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ExactlyYep, it's an exercise in saying nothing.
ExactlyYep, it's an exercise in saying nothing.
Back to Ten Hag. It’s his third season. Look how quick it took Ange, Emery and Howe to implement a clear and defined attacking style of play with players that were still at the club.
He is on thin ice. If he can’t coach the ‘game model’ that Wilcox and Ashworth want, he’s gone.
That's already happened.And you want to know something - it is going to take at least one more transfer window to clear out the shite of the last 4 managers.
I don’t think anyone is expecting miracles. I think people just want a clear, attacking and defined way of playing on the ball, with chances created and a consistent way to break down defences.Look at the player turnover though. Nobody is applying anything without the tools to do it. If that amount of rotation was needed it highlights the issues.
Posters here slag off the players, then slag off the manager for not not being able to make the same players into a great team.
We bemoan the Glazers and call us a joke of a club yet still expect manager to do miracles.
We finished 8th in the league, bottom of a weak Champions League group and are yet to develop any identifiable style of play. What miracles are being expected exactly?Look at the player turnover though. Nobody is applying anything without the tools to do it. If that amount of rotation was needed it highlights the issues.
Posters here slag off the players, then slag off the manager for not not being able to make the same players into a great team.
We bemoan the Glazers and call us a joke of a club yet still expect manager to do miracles.
Yeah people 'believe' whatever backs up their viewpoint. Anyone looking for anything more than injury updates from a presser is living in an alternate reality.People say he's 'negotiating the interviews' but to me, he seems to actually believe his own nonsense. I think he genuinely thinks he's done really well winning the second most trophies after City. I think he's completely serious when he says that we've progressed.
I believe we'll have to endure a very tough season with some heavy defeats and awful performances in most matches. I also think we'll dither until it's mathematically impossible to get top 4 and we're out of Europe before taking any action. If we're still in any cups at that point then he'll stay longer.
Gone by next season though for sure, and many questions will be asked about why exactly he was allowed to stay so long.
Refusal to acknowledge the need for improvement is not doing this, especially when you double down in the way that he did. It was a spiky response.I’m with you on this. Manager interviews mean absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.
Pundits and media just love to find some story in them, managers main job is to navigate them as blandly as possible or use them to take the focus off their team.
I can’t believe many actually take everything
managers say publically as gospel , less so how media/punidts/papers twist it.
Headline could be something like : “ETH defends Anthony” but he drops him from the starting team . Some fans “oh my god, he can’t see how bad he is, he just refuses to see it.”.
Nobody has implemented a clear style then shipped out 10 players. Nobody. You have to ship out the players first. To win two trophies while doing that is superb. Slipping to 8th, not so great. But so much has changed around him since he arrived. It's been nuts.I don’t think anyone is expecting miracles. I think people just want a clear, attacking and defined way of playing on the ball, with chances created and a consistent way to break down defences.
Going back to Ange, he hasn’t done anything miraculous but Spurs fans are in love with him. Why? Because he took a squad that played some of the most crap and defensive football under Jose and Conte and turned them quickly into a hyper attacking coherent unit.
The best managers aren’t too concerned with player turnover. It’s their job to improve what they have. Once they’ve done that, then yes, investment in the squad is needed to step up a level.
I think Ten Hag has gotten very lucky. He completely skipped the first step!
Refusal to acknowledge the need for improvement is not doing this, especially when you double down in the way that he did. It was a spiky response.
Managers will be looking at what is the best way to navigate/answer a question , for the club , for the players , for the team and for themselves. That involves discretion/diplomacy at times and it involves lieing when it suits. I don’t even know the interview you are referring to but it still doesn’t matter.Refusal to acknowledge the need for improvement is not doing this, especially when you double down in the way that he did. It was a spiky response.
As was already highlighted earlier in the thread, he wanted to keep McTominay and Amrabat on and needed convincing on Ugarte. Those aren't the actions of the man who acknowledges the need for improvement.Have you not seen the transfers !??
How is changing so many players not acknowledging the need for improvement?
Christ on a bike.
It’s funny that people keep mentioning Ange while failing or refusing to acknowledge that Spurs spent close to 250m€ last year and brought 10 new players in.Nobody has implemented a clear style then shipped out 10 players. Nobody. You have to ship out the players first. To win two trophies while doing that is superb. Slipping to 8th, not so great. But so much has changed around him since he arrived. It's been nuts.
You can afford to be spiky when you are producing. Football is a results business and those managers all earned the right due to their results.Managers will be looking at what is the best way to navigate/answer a question , for the club , for the players , for the team and for themselves. That involves discretion/diplomacy at times and it involves lieing when it suits. I don’t even know the interview you are referring to but it still doesn’t matter.
As for giving Spikey responses, are you too young to of ever seen some of Fergusons interviews? Have you even seen some of Peps or Klopps interviews? Managers being spikey with media happens all the time.
As was already highlighted earlier in the thread, he wanted to keep McTominay and Amrabat ....
...of players who have proven they aren't good enough to play for this club? Yeah, nice one.Manager plagued with injuries wants a bigger squad ! What a bastard.
You can afford to be spiky when you are producing. Football is a results business and those managers all earned the right due to their results.
