Majima
Full Member
The only one i outright did not enjoy was Moyes, you could see he was out of his depth from day 1. LVG i enjoyed the first season and could see the initial progress with his coaching & vision. Mourinho, i wasn't a fan of initially, but respected him as a winner, his first season was good.Did you like the style of play under Moyes/LVG/Jose?
The point is, Ole is much closer to Moyes than he is LVG or Mourinho. There's some games where i can get behind & enjoy, the Chelsea away recently was good. But 99% of the time under Ole, i am absolutely miserable, bemoaning how clueless we look on the pitch. The thing is, i was not happy with his reactionary permanent appointment last season. With the dof position canned & the decision to wait until the summer to appoint a permanent manager ignored, the whole club was away with the fairies it seemed.
No. Every manager joins clubs without his own set of players. You can still expect to see the team coached properly. Especially when he has been here almost a full year now. There are zero excuses for what i see currently.Can you not understand that this is a transition period where Ole has 4 managers worth of players who are not capable of adapting to his style of play?
I would say the set of players have adapted to his style. He wants to sit deep & hit teams on the counter, sounds pretty simple to me. The majority of teams we play do not play into this style though. My criticism comes from him not coming up with a solution to a problem we face on a weekly basis. There has never been a plan B/C present.
For us to systematically break those teams down effectively, we need to be able to comfortably maintain pressure & possession high up the pitch, with clever positioning & movement. That comes from the training pitch. The fact we have not looked any closer to solving this obvious problem in the year he's been here, says it all about the level of manager & coaches we have here.
Like this past summer window, where we have actually gone backwards? So it's not guaranteed is it?With each window, the more players that leave the squad will look better.
I actually don't care about more signings. Quality coaches make players perform above themselves. Coach the existing players effectively. Coach the team to attack better in the final third vs deep defences. Show creativity on set-pieces. Everything is going through the motions right now, you're actually deluding yourself if you believe more signings are the key to everything. We're already seeing Maguire lose confidence and start to go backwards... what happens when the new signings stagnate due to poor coaching too? Then what?The more of his own signings that come in and integrate etc can only lead to better performances.
The squad Ole inherited finished 2nd the season before. He's been here almost a year now, look where we are in the table right now, 10th already 10 points behind top 4 after 11 games. That is Ole's body of work to now, that is acceptable to you?Look at the squad Ole has. Ole can do so much, but its time he needs.
We've been in transition for 6 years now. Why would i embrace a transition with no signs of future progress present? That would be putting my head in the sand.Embrace the change, it takes time. We are in transition. Ole is trying to re-shape the squad with no DOF and Ed Woodward in charge of transfers. Its not an easy journey, but its one we have to believe in.