I saw a clipping this morning that the first 11 they played yesterday cost 18.3million Euros. One of the players cost 8.3 mil. Dalot was like 18-19 mil I think when we bought him.
Worked last season.
Spot on mate. It’s worrying times for ETH.
Competition is higher this season.
Exactly. It’s so frustrating when you see media and opposition fans going ‘well they have spent XYZ, they’re backed the managers’. But there is no strategy at all to build a squad. They have just left the manager to do what they please which is a disaster should it not work out, and this has happened multiple times now. The biggest issue the structure above the manager. We should have the best DOF in the world. I worry this is the influence of Sir Alex himself. We are still stuck in the mindset that the manager rules all. Times have changed and we are now so far behind other well run clubs with the correct structure.
Bingo!
This is exactly what we are doing. Problem is we’re doing it more or less from scratch. With injuries to key cogs in the machine.
Pressing requires a disciplined and integrated team if it is to be effective. Difficult to see how that can achieved when Rashford is a part of the press. He makes it quite clear that he regards himself as being above all that. What is perhaps more baffling is why ETH puts up with it.
It lasted until august 21, until we bought Ronaldo
So it lasted pretty long. Don’t know why people talk like it lasted for only a couple of months.... Because we employed a midfield diamond vs their 4-2-3-1. Enabling them to out number us in every phase of play. You'd literally have to be prime Barcelona midfield under pep, or prime United 99 midfield to have any hope to overcome that disadvantage.
I’m not so sure, we’ve heard rumblings for a while that players like Bruno will just do what they want regardless, when Rashford isn’t being asked to be the main man he seemingly gets bored and tries to do everything himself anyway.. good luck coaching martial to actually run sometimes, I fail to see how 3 different managers were asking him not to.. half of the players are just uncoachable, it’s a massive problem and will eventually stop any manager from succeeding
Mate - I agree with you!
Being told what to do in training and then going and doing on match day are two very different things.
I think this is something a lot of United fans keep failing to understand. Not one of these managers we hired had been a top level manager. I had hope with Mourinho and van Gaal because they had the cvs but they were blatantly passed their sell by dates.
All the best teams in the past decade have inverted forwards, and you want to hamper our best attacking player by putting him on the right?
True. Although his overall decision making is probably the weakest element of his play which many have interpreted as selfishness and the impulse to shoot from the tightest of angles.
Same. Even though i enjoyed our best periods under Ole, it was far from the organized modern football you see other top teams do, and i really thought ETH was the man to take us there. The first year under Klopp Liverpool leaked goals like a broken sieve, but you could still see the tactical change pretty much overnight.
Well, I can't pinpoint what Ten Hag's long term side should look like. So it's kind of hard to judge whether it's a case of players failing to adapt to his intended tactics, or if it's a matter of Ten Hag being pragmatic (changing it up). Onana has already taken a step back when it comes to coming off his line. I have to imagine it's by instruction. That's another reason why I'm confused what Ten Hag wants. Did Pep or Klopp give up on his intended tactics that quick? Or were they stubborn, accepted the results that were a product of an incompletion of his intended tactics, and then got rid of players that did not fit to eventually get what he really wanted? Because one thing I've been frustrated with Ten Hag is that he doesn't appear as stubborn in that regard. And if so, what makes this Ten Hag appealing compared to the Ajax one that had them flying?
