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is anyone else sick of his '' but we have won 2 trophies talk''
100%.
Thats the thing with getting rid of him. Its pure special effects when there is no successor available. I guess, modernizing our play was always going to backfire here and there, maybe it is good when ETH is the one getting the blame for it. Even though there is a good chance that we could have Potter or Poch at the sideline and we'd be challenged with similar issues. We missed 10 years of football evolution. That isn't going to be rectified simply by having one or two good transfer windows.
I also couldn’t believe it. Sadly it’s right. 14 in all compsThat’s surely not correct?!
They were not lucky winsNever been more relevant.
He was right and to think he got chastised for it. And now his replacement is hiding behind 2 lucky cup wins amongst the worst league form and performances I have seen in my lifetime.
This is an incredible stat. I wonder if this came up during INEOS’s review.We lost 14 games last season before Christmas. I think he’s gone if we get to half that this time round.
I swear Antony's fee increases a million every time a new graphic is made. Regardless, for me for a new manager after 3 years at a top club that's pretty much in line with others. Arteta, Pep, whoever is this week's manager at Chelsea will have simliarly valued squads.
We've gotten rid of over 30 players in that time.
That graphic isn't the problem. The performances are.
Emery took Aston Villa from relegation battle to Europe with only 1 transfer window.As basically every other clubs recent managerial changes have shown, it doesn't take eternity to get a semblance of an identity going one way or another.
Took Slot just 2 matches to get his side capable of thrashing us at Old Trafford
I dont really get that. Is it really any worse than sticking with a failing manager and be mid table by December?
Everyone knows winning the FA cup bought him some more time, but if this season continues in the same fashion as last one then sacking him in October for example would be perfectly reasonable.
'Trophies are overrated' is also a hiding place, one which Solskjaer used to hide the fact he could not compete for either a league or cup title.Never been more relevant.
He was right and to think he got chastised for it. And now his replacement is hiding behind 2 lucky cup wins amongst the worst league form and performances I have seen in my lifetime.
Every stat with this man is record breaking like 16 points in the last 16 leagues games and 91 points in the last 54 league games etcI also couldn’t believe it. Sadly it’s right. 14 in all comps
https://www.skysports.com/manchester-united-results/2023-24
There's time to sound out the available candidates and be ready for the change by the next international break.
And instead of using irony to kick someone who's already on the ground, the press should ask for a meeting with Brailsford, Berrada and Ashworth and pose similar questions to them: What exactly did they expect would happen? Because, cup or no cup, last season's underlying metrics were speaking of a team that should be sitting just above the relegation places.
Surely there must be a contingency plan in place. And please don't tell me it includes giving the gig to another ex-player who has shown nothing to deserve it. INEOS are supposed to help us make up for the lost decade during which football moved on and left us far behind
Imagine being fine with letting a complete failure continue to manage one of the biggest clubs in the world because you cannot think of a single alternative that would have any chance of being better.
Which appears to be where some people are at.
They were not lucky wins
Really!?
Beat a Newcastle side in the league cup final who compleatly choked after getting a big leg up from a massive GK error.
Huge slices of luck against Liverpool in Q/F. They should of absolutely buried us in that game.
Coventry in the semis, huge slice of luck with the VAR offside call that could of gone either way, needed penalties to beat them.
City in the final huge slice of luck with the first goal, got a good second, defended for our lives rode our luck held on against a well below par (possibly somewhat drunk) city side. Who probably still should of beaten us.
And that before you get onto ETH's luck with cup draws. Easily the luckiest manager in cup competitions I can remember.
Carragher's a fecking idiot.
Antony aside which of the Dutch or Dutch league players are not good enough?The issue is that he s been here for around $) month already, he showed very little to no improvement in the gameplay, so even if we were around 6th to 8th but played good footy, heis job should be at risk, but doesnt even show that. Hes no fecking Arteta, he fluked some wins but overall we are absolutely awful in many historical statistics and it really sucks to watch us play.
And hes also bloating the squad with all of the not good enough dutch or dutch league players..
I am still running with it. I'd also suggest that the replacement you wanted, that you still stand by, demonstrates my point quite well - De Zerbi was all the rage, but his Brighton were so porous that we looked defensively secure in comparison, and from the start of the year to the end of the season were in relegation form.
Change isn't automatically better, your preferred replacement being an example of how it can get worse.
Plus can you imagine his brand of press-inducing football with Casemiro's carelessness? Talk about a recipe for disaster.
It's true that casemiro is a completely different profile to de Jong but we all know ten hag has a veto on transfers so if he approved it he has to adapt his plans to suit the players profile. It happens to managers all the time. De Jongs form also hasn't been great at barca since then so not sure he would have been the answerI could be off about this but I thought the issue was that he had a contract dispute with Barca who didn't want to pay him off, not that he had no interest in playing for us?
Anyways, the club tried to sign him and didn't, whatever the reasons that's a failure. To then switch the profile of midfielder and sign Cas instead suggests a lack of direction which comes down on Murtoughs shoulders in my view.
His goose is cooked, I’m sure they will already be assessing his replacement
It's honestly embarrassing watching this.
I get the impression Ratcliffe/Ineos didn't want to be seen sacking a popular manager who's just won the cup. They probably also don't want to be seen as knee jerk and sacking a manager 6 weeks into a season after extending his contract and signing another £200m of his players.
Let's be honest it would be embarrassing for them. They should have had the balls to just sack him after the Cup Final. In hindsight the day after the 4-0 loss to Palace they should have just annonced he was leaving after the final. They painted themselves into a PR corner as evidenced by the fact they made no announcement on ETH for about a month after the final.
Hopefully they learn from this going forward and pull the trigger on managers a bit more quickly in the future.
It wouldn't be embarrassing if they sacked Ten Hag today. It'd be ruthless and decisive. It'd show that they demand higher standards.I get the impression Ratcliffe/Ineos didn't want to be seen sacking a popular manager who's just won the cup. They probably also don't want to be seen as knee jerk and sacking a manager 6 weeks into a season after extending his contract and signing another £200m of his players.
Let's be honest it would be embarrassing for them. They should have had the balls to just sack him after the Cup Final. In hindsight the day after the 4-0 loss to Palace they should have just annonced he was leaving after the final. They painted themselves into a PR corner as evidenced by the fact they made no announcement on ETH for about a month after the final.
Hopefully they learn from this going forward and pull the trigger on managers a bit more quickly in the future.
I'd give him a lot more credit if he just fronted up and said yeah it's nowhere near good enough and admitted some responsibility. It's painful watching him talking like he's done no wrong.For me the fact that we as a club now spend so much energy focussing on making the champions league and then when we got there we finished bottom of a pathetic group & yet this guy constantly tells us how he is a winner completely ignoring that group is so crazy.
So far in his time at United
- Finished 8th in the league, worst finish in 3 decades with a negative GD
- Bottom of a CL group with Copenhagen & Galatasaray
- Lost 7-0 to Liverpool
-Lost 4-0 to Brentford
-Lost 4-0 to Palace
- Lost 3-0 at home to Bournemouth
Not once has this guy come out and ever felt embarrassed or taken responsibility for any of these magnificent achievements and yet all he talks about is the two cups he won. I think not even mid table teams would accept a manager like him. We have no standards anymore