I'm still behind him but it gets harder and harder with some of his baffling decisions and in-game management. Firstly, his blind loyalty of never dropping Bruno or subbing him. When your captain is the main reason the team is constantly losing the ball and having to defend on the back-foot, and you insist on always playing him and never subbing him, losing a majority of the dressing room becomes a matter of when rather than if. Secondly, constantly giving full games to Rashford, who defends like a sand wall against a tsunami and presses like a drunk tortoise, will hardly bring you any support or willingness from the rest of the team to go the extra mile. Turning Garnacho into another star boy who cannot be subbed is also inexplicable.
He has a disjointed squad and his in-game management reflects that I guess, it's like he always has big doubts on most of his starting XI and is subsequently worried about destroying the entire balance of the team by making any change. In the end, he rarely makes changes on time, and when he eventually gets to it, brings off the wrong player for the right one or brings on the wrong player for the right one. Occasionally taking off the wrong player and bringing on the wrong one of course.
The game against Fulham yesterday, why did he play Maguire and Lindelof in defence knowing very well that those two with Casemiro at his age cannot defend well in open spaces in transition against an energetic team? To make it worse, why have Bruno and Rashford in front of them, two players who like giving the ball away as much as NATO loves giving bombs for genocide, and then throw in a teenager for his debut amongst all that when you have a young player in Amad who has experience in the same position. Then you take off Casemiro for McT and claim that his loss killed the stability of the team, when you had Amrabat on the bench. You then bring on the physically dead Erksen hoping for some efficiency on the ball but you keep on your number one and two turnover machines. Now you have a attack of McT, Garnacho, Bruno and Rashy trying to break down an opposition that has moved to a low block. Eventually you are forced to bring on Amad for some efficient attacking play, but having tied yourself in some inexplicable knot of never taking off your captan and glamour boys, you end up taking off Mainoo and killing your midfield stability even further.
EtH has his faults for sure and they can get maddening in defeats, but I believe this team's biggest issue is getting rid of the many players at the club, who are not capable of playing a proactive attacking game that can go toe to toe with pressing teams and break down those in low blocks. These being Bruno, Rashford, McT, Maguire and Lindelof. If it was up to me I'm getting rid of that quintet, or at least get them as far away from my core team as possible, before I begin assessing the credentials of an attacking coach.