We're not repeating this again. The squad is poor but it's not as poor as hanging around 7th to 10th since start of the season, and not as poor as winning 4 out of our 13 matches. We should be comfortably 5th at least, with Arsenal and Spurs having a meltdown of a season. As for injuries why are you and others convinced these only happen to us and only this season ? We had far, far worse injury crisis under previous managers and particularly LVG. It's part of the manager's job to handle losing a key player or 2 during the season. Happens to everyone. If we were expecting Martial, Pogba and Rashford to be fit for an entire season then we were fools in summer.
It would be mildly amusing seeing Bayern employ Poch whilst are fans think he's not good enough for us.
If he hadn't made that decision and they still scored, you'd beat him for the fact that he lacked the nous to make a defensive change to seal the result. Damned if he do, damned if he don't for some.
They were all at Old Trafford as well.
I had a worrying debate with a poster last week that said that Poch shouldn’t even be compared with Ole, only other candidates. Thing is, our main issue, along with Woodward is Ole and his bang average coaching staff. Our fan base is full of people that think we should continue with Ole because there’s nobody worthy available, when our current manager wouldn’t even be hired by a relegation threatened side. Incredible delusion.
Thing is we'd looked ropey at the back all game. I'm sure he kept saying early on that when he took over attack is the best form of defence, and in this game, that was certainly the case. Surely we all felt a sense of dread pretty much every time they attacked.
Well Moyes thought so too until he suddenly found himself kicked out onto the kerbs. Manchester United is a commercially run football club I am not sure they do freebies when the club is bleeding money due to on pitch underperformance.
What's even his role in the coaching stuff ? Looks like he's just there.
You have to play the odds. There was a lot bigger possibility we would of scored the 4th instead of conceding before the substitute. Their legs were gone. Ole deserves credit for bringing on Greenwood which fired us up but he also deserves criticism for taking off Martial which was a pretty cowardly move the way we were playing. If we had of been being pushed back his substitute would of made sense but Instead it was the reason we ended up being pushed back in the first place.
The fact is that this is a young team that doesn't know how to close out games. If you ignore the wage stealing Jones, the oldest player on the pitch was Maguire and he is 26. Otherwise this could be an U23 team. Its the path of trusting the youth, they give you 3 magnificent goals in 9 minutes and then they also let in a late equalizer because they are not seasoned enough to know better.
Club legend. Leave him out of it. Give him 3 years and he might actually learn to speak.
We scored 3 goals in 10 odd minutes. We were on fire and dominating Sheffield. They looked a defeated side entirely.
We appointed Mourinho when he took to Chelsea to a relegation battle.
Yep it was like watching a boxer who had someone completely on the ropes and then decided to back off and put his gloves up. People keep saying Fergie used to do this all the time. He didn’t. It was the 84th minute we went ahead for christ’s sake. Most games these days only get started then!
I know, I had similar experience. This poster kept comparing Poch's last year with Ole's and saying that Ole had ten more points than Ole and was using it as some measuring stick, whilst completely forget 4 previous seasons he had at Spurs. People are living in bizarro land.
Run by incompetent schmucks. It would be just like them to decide to give time and money the manager that not only least deserves it after 1 year but should have never got the job permanently in the first place.
That’s why managers have a style of play and system. So that when players get injured the replacement can fill the role and do a job.
Honestly, he's aboard the Moyes train, no longer at the wheel, shit's gonna crash pretty badly.Today wasn't about trusting the youth but about tactical awareness from the manager. At the end of the day it was the youth that got him out of trouble but it was Ole who put pressure back on the team by making that substitute. I've read a lot of people saying any manager would of done the same but I can't see that. If a team has the impetus you keep going until something changes. You don't change it yourself. That's the sort of move Mou would of made and he rightly got slaughtered for it. It's not even hindsight but the smart move would of been to make that substitute around the 88th minute. More to run down time than change anything tactically.
I think he's figured out by now, that the fan base are completely deluded and willing to believe anything he says, so why not?
4 or 5 down against Sheffield who average like 3 shots on target in the league
Ignore him - he still Thinks ending 5th or 6th is a midt-table team - while 3rd or 4th is a top-team
This myth that 81 points is usually good enough to win the league needs to die. It has very rarely done the job to secure the Premier League title in recent times.
Wow what a statement.
Of course he deserved both credit and criticism. But the fact still remains - on a day when our players looked like shit, we managed to turn 0-2 to 3-2 (before messing it up in injury-team) - and he still gets called incompetent, an asshole and a few other words.
Yikes. That was cringe worthy. he sounds like a competition winner for goodness sake.
The 3 seasons before Pochettino - Spurs ended 4th, 5th and 6th with 70, 72 and 69 points. It's a myth that Spurs were a mid-table side before Pochettino arrived - and they were consistently getting around 70 points all seasons. Even Spurs-fans admit this.
We will still be missing a quality manager, so we'll still struggle to compete if he's in charge.
Agree to disagree
Good post mate.
If you’d given Pep an entire international break he’d have drilled and drilled the likes of Axel to play the DM role. He would never have just played Andreas and shrugged his shoulders because “that’s all I’ve got”.
