leontas
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Jose has succeeded in lowering our standards and expectations this season. But our squad is not as bad as he makes it out to be. We are playing some of the most disjointed football I’ve ever seen from a football team but I strongly believe we have the quality to not only be in the top 4 but also challenging the league leaders.
We only need to appoint an attacking-minded manager to get the best out of our players but I’m optimistic that it won’t take years of rebuilding to get us to where we want to be.
If you think about it, we could be fielding a starting XI like this one, which should be playing fast and exciting football:
De Gea
Dalot
Bailly
Smalling
Shaw
Herrera
Fred
Pogba
Martial
Rashford
Sanchez
And we still have potentially exciting players on the bench or coming through the academy like Mata, Andreas, Gomes, Greenwood, Chong etc.
That’s a team that should be easily beating lower table teams and taking the game to the other top 6 teams. A manager that actually trains these players into a cohesive attacking unit that presses the opposing teams and plays fast transitions will be successful.
In addition, we need a DoF that will work with the next manager to make minor tweaks to increase the depth of our squad. Next summer is hugely important for this as we have quite a few players coming to the end of their contracts.
These are steps we should be taking now to put everything in place for next summer. But in short we shouldn’t be preparing ourselves for years of mediocrity. We’re not that far away from challenging again. We just need to get the next manager right.
We only need to appoint an attacking-minded manager to get the best out of our players but I’m optimistic that it won’t take years of rebuilding to get us to where we want to be.
If you think about it, we could be fielding a starting XI like this one, which should be playing fast and exciting football:
De Gea
Dalot
Bailly
Smalling
Shaw
Herrera
Fred
Pogba
Martial
Rashford
Sanchez
And we still have potentially exciting players on the bench or coming through the academy like Mata, Andreas, Gomes, Greenwood, Chong etc.
That’s a team that should be easily beating lower table teams and taking the game to the other top 6 teams. A manager that actually trains these players into a cohesive attacking unit that presses the opposing teams and plays fast transitions will be successful.
In addition, we need a DoF that will work with the next manager to make minor tweaks to increase the depth of our squad. Next summer is hugely important for this as we have quite a few players coming to the end of their contracts.
These are steps we should be taking now to put everything in place for next summer. But in short we shouldn’t be preparing ourselves for years of mediocrity. We’re not that far away from challenging again. We just need to get the next manager right.