I agree. A large part of the fanbase clings to this romantic ideal of a Busby/Ferguson type manager coming in and ruling the club for decades. It's not happening.
Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24
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"Backing the manager" is the phrase which i don't want to hear ever again. More and more i am for philosophy used in Italy, Germany, Spain....where coach is only a coach and works with what he gets. He can say "yes" or "now" for some players and that is it.
No transition periods, no "rebuilding" and shit like that.
Not sure things will get bad to the point of sacking him but at the same time I'm not sure he's good enough to lead the team to challenging for the league either, definitely not with his transfers strategy. If Qatar take charge of United and we're still just a top 4 team at best, they'll probably sack him though.
New owners will sack Ten Hag if he doesn't achieve fast success as I'm saying. United managers are lucky to have Glazers in charge because they're content with mediocrity and give them a lot of time.
New owners will sack Ten Hag if he doesn't achieve fast success as I'm saying. United managers are lucky to have Glazers in charge because they're content with mediocrity and give them a lot of time.
What's wrong is this
Mount and Bruno aren't going to control the game for you
We have no real physical presence in midfield, still
Casemiro is supposed to be that presence but he's older now he can't keep up with physical powerhouses running through our mid
Rashford is not a number 9
Garnacho is 19 and extremely wasteful, still
Antony is a 20/30mill player, not 80 mill, who ETH seemingly won't drop despite offering very little
Martial is constantly injured
Sancho is just a shadow of his former self
The only other attackers we have are untested kids
Hojlund is still injured and a complete unknown currently
I like Mount but he wasn't the profile of player we should have gone for
Onana is terrific however and has improved is, his passing is unreal
Hojlund hasn't had a chance to do anything yet
Currently on fraud watch because I don't understand his decision making at all. Plays Sancho as a false nine nearly all pre-season but when he comes to the actual season he's either on the bench or Rashford is playing 9... so what was the point then?
What is this nonsense of a flat line attack. Where's the triangles and movement?
I thought we would have a hard battle for 4th this year. Might be a hard battle for 7th
I have belief he is still good but I just can't ignore that we still have no distinct style of play - everything is just hope for the best style of football
Unless he turns it around miraculously like last season, he is getting sacked.
Should be way too early into the season but I honestly don't give a feck, count me in as an official ETH doubter. As far as I'm concerned, it's a matter of when he will get the sack and patiently waiting for it.
Con artist.
I still stand by it. Out of how many signings he's made, only two have been good. Martinez and Onana.
I've been saying it since last year. He can seemingly implement a promising system, but cannot personally identify the players required to take said system to the highest level. We need press resistant players and we haven't signed one. Not a single one despite hundreds of millions having been spent.
I've been saying it since last year. He can seemingly implement a promising system, but cannot personally identify the players required to take said system to the highest level. We need press resistant players and we haven't signed one. Not a single one despite hundreds of millions having been spent.
He chose these players.
He will get the sack this season.
All of the signs before Ole and Jose were sacked have been here in the first two games.
All of the signs before Ole and Jose were sacked have been here in the first two games.
Very late though, once CL is gone
It seems like he put all his eggs in the FDJ basket and had no backup plan.
We needed the player that Antony's highlight reel suggested he might be, but ETH should have known better than anyone what the reality of Antony was like. Antony is a worse signing for ETH than he would be for any other manager given the insight he should have had.
And the Mount signing was always a questionable signing. There's nothing in either his or the teams performances so far that have quelled those fears either.
We needed the player that Antony's highlight reel suggested he might be, but ETH should have known better than anyone what the reality of Antony was like. Antony is a worse signing for ETH than he would be for any other manager given the insight he should have had.
And the Mount signing was always a questionable signing. There's nothing in either his or the teams performances so far that have quelled those fears either.
He's not going to, we have nothing in the final 3rd and our squad depth is embarrassing.
Shambolic start to the season
Serious questions being asked of this guy now. We clearly don't play well as a team and often look like we don't have a plan.
How many years has Postecoglou been managing Spurs again? And how many 100m has he had to spend?
This won't be tolerated under serious ownership, he's wasted money on Antony and also Mount who was never good enough tbh, furthermore he's neglected the deepest need of all, a proven quality striker, it's absolutely not good enough and the book stops with the manager.
Question marks creeping in now. Not nearly good enough.
I've lost patience with him. There is no way Spurs play dross for 4/5 years and this guy from Celtic fixes a lot of it in 4/5 weeks whilst losing their best player.
The evidence looks like he isn't as good a coach as advertised. AWB has improved but I can't see it in anyone else.
Hitting long balls over the top against Spurs two games into the season, no control, second in every challenge. Another bill of goods sold to us by Ajax.
The evidence looks like he isn't as good a coach as advertised. AWB has improved but I can't see it in anyone else.
Hitting long balls over the top against Spurs two games into the season, no control, second in every challenge. Another bill of goods sold to us by Ajax.
No tactics,no improvement and his signings are all turning to rubbish. It's the same old cycle.
We have started pretty much exactly like how we did last season in terms of performances. Just that Wolves didn't punish us and Spurs are still in the early stages of a rebuild themselves. We have been there for the taking.
The Mount experiment will be his downfall.
The Mount experiment will be his downfall.
Things are looking rather grimm for him. This is worse than Ole-ball.
It has to be.ETH cannot play this midfield and except top 4.
Doubts starting to settle. Looks like we’ve regressed since last season.
Last season Casemiro got him out of a hole. This season he's been terrible...
... who's going to step up this season?
... who's going to step up this season?
I’m still not having him.
Does deserve criticism, second season in a new league decides to implement a totally new system and purchase players for that system without even using it in a competitive game. People can blast the quality of the players but it feels the issues are mostly tactical.
Gotta stick with him but why do we still play like Ole is in charge?
Probably should have people in charge and as DoF's that don't just buy what the manager wants
He is rubbish
He isn't good enough, but we are stuck with years of this as long as Murtough is in charge.
There’s been a constant across all our managers :The players just jog back.
It’s something I could never really understand, how can the players just jog back when the other team is attacking.
It’s something I could never really understand, how can the players just jog back when the other team is attacking.
Yep. We haven't improved away from home after a whole year and 400m spent. We are going nowhere fast under him.
Zero progress from last season. We've regressed if anything.
No patterns of play or style, just hit and hope individual football. Future looking bleak.
No patterns of play or style, just hit and hope individual football. Future looking bleak.
Looking wank atm.. needs to get his shit together
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