Recent content by Cheesy

  1. 3-4-3 Ain’t it

    Can't say I really watched his Sporting team other than on a few occasions in European games, but is there a risk he had a system which worked in very specific circumstances with a fairly specific group of players that he'll struggle to replicate elsewhere? It's not like he'd had sustained...

  2. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    Think the problem has been less the defeats and more the nature of the losses. Continually losing games by multiple goals and being outclassed by teams United are supposed to be better than. It's all well and good to have faith in a playing style but results will genuinely need to improve soon...

  3. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    What I've been saying. There's pretty much no club that lets a manager endlessly lose games before eventually acting. Even relegation fodder clubs sometimes punt managers who've genuinely done a good job after a limited run of sustained poor form. Just the way football works.

  4. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    It's ultimately a balancing act, patience can be a virtue with a new manager at a club that's a mess but by the same token any top club can only take so much in the way of endless defeats before a change in approach is considered. The nature of the defeats (this one pending) also feels like a...

  5. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    It is the players but if the results genuinely devolve into the worst they've been since SAF left (still reckon there'll be some sort of turnaround into the NY), then he isn't going to last. Just a practical reality of football management, if you go on sustained losing streaks at just about any...

  6. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    There's been a lot of comparisons to Klopp but you could at least see some immediate improvements at Liverpool in with the messy results. By contrast this is just an utter mess at the moment.

  7. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    Natural to want to play his own system and the club needs someone with a long-term vision but clear he needs to adapt until at least the end of the season. Be daft to get rid of him given the players are clearly the overriding problem at the moment but practical realities will set in if...

  8. Vinicius Junior

    Furore over this has been one of the weirdest things I've seen in football. He was very good, wouldn't have been an unworthy winner, but was hardly putting up prime Messi numbers either. Is it mostly just classic Real Madrid entitlement?

  9. Rodri | Man City player | Ballon d'Or winner

    To play devil's advocate in terms of the best player award I'd argue it's one of the better awards contrasted with lots of entertainment forms. There's few years where the player who's won it isn't reasonably someone you'd class as one of the top three/five in the world. Even someone like...

  10. Rodri | Man City player | Ballon d'Or winner

    The stuff about this being some low-point for the game or sign where football's headed is odd. It's literally one year. Cannavaro won it in 06, Buffon was 2nd. He was sandwich between Ronaldinho, hardly an exemplar of defensive play, and Kaka, before Ronaldo/Messi then dominated for years. He...

  11. Are players ever justified in being happy a manager is gone?

    Completely fair if it's a crap manager who's also a bit of a dick, generally find the cryptic social media messages a bit much though even if they provide good drama.

  12. Rate the post SAF managers

    For as much as there were flaws there though Moyes came into a title winning team. 1st to 7th was a huge drop. Agree LVG's 2nd season is often overlooked for how bad it was though, so many dull 0-0 draws.

  13. Life after ETH — the next United manager

    Would be bizarre for him to leave right now too. They're flying in the CL and looking good for top four again. And he has enough of a pedigree that even if things go downhill in time top clubs will still show interest when they're looking.

  14. Life after ETH — the next United manager

    City/Liverpool have shown in recent years it's still good to have managerial stability if you can find it - the model of a heavily involved, long-term manager isn't exactly dead, it's just not the be all and end all.

  15. Ole Gunnar Solskjær | Beşiktaş J.K.

    Would he even bother, aside from for the money? Last time ended badly but he's obviously a club legend all the same. A bad second spell feels like it could sour his reputation more than he'd ideally want to risk.
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