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- Apr 30, 2017
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I keep saying that it's obvious he's past his best and hasn't recovered properly since that Doctor thing at Chelsea and that awful season. He won the Europa league when there wasn't anyone any good in it (like there is this season). Like many others , I keep being told " stop moaning , we are second " and other such sound bites. I knew this moment would come eventually.
This performance and tactical nonsense (and subsequent denial in press conference) shows up the real problems with him. He couldn't even work out that when you are at home in Europe you have to find a way of getting the crowd involved , otherwise home advantage starts to become pointless. He's lost sight of the fact that if you get players too focused on the scoreboard and worried about conceding then it will affect their performance. He didn't know how to harness the momentum from that 1st half v Liverpool. Players were enjoying themselves and playing well - why not just let them carry on doing it? Instead he clipped their wings - shoving Rashford on the right is symbolic. He can't resist tinkering to try and feed his own ego - he's forgotten the art of not fixing something if it's not broken.
He's lost his mojo and he's just surviving on reputation now. It's not his fault , he's just past it. It happens. He's got just enough in him to delude us into thinking he can do it , but not enough to actually make it happen at this level. Just like his team has been this season , luring us (not me though) into believing that they can play and then disappointing us the next game.
The most damning thing is what he said (or didn't say ) in his press conference. He really has no idea. If he was reading this he would think we were drama queens for having the sheer audacity to suggest that United could have tried to attack Sevilla properly.
It's quite sad really. You can see it in his face. It's like watching Mohammed Ali talk in the early onset of his illness. He should just stay away from our club that's all and take his caution and negativity with him to a retirement home where it belongs. As a manager he's performing as bad as Sanchez and should be dropped (and not picked up again). I hate what he is doing to us and trying to make us into and I'm glad it seems so many here are finally seeing what I have seen for a long time.
United and Mou are chalk and cheese. We all knew it. It's just some of us understandably got sucked in by the lure of results and reputation.
This performance and tactical nonsense (and subsequent denial in press conference) shows up the real problems with him. He couldn't even work out that when you are at home in Europe you have to find a way of getting the crowd involved , otherwise home advantage starts to become pointless. He's lost sight of the fact that if you get players too focused on the scoreboard and worried about conceding then it will affect their performance. He didn't know how to harness the momentum from that 1st half v Liverpool. Players were enjoying themselves and playing well - why not just let them carry on doing it? Instead he clipped their wings - shoving Rashford on the right is symbolic. He can't resist tinkering to try and feed his own ego - he's forgotten the art of not fixing something if it's not broken.
He's lost his mojo and he's just surviving on reputation now. It's not his fault , he's just past it. It happens. He's got just enough in him to delude us into thinking he can do it , but not enough to actually make it happen at this level. Just like his team has been this season , luring us (not me though) into believing that they can play and then disappointing us the next game.
The most damning thing is what he said (or didn't say ) in his press conference. He really has no idea. If he was reading this he would think we were drama queens for having the sheer audacity to suggest that United could have tried to attack Sevilla properly.
It's quite sad really. You can see it in his face. It's like watching Mohammed Ali talk in the early onset of his illness. He should just stay away from our club that's all and take his caution and negativity with him to a retirement home where it belongs. As a manager he's performing as bad as Sanchez and should be dropped (and not picked up again). I hate what he is doing to us and trying to make us into and I'm glad it seems so many here are finally seeing what I have seen for a long time.
United and Mou are chalk and cheese. We all knew it. It's just some of us understandably got sucked in by the lure of results and reputation.