You think?I’m getting the feeling that everything you post is sarcastic
He's not but you're welcome to your opinion, I won't
at it as if it was nonsensical like you did - even though others agreed with me.And yet we’ve spent more than anybody so that really doesn’t make sense does it? I’d agree if we’d been asset stripped but we’ve invested more in the playing squad than we’ve ever done in the history of our existence. The Glazers have been very hands off but the people they placed in charge have tolerated and accepted mediocracy because they knew they were lucky to even be where they ended up, and they weren’t about to flag that they were out of their depth.
Ironically only an infant needs to see an specific scenario play out under specific conditions before knowing whether that person is up for it. Fortunately we pay millions of dollars to professionals who's job is to analyze the facts and data to make these decisions so we don't have to waste another year and hundreds of millions just to see if "ETH is good enough".
Mate, injuries.
Can't expect us to hold onto a 3 goal lead against Coventry with 20 minutes left when we're missing Luke Shaw.
Forget Ferguson, Eddie Howe is going to have Newcastle finish above us and they’ve been dealing with as bad an injury crisis if not worse.
See, this comes back to a post I made earlier today. Insisting on playing a certain way only works if either that is the specific way he wants us to play in the future (if so, I highly doubt it can work no matter what players we have), or if it's at least a similar style which allows our players to develop and get used to a way that will benefit us in the future (in which case I feel like Dalot is the only player in the entire squad that this is working for).
As usual, we're so hesistant to get things done. Bayern, Liverpool and Barcelona have all announced what they'll be doing next season.
The amount spent is not the point. It is how it was spent, pursuing short term results and marketing success, with accountants in charge. Let's sign old Ronaldo because he sells shirts. Let's make Ole manager because he'll do as he's told. Let's aim for fourth place every season because it has the best return on investment. Of course that leads to long term failure. How could it not?
We have paid millions of dollars to professionals who aren't up to it and who created the exact environment in which ETH is struggling. You may have noticed that Ratcliffe has sacked every single one of them. That must tell you something?
The weird part is we also went for a style that seems completely contrary to the style we all hoped he might bring here. We have turned into a kick and rush team straight from the 80s. I get that rebuilds take time but as you said our transfers seemed to be so contrary to what we actually wanted to achieve. We were looking for a player to carry the ball through midfield and break a press like de Jong and we got Casemiro, Amrabat and Mount who aren't that type of player. Mainoo these days looks like he is the closest to that role but for all his talent he clearly isn't quite up there with the best yet. As a result we now have to lump the ball forward, because we have no reliable way to bring the ball out of midfield. How much of these transfers is on EtH I don't know, but I know if Ineos can't fix the way we identify targets we will remain fecked for the foreseeable future.
We are 8th now. And in the last 2 weeks of the season.
Completely agree. I remember I said here a few months ago, “the question now is how to make this system work?”. It’s a puzzle. It seems to me we should push a CB up during the build up phase. Our transfers doesn’t target that but waste huge amount of budget on other positions. If those budgets can be used more efficiently, we can have both depth and quality added. We signed Amrabat but don’t really use him. The details of the plan seems lack of thought. Judgements in many aspects are profoundly failures.
Our fans have zero standards. And funnily they have the audacity to compare this nobody to our greatest manager ever.
The worst part is that 8th still flatters Utd.
I'm not necessarily EtH in but I do appreciate that this season, not last, he's trying to get us to play a more pro active, pressing game.
Emery would’ve. He’s just done it with the majority of Stevie Me and Dean Smiths squad.
Would take that over the Conference League.
Not really. Better no European football than the Thursday night rubbish which would derail our top 4 challenge. ETH should have been sacked by now. Ineos make me uncomfortable and Ratcliffe is so out of touch with his Stadium of the North rubbish to be funded by tax payers. Whole club is a shambles , worse I've ever seen and I've been supporting since 1977.
Had the likes of Bayern had a season like this, they'd be on their 3rd manager
Madrid would be on their 5th manager.
Do you see any of the three teams who had a realistic chance of winning the title recently who don't have a good structure and didn't benefit from bringing quality players in?
Which they are.
