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Looks like Ralf has a big list of players he has to sort out
That’s our problem. A lot of people have falsely given this guy the title of our best player. He can’t make continuous short range passes to save his life and he fizz’s balls to your attackers like the ball is a punching bag.
He's an easy target, just like Ronaldo, just like Pogba is, just like Lukaku and Ibra were. For two years he created almost all our chances. I remember how difficult watching us was when we had Pereira and Lingard rotating at no.10 each week. Its sad that people have forgotten.
I’m so confused by him.
He need tactical discipline and let's hope rangick gives him that
No-one is asking for miracles from Fernandes. There was a time when people described him as some sort of miracle worker but thankfully that's passed. There's still people defending performances like this, but that'll pass too. Eventually people will start asking what are the trade-offs involved in those great key passing stats and we'll start to have a real conversation about Fernandes. For now it's still mostly pantomime stuff.
The Mark Goldbrige standard.
Absolutely
You get part of the reason we have to play defensive and can’t control games is because of Bruno right?
Hence I don't understand why he starts. Same for so many players who get played despite shitty form
It's a bit weird how we did it both before he joined and also when he's not in the team.
You get the reason we can’t control games is because we don’t have a midfield or backline capable of controlling a ball or being pressed in any way whatsoever?
Do you have a link to that, please?
https://theathletic.com/2969517/202...weeks-the-fall-of-a-manchester-united-legend/
Thank you.
He is an easy target but that comes with the label of being one of the better players.
He was literally leading the press yesterday. They entrusted him to dictate when to go. I think Ralf had a huge influence on that team selection/gameplan and will have big plans for Bruno.
Noticed it quite a lot, he can be a bit of a headless chicken at time the way he presses at times. I think he should be fine though as he is clearly willing and able to press, it just needs to be more organised which Rangnick should bring.
That seems a long way off saying he’s incapable of pressing properly. It’s obvious he was pressing outside the system for most of this season but that’s because there was no functional system and he was frustrated that the other players weren’t doing their bit. Dealing with that frustration by wasting a bit of energy is maybe a bit immature but it’s a pretty tame criticism, and has applied to many good pressers in difficult circumstances.
Yes, saying that he's incapable of pressing is a step too far. Although that section of the article is about the players not doing what they were learning in training. It's probably come from someone in the coaching staff trying to make themselves look less culpable for the mess. I agree that under a better coach he should be fine in this regard.
He is a miracle worker though, the issue is everything else that he does and doesn't do in-between them.
Yeah I definitely agree that we’ll see riskier quicker football, far from tiki taka. But from what I’ve seen they played short passes to break the lines quickly, not Hollywood passes to go for the kill from any position. Bruno was good at that last year when we were effective on the counter and he had people on his wavelength, but this season he’s just gone for the kill almost every time.
It's very much the Sanchez issue when he was at Arsenal. He was pressing like a mad man but it was rarely efficient as it wasn't really coordinated with the team. There are a lot of similarities between them in terms of their role, playing style & expectations from them (even though Sanchez gravitated towards goalscoring more). That said, we've hardly had a pressing system that he was able to coordinate his pressing actions with.
