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Yes I was going to give him at least 117 to bed in.I cant believe the negative reaction on ten hag after just 116 games.
Yes I was going to give him at least 117 to bed in.I cant believe the negative reaction on ten hag after just 116 games.
It's the lack of vibes, we need vibes.It seems many of our players have thrived on international duty. I wonder what the difference is?
These past few weeks couldn’t have exposed ETH as the poor coach/man manager he is any more. Southampton must be licking their lips.
No the vibes most of us on here are feeling!It's the lack of vibes, we need vibes.
A must win and a must win well/ convincingly too.
We have to look and perform as a team. We've had enough scrappy wins under ETH as it is.
If he doesn't get us performing well, even in victory, then I'd want him out. Sounds harsh I know.
It's the lack of vibes, we need vibes.
Impressive how clueless the team looks even though he has had that many games to coach them.I cant believe the negative reaction on ten hag after just 116 games.
Would be an improvement on Ten Hag's zero vibes and zero tactical nous.It's the lack of vibes, we need vibes.
Absolutely not. We over rate our players massively. It should be a top 6 side but put together with top 3 finances. That’s the problem. Those list of players aren’t better than what obviously the top three have. Spurs have better players and Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle is basically a toss up.Onana, Mazraoui, Dalot, de Ligt, Yoro, Martínez, Maguire, Shaw, Malacia
Fernandes, Mainoo, Ugarte, Mount
Hojlund, Zirkzee, Rashford, Garnacho, Amad
You don't think this core should be finishing comfortably in the top 4?
No.
We have a noticeably worse squad than City, Arsenal and Liverpool.
We had no hope of overtaking the first two, and the only hope we had of overtaking Liverpool was Slot being their Moyes, which very much looks not to be the case.
Of the chasing pack for fourth (Villa, Spurs, Chelsea, Newcastle and us), there is absolutely nothing to seperate us to make us "comfortably" the 4th best team in the league.
Onana is easily the worst first choice keeper in last season's top eight. Our defense is okay, probably our best position, but still nothing spectacular. Our midfield, even with Ugarte, is still a bit of a mess, with Eriksen and Casemiro looking finished, Mainoo still finding the stamina required to play 90 minutes every week, and Mount being almost a non-entity with injury. There's a lot of potential in our attack, but it lacks a proven goalscorer and we're relying on someone either kicking on massively, or Rashford finding form from two seasons ago (which seems highly unlikely).
Happy to hear why you might think differently, but I really think people are struggling to come to terms with quite how 'average' our squad is, despite the money we've spent on it.
It's good enough for a challenge for top four, but by no means good enough to "comfortably" finish there without four other teams having off-seasons.
For me there are 4 better squads in the league and at least 5 better first XIs.
The forward options are far too weak.
Absolutely not. We over rate our players massively. It should be a top 6 side but put together with top 3 finances. That’s the problem. Those list of players aren’t better than what obviously the top three have. Spurs have better players and Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle is basically a toss up.
Most of this is just funny, nothing more to say. At least the next manager will be seen as a genius and buy himself a lot of patience for making a good, underrated squad play to their level.
City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea have better squads.Most of this is just funny, nothing more to say. At least the next manager will be seen as a genius and buy himself a lot of patience for making a good, underrated squad play to their level.
Where would you place our squad at then?Most of this is just funny, nothing more to say. At least the next manager will be seen as a genius and buy himself a lot of patience for making a good, underrated squad play to their level.
City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea have better squads.
The same plus Spurs have better first XIs.
Our forward options are weak.
Which is the funny bit?
Where would you place our squad at then?
I’d struggle to name a position that we are comfortably top 4 for in terms of squad quality and depth apart from maybe CB now and RB too?
That’s on the manager then. He’s brought in the majority of these sub standard players.Where would you place our squad at then?
I’d struggle to name a position that we are comfortably top 4 for in terms of squad quality and depth apart from maybe CB now and RB too?
