More cowardly than looking to play on the break at home to inferior opposition?
So you have pacy forwards with no space in behind to run into or exploit, what do you say to them keep running at them just for the sake of it. I'm not a big advocate of going back to the days of Moyes when he lauded 50+ crosses in a game. Palace capitalised from two mistakes. Again
Point some fans make about how long is it fair to be patient around the transition I get and I agree with. BUT if you want to sort this mess out then get the right foundation in place. That foundation has not been here since Fergie. Maybe the club has accepted that completely ripping up the old way of spending on big-name has-beens is not the future. Get the right coaching staff in, the right environment and bring us upto at least on par with City, Liverpool, etc with player analytics, fitness, match prep, the environment at the club. All of which was lacking under Jose and Moyes and you could see that with the down tools mentality.
Good players become better players in the right environment.
So yeah, we are in transition, fans don't want to hear it, get over it, there will be darker days to come. We have tried big spending on Falcao, ADM, Shweinstieger, Lukaku, Rojo, Shaw, Depay, Schneiderlin. Failed miserably and the short termism is exactly what has got the club in the mess that it is. Fans want us to ship out 6-8 players and bring in 6-8 and all will be ok. Lunacy, utter lunacy.
My opinion is that it will get better and under Jose we had pretty much hit the bottom.