I disagree. ETH is handling Mainoo very well. He will be playing more than Amrabat now that we have no europe committment, only the FA Cup besides the league.
It's well known at this stage that Ten Hag is an admirer of Mainoo and wanted him involved with us since last spring before his injury.
Based on what exactly?
Hopefully when Casemiro is back, we can afford the luxury of easing him back with a few minutes and increasing it gradually - we all know he wont be ready to go for 90 minutes from the off. With Mainoo, Erikesen and Amrabat we have enough options. Playing only a game a week will help in this respect too. EtH needs to use his squad and 5 subs well for 2nd half of season.
See @Chumpsbechumps post at 8:10am this morning above, with which I agree entirely.
yeah, for now the midfield isn't creative enough to play out the back.
But United do already play a high-pressing style. Pressing stats have gone up significantly this season, and the successful high press was one of the hallmarks of the Villa and the Chelsea games. It's been inconsistent, the follow-up has generally been poor (what happens after the ball has been won), and there have been other issues - but it's undeniable that United have been transitioning to a high-press side this season.
I fully agree with this. The main failure during the managers tenure has been consistency. I’m sure there are aspects where he has played a part in this but the issues outside his control have impacted more than anything.
FFs, will you give over about the 400 million spent. United are shite at transfers regardless of managers, that’s a club issue, not a managers issue. A new Co owner insisted on being in charge of the football side specifically because we are a mess in that department.
I can’t understand how any fan can find this hard to get. If United pay 2-3 times what a player is worth, that’s nothing to do with a manager. It just means that a manager isn’t getting “400 million of transfers”, they are effectively getting half that because of the club’s dysfunctional transfer policy/competency.
The injury issue is something some of you really don’t get. We bought a keeper specifically to play out from the back and our first and second choice central defence and full backs are missing for a lot of the season. That’s not even discussing our starting central midfield that’s equally missing most of the season. Even Mainoo was out for months aswell, and then we get some of you whinging about McT starting as if there’s a conveyor belt of options available.
I think a lot of you just don’t understand how difficult this season would be regardless of manager. I can’t remember ever seeing this level of injury issues. I can’t remember a manager having so many injuries , having to rely so much on youngsters while at the same time having no striker options.
The club has let the manager and the squad down yet again and some fans think the manager is the issue.
I’m not sure how you expect progress with all this sh*te, to go with the other sh*te I haven’t even mentioned. That said , I thought some of our football against Villa was really good. And that wasn’t luck and it wasnt pumping the ball to Fellaini (like some person quoted a comeback against Newcastle a while back). We played some great football.
Our players are short in confidence, teams short of confidence play poorly and look badly coached. On the rare occasions our team has built some momentum in games we have looked good.
Soke of you only look at the negatives. In an alternative univers, Hoijland doesn’t have 2 goals dissalowed and he scores early in the EPL and we beat arsenal away. We could have beaten spurs had we taken advantage of the first half display.
I don’t see us like Jose’s last days, we look short in confidence, not like players are giving up. We aren’t lumping the ball up to fellaini/McT. For players to be still with a manager, after so much of an awful season, says a lot about the manager. Also points to players believing that the manager isn’t necessarily problem.
Casemiro was a panic signing, we all accept that because we couldn't get Frankie De Jong. Anthony should of not be signing for the money he was but he is a possession player which Ten Hag wanted. We know from previous managers that some United players have serious attitude problems and would love to throw Ten Hag under the bus, Rashford been one of the main ones. Its a work in progress under Ten Hag and its only going to get better. He was 100% right with Sancho, he is setting the tone of the club that there is no more bull shit allowed here. Its going to take another summer but the club is getting back to how it should be, players playing for the badge and no whiny players left who dont give 100%.There's a couple of players I won't mention that need a complete kick of the arse as well. Ten hag is doing the best he can.
They may not have scored as much, but they're much better technically and better tacklers too. We'd have less basketball end-to-end games and probably not have been averaging 20 shots conceded either (a lot of our games, regardless of who we've played against have basically been shootouts which depended on who was the most economical with their chances on the day - including the Chelsea game).
Such a bad post: we have been pressing since the first game this season. You are clueless. Especially after the pressing masterclass MU just delivered against Villa.
I won't - because we'd actually be higher up the table without a giant hole in midfield, any team would. And as for McTom, he would probably be a lot more impactful as a super sub.
Newcastle got a boatload of injuries and Spurs had quite a few too, but they're also not amazing teams.
