People are desperate to find some positive to give EtH an out but there's no point pretending. He's fecked up majorly and has put himself in a proper bind.
I was being a bit facetious with my comment to be honest. But, I can’t remember that many great chances resulting from the times we did win the ball high up. We might have attackers who are geared for pressing but I’m not convinced they work for the subsequent counter attack after winning it high. We are so motionless and static when we win the ball back that the whole benefit of open spaces by winning it back high are completely wasted. Rashford is quick but he rarely plays quick intricate one-twos which you’d need him to do especially as striker to open up those around him. Garnacho isn’t ready to be a starter. Anthony, the less said the better. Bruno could be a valuable piece because he always looks for the killer ball which is what you need to make use of the space.
I think so too. We had our time under fergie, now it's our turn to suffer. We could have jesus Christ and peps lovechild managing us with Saudis trillions and we would still be shite.
The club just picks managers who have terrible decision making and also haven't even bothered to actually give our DOF power to do his actual job.
It was a brilliant move but after watching Brighton and City today I feel we still lack that dynamic movement across the park when in possession. Players tend to remain in their positional zone until called into action in anticipation for a pass. So a lot of our attacking movement is centred between 2 or 3 players near the ball. Very rarely, (the exception being that Bruno chance), do we spread the play through creative movement away from the action. Also often when we attempt something innovative, that final pass is lacking in quality.
That was always a stretch. Anyone expecting him to be up there with Guardiola or Klopp was just delusional.
Arsenal bought Rice. We bought Mount. See how that works?
Mount is horrible in the right. I do not get this obsession of United managers and fans to play players out of position in the hope that they will somehow be good.
The common theme amongst it all is indulging managers rather than a set style by the club and getting players in that fit a sophisticated data system for the manager to coach and also getting the right mix of ages.
Tottenham sold their star striker and are playing Richarilson yet look decent enough
True, but we're not winning league titles as long as those 2 are at the helm unless we found a manager of that level(which might not exist in today's game either way).
He played mostly behind the striker and drifting out wide at Chelsea, in advanced positions, arriving late to the box to pounce on loose balls. He's out of position right now, despite what he himself says.
i think many forget how it took Fergie 4 years to win anything and before that the chants of “Fergie out” rang out loud and clear from the Stretford end. How those impatient pratts were made to choke on their words…
We should also remember that he wanted to buy Gakpo last January. He can't be trusted to spend any more money
Bruno -> C. Romero was fairly.promising.
More of the same from Monday but with a good 30 minute spell in the middle of the first half. 2nd half was a disgrace.
Football has changed a lot since then and the situations aren't comparable.
His only good position is as No.10 IMO.
its not even close to being a similar situation.
Stock response to unfavourable manager comments (which point to him having poor judgement)
He could sign Blind Tadic and Haller for £200m and finish 10th and there’d still be a big contingent saying we need to wait until he’s got the missing piece, like with Ole and Rice.
Neither did we.
Don't give him any ideas.
If we fail to improve this season alone, he deserves loads of criticisms.
Plus it took Fergie 6 years to win the league. If we give to ETH just another 4 and another 600m to buy the lower leagues in the Netherlands, he is actually gonna lead us to glory.
Why does this idea gets repeated all the time even after the club has fired 5 managers in the last 10 years, some of whom have had better first seasons than Ten Hag?
It doesn't feel like it at this point in time. There's still time for that to change if we do something about the midfield and ten Hag realises he's on a hiding to nothing by continuing with that set up, but it feels like stubborness at this point. We saw it at times with Weghorst last season, playing Fernandes out of position to facilitate someone who could barely pass for a footballer. Now we have a completely unworkable midfield 3 which we are stuck with because one is the new marquee signing, one is the club captain and the other is our only defensive minded midfielder.
LVG improved us and then went to shit. Mourinho improved us, won two cups then lost the plot. Ole vastly improved us and nearly won half a dozen cups but ultimately built the most spineless feckless bloated squad the club has ever had.
Because we aren't close to being in the position where our results should be guaranteed wins
This is it 100%. We keep trying the same thing over and over, and unsurprisingly it doesn't work.
