It was a shocking performance.
It doesn’t mean it’s incurable.
Time and personnel will solve these issues.
I think theres a bigger element to this. I was at that wolves game, we were poor and lucky to get anything out of it.
But start of season form can throw up all sorts of stuff in a normal season. Some teams start slower than others. Asides from that, I personally think our squad was still exhausted from season before and stupid USA tour that did us no favours.
The injury’s that happened very shortly into the season were not a coincidence. Like Marinez coming back and getting injured again, I think that a lot of our players came into the season with bodies not fully repaired.
It seems like other clubs have been having similar issues which suggests the World Cup season really took its toll on teams.
Start of season we lose Greenwood, have Anthony trial and Sancho stuff. Wouldn’t have been the most settled dressingroom coming into the season. We had no fit striker for few weeks and it looks like for whatever reason Rashford was not happy for months. So our best forward from last season was struggling with something.
Look at City struggling without Rodri, even a team with ridiculous resources can be knocked back alot.
Again, regardless of whether ETH works out, people really aren’t factoring everything in to explain why we might have been off so much. The default is that it must be the manager, even though we had one of our best periods since 2013 , last season , when there was no drama.
And for all the complaints about Weghorst, we won most of the games where he played most of his minutes. Whether you think Weghorst didn’t play much of a role in those wins, ETH managed us to the wins with him in the squad.
Like you have said, if this was just a generic season and we played like we played, I just couldn’t defend ETH as there really isn’t a defence if you look at our results and performances in isolation.