Y'all do know there's a difference in playing for 90+ minutes and 30-45 mins, right?
Yes I would under those circumstances. I haven't been a able to watch any matches since the league restarted but up until then I hadn't seen any football that I would consider attractive.
Ummm hmmm!! I do. I can’t speak for the other guy. But you do know 45mins is working a lot harder than 0 minutes like say a rested Pulisic.
Now you're changing your argument. You said he just hired mates. I said they were hired by Mou and he retained them. Their experience might be worthy to question but that doesn't mean they can't do a good job.
"Boys, I want you to prepare for the fact that one of our CB's will get his head knocked around twice before first half so we have to take him off to be safe. Unfortunately we don't have a replacement CB right now that could work in that 3 back-line, but you know most games our CB's play all 90's minutes so our strategy is that we will trick Chelsea into beliving we will play 3 at the back all game, but when Bailly comes off we then have to change the formation and put on an attacker due to that lack of other CB's. Then Chelsea might score when we follow our strategy of the planned injury, so you'll have to be ready to come on then."
We don’t have a spare CB because I decided to use all 3 of the ones I have. Sorry the guy that had played the most minutes this season was also playing and also happened to be the guy that knocked you senseless. Maybe he was just fatigued. I mean he normally only plays 38 games a season at best.
As I say. Everything ManUtd brings in becomes owners money. You don't understand how things work? Look at this way, everything that ManCity or Liverpool or Chelsea brings in works the same way. It is owners money and they can spend it however they want. They can make rules and plans how to control the club and everything about economics. Then there is other ownership where not one person owns a club. Instead there is more owners.
Not being funny but I don’t want a bigger team of guys who’s experience is Molde. Might aswell get the coaches from Salford.
Yeah exactly, so maybe him choosing coaches who has been around United for many years is the good decision here? They are hardly hired as his mates just cause they have history here?
That is what I'm uncertain about also. The two good periods we've had under him have come after players themselves taking up to prove something or influence of Bruno. They start high-flying thrashing teams 3-0/4-0 then abruptly it all goes to shit and players don't seem to be bothered. His own demeanor during matches sitting on the sidelines doesn't put any kind of urgency among the players. It can't be a coincidence if it's happening twice. If the same kind of performance continues for the remaining two games, then we need to look at his motivational skills at least regardless if we win or lose them. This fatigue excuse is not passable as Martial doesn't seem to be fatigued.
Yes, because a 3 CB backline is what has worked against teams like Chelsea in the past. You can't expect them to get injured.
It depends what you want. You can’t be talking about cultural rest and how we’ve had 6 years of things being done wrong and assume what the club has to offer is good enough. Plus you also have to look after yourself. It’s good to have people you know around you we probably all would do it. However just as an example if I’m the manager of Salford and I get the United job by chance.. It would be nice to bring my coach that understands my philosophy with me. But knowing that I will now be trading blows with Pep and Klopp maybe I should be using the resource I have to invested in a coach who is well regarded n European football. Michael Carrick is a novice and McKenna good reputation but has little to no experience at the top end. Maybe you drop Carrick for instance.
Well here’s a thought. Don’t play it if you don’t have the resources. He’s been playing 4231 for weeks. Everyone is use to it and we’ve been unbeaten. It’s far easy to rest Maguire and not f up the front line by just swapping players around. I mean if we had two CB we probably wouldn’t have two so close to each other on that side of the pitch going for the same ball.
Did you watch the Elite podcast video with Ole that was posted a lot here last week? It's an hour long, but a lot of good stuff.
So him changing the formation aka tactic for a tough elimination game, to the strategy that had worked against Chelsea and other teams earlier in the year was a bad idea just because maybe a CB gets injured?
Yeah it was a good podcast I loved it. There’s quite a few on there. Poch’s one is good too
no shade it’s actually good.Yes you do change a winning team depending on the opposition. It's stupid not to do so.
Because you are backing him so religiously your not actually being logical in your defence. He used those tactics because of what we lacked as a side. He’s found success in what he’s being doing recently and has even had people say he’s improved. What you don’t do then is revert back to philosophies and approaches that got you through in the darker days. It doesn’t show progression or belief. We didn’t need 5 at the back to go head to head with flipping Chelsea. Once again like with Spurs, where we handed them two points we are showing good teams by name too much respect. Go out there and give us something to believe in.
Shooting down your lies and half-truths isn't "backing him religiously", it's living in reality.
He needed to rotate so unfortunately we had to use the players we were relying on in the 'darker days' in the Chelsea game. If we hadn't played our best 11 with only 48 hours until our next game I'm sure he would have played the 4-2-3-1 formation with our best players. Everyone said we should rest players - so he did and using the formation and tactics that beat them 3 times already this season doesn't seem like bad management. If he played our strongest 11, still lost and fatigued our players further you'd be the first one in here saying how we should have rested players and used the tactics from earlier in the season against them I bet. I know I would have been. It's annoying that we lost but at least I can understand the tactical decision to play the 3-4-3
We won’t be confirmed as anything until the last day when a loss, whatever happens tonight, will put us out of top 4 in all likelihood.
Are you a back up dancer?
Ignore him - when the criticism against OGS was at its worst - he was basically the worst of the worst. He had nothing constructive to offer - just whining and anyone who didn't agree with him was dumb.
I would be the first one in here saying nothing. I had no interest in the semi final. We need champions league not a sentiment trophy that in this day and age means nothing. Nice to have mind you. But with all things relative it’s not important. He could have easily set up a team that played against Norwich like I’ve said previously it was only him that made Chelsea out to be some team that needed 5 at the back. Yes it was a tactic that worked previously but it’s abit naive to thing it’s going to work 3 times in a row and one of the times it worked we was bloody lucky. It’s not like it was an amazing tactical plan.
Why do you have to be constructive when saying how you see it? I just don’t see him as good enough to be our manager, you do.
I'm well aware. I think it's funny when he pretends to be reasonable.
Well in this case, I actually agree with you. I probably care about the FA cup a little more than you appear to, but in our current circumstances it has to take a backseat. I would have definitely rested Bruno, AWB and Maguire who have all looked shattered recently, but I can understand why Ole went for a half-weakened team rather than the full Lingard. We could have set-up the team that played against Norwich, but seeing as we barely scraped past them I don't think it would have made a difference. I'm also surprised that you've gone from saying 'Give us something to beleive in' to 'I had no interest in the semi-final and it means nothing' in two posts.
I disagree with this quite strongly. Ole has been able to deploy counter-attacking football to dispose of Chelsea and City 3 times this season whilst being unlucky only to draw to Liverpool. His only downside was an inability to break down deep defences, which looks to be likely solved via Bruno/Sancho.
I understand but what I mean by that and I’ve said it previously when we dropped points against Spurs. You cannot feed us we are trying to play the right way etc and as soon as a tough opposition by name or league position is presented to us you want to play with caution.