Not a chance.. with a forward line like ours we can only hope for 5-8.. there is not enough goals and 2 of them shouldnt be anywhere near a team like United, one had just arrived and 2 is still very young. Our strongest part is the defence, where we still have 2 players who cant be trusted to be fit and a keeper who is not good at anything really..To get into top 4, we need extreme luck and a great manager, which we dont have.Onana, Mazraoui, Dalot, de Ligt, Yoro, Martínez, Maguire, Shaw, Malacia
Fernandes, Mainoo, Ugarte, Mount
Hojlund, Zirkzee, Rashford, Garnacho, Amad
You don't think this core should be finishing comfortably in the top 4?
No argument then, just the same old "ignore what's said and pretend they all love the manager"
The idea of squad strength as if it is some fixed value is stupid. Football is not played on paper.
We of have plenty of talent to easily challenge for top 4, and maybe even the league under a really good manager.
These same players go on international duty and are great performers, outperforming some of the players at the likes of City, Liverpool and Arsenal, and yet when the come back to our team they look like they can't even string two passes together.
You can speculate about the squad, but by that same token we also have the worst manager out of the top teams as well.
Sorry to say, i have never seen such bs before.. you would have made a great Liverpool fan in 90-00.. There is absolute nothing in Højlunds career that point to him being a potensial 30 goal striker.. After Denmarks game last night, he will be lucky to start again.. The last year Denmark has been better whenever Højlund hasnt played...and the talk about him scoring 30 goals, thats just Liverpool-ishYou're just shitting on our players thinking other teams have it better.
Onana is a better ball-player and passer than any rival keeper bar Ederson, and even though he wouldn't get in over Vicario or Alisson at Spurs or Liverpool, he sure as hell would start for Chelsea, and probably Arsenal too. Obviously starts for Newcastle and West Ham too. Villa is debatable.
"Our defense is okay": Dalot and Mazraoui are both among the best full-backs in the league, just that both of them objectively cannot be considered the best. Both of them have a good case for being a top 5 right-back though. De Ligt and Maguire are both up there with the best organizer-type CCBs around, like Dias or Guehi. Yoro has best in the world potential. Martínez is probably the best passer (Stones and White being his only competition in this regard IMO), and most press-resistant CB/LB in the world. Shaw is the best traditional left-back in the world when he's fit. Malacia is a very solid inverted full-back rotational player. Which rival teams do you think have a better defense on paper other than Arsenal, City and Liverpool?
Fernandes is the second best #10 in the world after De Bruyne. But casuals will say "Odegaard is miles better" etc. I don't have the energy to argue against these types of posts anymore, with people who don't know what makes a #10 actually great, or just cannot judge talent and players at all.
Mainoo has a case of starting for every single team in the league, even City and Arsenal.
Rashford will be back to his best as well, which is 2nd best LW in the league after Son, as soon as he's not being played far away from the opposition goal as a touchline winger.
Hojlund is one of the few 30-goal per season potential U23 players in the whole world, whilst people are still debating whether he's better than Jackson or not.
The likes of Garnacho, Zirkzee, Amad and Mount would be key players at Villa or Newcastle.
This is why I'm ignoring large parts of posts I'm replying to. Whenever I write long posts and present many valid arguments, I get the same one-liner answer I basically replied to in the first place. What's the point then? These posters likely barely even watched the players they're so confidently talking about anyways. A new manager will likely come in at some point in the next 12 months and we'll see then who was right.
Yeah, a lot of people are rating our players and squad based on the clubs worst season in 3 decades. Playing a system that made most of them look shit. Fair enough I suppose.
But under a different manager most of these players could and really should look better. Not many would have rated most of villa's squad as one of the better squads in the league 2 years ago. Yet Emery has elevated them and added some good buys into the mix.
Yes, he hates all of life and that's why he showed so much empathy towards his players after the bombing incident and tried to protect his players. Real serial killer vibes right there!
