Are there any players left in Eredivisie or the league has ceased to exist cause all of its players now play for Man United? If the latter, he won't know what to do with the money and will put them in an index fund.
Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24
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He won’t drop those two. They’re too big at the club right now. If it comes down to that he’ll be gone soon.
The club already briefing statements of support shows how bad things have got.
I hope ETH can turn this around by putting more faith in the younger, hungrier players.
Many are talking about him being too stubborn, but I wish he had been stronger when it came to nailing a brief for the team of “the best transition team in the world”. That was an alarm bell/red flag for me.
There is a concerning atmosphere/momentum of inevitability at the moment
Many are talking about him being too stubborn, but I wish he had been stronger when it came to nailing a brief for the team of “the best transition team in the world”. That was an alarm bell/red flag for me.
There is a concerning atmosphere/momentum of inevitability at the moment
Why does Erik ten Hag always shake his head from side to side? It happens every time I see him talk. Does it signify some sort of implicit association with negativity?
Liverpool are/were a transition team. However they could also keep the ball very well too. It's ok to have 'impatient' players as you call it so long as they're balanced out by patient players. Trent, Mane, Salah, Robertson were the risk takers in their team but they were balanced out by Henderson, Fabinho, Firmino and Wijnaldum. At United right now there's only 1 midfielder in the entire squad that is proven to be able to keep the ball at PL level (Eriksen) and he has no legs. Right now we have Casemiro, Bruno, Rashford all constantly trying to force the issue but no one else can reliably slow the play down and keep us ticking. Mount is not that player, Eriksen doesn't have the legs. We need Reguilon back ASAP so we can start Amrabat in midfield.
The dreaded vote of confidence!
Hows that?
De Gea can't get a team, Sancho has been exposed as a waste of space and likely won't play for a big club again and the only place Ronaldo could go on a free was to some tin pot saudi team because no one else was interested.
Yeah, all three are having such great success stories in comparison they must be "pissing their pants"
To add to the points made above, I'd love to ask EtH why he gave up on the idea of having a high volume, high pass success rate midfielder in the team to retain possession and create pressure.
I look at the current elite teams in the league and all of them have a midfielder hitting 90% completion with either high carrying or progression abilities.
Rodri, Bissouma, Rice, Jones/Mac Allister are all hitting these marks and are supported by a more "creative" passer.
His first choice Midfields pass completion stats are
Mount 83%
Casemiro 82%
Bruno 70%
We give the ball away far too often. We treat the ball like a hot potato and our attacking positions are so extreme, we're wide open on the break.
Amrabat was a last minute signing to plug the gap, but I don't understand why it wasn't a priority.
I look at the current elite teams in the league and all of them have a midfielder hitting 90% completion with either high carrying or progression abilities.
Rodri, Bissouma, Rice, Jones/Mac Allister are all hitting these marks and are supported by a more "creative" passer.
His first choice Midfields pass completion stats are
Mount 83%
Casemiro 82%
Bruno 70%
We give the ball away far too often. We treat the ball like a hot potato and our attacking positions are so extreme, we're wide open on the break.
Amrabat was a last minute signing to plug the gap, but I don't understand why it wasn't a priority.
When do one of the LBs return? Shaw Malacia or Reg?
One of them returning, Amrabat moving to midfield makes us so much better.
One of them returning, Amrabat moving to midfield makes us so much better.
Jesus 70%.
Its 69.9%. I was kind to him.
Our players are far too lazy for that.
This is literally how we play. We just don't execute it well enough/often enough.
One of Casemiro, Onana or Dalot would have hit the ball long 10 seconds into that video
Fixed for you.
Because they lack the confidence/awareness/technique to stick to the plan so they panic/rush it.
The positions of the players there pretty much match up to what we do in build up. RB and CB working together create an angle with the GK to release to the dropping CM. Playing it through the lines to the RB, back infield, 4 attackers pinning the back line, etc...
I'd do all of the bolded plus change manager. Restructure but bring in a new manager that felt he could provide something good with what we have, for the time being. I would be grilling managers on what they can do with these players, how much of us they have watched and why they feel they can use players in certain ways and what they feel ETH has got wrong. What their tactical set up would look like and what the style of football would look like in year 1, 2 and 3 (if they get that far). I think ETH isn't getting a fraction of the output that these players are capable of, and we need somebody that will.
Then the restructure can happen in the background whilst, hopefully, something tangible to work from starts happening on the pitch. I think both of these things can happen concurrently.
Agree with you.
Stupid mistakes aside, I think Onana is heavily exposed by the fact that we play with a makeshift defence at the moment. With the first XI back four, we would’ve easily avoided the first 2 goals.
Yes the set up is similar but the way we play is different. I doubt the excessive long balls we always do are because of a lack of something. I think it’s a tactical instruction when you factor in some of what ETH has said about how he wants us to play.
That would be so typical of us.
Give him a new deal and let him get to the bottom of the mess.
Sir Alex was saved by the good work he was doing in the background and changing the culture.
Sir Alex was saved by the good work he was doing in the background and changing the culture.
That worked very well with Jose and Ole.
It’s their mess.
Are the expectations here really like no other? He'd have a job for life if he finished 4th every season.
He'd be out on his arse at the elite clubs who target winning the CL
12 of the players in our team have been signed by ETH. Add the promotions of Hannibal, Garnacho and co and it is half of the squad.
When does it become ETH’s mess? I guess we know it. When we sack him, and the current cultists build a new cult towards the new manager while simultaneously declaring ETH a clown.
Exactly. It's unbelievable how many fans have dropped their standards while still thinking they are fans of an elite club.
Do you believe Erik is the actual problem?
That’s not really how it works though is it. The people still in love with Ole, slate Ten Hag. The people still in love with Jose, slate those who came after him. The idea of backing the manager and finding fault in the organization around him is now a cult is hilarious.
Let’s be brutally honest here. We were an elite club. We are now far from that. Historically yes. But not currently.
Absolutely. Or rather, he is a massive part of the problem.
The excuses for all of our managers post-Fergie have been quite something.
He needs to bite the bullet and drop one of Bruno or Mount. Play Amrabat and Casemiro in CM with one of Bruno or Mount ahead of them.
Casemiro, Bruno and Mount isn’t going to work, at least not now. We need some stability in the team and that starts from midfield.
Casemiro, Bruno and Mount isn’t going to work, at least not now. We need some stability in the team and that starts from midfield.
As a manager, how do you stop individual errors? Serious question. Because our individual errors led to last night's loss.
How many times have we seen this pattern before?
I loved it when we were saying we need more 'Moyes players' to be able to assess his performance.
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