Never doubted the manager.
The two losses were entirely the fault of the Glazers penny pinching and having to play their walking advert Ronaldo.
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
The two losses were entirely the fault of the Glazers penny pinching and having to play their walking advert Ronaldo.
Nah, John O'Shea "That's our fecking ball" will forever be the best.
I think what we are seeing is ETH adapting to the players he currently has and adapting well to other managers and their game plan. I wouldn't say he's pragmatic in the sense of that's his go to style of play. Clearly he loves possesion as his go to. But I think he's quickly found out that when push comes to shove and it's not preseason, we don't have the players to really play that way yet, we need a new keeper, a new midfielder and such for that. However it's also showing that whilst possession is his game he is not afraid to make big calls and switch it up if he thinks it will win us the match, which is great.
Not shocking really, the idea is simple for them, talk shite and create a controversy
Basic stuff for a shite show like talkSHITE
Hate to stop your hate parade but Ronaldo barely played the first game mate. And Ronaldo didn't gift the opening two goals to Brentford either. That was (my beloved) DDG.
In the post match interview he said that the attitude to give it all shouldn't be just there when the opponent has possession, but also when they themselves have possession. I'm quite sure he said the same at half time to the team. That's why they played better at the start of the second half compared to the final pay of the first half. And that's why they scored the second goal. The team has experienced now what the difference is to play with zeal or not. Now they need to learn to apply that to every aspect of their game for a full match.
That we didn't see that against Liverpool is no reason we're not going to see it changing. That would be like arguing that we wouldn't see a good attitude against Liverpool because we didn't see it in the two starting matches.
But I agree. It needs serious work. Glad to see that Ten Hag fully agrees as well.
Good thing that EtH probably doesn’t even know who you are and doesn’t think about you at all, cnut.
Even for the first 30 minutes we had less possession. ETH would always want to have more possession.
Except no one except City really goes out and just dominates the ball against Liverpool. And we sure as feck aren't going to be able to do it with that XI we put out. This is where you need different personnel
Yes exactly.
This ridiculous blame culture against Ronaldo is just plain wrong.
Who was it who was our top scorer last season.
If EtH really didn't want Ronaldo in his squad, you can be very sure that he would have let him go.
But he hasn't and he will utilise Ronaldo as and when his tactics dictate.
We are hardly awash with goal scorers.
Yeah, it's never gonna happen with De Gea and that midfield.
Reckon there might be some truth to the rumour going around that the squad disliked Maguire as a captain and players being annoyed by Ronaldo. Not a coincidence that the everyone turned up for the game when both were dropped.
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Ah. yes. Ronaldo was just a passenger.
That, and it also takes time to coach existing automatism and other reflexes out of players. I can't remember the details, but it supposedly takes a good number of months before people have really 'unlearned' their old ones and have fully internalized the new ones. (Which is e.g. part of the reason why it took a while before the full awfulness of Moyes's approach was clear during his United spell.)
First half hour was how his Ajax side played against top teams in UCL too. Calling it "Oleball" is
Ball possession is always an overrated stat. The important bit is how the team wins the ball and how they transition.
Plus Ten Hag isn't a possession coach. People seem to equate him with Guardiola too much, but Ten Hag generally tends to be a lot more direct in his approach - provided the circumstances (his players, the opposition's approach and quality) allow for it.
Wasn't Hitler more of a right-winger? badum-tish
So this guy judged EtH's competency by his height and the way he dressed (among others). How can people like this be employed to give opinion?
In the second game? Sure. So was ferking everyone else. Whats your point? You’re just saying crap because you don’t like the man. And thats fine.
That's The Joke jpeg and so forth.
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This is incredible.
I have decided that this is 100% true. Great leadership.
See. This is a sign of weak mentality spread in our squad. Players dislike each other were common even under the iron hand SAF. But mentally strong players won't let this affecting their on-field performance. And definitely not for the WHOLE season.
He's a British business man.
He probably judges based on that, their accent and if they have an hyphenated surname
nah.
I have nothing against Ronaldo. He is just a business.
It is the Glazers who got the business instead of players the manager needed.
So try and understand instead of posting nonsense.
That's some Disney sports movie kinda shit...love it
Amazing if true. Judging by the complete u-turn in efforts and workrate last night I would say there is a good chance it is indeed true!
Love it
Way to much talk about some radio nobody. I think most people are here precisely to avoid that level of sports talk. ETH already threatening the "united are shite" cashcow that has made them a lot of money in the last couple years. God forbid they might actually have to say something nice for once
Reminds me of the Michael Jordan ‘Price of Winning’ speech in the Last Dance. Not asking anyone to do anything he’s not prepared to do.
Pretty solid platform of leadership to get people onside and play for you.
The leaks are still happening
This is such a great interview.
This is brilliant.
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It's what Ted Lasso would do. Because it's the right thing to do.
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I am anti-glazers too. And I actually am fine with Ronaldo being dropped, especially in the big games when we need legs.
But you are the one posting nonsense. Go read the initial post I replied to- was absolute bullsh*t.
So media knew that ETH had joined with the team for the run but waited a week to mention that