See this is the thing. United should never be boring, but that's exactly what we are with how we play. We are so crap to watch and I don't see it improving this season, we might end up being more solid but I can't see us playing exciting football I enjoy. And I haven't done for a while now.Please just leave and let me get excited about watching us again.
You're just shitting on our players thinking other teams have it better.
Onana is a better ball-player and passer than any rival keeper bar Ederson, and even though he wouldn't get in over Vicario or Alisson at Spurs or Liverpool, he sure as hell would start for Chelsea, and probably Arsenal too. Obviously starts for Newcastle and West Ham too. Villa is debatable.
"Our defense is okay": Dalot and Mazraoui are both among the best full-backs in the league, just that both of them objectively cannot be considered the best. Both of them have a good case for being a top 5 right-back though. De Ligt and Maguire are both up there with the best organizer-type CCBs around, like Dias or Guehi. Yoro has best in the world potential. Martínez is probably the best passer (Stones and White being his only competition in this regard IMO), and most press-resistant CB/LB in the world. Shaw is the best traditional left-back in the world when he's fit. Malacia is a very solid inverted full-back rotational player. Which rival teams do you think have a better defense on paper other than Arsenal, City and Liverpool?
Fernandes is the second best #10 in the world after De Bruyne. But casuals will say "Odegaard is miles better" etc. I don't have the energy to argue against these types of posts anymore, with people who don't know what makes a #10 actually great, or just cannot judge talent and players at all.
Mainoo has a case for starting for every single team in the league, even City and Arsenal.
Rashford will be back to his best as well, which is 2nd best LW in the league after Son, as soon as he's not being played far away from the opposition goal as a touchline winger.
Hojlund is one of the few 30-goal per season potential U23 players in the whole world, whilst people are still debating whether he's better than Jackson or not.
The likes of Garnacho, Zirkzee, Amad and Mount would be key players at Villa or Newcastle.
This is why I'm ignoring large parts of posts I'm replying to. Whenever I write long posts and present many valid arguments, I get the same one-liner answer I basically replied to in the first place. What's the point then? These posters likely barely even watched the players they're so confidently talking about anyways. A new manager will likely come in at one point in the next 12 months and we'll see then who was right.
Yeah, a lot of people are rating our players and squad based on the clubs worst season in 3 decades. Playing a system that made most of them look shit. Fair enough I suppose.
But under a different manager most of these players could and really should look better. Not many would have rated most of villa's squad as one of the better squads in the league 2 years ago. Yet Emery has elevated them and added some good buys into the mix.
Sorry to say, i have never seen such bs before.. you would have made a great Liverpool fan in 90-00.. There is absolute nothing in Højlunds career that point to him being a potensial 30 goal striker.. After Denmarks game last night, he will be lucky to start again.. The last year Denmark has been better whenever Højlund hasnt played...and the talk about him scoring 30 goals, thats just Liverpool-ish
Onana is comfortably the worst keeper in last season's top eight. He's save-phobic and prone to massive, costly errors. He may return to his pre-United form, but as of now, he's not come close to looking like the goalkeeper you've described there since moving to the Premier League.
Our defense is probably our best position, but we're yet to see what Yoro can actually offer (and won't for a while), De Ligt is very much settling, we're hoping Martinez can find form from two seasons ago, Maguire remains limited (and error prone), and we don't actually have a fit left-back, with Shaw unable to stay fit for more than a few games, and we've now not seen Malacia in over a year. It may well be the best defense of the "chasing pack", but it's not so much better than the rest that it's going to be a huge difference maker.
Fernandes is basically our only consistently fit, top class player. There's a reason I've largely omitted him from discussion. Mainoo is a phenomenal talent, but still seems to be struggling with the stamina to last 90 minutes. Ugarte will hopefully provide another solid first team option. After that, Casemiro and Eriksen are basically done at this level. I don't think a new manager can do much more than mask their failings a bit better. Mount is as unreliable as Shaw, and is yet to actually show us anything of note anyway.
