He had a United and City player stood right in front of him, Smalling jumping under the corner and Rio not even leaving the floor. I have issues with DDG and crosses but with three CHs, you’d expect one of them to help, it was a collective feck up.
Less than half the players that played Mourinho’s last game were signed by Mourinho. Rangnick has basically said every player needs improved on. Does he need to name them individually for it to be toxic? Sounds like another manager making excuses. Did we need significantly better players to beat Burnley, Newcastle, Everton etc?
I’m over it thanks. What I’m not over is the blind love Rangnick gets for doing a shit job and mouthing off constantly about how shit we are.
This. There's a reason why Spain dropped him as fast as they did. We can never be a modern team with De Gea in goal.
A lot of people are going to be very upset when they learn that Ralf doesn't actually have the power that they thinks he does/will have when moving to a consultancy role.
To be fair Maguire and AWB were great fit to how we played under Ole. They did improve our defence significantly but it's painfully obvious they can't play in a high pressing defensive system and they're also useless in attack.
That's a good point.
I know he’s not managed for 10 years before his stint here, but I feel this is harsh given the situation he walked into. It’s clear the squad is a poorly composed shambles and you only have to read these quotes to understand how out of touch and ineffective our behind scenes set up and hierarchy are. I don’t think any manager could have got anymore than he has from this season. We are just not very good, and certainly not set up to succeed.
He got himself into the position with Tevez & one of our lads in front of him though, if you watch it he looks at getting around them the wrong way before realising he was miles out of position. In fact at one point this goal was actually highlighted on a course I was on looking at goalkeepers on corners. I'm not saying it wasn't a shitshow from others btw because it was but I'm pretty certain the team the previous year with VDS in goal concedes that. It was a dark one that day, really cowardly set up from Fergie and it had defeat all over it - to this day still don't understand why he set the team up like he did.
Sure but longterm I think we can improve upon both.
Eh so what? He still gave loads of shit to those players and the ones he signed himself. He also had that squad for nearly three years and criticised them even when they played well for him. He was blaming everyone but himself in typical Mourinho fashion. I honestly don't understand the comparison. Ralf has bluntly explained that our squad, which has been fecking awful all season, is not good enough and needs to be improved upon. A squad he had absolutely nothing to do with.
Would we play without a keeper?
His word will be heard though.
That's some stretch.
Not sure he needed to shit on the rest of the squad to do that. We’re all thinking it of course but I’m not sure this is going to be of any benefit to the next three tough fixtures.
De Gea has obvious limitations in his game but you are absolutely right. You could (and probably will) spend big when he leaves and get a Kepa. Better the devil you know I’d say.Some are going to have a shock when De Gea eventually leaves and we struggle for years to get a competent replacement. They'll be wishing we had someone as 'bad' as De Gea
You think Mendy, Ramsdale, Loris & Areola are better than De Gea?
I’m taking it as he toed the party line while role was manager but now that’s coming to a close and TH close (I hope so), he’s telling it as it is. Good man, everyone knows this club isn’t just a managerial change away from challenging… needs a few major things to change and work together.
Almost feels like although it doesnt feel like that at all.
mourinho spent a lot of cash on players
I don't think the other keepers in our squad, save the points he does this year.
If it's so obvious why did nobody inside the club say it the whole time Woodward was in charge? Why did Ole never say it?
Some people are just
DDG is clearly good enough to be part of a trophy winning team. I would not be surprised if some here think Ramsdale is better than him because some actually thought Henderson is better than De Gea which was very quickly proven to be a complete delusion.I understand what you mean. Maybe he feels he has tried everything else with the outfield players and they have not responded.
This season, yes, he's probably been our player of the year imo.
Honest question has De Gea won us many points this season? De Gea at his best a few years ago yeah but this season it feels like despite his heroics we've still lost the game, he's just kept the score down
Solskjaer was a happy clapper who didn't have the balls to be honest for fear of upsetting people. Rangnick is simply giving an honest evaluation of the situation.
