SAF ruled with iron fist, first and foremost it's always his way or the highway. Until our player takes their job seriously and start playing like really playing for the manager as if their lives depends on it we'll never get anything good out of it.An underappreciated strength of SAF is his ability to turn players on a budget into real United players, and many of them performed weekly although they were not considered the core first eleve, while also changing player's position effectively.
A then 35 year old Teddy Sheringham, Park Ji Sung (a marketing gimmick I thought initially), Tom Cleverley, John O'Shea, Antonio Valencia (only Wigan experience that time) all were able to perform when called upon. Even David Bellion and Alex Butner looked decent under him. And, Scholes, Smith and Giggs had their positions changed.
Now we have too many idle players sitting around doing nothing while the team requires holes to be patched. Under SAF, could Rojo be used as a decent attacking full back? Could Lingardino be used as a deep lying playmaker? Would Dan James be successfully slotted into both wings? All these would be possible under him.
He would likely sell pogba and lingard. Wrong attitude.Win another treble? Would he rotate players more?
One thing is for sure, if we lost the way we did against CP, Spurs, and Gunners, his face would be red and his speech polite but very tense but polite in the post-match interview. Like a volcano about to explode.
With a decent DM we would be able to free the other to move forward more. Soumare or Zakaria come to mind.I don't think you need to have a range of passing like Scholes / Pirlo to be able to play the ball 20-30 yards into the forwards. Fred and McT are definitely capable of that because they have been doing it in some games, maybe its a tactics thing when they don't do it. All of our forwards a capable of receiving the ball to their feet too. Really in a midfield of Fred, McT and Bruno I would be expecting Bruno to be the player that is making the most incisive passes anyway because he has better vision than Fred and McT.
Its also surprising that we don't see either of those players getting up the pitch to take some shots more often. So what if they aren't that good, the point is to force the opponent into having to push players out to them, which opens them up a little bit. When they sit it makes containing our front line very easy for the opposition. The basic pass and move principle gets lost sometimes and we just pass and don't keep moving. Pogba is one of the guiltiest of this, he will pass the ball and then drop back into space rather than running forward to allow us to maintain that forward momentum. Its not just Pogba but he seems to be the one that does it the most. It kills all of our attacking momentum when he does it.
