Your manager didn't think of any other option bar FDJ, so what are we supposed to do? If we forced another player scouted on him you would have moaned we are forcing cheap and young players on him rather than getting him his first option. If this scouted player flopped it will be all the board's fault. "Should have listened to the manager", "should have spent more and got him his target instead of refusing to spend". "We passed on signing Caseimro to sign this flop". The excuses will never end.
The one living in a world in which the only midfielders existing are either FDJ or Caemeiro is Ten Hag, not me.
Supporting the manager means giving him what he wanted. They did. They overpaid to get him the targets or very good replacement to them. You are daydreaming if you think the club will do that either spending cheap or getting the first choice every single time because get it or not, we are buying players from other clubs not from Football manager video game.
You make it sound like a 1999 manager game. This is a multi billion operation, with hundreds of supporting staff everywhere. When ten Hag came as a new manager, youd expect that multi billion operation to give him a choice of 3 or 4 names for each position. It appears they didnt.
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@Adnan finally (bless you) showed, the powers that be did have Antony on screen, but failed miserably in execution with long lasting consequences as almost all transfers the last 4 years have done. Much overspending, FFP problems up the wazoo and still a squad that is miserably out of balance. """But he spent 400 million"" no, Ten Hag didnt spend 400 milion. That the idiots above him did.
A manager makes or breaks the coming season in june and july. New players have to get in asap and run the pre season games. But the glazers held out the sale and with that, the needed extra money to hark in a. Big new players, and a1: get them at or before 1-7. Hojland, a 2nd or 3rd choice main striker, came almost 12 months after it was very clear in the summer of 22 that United needed a new, big name, big ability striker. Kane was mooted and courted in public for half a year. But, again, the Glazers didnt get the Kane money. Hoijland, a kid with no PL experience, missing pre season and the first month. No getting used to games, instant high pressure to deliver. No wonder the kid hasnt scored and looks a bit nervous. ""Hoijland is a gamble, when Kane is a sure thing"" a lot of journos predicted rightfully in april. That definitly, is on the Glazers.
Mount may not be the best buy, but that position had Fred, Eriksen and Mctominay: all failed miserably. So summer 23 had 2 big wants: a big name striker and a big name midfielder. both didnt come. Some might say Mount was also 20 mill too expensive.
As a side note: I dont think Casemiro fails or is aging. He paid for mistakes up the front, where antony/sancho/rashford to a lesser extend, they all failed to hold a ball. That was why Weghorst of all people, played such a good part in that team. He at least kept the ball up and if lost, shoved anyone near into the ground. Bless you Wout. Opposition didnt know about Weghorst in jan-feb-march but from then on they figured out how to cancel him out and started to press him and Shaw out of the game. (that was a fantastic tactic, truth be told)
The last game again, Casemiro came into problems because of players up front not doing their job well in a high press game.
Im very happy Fulham was a win. It was gritty, not pretty and Antony again looked a ghost. But Lissandro and Shaw should be back soon, I pray rathcliff gets in before january and then at least 2 or 3 choice
well scouted players have to be added. And, preferably, antony shipped out.
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