He is going to say ok, we need players that can play the Ajax way. The issue with ETH is that he has no influence on his team, tactically clueless and poor man management style.
Yes let's keep pointing to the exception rather than the rule, that will obviously work for us. Also let's forget that arsenal were actually making progress and looking like a decent team. We aren't progressing even slightly, but instead of opposite.
Do you want Sancho starting for United again? If yes, then do it.
The players haven’t downed tools at all.
The same mish mash squad achieved 4 top 3 finishes in 6 seasons before this one, he then got another 200m to correct it and look where that's taken us. We brought in leaders like Varane and Casemiro which should have taken of the last point but fact of the matter is that the manager has failed. He failed in the market and has failed to repair glaring tactical issues that have been prevalent since the first game of the season.
This isn’t a “tricky second album”. This is a crash and burn album where the artist is calling everyone racist slurs and is being sexist on every single track.
The same INEOS that's brought Berrada, Ashworth and Wilcox to United? I think they take this more seriously than you think and the one whose impact on things is currently understated is Berrada - the guy started out at Barcelona doing their sponsorships, went to City and started getting more involved in football operations until he rose to 2nd in command in the whole City group. He will be CEO here, setting the tone and performance parameters for guys like Ashworth and to think he will just accept a feck it let's give it to Potter and see is bonkers.
Every new manager we hired after Moyes achieved his objectives and got sacked when they failed them. We haven't won the major titles but we have won some respectable trophies and got into the top 3 in 4/11 seasons. The reason things didn't get better is that we delayed sacking Moyes, LvG and Ten Hag which all resulted in us missing top 4 which would have been within reach if we had acted earlier.
It's madness. We all know that Rashford is the first player to let his head drop but put him in a semi functional team he delivers, push Bruno up the pitch he delivers. Ten Hag and the structure behind him failed to identify the striker Bruno and Rashford needed to get the best out of them - Martial is the glue that held our attack together whenever he was fit or in our high scoring periods and we needed a striker like him, someone who is good at link up and hold play for Rashford to play off.
It's not an odd question at all. I'm simply asking what you're seeing in him that I'm not?
Truth, Casemiro looks done but he had no chance having to sprint 50m every few minutes. Wouldn't be surprised if a Juve or an Inter pick him up and squeeze four years of acceptable performances out of him.
Arsenal had a settled ownership (Josh Kroenke was particularly effusive in his backing of Arteta) and a competent football hierarchy. They were signing players that fit there plan and play style and were building with young players. This is where we are at now with ten hag and INEOS. We have the bones of a very good team, but our squad still needs building.
We aren't at all where Aresenal are. Also ETH has done nothing to improve the players like Arteta and Klopp did at their respective clubs. Nor will this play style EVER work because no players van succeed in it. He's off in the summer, whether by sacking or resigning.
England loving SJR? Says the Dutchman who can only defend ETH because he's Dutch.
Ten Hag actually improved McTominay and Maguire from the levels of Oles final season. I'd argue he also did a fine job with Garnacho and Mainoo. He's certainly improved Dalot as well.
Exactamento. A lot of his troubles are his very own doing.
Levy has always had CL designs, no way he was going to strengthen us at the potential expense of his side. This one was always a difficult one to pull off and it wouldn't have been beyond Levy to string us along all through the summer, a la Barca with Fabregas and FDK, then eventually feck us over. The decision to move on from him was correct in my view.
Maguire is nowhere near as good as he was in his first season and McTominay is STILL the same. Stop talking nonsense.
Yep, he came in mid season in his first which is why we came 11th.
Yes he has. He has found a role to maximise McT instead of leaving him to flounder in DM. We have seen improvements in Dalot and AWB (just not on the left) and he is managing the youngsters like Kobbie and Alejandro well.
Hasn't he been trying to implement this style since pre-season, and it has looked bad regardless of personnel?
I think the style of play was always the plan, he signed Mason Mount (a number 10/wide player who presses well and is technically good but doesn't get on the ball that much in games) to play alongside Bruno ahead of Casemiro so we were always going to be left with huge gaps unless we were a relentless pressing machine that could pin teams in their own half. I think you could argue that it would look better if we had Shaw and Martinez to improve our play out from the back and to close the spaces to some extent but Shaw is always injured and I'm not sure Martinez's lack of pace would look great defending a massive amount of space behind him so there would still have been issues.
This is a very important point that often gets overlooked. Pretty much his entire reputation comes from that cup run but that achievement needs to be put into some context. Not only was it half a decade ago, which is a really long time in football but it's not really rare for managers to overachieve for a season in Europe only to never do anything of note again. There are also other factors like playing the worst Madrid side in some time that finished 19 points behind Barcelona and that had lost to CSKA Moscow twice in group stages, including the 0-3 loss at home.
If we can't identify a manager who could get us playing better than whatever ETH is currently serving then that's not a good look for the new people in charge, don't you think? We see the likes of Bayern and Liverpool and we assume they will find a suitable candidate but somehow we can't do that.
