I don't think this ("appease", "tantrum") is a realistic description of what happened at City.
I have zero doubts he went there with the promise he’d basically get what he wanted and post that interview where he said he’d be fired if he was still at Barca, he certainly did.
Hardly surprising to be honest
I don't say this to be critical of Ten Hag, but 'smaller' teams reach the semifinals of the Champions League with some frequency.
True, but I feel a better midfield selection would enable this, that Casemiro gets a more clearly defined role again. At the moment it looks a bit like he is a one man midfield trying to help out everywhere, that can't work.
Nope, won the last game 5-2. The match against Bolton was against the senior team.
We are a very odd team at the moment. Obviously injuries have unbalanced the team but the team appears confused about what we should be trying to achieve. If we are a direct counter attacking team why are we so often so open defensively? I was expecting more of a shift to a possession based style with clear patterns of play but its not discernable to date
When a team is playing badly it becomes difficult to seperate low confidence from tactics. Its no different from the way that strikers miss easy shots when they're low on confidence, perfectly valid tactics stop working when the team is off colour. Are we wide open at the back and flubbing direct passes forward because of the tactics? Or the form of the players? Hard to pick apart.
Andy Mitten said yesterday that he knows for a fact the players aren’t responding to the manager. Whether that’s on the players or the manager I don’t know but the players are no longer fulfilling what he wants them to do for some reason and they’re just descending into survival mode football.
I agree Brighton have a much better system in place than ours but I think people are too quick to whip out terms like "disaster". It's not going well so far but it's too early to judge any of these players. It's barely 2 months into the season. Remember Evra and Vidic were rubbish for the first 6 months. Last year you might've said disaster about Spurs signings. They weren't exactly doing very well.
What on earth are you talking about?
At this relative point in Arteta's tenure, Arsenal played horribly. You couldn't 'see' anything.
In his 2nd full season Klopp reached Champions League final. No, we can't just calm down and trust in the manager when there are red flags everywhere.
Yeah they where terrible and Arteta was on the brink of being sacked two or three times. It changed when he got the older players out and they signed a lot of younger players.
Having Pep helps get your first choice targets because you've got the best manager.
Playing devil's advocate a bit, but there is a structure in place now which is relatively new. The issue I see is that to get ETH in we had to hand him a lot of control over things, which seems to have largely watered down their role/ impact.
Isn’t this just the story of every manager we have?
Not sure you can just ignore that first season, where he was in charge for 30 league games. Funnily enough, their league record after 9 games in that first season (3 wins, 4 draws, 2 losses) is exactly the same as the record after 9 games the season they got to that CL final.
Well, the majority of RadCafe thought he was a joke. But myself and a few others saw something with what he was doing. You could see the shoots of something good in the way he was trying to get them playing, even if the results didn't follow. They also had a poor team at that point, nowhere near comparable to what ETH has at his disposal.
That is true, but I am still confused when I refer to the comments eth has made on playing style (best transition team in the world) when compared with what I was expecting from him (possession based). Even when we were in form last season I don't really know we had any sort of style or patterns going forward and we're heavily reliant on rashford
Why did you have that expectation? His Ajax was likely the most transition-focused Ajax in quite a while.
Eh? I didn't see a different mood
I was gonna say. He's pretty stoic as is...
Where? in Lucilinburhuc ?
United of course. If players are not behind him, the first signs are there
The players are behind him
The ones who play are behind him.
I think so too but we won't sack him until top 4 becomes mathematically impossible. It's going to be a bruising, unpleasant season.
It's not the manager's job to do these things in a functional modern club. If the manager leaves then his ideas leave with him and you have to start again, like what happened with Fergie. If you want continued consistency then the structure has to be implemented by the higher-ups. Ten Hag hasn't been here for 2 minutes and he's trying to change the club in his image, I understand why, but he's not even guaranteed to be here by the end of the season. If he was to get sacked we have to start from scratch and it will take a while before anyone figures out what they're doing.
