate a manager who's so wedded to one system. He could turn out to be a great manager but right now, he's playing everyone out of position except Maguire and Hojlund. This situation has been created by INEOS, so it's more a criticism of them than Amorim. Even so, it's hard...

  5. Are you confident of success in the INEOS era?

    You posted more sensibly than a lot of sober people on here! I hadn't thought about the Ruud conundrum tbh.. is he part of the EtH staff? Will he be caretaker if EtH goes? What if results pick up under his management?

  6. Are you confident of success in the INEOS era?

    I've not been a big fan of this INEOS concept from the start (think it's just a smokescreen for more of the same Glazers crap), but I won't rule judgement on them so early. The decision to keep/sack ten Hag seems to compromise that season but that might have been their "intention" from the...

  7. Gabriel Martinelli

    Arteta's change in system (read copying Pep) since 22/23 is partially to blame for his drop-off. Martinelli is not Grealish. He's more explosive and direct: more of a wide forward than a midfielder. Moreover, he's young and raw. So, asking him to play a more technical role where he has to...

  8. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    What do you think are the reasons for it being poorly implemented (to the point that, at least for me, it's non-existent)? Do you think it's possible to implement with Bruno and Rashford in the starting eleven?

  9. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    Normally I'd agree but having a style of play, even if it's counter-attacking, is better than not having one. The profile of midfield signing would've been different from Mount if we had gone for the counter-attack approach.. and I daresay, it would've suited Bruno and Casemiro to a T. It seems...

  10. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    In my mind, it's pretty straightforward: Mainoo/Casemiro holding, Eriksen/Mount as the playmaker 8, Bruno/McTominay as the attacking 8. Hope to see this atleast for some weeks on a regular basis. What's up with all these injuries.. Mount was fit for multiple seasons at Chelsea, now he's...

  11. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    Genuine question: would a manager with counter-attacking approach do better with this group of players? I know Bruno, Rashford etc. aren't world-beaters but they have specific strengths: even average players like Maguire and McTominay do. I'm starting to think, apart from his in-game...

  12. Post match vs Wigan Athletic

    I seem to have accepted us as a spent force now, because I didn't find this (admittedly) average performance as frustrating as others on here did. Rashford was marginally better than what he was earlier in the season. Hojlund is low on confidence. The midfield problem remains: at times Mainoo...

  13. Post match vs Nottingham Forest

    Agreed. Ridiculous substitution, bringing on a defender would've been better. Iirc, he did something similar at HT against Man City.

  14. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    I'm not saying he didn't suggest Antony. I'm saying that the club scouting network should be better than just asking the first-team coach for suggestions. DoF recruits, first-team coach trains. We're not in the 90s anymore: sadly, our club infrastructure is.

  15. Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

    Yes, I would like to see the midfield and attack he started against Palace in the cup. Probably our best performance this season: it's not saying much, but atleast we had patterns of play.
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