I would rather do it in the other Cups, Champions League its no joke to me. But I get it, there was nothing on the line but still it seems that we gave zero importance to the game like if it was a summer tour in Asia.
Ralf Rangnick | ex-interim manager | does anyone rate him?
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Throwing players under the bus? Jeez, some sensitive souls, should have smiled like Ole instead.
I can for sure understand him and welcome it , however you know how thin skinned modern players are...
I think that's the cultural reboot that we actually need.
Brave selection, only the good good players have chance to stand out in such team, but you know it's never an excuse to give the ball away in the easiest of situations and play so horrendously with the ball against a club like that - they were so awful as well. so I am sure he made up mind about some players today. Ultimately almost everyone playing today bar Mason is just far away from the first team. Mata should be out of the team with Matic for two season at least but we decided to give them stupid contracts.
VDB didn't do himself any favours so we will unfortunately see few more games of McDinosaur again. At least Mengi looked good and Henderson looked to impress ansd swept well and Greenwood showed his superb finishing ability, otherwise send the palyers on loan and release Matič + Mata at the end of the season. It was painful.
VDB didn't do himself any favours so we will unfortunately see few more games of McDinosaur again. At least Mengi looked good and Henderson looked to impress ansd swept well and Greenwood showed his superb finishing ability, otherwise send the palyers on loan and release Matič + Mata at the end of the season. It was painful.
FA cup is the only cup left and if we produce such a team there we are getting blown out of the pitch even by league 1 side. This was the only game where this could have happened.
This was a really good decision to field the 2nd string team with youngsters with the calendar that’s coming up, especially, in this awful weather. Just ask city. Gave youngsters a run about and managed to get a good look at our senior players.
I dont think it is, my point it can be easily considered that way.
There is no other cup to do it in. This was the only way. The preseason games mean nothing.
I loved it. Gave chances to fringe players. Did not even put any of the other regulars on bench. Good approach for a dead rubber game.
Is he going to use that same formation 24/7?
Probably just on match days.
Overall, I thought it was a great decision to play these players. Only Matic at CB I question. We already have McTominay who can play there if needed. Why did we need to try Matic? Would have much preferred him in midfield with Donny. Would've provided a much better platform for our younger and would've allowed us to get a better picture of Donny playing with someone he's worked well with before. Everything else made sense to me though. Gave young players their debuts, got fitness in squad players and gave Ralf a chance to assess some players. Plus, most importantly it gave our first-teamers a proper rest in a hectic period and allowed them to solely focus on Norwich.
Think this is being blown out of proportion. He didn't throw anyone under the bus, he made a valid observation on a few of our errors in the game. He needs to be direct with analysis as he has a limited window to effect change.
For me tonight was great, we gave the 1st team a needed rest, meaning they now have a full week of training with no recovery needed midweek. We gave fringe players some game time and got to see youngster make their debut. We result really wasn't the important factor.
Is he only 3rd German at United? We had that GK Zieler, then Schweinsteiger and now Rangnick, right? Don't remember anyone else...
Cant see that formation working vs the better teams.
Markus Neumayr
Mata is expendable to him, that's how you have to think of this game. Giving all squad players a run out. How rare is it to get a dead rubber in the CL? I'm so happy he just piled the youth in because there is no good reason why we should have played any 1st teamers.
For matic, he probably knows that matic doesn't have the legs to play in midfield anymore, especially since we are going to press high up. Hence he wanted to see if matic can still contribute in defence.
Sancho
Yeah, that's a good point. How unlucky for Donny that the one player he plays well with (since he's barely played with Fred or McTominay) happens to be the one player that isn't up to Ralf's system.
Refreshing from the boys did well tonight bullshit we been served for 3 years.
"Fantastic."
Fixed.
Slightly worrying that he made us incredible after a 45 minute training session (I was guaranteed on here he coached the players to that performance Vs palace) but now that he has had a few days the performance has slipped. We WILL be relegated if we continue on this course
Unlucky for Donny that he's played badly again in his 45th United appearance
Best part of that post match was how he spoke about Greenwood. There is no illusion that he has to keep working and he kept deliberately saying he ‘could’ be a valuable player if he buckled down in his physical development.
Natural selection
The Latin for cnut, cool
Ah Mourinho... what a character
In two words yes.
Love how fastidiously he cleans his glasses. He should've said ok shoot
No white text?
Well firstly he didn’t play that badly. And secondly I’d prefer to look at minutes and who those minutes were played with in terms of first team vs b team. Appreciate your sarcasm though!
This was the best response to the journalist possible.
The British press were clearly baiting him into lavishing praise over Greenwood, since he's one of our own, going so far as to tempting Ralf to compare him to Haaland. The answer was perfect. Mason does have the physical side to develop. Stamina levels, fitness levels to engage in a heavy press for longer periods of time; even help work on his acceleration a bit. By not being drawn into unilateral praise for him, and by stating that he's the kind of player who can "become a regular in the team", he's given Mason motivation to improve and work his ass off to get there.
He knows this is mata's last start and this match was a dead rubbber anyway so it was kind of Mata's sendoff.
Yup, we've actually got a professional now. Someone who knows his shit and knows how to speak about it. Instead of offering empty platitudes and cliches like Ole did about the United way and DNA or pander to the journalists' obsession with British players. I love Ole but this is such a refreshing change. And I'm so happy that it happened.
Bingo.
Question is, which manager fits the Ralf Rangnick mold.
In a perfect world its Klopp with Ralf getting a seat in the board.
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