I'm still backing him. Tired of us constantly sacking managers to then move onto someone completely different, who would want a different set of players and different set of style that will take us another 2-3 years to recover from. Give him to whole season at least and without pressure that he can be sacked at any time. The constant negativity around the club will only be detrimental right now.
It wouldn’t take any top coach to improve this shower of Sh… in two training sessions, they are so poorly set up and coached.
A great coach knows how to set up differently to cater for the opposition, he seems to respect no one bar Man City, Arsenal or Liverpool and sets up the same way, yet he had a plan for City in Fa Cup and Community shield Finals.
You can not play a low block and then try and be a team that works in fast transitions and tries to occasionally press the opposition.
You have ridiculous areas of space not covered, your front three for 15-20 minutes are pressing in the opposition penalty area. The length of most PL pitches are 104-106 metres and 65-68m wide. If you have your front three in the last 10-15 metres of the pitch pressing, your Midfield 3 then 30-40 metres back on the half way line, not going to support because they are instructed not to because our
Defence is so Slow they have to sit deep on our penalty box, wait for it another 35- 50 metres behind you have a terrible team structure, set up by the coach that allows for huge wide open areas for the opposition to exploit, and when we give the ball away in attack or midfield we get opened up at will and are so easy to play through.
This is on ETH, this is his tactics and he should have been sacked in the summer and someone new be installed as Head Coach in that period and then change the set up over a 4 week period.
If we are going to be a possession based team, we need to play a high line and have quick Defenders, which makes De Ligt and Mazraoui signings bizarre as neither have pace, Yoro does have elite pace and we needed to sign Branthwaite and Robinson who are both also quick to revolutionise the way you play, then we could use a PL proven player in DM like Onana from Everton who is also rapid as the DM.
These three signings would have been transformative and made sure the team was spending most of its time higher up with all 10 players operating in 60-70m area rather than 100-105m area!
This is the real reason, ETH teams conceded 2 or 3 goals so frequently, they are simply so easy to play against!
Onana would be playing 30-35m from his Goal and been a completely different Goal Keeper.
This is all on ETH, the first season I and many United fans gave him the benefit of the doubt, the players were not working hard enough and he was right but now they just look at him as if he’s a clown and they have no respect for his ridiculous tactics, they are running more, and getting poorer results because the whole set up is wrong, simply
Time to Go Eric!
And I doubt that any top European Club will appoint him, in Ajax no one expects European success so he’s able to get away with his stubborn philosophy!