Love the guy but he needs to do something about the selfishness in our attack. We cannot allow players to take a shot where a pass creates a guilt-edged chance.
This is on the manager because if it happens time and again, he's letting it go. No player should feel safe in fecking so much and this is definitely what Luke Shaw alluded to as well
And this is our biggest problem of the season we have ;
Rashford who has improved and you can see him maturing and being less selfish than he used to be,
Martial whose not selfish but his attitude is so hit and miss or he’s just injured, he’s fit right now and not giving you what he should which is goals, when’s the last time he scored?
Then you have
Antony who is just so incredibly selfish that he can’t see the pass as his heads constantly down and he’s become a one trick pony, then we have
Jadon Sancho who is not selfish, but not happy either as he thought he was getting the number 7 shirt and since he was being paid more than any other of our strikers he would expect to start most games. Then we find in
Garnaucho , a young superstar who seems to have it all, not selfish can score a goal but he gets injured so we can’t use him and finally we have the Dutch Cart Horse
Weghorst whose 6’7 and whose so unselfish he doesn’t even want to win a header when our hapless keeper goes long which is 77% of the time, he would rather let the 5’11 CB bully him. Not forgetting the most selfish of the lot , ‘He who shall not be named’ and has not played for 18 months but had he made different life decisions and been a good human being, we would now be glorifying his selfish acts on the football field because he could put the ball in the net and finish.
My points is Garnaucho is 18, Antony and Sancho 23, Rashford 25, Martial 27 and Weghorst 29. We are at least 1 top striker short but more important one decent human being, one leader short up front, someone who rallies the troops and offers advice to the younger players. This is why ETH wants Kane so badly and we may wait for a free transfer next summer if we can’t get him now, going for a cheaper option this summer. Leaks are coming out again about the number 7 shirt, why no one in that squad deserves it yet, if Garnaucho, Sancho or Antony set the place alight in the last 5 or 6 games thats different but not yet and having Rashford, Antony, Sancho and Martial on £1m per week between them and less than 30 PL goals is not good enough either, so maybe show them what the players at Newcastle get because with all their wealth ; Isak, C Wilson, Almeron
Yep we are fully aware of the away form. We'd be challenging for a title if it could be addressed.
I think ten hag has displayed some naivety but he also looks like he does need better players to implement the style he wants in a consistent manner with the right mentality.
Im not too surprised to be honest, there are a bulk of games that we prob would put to bed early and silence the away crowd if we had a striker.
He needs to show he can learn quickly, away football in the PL is a baptism of fire, There is now a top 8; Villa and Newcastle both have serious wealth and have ambitions on CL football every season.
Then there is incredibly well run teams from 8th -14th like Brighton, Palace, Brentford, West Ham, Wolves and Fulham that now have the financial resources to dominate the Europa and Europa conference league. All this without mentioning Everton, Leeds, Leicester , Forrest where 1 or 2 might go down. All PL clubs have their own Parisian home support and now most due to PL , untold wealth to build elite squads.
He needs to find a way and quickly because should this cost him top 4 this season, incoming new owners will be quick to pull the trigger 5 or 6 games into the new season!
. Under other managers it made sense if a manger didn't get top 4 to sack them, but it's not the case for Ten Hag. I'd be gutted and it won't be good enough if we finish 5th after how the season has panned out, but to start again would be utterly ridiculous when painful slop like Jose and LVG got longer.