We had good spells under Solskjaer but we always felt so reactive, it never felt like we were the team controlling the tempo of a game, we often reacted to how the opposition played and let them dictate the match. It made for some absolutely mesmerising comebacks and some fantastic beatdowns but it was also a small club mentality and a big reason I feel we never won a trophy under Solskjaer despite clearly having a squad good enough to have been winning trophies ... this is different, teams are having to adapt to us, we're still beating teams comfortably despite injuries, our players are improving even those whose form has been patchy at best, there's a system in place that doesn't rely on individual bits of genius.
Spot on. Look, if people want to call any of our play under Ole amazing, fair enough, but not for me.
We got some good results under him but we never played consistently good football, nor did we ever look like we were transitioning into a modern, progressive playing style. We had moments, but that was about it.
For me, this is absolutely hands down the best football we've played post-Fergie, and it's not even close. Jose had moments too, but again, it was dour football for the most part. ETH has improved a tonne of players, and he has us playing consistently like a modern side.
We outplayed Barca away last week and how many of ETH's signings started? Three: Malacia, Weghorst and Casemiro. Casemiro is clearly the only world class player among the 3, and yet, it looked like we played a different sport to the one Ole had us playing. The job that this man has done is absolutely incredible.