Not saying it is his fault, he was right and incredibly smart to take that contract. Was a mistake by the club, just as it was to renew his contract.
Hope the fans follow suit.'We have to set a winning culture and a winning culture is only possible when you have the highest standards and failures EVERY DAY'
It's been so long since I've heard a manager speak like this. I just love him.
It's early day. Why are we throwing shades at Ole now? To make sure everyone remember appointing Ole was a mistake?
Fans are allowed to get sentimental and reactive. That’s why professionals are supposed to run clubs.
No kidding. I would have had them run around the cafeteria while I lounge comfortably with a capuccino.
The first 15 minutes is how we want to play. It’s more a confidence, routine and fitness problems then anything else in my opinion. We lost our confidence with their disallowed goal.
We are not playing Ole's system. When will this silly notion die?
Don't you dislike Ten Hag too?
Seriously the amount of people that are saying "Ole Ball" when we soak up some pressure and hit them on a counter is sad. Not sure if it's actually people thinking OGS created counter-attacking or if it's the OGS fans trying to create a narrative that he got done in by the players and stuff off the pitch, not tactics. Yet OGS was the one that allowed that to happen with his man management. You think OGS was making the team run 13km himself included a day after a bad loss? HA. ETH replaced Ole's entire back 4 2 games in and it has already vastly improved us
No I don't? Just because I don't blindly support every single decision and tactical plan he puts on the pitch, it means I dislike him. This black and white way of looking at things is ridiculous. I have never said he shouldn't get his chance or he should be sacked or all these imaginary things you and others just memorize and keep on repeating. However, I won't defend every single thing he does. I will give him credit when he deserves it like last night or Liverpool game. If I see a wrong thing or a wrong direction, I will point it, easily.
I am not worried about Real Madrid. We should be more worried about Bayern Munich. That is his dream club
The Ronaldo sub was outstanding. He lured Arteta into a high-pressing trap for a second goal after sitting deep for a while and they were destroyed for it.
Yep. After the first two losses I thought his nativity/inability to be flexible to the squad he has was going to cost him, but he has been very accommodating to the quality in his squad. Gritty wins that seem very unlike what you’d expect of an Ajax Cruijffian disciple.
Agreed. I gave him till next season before I start judging. We were in need of such a massive rebuild and reset, it should take at least 2 Summer transfer windows to get the squad to standard.
First goal wasn't from a counter.
You're confusing how ETH wants us to play vs how we're currently playing our games. All our goals are coming from counter attacks - absorbing the pressure and scoring on the break. There's nothing unique about this that's not happened in the last 3 years. We are more organized a a team defensively and have better mentality and a winning attitude of course but in terms of the prime approach, it's not different at all. This isn't a bad thing by any means as long as we're winning.
We will not agree on this at all. Also the notion that of our goals are from counters is simply wrong. For a start our 1st goal yesterday wasnt a counter but a well played attack from the back and we made about 15 passes before Antony scored. Not to mention yesterday we pinned Arsenal back for about 15, 20 minutes. I guess you'll have to watch our games more focused.
A football game is slightly more than 90mins, I'm sure you agree. We controlled the final third for 10mins - but that doesn't mean we didn't sit back for 85mins or that we played possession based football and dominating games in the final third, keeping the opposition pinned to their box. I'm not sure what you're getting at. Arsenal had us glued to our box most of the time & we struggled to get a pass through. Of course, it also opened them up simultaneously which we exploited.
I agree, we should leave Ole behind. People are acting as if Ole was the only manager to play counter attacking football.
This is key. We can’t rebuild quietly like arsenal or Liverpool managed to do, there’s eyes and cameras on everything we do and everything is analysed. It’s the perfect thing to do to focus on going on a run of results, build that credit in the bank and start driving your philosophy from a strong base.
Do you seriously think that Eriksen would still be playing if he had any risk with his heart? Do you think we would have signed him? The guy is 30 ffs not 40. He is getting better and better and we need him out there as much as possible.
Re Eriksen I think the team doctors, player himself and manager can take the best decision. The guy ran for the third goal at 75mins after playing 3 days ago. We need him to be fit for premier league games don't mind him being rested for Europa
People thinking counter attack football is Oleball must've missed the early to mid 90s when we had Giggs, Sharpe and Kanchelskis as wingers.
If he gets the kind of success that draws the attention of Munich then we should put every possible resource in keeping him, which I believe we absolutely can in that case.
Probably no surprise to anyone that I lean towards the case made by @Greck as opposed to @Ole's screen on the topic of OGS. The headings; Sentimental ideas; ‘fun’; I would add in tactical nous (or lack of), man-management; in-game adjustments.
There was no Oleball anyway, the tactics and coaching were 99% McKenna and Carrick.
