Obviously not, but neither are seen as untouchable the way Rashford and Bruno are.
The forwards have a wall of defence in front of them every time because ten Hags tactics are pathetic. He has us playing at a snails pace.
. We are a poor team. Transition is just a fancy name for a poorly crafted team..The problem isn't the manager plan. Club is rotten all the way through, an some of the players who have been here through multiple managers need to look inward.
We're playing the managers way. Slow dreary passing along the back line, terrified to press up field.
A potential 5th defeat in the first 9 games of a season will do thatAlmost like clockwork, this thread gets bumped when we’re losing
When should it be bumped?Almost like clockwork, this thread gets bumped when we’re losing
10. Palace have had 4. Score from a set piece then park the bus.
How about a growing injury list and other missing players.
That's not how his Ajax side played.
His Ajax side were like what PSG and Bayern are in their leagues. That's why I was sceptical about him beforehand.
Right. All he could manage is get 3rd place and a cup, in his first season, with a real crap of a squad and no striker. What does he know...
We were far better coached under Van Gaal. His signings and sales were absolutely atrocious though.
It can only be down to the culture of the club, because we have an almost completely different group of players to those who played for LVG and Mourinho, but the same things keep happening
We were very comfortable on the ball during the LVG era (more so than at any other point post-SAF), we just didn't bother with any silly stuff like shooting or even going past the halfway line.
I saw the stat that we only had one shot on target in the first half. I can 100% believe it. Even if we go on to win this game I'm really worried about the goals in this team and where they're going to come from.
We were good in the first 2/3 of the pitch. We generally had no trouble pinning teams back, but couldn't then find get into a threatening position from there.
LVG with a competent DOF could have been a huge success at United. Even his initial tactical scheme that he abandoned (with 3 at the back) ended up being successful in the PL just a few years later.
The reason Liverpool circa 2019-2020 had a lot of possession is because they were the best in the world at winning it back quickly, a key point of transition. There is absolutely no conflict between being good in transition and having lots of possession, the two are not mutually exclusive. Which is why you continually going on about possession is irrelevent.
Good teams, title winning teams have POSSESSION and score goals and leak less considerable amount of goals.
If you think Liverpool is a 'transition team' then good for you. But Liverpool have 2nd best possession, score over 80+ goals, get over 90+ points, leak less than 35 goals.
Something Manchester United has been unable to achieve in its 10 years, even with ETH he won't achieve 90 points or score 80+ goals it's as clear as they come.
But in more ways than 1 we play like Liverpool to some fans in this forum
Ask yourself, which other team in the Premier League calls itself a Transition Team, or even in the world football? Name a coach who publicly claimed to be transition team?
We are a poorly crafted team, who thrive on moments, who can't pass the ball well, who can't have sustained pressure on opponents who have now mutated to a fancy name called transition team.
Since Moyes, the only managers that have come here are has beens, and an interim who initially did well and got a full time contract. ETH is the first up and coming young manager and he's failing. Who is going to come here and become a success under this ownership aside from Klopp or Pep. Even the jury is out on them under the rot that is this ownership.
Not this shit again. Football's Managerial workforce is exclusively full of saints who work for pleasure rather than money. Right.
In fairness Woodward called us Disney Land to Klopp, he saw it as a positive rather than a negative. I tend to agree to some extent about the ownership and the structure at the club but Ten Hag is also doing a poor job, when Ole was here people complained that there were no patterns of play and it was difficult to see what the team had done in training all week and I'm not sure that has changed and our play is so much more sporadic and random than it is with the best sides.
I doubt it - he would've ended up falling out with one. He fell out with them at all of his former clubs. He was a good coach, but just too arrogant and flawed. In many ways, he probably had the most drama free tenure of his entire career at Utd because he was allowed to do whatever the feck he wanted.
