Canucantona20
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The team just doesn’t make sense. A bang average squad with a below average manager.
That's not a good reason to mePayoff for that ludicrously extended contract
They didn’t. They activated the one year extension, why? Because you can’t have a manager going into the season on an expiring contract and give off any semblance of confidence to your playing staff.I can understand giving him this season. I can understand fully backing him regarding transfers. What I can’t understand is giving him a new contract. Same vibes as renewing Ole’s contract and everything went to shit after that.
Just have to leave it here, we are progressing.
Just have to leave it here, we are progressing.
Mercury not in retrograde style excuses will I’m sure be out in force again but he’s got to go.
The man has no clue how to set up a football team, who to pick, who to buy with our hundreds of millions.
He needs to be fired now.
Ruud interim. Can't be worse than ETH.Who replaces him now all the good managers have jobs?
Playing a 3-5-2 though? Didnt INEOS say they will identify a system of play and hire a manager accordingly?Tuchel is a no brainer now.
You are wrong. It's no attack, no midfield and no defence to be preciseYou don't win football matches with no midfield...This set-up is suicidal...
Honestly, at this point I’d take Southgate as caretaker for the season. We can’t keep allowing this total devolution of our football to continue. People are going to pile on the players but their confidence is shot, and Casemiro was never trying to play balls like that at Madrid but that’s our ‘style’ the manager wants to play.This start to the season might change the mood though. That might as well have been moyes' surrender at home to Liverpool. I just can't see where we're going, but do think we have a good squad that can achieve way more than this
Yep, feel like we’ve moved into the ‘when not if’ borrowed time phase now. Just a matter of if that lasts for weeks or months.So obviously going to get sacked at some point this season, not sure what the real point of waiting is for it to happen.
Let’s be honest he’s judged for his tenure, not just 3 games, he’s genuinely not impacted us positively at all and now new season with new hopes is gone in September.
It ain’t too late INEOS.
Just have to leave it here, we are progressing.
The game was over before we had any decent chance. The stat is very misleading.
Tuchel would have us playing solid. He might piss everyone off in 12 months but we wouldn’t be witnessing the crap that went on today.Who is a realistic option to take over? We obviously give Ruud a few games to see how he does. But if that doesn’t go well either then who is available? I can’t think of one coach who can fix this mess.
Tuchel is capable of 4 at the back too I thinkPlaying a 3-5-2 though? Didnt INEOS say they will identify a system of play and hire a manager accordingly?
Squad is not unbalanced. This is exactly difference between other clubs and us.What manager would want this job with this unbalanced squad though? I mean what can a new manager do with a team without a midfield and not much quality up front either? This is why I also question INEOS and whether those we've brought in are genuinely good enough or whether they also got lucky with their reputations at the clubs they worked for?
This is a huge issue, our midfield especially is incredibly immobile, Casemiro and Mainoo both move like they're in sand and while Fernandes is the energiser bunny he isn't exactly positionally disciplined so is also easily bypassed, when we kept giving the ball away today the recovery attempts were abysmal most of the time.What a surprising result and shape of the game.
I just don't get anything about his gameplan for the PL. He has consistently under estimated the physical levels required, wants to play a transition game while filling the team with average (to be generous) athletes. Zirkzee is another low intensity, sluggish mover, De Ligt and Martinez, the midfield. He must know they lack physically but plays a style that gives them no opportunity to pace themselves, press, transition, press, repeat. Continually gassed and getting done on the break with massive gaps for the midfield to cover.
I don't see a single element of his gameplan you could call a success or something a new a manager wouldn't just throw out immediately as unsuited to the league and the players.
We know what has to happen, has been blatantly obvious since a month into last season.
We have enough centre backs, let him do 3Tuchel is capable of 4 at the back too I think
Obviously, the knee jerk reaction is for him to get the sack. But a bit of perspective, it's only 3 games into the season. Also, does anybody think it will change if he does get sacked? How many managers is it now and nothing changes. The players being recruited.
That's the thing though, the squad isn't bang average. It should not be this poorThe team just doesn’t make sense. A bang average squad with a below average manager.