Yeah pure drivel. We probably need 3-4 signings to be much, much better. There are many players in current team that could very well be part of an 80+ points team. We also have many young players that we should be expecting improvement from they could push us further.
The underrating of this team is silly but it doesn’t surprise me when we are constantly trying to lower the bar for the manager.
That’s pretty much in line with my take too. A good manager has the strong basis of a solid top four squad there. With 3 or so signings, this could be transformed into a really excellent team; but again, only under the stewardship of a really good manager, with the right culture instilled.
It’s a managers job to make the team worth more than the value of their parts, by playing cohesively, and focusing on the collective output. It doesn’t matter how many signings we make, if we play like 11 individuals. That will just lead to inconsistency and disjointed football.
Ten Hag has no discernible system. In a robust enough system, players are just pieces that can be interchanged. Without it, you end up relying heavily on the individual qualities of certain players, and when their form dips, the whole teams form dips. Just like ours has imploded with the injury to Martinez, and collapse in form to Casemiro and Rashford. We can barely score a goal without Rashford pulling a rabbit out of the hat, like he did 30 times last season.