Well if he’s not a kitty he might just play players that suit his system. I’d argue 80% of our team is better than his current set of players.
His only issue would be his temperament of managing a big club.
If tempraemnt is his biggest issue then our owners will surely drive him mad within a year. They’ll make an already difficult job harder than it needs to be like with every other manager we’ve had since they arrived. if they wouldn’t fully listen to Jose LVG or Ole and get them what they need to finish their teams even on a superficial level then why would they change for Nagelsmann?
Remember value in the market with Fergie? Remember the non existent rebuild post Ronaldo? That’s how they backed the GOAT. Without anyone to stop them these are the same guys that thought the crocked Bastian and Falcao were still supposedly able take us back to the top. That’s either just gross stupidity or hoodwinking the fans who like big names but the players are on their last legs, beyond that in both cases above. We literally take the piss out of Inter for doing the same with our players but in an easier league. The club got those players for free or on the cheap but paying massive wages. history repeats itself with the Cavani (who has been surprisingly good and refreshingly hard working) and Matic deals last summer and the Mata and Jones deals the year before. They’d rather do that than spend on a fee and plan long term which just makes no sense given what these older guys are on and how little they contribute on the pitch over the length of their deals. Why not just get rid of mata Jones and Matic and replace with one important first team player? It’s club policy that why.
They made the declining Sanchez the highest paid player in the league by far and then paid him to leave. Same with Jose within 6 months. DDGs contract is a running joke at this stage. Joel Glazer also supposedly compared Martial to Pele and wouldn’t sell him when Jose wanted to move him on and he walks around up front to this day. That’s the level of stupidity or naivety if you want to be nice, that you’re up against. changing the manager every year just deflects the attention away from the fact that they are incompetent and will neither lead nor follow.
then when they actually decide to spend proper money it turns into a 2 year circus trying to do a ‘good’ deal. Maguire, Bruno. Sancho? Or they somehow manage to buy players that don’t even want to be here after a year or two. Lukaku Pogba Di Maria.
what happens when the new manager tells Rashford and Martial to run and press and they just don’t do what he needs. no matter what he tries nothing works but the owners won’t buy any competition or even consider a sale? It’s not like he hasn’t given them a chance but it’s just not working. That’s him screwed. It’s not just the wildly differing managers that have been failing us here over the post Fergie years. The owners have to shoulder a lot of the blame and switching managers and styles every year isn’t going to make our players work any harder or see a major upturn. The mental weakeness in the squad remains and In fact it’s likely to have the opposite effect and galvanise the players while they survive yet another manager and gear up for another “rebuild” it’s just flawed to the very core. Rinse and repeat.
Maybe a new manager is the answer but at the very least the owners need to set a budget and leave the team alone from now on and I can’t see that happening.