Ronaldo is good enough to adapt to a system. His touch isn't a liability and he can still pass the ball.
This must be one of the weirdest takes I have seen so far. A player with the most ever goals cannot play in a team that keeps possession.
I am not sure if you have been watching us for the last few weeks, but we are not competing for top 4 and we are not going to compete for 3rd anytime soon. Perhaps you are living in an alternative universe?
Except we are no longer competing for top 4 though. We actually belongs to top 6-8 tier now, alongside with West Ham and Wolves (who might still finish above us). We have +2 goal difference this season (similar to Palace, ranked 14th in table), and we are losing Pogba, Lingard, Mata, Cavani, Greenwood etc. on top of that.
As of about a week ago?
Well aware of the league table, but Arsenal also recently lost 3 in row.I am not sure if you have been watching us for the last few weeks, but we are not competing for top 4 and we are not going to compete for 3rd anytime soon. Perhaps you are living in an alternative universe?
In case some "fans" are unaware of where we are:
And here's the form table (based on last 6 games). We are in 16th thanks to Ronaldo's hattrick.
We will drop further down after the game against CFC.
Wonder what it looked like before Tuchel took over at ChelseaI am not sure if you have been watching us for the last few weeks, but we are not competing for top 4 and we are not going to compete for 3rd anytime soon. Perhaps you are living in an alternative universe?
In case some "fans" are unaware of where we are:
And here's the form table (based on last 6 games). We are in 16th thanks to Ronaldo's hattrick.
We will drop further down after the game against CFC.
Outside of Pogba, none of those played meaningful minutes this season so they are of no great loss.
Yes! Now we are talking
Err.. not really, Arsenal and Spur would spend to improve their squad too.... You can't just assume everyone standing still and we are the only club improving. Newcastle is the wealthiest club in the world now, would have lots of money to spend too.
We now have a coach who can raise the performances of the team individually and collectively.
They are not top side, but we are definitely a shite side now.
Means we have seriously underperformed and have been poorly managed.
These players are obviously much better than that level though. Its a unique season with a set of circumstances that won't be repeated next season. A lot of this season is down to mentality, between both the squad and the coaching. It's hard to play at your best when you have no competitive motivation to give that extra 5%, and when your confidence has been shattered it is that much harder. And when you know the coach is changing, that drops the concentration a bit lower. Things will improve just by getting rid of all the players who will have their contracts expire, and getting Ten Hag in. The question is how much, after signings, will we improve. Next season we'll be in a top 4 challenge, which is funnily enough where we've been in all season despite being woeful. So it's not that high of a bar.
From what I've seen this season, I don't see it is possible for any coach to raise our current players significantly.
Really? There isn't one player who was here last season that is playing better this season. I don't see any reason why we couldn't get back to last season's level of performance at a minimum.
Not necessary. Martial is shite here, he is same shite in Spain too.
De Gea is definitely playing better this season than last.
I mean, in the past 8 seasons we've won the FA Cup, league Cup, Europa League, finished 2nd twice, finished 3rd once and 4th once. We've also lost an FA Cup final, a Europa League final, and made the semi finals of the league Cup twice, FA Cup once and Europa League once. It's hardly all doom and gloom. Go take a breather and relax a bit.
He's 37 and cant press. Him scoring while we do poorly is not the goal. He can be a good rotation striker at this stage but if you want a striker to fit a high intensity possesion game he's not your man at this stage of his career.
Yeah feck building a team with a vision. Just put Pogba and Martial at Liverpool and they'll play the same way. People can adapt and you just get on with it.
Mata, Cavani, Lingard & Jones contributed feckall this season
None of those teams played possession football.
Just get players that can actually run, press and play every week.
There's no guarantee we get any reasonable bids for those players.
It's definitely aiming to dampen any misplaced expectations that we'll be buying a whole new team. In reality, looking to build a team over 3 windows is more sensible than buying 11 new players anyway, so the actual sentiment is fairly sound. The outrage is a bit odd tbh.
People think having more of the ball against Burnley means you play possesion football.
Exactly, it might be a shock if we start playing possession football.
Probably to dampen expectations after RR got Muppets excited.
I'd be surprised if we got an offer over £15m for any of them bar possibly Martial.
Exactly, so if we're trying to be sensible and build long term it makes far more sense to improve what we've got and get rid of them for decent money next year rather than have a firesale this summer.
