Completely agree. I think he is a Henze/Blind type of player, not the reincarnation of Baresi that Caf claimed him to be.
The "nothing will change unless the players are weeded out" statement is not valid in the same example that many of the same players who played under previous managers (LVG, Jose, Ole) were successful under Erik's tenure last season.
I don't think it's a bounce. They didn't have the typical bounce wins when he joined, they are now getting results as his way of football is really put into the team (at least I assume, yesterday was the first time I actually watched a match of Glasner's Palace team and only checked results before). Actually the way the played looked very similar to his Frankfurt team that won the EL, so I think it's safe to assume that what we have seen yesterday is very close to what he wants to see and to their "true level" under him.
To me it appears Emery's success in Vila is actually the proof that the right manager can turn things around very quickly even with so called "average" players. Who suddenly become better footballers than ours, according to some parts of the caf.
And there he is, working with players who likely aren't even who/what he wants.
Players will be back for the final, magically, i have no doubt. There's no reason we can't beat City in a one off game if we play sensible tactics. League games I expect a lot of niggles and strains to be popping up.
It's proof that Erik has failed his number one responsibility and perhaps the primary reason he was acquired at first instance and that's to effectively coach this team.
I rate this post lower than Antony his rating
Spoiler that! Too early in the morning for jump scares!Yes did you not think it was tactically naive of ETH to not play our most inform forward up against Trent who was being absolutely destroyed week in week out? He played Bruno out there for fecks sake. I said at the time I can't believe he would do that. Or that he played Weghorst as the number 10 behind Rashford
He has much stronger team than us though, with no buses that he can be thrown under etc.
He has this tendency to go full Pep in trying to be brilliant and doing something nobody else would have done in his place.
Still 4 points to go but 1 game less to play. Race is on. Can he deliver a season better than 21-22, our worst ever?
Thing is with training, unless a player leaves and then says exactly what happens, either the general training or how players coming back or carrying injuries are trained we will never know. It might be the players do not train how he wants, it could be the medical care they get. Could be medical staff are saying players are fit when they aren't really. Who knows.
Interesting video but honestly I think we get smashed by City no matter who is in the dugout if Casemiro & Evans are our starting CBs and Eriksen has to play 90 minutes in midfield.
I don't. I remember a bit of how a Steve McClaren team looks like and I see nothing of that here.
Rooney said this was happening under LVG I believe, I don't think it can be ruled out this season.
Agree completely, and while not saying McLaren as an interim, I can't see how it could be much worse.
Yeah because Gibson is the player thats out of place in that midfield. Stick to Fifa.
He may well do. However, he probably won't. I told you I won't argue on facts, and he may well be on course for the worst ever.
Carrick played in defence for us quite a few games. I think we won the league that season.
and we played this against Wolfsburg with 3 midfielders in the defence in Champions League and won 3-1 - Owen hattrick
That is such an interesting piece. Owen and Scholes actually look genuinely upset, deflated. I have never seen anything like this at OT in my lifetime. Mourinho, OGS were awful in the end, but this seems on a different level. And the comments re McClaren only serve to further highlight the ETH approach to recruiting and working with his players and staff.
The frustrating thing here is that nearly all of Ten Hag's reputation comes from a cup run from half a decade ago. So you still have people saying "we know he can't be a bad coach, he reached CL semis". Plenty of players and managers in that same time frame went from being hot prospects to nobodies in football but people still clinging onto that one particular result as proof of him being a good coach, as if that's something set in stone forever. Mourinho was an amazing coach not even that long ago before we hired him.