As I mentioned in my previous post, Ten Hag produced our worst ever Premier League and Champions League finishes last season. The scrutiny is very much warranted.
Scott scored 10 goals from midfield last year, is an academy graduate, and players like that can be part of good squads. He's a limited player who I wouldn't advocate signing for money but to have him kept is not the damning or controversial opinion you are desperately trying to make it out to be....of players who have proven they aren't good enough to play for this club? Yeah, nice one.
We bemoan the Glazers and call us a joke of a club yet still expect manager to do miracles.
According to the Athletic, he wasn't willing to let McTominay go for Ugarte, and wanted to just sign Amrabat instead. He needed convincing by the new guys.
Am I glad this guy isn't in charge of that anymore.
Expecting a Manchester United manager to finish higher than 8th, with a better GD then -1, whilst playing some good football along the way, is hardly expecting miracles
I was being stupid ironic as I am rather frustrated with ETH and his lack of improvement.Should he lose again tomorrow, he would of lost two in a row to managers new to the PL. With much less time to set their teams up than him, and far less money spent.
Will his luck ever change? Given how it seems to go, I can see us surprising absolutely everyone by taking it to LFC, controlling the match, creating numerous good chances which all go begging and then concede a 98th minute corner to VVD after 4 minutes of added time where supposed to be added, when it clearly went out off a Pool player.
The moment he loses his luck he’ll be gone from a club way too big for his shoesWill his luck ever change? Given how it seems to go, I can see us surprising absolutely everyone by taking it to LFC, controlling the match, creating numerous good chances which all go begging and then concede a 98th minute corner to VVD after 4 minutes of added time where supposed to be added, when it clearly went out off a Pool player.
100%Yes. As I said, finishing 8th was quite bad.
The subsequent transfer window shows the club accepts the playing squad was a huge factor.
Agreed. The signs are there are other adults in the room to manage the mess now, so ETH has to get it right on the pitch.100%
Addressing the need to improve the squad is the right course of action.
This season though, EtH has to show something different or he will be the problem to be addressed.
McTominay made his debut for the club 7 years ago and 10 goals in all competitions was his most productive season for us. But they also came in the same season where our midfield was probably the most unbalanced I've ever seen it.Scott scored 10 goals from midfield last year, is an academy graduate, and players like that can be part of good squads. He's a limited player who I wouldn't advocate signing for money but to have him kept is not the damning or controversial opinion you are desperately trying to make it out to be.
McTominay made his debut for the club 7 years ago and 10 goals in all competitions was his most productive season for us. But they also came in the same season where our midfield was probably the most unbalanced I've ever seen it.
We needed to redress that balance this summer. Keeping McTominay when we already have multiple players capable of playing the advanced 8/10 roles wouldn't have been beneficial for us. Factor in his age, contract situation, limitations as a player and the PSR rules incentivising selling academy players; it was an open goal to sell him.
McTominay seems like a likeable character and I wish him well at Napoli but he wasn't good enough to be playing regular football at United. This isn't only about Ten Hag's stance on McTominay, there are numerous judgments that have been extremely poor from him.
That includes his tactical set-up which has produced horrible results that are unbecoming of this football club, both individually (humiliating results like the 7-0 against Liverpool) and collectively (8th place league finish, bottom of the Champions League group, negative goal difference). We're over two years into the project, we've spent a feck tonne of money, brought in a new structure to support the manager and it's still highly contestable whether we will even finish in the top 4 at the end of this season. I want higher standards than that.
How what seems to go? What is this based on?Will his luck ever change? Given how it seems to go, I can see us surprising absolutely everyone by taking it to LFC, controlling the match, creating numerous good chances which all go begging and then concede a 98th minute corner to VVD after 4 minutes of added time where supposed to be added, when it clearly went out off a Pool player.
Aye the idea he owes the media anything but a snarl is wild.Just watched the second part of the press conferences: Erik is prickly indeed. So is every other top manager in the PL, none of them are humble.
The media has been abu and atrocious so it‘s good 10Hag is having a go at them. He called Shearer stupid and he‘s not wrong.
I‘m reminded of that Howson rant against the media that was posted here a few days ago.
We‘ve had two games, looked more structured than last season so the negativity on here is jumping the gun.
I see precious little discussion about actual performance in here. If we win against Pool, a lot of people are going to be disappointed again which is mental.
Add to that people who get annoyed when he even tries to defend himself. I prefer a United manager taking a hostile approach to media because he’s United manager and the media are NO FRIENDS of United.Aye the idea he owes the media anything but a snarl is wild.
Add to that people who get annoyed when he even tries to defend himself. I prefer a United manager taking a hostile approach to media because he’s United manager and the media are NO FRIENDS of United.
The media’s job is to get a story or make a story out of what a manager says. That includes twisting what he says out of context so fans of rivals and fans of United who want to be angry , can get animated about it.
One bad season he won the FA cup in. Seems rather important.Calma calma...he had one bad season. Finally, the club has competent and rated people overseeing football ops and recruitment and squad coming/goings, but the job isn't done regardless of the manager.
Unless the squad miraculously loses quality and has a massive injury crisis again, think we'll see better performances like we have the first two matches and more full results. Xabi is going to Real in the near future.