What we have to remember is that there are a few players in the squad who need to either learn the league or learn one another. Sancho is going to be a slow burner as is Varane. Give it time, which unfortunately not many people want to give Ole/Squad.
United tend to do better against the better teams as they are more open at the back and United can hit them on the break. What United need to and which has always been a problem is to win the low block matches, those are the matches which wins you games. I wasn't happy with a draw at the weekend by any means, but I'm not going to write the season off because of it. Game 17 and I may start getting worried if the next set of games were to take us into the latter stages of the season. Game 7, not so much.
Exactly, it seems as though we want both an instant success and a long term fix, which is impossible.
3 Years and he should have won something, I agree there, but numerous semi finals and a final, isn't something to be scoffed at. That being said even if we won the EL, I still can see the same threads popping up wanting Ole to leave the club. That being said, this is the first season where 95% of the squad is "his squad" and not remnants of other managers. Barring a DM and to a degree a striker (not so much we have Cavani/Ronaldo) this is Ole's squad. So now he needs to perform and now he needs to get the players playing the way he wants. Which will take time to bed into the new set of players. Give the players time to adjust to one another and I'm certain he'll come good.
7 Games isn't that many games and arguably Liverpool should have won the league last year, given the free fall that they had, would not be surprised if that was us, again there'd be calls for Ole's job. But whataboutisms didn't solve anything.
I saw somewhere that Ronaldo was past it and was the reason for our shite play lately. You can't win them all.
I'm optimistic for the future because we have a team that we all know can play well, we all know this. Look at the Newcastle and Leeds result for one. We are in a rough patch at the moment and losing Maguire doesn't help. We have several new players looking to bed into the team, all of whom have gone straight into the first team at once. We have also each year progressed and improved on our league position. I still have the belief that we will come good.
Are we playing well at the moment? Absolutely not. Can I see why people may be upset? Yes I can. However, do I think it warrants the absolute doom and gloom, world is ending reaction. Absolutely not.
100% Agree. I try and stay out the match day threads because of this. Lingard's winner against West Ham proved just as much. Plenty of posters bemoaning him coming on. Then he goes and scores the winner. He's been one of our best players this season and because he's Lingard, people don't want to know.
Not at all, if this were game 17 going into game 29 (our next 12 games) and the fixtures looked like they do now and we are continuing to play like this, then yes I can see the reasoning why we may be in trouble and people being upset. But there's still 31 games to go. That is a LONG time. Heck Arsenal could still win the league mathematically so it's not like a bad situation at all.
To show things aren't going well? Out of all cups, top 4 out of grasp and a toxic environment. All of which I cannot see happening.
I don't understand that sort of criticism. We cry out for depth and then when we rotate we complain that our best players aren't playing. But Ole overplays them and they get injured and he gets slated for injuring the players.
Well let's all hope so come the end of the season!
I'm sure we all want to be at the top, including Ole/Players.
Of course the target is a title challenge this season and signing world class players like Ronaldo, Varane and Sancho puts huge pressure on them, but it will take a bit of time for the system to work with those players, they won't just slot in and play amazingly well instantly, they need time to get things moving so to speak.
While I agree things haven't been too impressive and he'll need to win something this season, it is rather annoying when the club is written off at the start of the season. People seem to forget that seasons are long. We'll see how things go this season and how many people Ole/United prove wrong. After all that's what we all want is for the club to win things.
