There have been 11 new players added to the squad since Ten Hag joined. Most of the incoming players were raised to management as a transfer target by ETH himself. He has veto authority on all transfers. We’ve spent 400m…
Yeah it's looking that way. If he can beat Liverpool and if City get knocked out then maybe he can win the FA cup but it's still a bit of a long shot. I don't think it's impossible that we can beat Liverpool in the cup though.
Oh yeah I just used Wolves as a generic mid table club example since posters that are fine with yesterday say we are
Thanks for making a reply that is 100% irrelevant to the post you replied to
No one ever will to be fair.
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He doesn't look "happy" is an understatement
What message would that send? Either stand behind him or fire him. No half measures.
Why is this noteworthy? He's at every game
Agree. Especially if Salah isn't back by then.
Doubt there are many of these left.
I think the opposite of it, is the biggest red flag..
I mean, "I'm watching a different team compared to the rest of the world" isn't any better.
Having injuries is not a valid excuse for the way the team are playing on the pitch, the players have no gameplan and there hasnt been any kind of tactics all season.
do those people exist? ffs
It’s definitely not the biggest argument against him. You don’t even need to factor in transfers at all for his failings to be enormous.
That would be true if it was just the transfers he’s got horribly wrong.
How can anyone watch us this season and say the biggest argument against him is transfers? What the hell is going on
one of the comments, he's tired of watching us play
No. But managers talk shit in media all the time. Klopp blamed wind, Pep blamed grass. Hardly a place to fish for what manager actually thinks in his mind.
No, the biggest argument against him is that we play horrible football.
Why keep him until the end of the season? If he going to be sacked he should be sacked now.
He's also pretty dire when it comes to in-game management and substitutions...
Actually I think Onana is starting to look good, Martinez is great and Højlund is gonna be a star.
He is just intensely appreciating the small margins.
How can anyone watch us this season and say the biggest argument against him is transfers? What the hell is going on
Of course we're playing horrible football but that's no different than the last 5-6 years. It's the same players with the same limitations. And the reason it's the same players is because EtH's recruitment has been bad. So again, the major strike against him is his recruitment.
It is not the same players
Im yet to come across one. It's the "get him out" brigade who think everyone not in their corner guilty of faulty thinking.
It's just my opinion of course. I think what he did in his first year warrants us seeing if he maybe could be successful here once we get the recruitment right. Our form turned once we got back Martinez and Casa although Martinez is once again injured. He may not be the one but whoever is the one will need some time to get this big ship turned.
Nah, I don't buy that. Onana has been hit or miss this season - deserves plenty more time to prove himself but jury is still out. Martinez is good but injured and didn't impact this season. Love Hojlund and he's had a good patch last 2 months but don't know if we can definitively state anything after <30 apperances.
I haven’t seen a single poster do this.
It’s actually very different as this is a nadir without a purpose. In the past, really bad football has not necessarily correlated with really bad results.
I'm going to bottom line it - we're in 6th, same position we've finished 3 of the last 7 seasons. It's a bad season in the context of the last few years, but last season was a good season. That's what we are right now, a top-4 challenger with ebbs and flows, nothing more.
Isn't it a major flaw if he can't identify whether a player is of the required level to do what he needs them to do?
It's a good point and that's exactly what I wrangle with too. To what degree should EtH be judged as a tactician/manager of the team for the missteps he's made running our transfers? Obviously, he's fully culpable in the sense they're his decisions. But, on the other hand, recruitment and even style of play are increasingly out of managers' hands at the progressive, elite clubs.
Given that we are hopefully set up right behind the scenes, I would love de Zerbi. His style is so exciting but would need the right signings as well but we do have players that could pull his style off (Onana, Martinez, Dalot, Shaw, Mainoo, Hojlund).
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