I understood. You believe it's not possible to be 2nd, if we had no system of play and rubbish coaching. We finished 2nd under Mourinho, and everyone wanted him gone based on that fact that the foundations weren't there. The common argument was that the players deserved better coaching.
Thanks for proving my point:
It should be fairly obvious from my last post I doubt buy into "the common argument".
I was NEVER in the camp of idiots who rubbished Mourinho for finishing second ahead of Spurs and Liverpool who had better squads and we're ahead of us in footballing development stages under their coaches. Most especially with the asinine claims of poor system and poor coaching. League tables don't lie.
That's is why for example in his first season a Moyes, who was genuinely horrible whilst coaching us, finished FAR lower as compared to an LVG or Mourinho who till this day are both double disrespected in comparison. But I digress.....
These "deserved better coaching " camp were the same blind bats who couldn't see United had an entirely dead right flank and issue at center half at the time. Yet they expected THAT United to not only play champagne football identical to City who were having a record breaking season. But keep pace with them yet they had KDB their player of the season available all season long whilst we never recovered from the points we lost from losing Pogba for 3 months of that campaign.
So if "the crowd wanted him gone". Good for them. That's the same type of crowd behind this thread. The type that judge fish by their ability to climb trees and label them stupid. As a rule I don't take them seriously
pointed that out, and you just rejected it completely. Can you really make a strong argument to suggest there's zero similarities to back then? I don't think you can.
That's the problem right there!. You are doing alot of assuming and little actually thinking about what you read. That's why you could come up with the laughable notion that position can't be shot down piss easy.
One has to have extreme blinkers on to claim:
We have no technically ability: (Pogba, Bruno, Matic, Greenwood, Cavani etc technical mugs I tell ya)
We have no system of play: Classic case of not understanding how we play. On top of having no clue as to why certain structural issues prevent us operating in it smoothly and consistently.
No players have improved under our current coaching regime: (Shaw, AWB, Fred, Mctominay etc)
We are poorly coached:
Poorly coached teams don't sit second on the log when badly coached, technically inept and system-less. Whilst teams with all those things supposedly so far better are currently behind them on the log. Its embarrassing that this needs pointing out to people
Poor managers also don't beat up the likes of Klopp, Pep(3 times) , Ancelotti, Naggelsmann, Tuchel and Mourinho. No one alive can be that good at fluking. Not with a team that has supposedly rubbish technical ability that they supposedly coach very poorly. You guys simply love to have your cake whilst eating it too. It's ironic really...