I'm saying that they have had many chances - not clear cut of course, but enough for couple to get in as it did. They set up well - countering our strengths and making it a level play and a scrappy game. They are not about possession football and blow for blow suits their game.
Sad part is that he is enjoying in all this. Perfect example of internet troll
Perhaps it's my error, but honestly when the same people are polluting this thread with their criticisms even when we win, I just can't take this argument seriously. I agree that managers aren't beyond criticism, and Moyes was a perfect case in point, but those managers who eventually went were at least given some rope with which they could hang themselves (besides Moyes, who did have the reigning champions at his disposal). Ole simply hasn't. The little bit of rope he has had, he's used it to improve the defence significantly. He literally hasn't had the chance to imprint his ethos on to the team because a lot of these players are just not fit for purpose for a variety of reasons. If I was to call many of these people anything, it would probably be that they are consumers of the product that is Manchester United, rather than actual supporters. Supporters would actually support the team and the club through the hard times as well as the good. They'd encourage rather than mindlessly criticise. They would also look at the wider and deeper context rather than just moan about results.
On current form I think it's more like 8. Us at our best with a full line up to choose it's probably 4/5.
We've already had an injury crisis before the fixtures have even got intense. You can't make it up. Maybe we were unlucky with some injuries, but i see a complete lack of intensity in our matches played so far. There has been no high pressing, no intensity to our play, no attacking plan, no priority on retaining possession. We have been defensive and totally devoid of ideas so far.
I expected to lose based on the lack of quality in our attack. An attack as weak as that personnel wise will rarely win PL games away from home. Did what West Ham did work? Yes, but that game wasn't a sign that either team's coaching set up is better than the other.
This is exactly what every top club does, they change the manager until they find a good one, it's not rocket science and we are not any different. Why not stick with LvG or Mourinho then?
Well the one set up his team and influenced the game in a way that it would work best for his side and got the result. I'd say that's pretty much good way to tactically set up and win the "managerial battle".
Exactly. We've been here before.
That's what I have thought since the beginning. Ole won't kick up a fuss and is happy to just get on with it and accept it. After all, he won the managerial lottery just being here. He is a puppet for them. After Jose, there's no question that would be appealing to our incompetent board.
Worse than Moyes. At least Moyes had proven himself to be a solid PL manager over the years. What's Ole's past managerial credentials to lead us? He's relegation level.
Appointing Ole has simply turned a lot of the fans against the board.
Well at least our players will be better coached, we’ll have a manager who’ll be able to implement a clear style of play.
He originally was meant to be an interim whilst we changed the structure behind the scenes & appointed a dof. His lack of credentials was no problem then, i was behind that. I couldn't understand why we was so willing to throw that plan out of the window, that too without seeing what he was like during a tough period. Did we expect the good times to carry on forever? It made no sense.
If you saw today’s financial results we’ve achieved record revenues, again, and debt has been significantly reduced. I don’t blame the Glazers for what’s happening on the pitch. We’ve spent shed loads of money on players, but we’ve got a crap transfer strategy (if you can call it that), an even crappier DoF in Ed who thinks he knows everything about football, and a second rate manager.
Not sure this squad is built for pressing. Yet again we’ve got players going down with non-contact injuries. Something is radically wrong with our prep imo.
It was absolutely not under Mourinho. The signs from OGS early on and even the small moves we made transfer-wise during the summer indicated that we were trying to change that to a more progressive game.
It is. It was a terrible decision. We needed one experienced CDM and a prospect like Longstaff. And we would have needed/will need another one to replace Matic next summer. He is not going to be around after this season.
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Hilarious!
But from what we can see, “Ole’s project” is simply “Play Mata, Matic, Young and Lingard” - more or less the worst players we have. The manager doesn’t even analyze players’ performance and continues to play this bunch of “footballers”
I do agree but how much is that down to the players not having enough fight in them?
If we don’t sign anyone in January, that is as they say, the writing on the wall.
I'm Ole in but that's brilliant