I've been patient with Ole. I personally think he's done a good job. But, I think this is as far as he should go. I don't see him pushing us on to win big trophies. We might win a cup - we could even win one this year. But I can't see him winning us PL or CL. He's just not learning.
Every time we come up against lower class opposition, teams we should be dominating - he sends out 2 defensive midfielders? It's absolutely mind numbing. OK, so last night I guess he was kind of forced into it with all the injuries. But even if VDB was fit, I've no doubt we'd have seen the same lineup. There's no urgency - Neville said it in commentary last night, it was like they thought a draw was a good result. Popping the ball around from side to side outside their box, hoping to put in a ball that a player basically has to control perfectly and instantly shoot to have a chance of scoring - with so many Palace players back.
We're so utterly reliant on Bruno that it's a joke. And he's clearly showing signs of fatigue, hasn't played particularly well in a while. This is basically what happened to us at the end of last year - he refused to rest him enough in games which were won, he tired at the end of the year and we just scraped over the line. Same thing is happening again, having played him last week in EL. He just doesn't rest him enough when he can. It's idiotic.
I've posted negatively about all of our forwards at different times this year - but at what point can it just not be a coincidence that every single one of them is out of form? Rashford is at least mostly scoring & creating goals, but he really hasn't been playing well. Greenwood & Martial have been downright abysmal. It's up to the coaching staff to turn that around.
As I say, he's done a good job to now - the difference in our squad is night and day, he has stabilised us. But to push us to the next level, someone else is required. That's not to say the next manager brought in will definitely do it - and I don't particularly have any names in mind - but I really don't feel Ole is going to do it.
There's enough evidence now.
Every time we come up against lower class opposition, teams we should be dominating - he sends out 2 defensive midfielders? It's absolutely mind numbing. OK, so last night I guess he was kind of forced into it with all the injuries. But even if VDB was fit, I've no doubt we'd have seen the same lineup. There's no urgency - Neville said it in commentary last night, it was like they thought a draw was a good result. Popping the ball around from side to side outside their box, hoping to put in a ball that a player basically has to control perfectly and instantly shoot to have a chance of scoring - with so many Palace players back.
We're so utterly reliant on Bruno that it's a joke. And he's clearly showing signs of fatigue, hasn't played particularly well in a while. This is basically what happened to us at the end of last year - he refused to rest him enough in games which were won, he tired at the end of the year and we just scraped over the line. Same thing is happening again, having played him last week in EL. He just doesn't rest him enough when he can. It's idiotic.
I've posted negatively about all of our forwards at different times this year - but at what point can it just not be a coincidence that every single one of them is out of form? Rashford is at least mostly scoring & creating goals, but he really hasn't been playing well. Greenwood & Martial have been downright abysmal. It's up to the coaching staff to turn that around.
As I say, he's done a good job to now - the difference in our squad is night and day, he has stabilised us. But to push us to the next level, someone else is required. That's not to say the next manager brought in will definitely do it - and I don't particularly have any names in mind - but I really don't feel Ole is going to do it.
There's enough evidence now.