"Rashford will be back to his best"? When? He's started this season basically as he finished the last. He's made one good cross in three games, and that's been about it as far as his contributions go. Hojlund, Zirkzee, Garnacho and Amad are all unrealised potential. I really hope one or two can kick on this season, but they haven't yet, and so we can only judge them on their current level. We don't have a proven goalscorer, which is a massive black mark against our attack.
Our squad is good enough for top four. Our squad is not good enough to comfortably distance itself from the squads of Villa, Spurs, Chelsea or Newcastle. I don't think that's a particular controversial take, but you seem to have real issue with it.
No let’s add context. Ruud left because he said himself he wasn’t ready for managment and he had to be talked into taking it on on the first place. Ruud has no more experience than Ole had. So for anyone that screamed about Ole being inexperience, they should be doing the same for Ruud too.There was no elite manager available.
Ineos have always said they want to unearth diamonds. Just to be clear RVN led PSV to second, a cup and a shield. He left with one game to go with a win percentage of 62%.
He chose to leave due to insufficient support within the club. This isn’t too different to Slot except Slott won the league.
This is his coaching philosophy.
"I love the game, and I love a certain way of playing. At Manchester United, Sir Alex was always pushing us forward. Look forward, play forward, get crosses in, shoot on target. As a player, I loved the way that made me feel. I wanted to play like that, and I want to transmit that same feeling to my teams, to my players."
I want ETH to shock us all and succeed, but I’m also happy to give RVN the season if that can’t happen.
No let’s add context. Ruud left because he said himself he wasn’t ready for managment and he had to be talked into taking it on on the first place. Ruud has no more experience than Ole had. So for anyone that screamed about Ole being inexperience, they should be doing the same for Ruud too.
I didn’t, I’d give him the interim job. Then again I’d give it to a wheelie bin at this stage
I would say Kicker is quite reliable, Bild and their stepchild SportBild are just a toilet bowl.
The Norman Bates/sociopath stuff started during his tenure in Dortmund. His reaction to the bus bombing, his awkwardness, social ineptitude, press conferences, his venomous dead eyes...he just oozes hatred for all life.
The Conte incident. In that moment you saw the Ted Bundy in him, an explosion of uncontrollable anger, in the blink of an eye.
He looks like Ed Gein, too. Norman Bates is based on Ed Gein, so that's where that comes from.
I read on this forum that Peppy Pep is a bit deranged. I rather think that Pep is a poet, writing bizarre stuff to himself, sitting at home, trying to invoke the universe. He is harmless. Pep lives in a different world.
Tuchel lives in this world and wants to see it burned to the ground. The type of person that reads Wasp Factory, then cries and says "that's me...I am not alone". Madness.
We’ve got a good squad, anyone with any sense knows though there is a glaring issue in the attacking department. Everything else I think we’re comfortably top 4 as long as we sort the injury issues from last year.
Yeah, a lot of people are rating our players and squad based on the clubs worst season in 3 decades. Playing a system that made most of them look shit. Fair enough I suppose.
But under a different manager most of these players could and really should look better. Not many would have rated most of villa's squad as one of the better squads in the league 2 years ago. Yet Emery has elevated them and added some good buys into the mix.
We’ve got a good squad, anyone with any sense knows though there is a glaring issue in the attacking department. Everything else I think we’re comfortably top 4 as long as we sort the injury issues from last year.
None of that is true though. I recommend to watch the documentary about the bombing and listen carefully to Watzke.
Zodiac Tuchel didn't say anything. He did whine about wanting to postpone the game only after they lost. He could have said something right away, you know as well as I do that he would have gotten all the attention he wanted.
Yes, he looked off, but that is mainly due to one of the explosives going off very close to him. He composed himself very quickly, quite impressive.
That was the beginning of the end for him at Dortmund, he fell out with Mislintat - or whatever his name is - before that (of course he did...) and then got into it with Watzke after the bombing. There was no coming back from this.
The empathy part made me laugh though. Science fiction.