But there is probably only been 3 players Antony, Malacia and Martinez that we could say were players he wanted along with DeJong.
The rest just look like opportunistic things he has agreed to.
There we’re stories that when told he could have Casemiro or no one for Dm he was supposedly also told it wouldn’t affect our ability to buy a striker only for it then to affect our ability to buy a striker. Hence we had to get Weg in on a loan as we had no money for anything else.
So I don’t think it’s as clear as he has been given everything he wanted.
I also doubt he wanted to pay 90 mil for Antony or 60mil for mount.But given all the fecking around and lack of options we ended up getting done over.
We know the club has been terrible at doing buisness ever since Gil left. Hopefully that is going to change and we will move in a direction where managers are actually given the tools to succeed here.
Anyway I’ve seen enough to give him another year anyway. Hopefully he can get rid of a few more high profile wasters so we can actually start to become a proper football team.
You can't say that at all. Onana and Mount are his players, no doubt. And if he's not selecting players and accepting the view of the executives above him then that's even more of a disaster. And if he thought they (or Antony) were too much, then he'd have said so and the deals wouldn't have been done. Clearly, for United to go as far as they did for Antony he must have insisted he wanted him. Same for Mount - who by the way, we'll never move on given the wages he's on.
I also didn't say he's been given "everything he wanted" - the fact is he
has spent in excess of £400 million and looking at it objectively, it could have been much better spent. I don't think there's a player he's brought in who wouldn't be available for less than we paid for them this summer, with the possible exception of Hojlund.
Clearly, the transfer debacle is not entirely his fault but to suggest he can't be blamed at all on the basis of "
he shouldn't have been allowed to do it", which is what some on here seem to suggest, is bizarre. He needs to take his share of the responsibility. The players aren't good enough and they clearly don't suit the style he initially wanted to play, hence why that's been abandoned.
You're entitled to your opinion but I'm intrigued as to what you see on the pitch that indicates there's any chance that this will come right and he'll be able take us forward. All the evidence I see suggests otherwise. We're being outplayed by mid-table sides, conceding a boat load of chances game after game and he's being outthought by half the managers in the PL.
The game plan seems to be a half arsed press from the front, leaving acres of space in behind and then hoping the opposition can't convert chances so we can hit them on the break. Unless we park the bus against the decent sides we'll get murdered playing like that.
