I honestly think he is safe because we can't afford to pay him of and pay for a new manager. We're already may be in trouble with FFP due to losing money 3 years in a row.
Erik ten Hag | 2024/25 | Sacked
- Thread starter Cheimoon
- Start date
- Status
Oh dear, but Marcus might have got himself sent off if he stayed on, but Zirkzee and friends made absolutely no difference at all.
Ya I mean if we were 6th or 7th and had more than 5 goals scored in the league I wouldn't have a problem with this quote after getting a draw at Villa. Such a delusional "we don't have to win but we can't lose" type of statement. That match was a must win. We are are tied for 2nd least amount of goals scored, Wolves the worst team in the league right now has scored 4 more goals than us. We'll be in the drop zone in December with 9 goals scored in the league and we'll a have goalless draw vs Wolves and he'll be going on about a clean sheet and organization
Last edited:
Fairly certain he says ‘leave means leave’
I honestly can’t see him going anywhere unfortunately, which is exactly what’s happening to our club and anyone with half a brain can see it’s only going to get worse with him at the helm, big questions need to be asked about INEOS considering how often it’s been said they want to return us to challenging for the big ones again, not a good look for them at all, hey ho, anyway it’s time to spark up a home grown ‘special’ roll up and forget about the tumescent 90 minutes we’ve had to endure.
Competent
My lord give me patience
Please tell me you made that up?
The long term plan must be towards qualifying for The Championship
All bosses were in attendance today. My guess is decision is Tuesday when they meet.
Brentford will beat us in our returning game and he will be sacked. Is what it is.
Haven't won a match in 5. Worst start to a prem season ever. What the feck does 2 shit draws matter?
Two and half years, £600 million spent, a complete overhaul of the squad including bringing in multiple players he’s managed previously…
The results? He’s turned us into a midtable team who can battle hard and grind out a point against an actual CL level team.
What a process.
feck off Erik.
The results? He’s turned us into a midtable team who can battle hard and grind out a point against an actual CL level team.
What a process.
feck off Erik.
Last edited:
Easily worst manager in the prem
Agreed. He needs to stop bragging about clean sheets. We're 14th. If we were in the top 4, fine, but we're 14th. I'd rather have conceded today and won than keep a clean sheet and draw 0-0. Sick of "we need to" every single week. Well if we need to then for feck sake do it.
Did I mention we're 14th?
Relegation form.
The long term plan must be towards qualifying for The Championship
Imagine if by drawing against Villa saves a Manutd manager job. But he has survived 2 of our worst ever start. So nothing should surprise us anymore
Gerronwivit
If that happens then they are stupid.
They’re not stupid if they do in the next day or so though. Yeah they fecked up that decision (every club is capable of it) but at least they will be seen as being proactive about it and correcting it.
Ornstein said the payoff is not a factor. Think about it, if we keep him, we're losing a hell of a lot more than what his payoff will be.
To be fair, it's the typical answer. You don't really expect him to say anything else.
Pick me and I'll bring back the good ol' 442.
Especially one where we threw a two goal lead away and only rescued a point at the end.
Agh unfortunately I fear that's wishful thinking. Ten Hag will be given the season. Same old same old at United. He should never have been kept on after the FA Cup.
So what is preventing the sack?
Imbecile is nice. He’s a tool.
His general attitude annoyed me today. Seemed fairly happy after the game.
Because it serves no purpose? We all know its PR. Don't see any point fussing over it, he's just doing his job.
Nothing about that today is sustainable. It shouldn’t save his job at all but I’ve unfortunately got a feeling it might.
Just feel like we’re completely wasting our time persisting with this now.
Just feel like we’re completely wasting our time persisting with this now.
I hope he's actually reading them properly.
Doesn't really help himself, does he?
Those stats are all about finishing, though?
The long term plan must be towards qualifying for The Championship
Someone has said, ETH has a playing style. The issue is we don't seem to like it or we're expecting another style. But honestly he has a playing style which is
The long term plan must be towards qualifying for The Championship
Poor in attack, poor in midfield, poor in defence, and zero control. That's who he is. It's up to Ineos to determine if this is acceptable
Maybe if he goes home over the international break we can have him banned from the country.
Why?
It wasn't purely reactive though. Particularly in the first half, when we got the ball we actually played it well amongst our players. There was an intent to go forward, we didn't just boot it over the top and hope that Rashford was fast enough to beat Kyle Walker. There was clearly a method to it and the way we worked the ball on one side, then used switches of play was well executed and effective. It was good football and football we could replicate against others, especially as no teams in the Premier League fear us and are happy to leave us opportunities to transition against us.
As far as I can tell, since the FA Cup final our game out of possession has become much worse. For some reason, rather than the quite patient mid-block we used at Wembley, Ten Hag started the season with a really aggressive press, which did not work against anyone with even a shred of quality on the ball in deeper positions. Fulham and Palace are probably the only times you can say we looked really dominant using that approach. Teams like Liverpool and Spurs just beat the first line press and ran right through us like a week old curry.
In posession, there has been a clear effort to move towards more positional play, with players working in threes across the left and right sides of the pitch. But its all been so much slower than anything we played at Wembley. Potentially because its so much more rigid and there is clearly more emphasis being played on slowing things down and trying to work through the opposition. At Wembley it felt like there was a general idea and the players had more freedom to improvise. Now, even in defence, you see players taking a touch and trying to do what they think they should. We've been caught in posession several times by players doing this e.g. Eriksen vs Twente. Nobody seems to be playing anything close to intuitive football.
Its all gone to crap.
I doubt he gets to stay. When all the bosses turns up, they would expect some performance. Yet another game where United fail to score. I hope to hearing his sacking by Tuesday morning with Ruud as interim manager.
Anyone would. @moses
The really scary thing is that some actually believe that!
Today was like a flashback to the late 80s when football was torture to watch. Almost nothing happened.
We did alright in 19/20 tbf. Just need Covid to derail the season again and we're set.
I actually think he's saying "I don't know mate".
- Status