RedorDead21
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Already talking like a cup would be a great season. 8th and an FA cup is still unavoidable sack territory someone needs to point that out.
Are you OK? The tweet is referring to Slot breaking down how we play on Sky:
"simple as that"
Rodgers was sacked 8 games into the season despite having "full backing" by the owners and that turned out quite well for Liverpool in the end. Sacking ETH NOW would be knee jerk imo, but if results and performances dont improve drastically in the next month, i dont see it as some embarrasment by the owners if they sack him some time in October
Being given yet another window with yet another sizable budget means they have been more than lenient with him.
The games leading up to the final were lucky. You couldn't get luckier than vs Conventry for instanceThey were not lucky wins
It's honestly embarrassing watching this.
Should ban the journalist
That would be the pathetic actions of a cowardShould ban the journalist
He's a charlatan, very good at talking his way out of a bad situation. Remember his "if they don't want me I'll go and win things elsewhere" speech? INEOS fell for his act hook, line and sinker. He should've been sacked after the cup final. Now here we are, 3 games in, already hopeing for the season to end.
That would be the pathetic actions of a coward
It was quite clear at the time he was referencing the trophies Mourinho won and gloated about as though we'd won the Premier League and Champions League.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.
Disrespectful journalists don't get access.
It's not hard. That's how Ferguson did it.
Act a prick and he'll treat you like one
Cant see what's disrespectful about the question. It's Ten Hag who comes out looking like the prickDisrespectful journalists don't get access.
It's not hard. That's how Ferguson did it.
Act a prick and he'll treat you like one
As a fan you have to expect for victory in every game. Does not mean that people in charge of the club will take unprofessional and illogical decisions.It does gnare away at me that we wouldn't be experiencing this now if City had won the final. I wouldn't want to change that result, but it feels so ridiculous the knock on impact.
Cant see what's disrespectful about the question. It's Ten Hag who comes out looking like the prick
As a fan you have to expect for victory in every game. Does not mean that people in charge of the club will take unprofessional and illogical decisions.
Disrespectful journalists don't get access.
It's not hard. That's how Ferguson did it.
Act a prick and he'll treat you like one
It's pretty obvious that the plan is that he has x number of games to show he's capable of stringing enough form in the league for a top 4 finish, otherwise they sack him and Ruud takes over in the interim while they look for the long term manager.
To be fair, they followed fan sentiment and the overwhelming noise. It was the easier of the choices, and it doesn't reflect great on them, but I see why they did it, riling the fanbase would have heaped pressure on them instantly. I expected and hoped for a more cold and clinical decision. It was needed. And now we are where we are.
It was quite clear at the time he was referencing the trophies Mourinho won and gloated about as though we'd won the Premier League and Champions League.
Unfortunately it meant Ole was pretty much a dead man walking after losing numerous semi-finals and the Europa League final, it was an easy stick to beat him with. 'He doesn't care about winning trophies'.
God help us, if the fabled appointments upstairs, with technocrats taking over to change the club's fortunes, are so early reduced to top-four trophies, at all costs and without any actual progress in terms of style and philosophy, and "just give it to (insert ex-legend's name) to lift the spirits" grand ideas. Somewhere, right now, Woodward is sipping his tea and laughing his arse off
It does gnare away at me that we wouldn't be experiencing this now if City had won the final. I wouldn't want to change that result, but it feels so ridiculous the knock on impact.
I think it's a perfect set of fixtures (along with the cup games in between) to properly test if there are any improvements, blend of low/mid/high level teams. He will also have starting 11 players returning (Hojlund, Shaw, Ugarte), so a full strength squad, no further excuses.IF he survives through the international break, which he only may because managers are rarely sacked after 3 games, next 6 fixtures are all the kind that he should win, but majority of them we can easily lose if we play like we did today.
Those 6 league fixtures
1. Southampton (A)
2. Crystal Palace (A)
3. Spurs (H)
4. Aston Villa (A)
5. Brentford (H)
6. West Ham (A)
I think, if he drops more than 3 points out of the 18 possible in these games, he is not making it
Unfortunately, I do think he will fail that test, even with Ugarte, because as big of a problem as Casemiro was, he was far from the only problem today
No it wasn't. I don't think Southgate was even mentioned in the list of managers they spoke to.Ten hag is not the answer, but the alternative was very likely going to be southgate, and he is no better in a different way. We'd have sat back and not got hammered, but offered nothing going forward and still lost to the first mistake we made.
People are making a lot of 'if we had lost the final he#s be gone', but I think a lack of alternatives was just as important in the choice that Ineos made.
Tbf it's not that astounding. I've raised this point before, but post Fergie we've only had 5 permanent managers. Genuinely successful clubs have had more managers than us.
To add to that, getting the right manager is a tricky process (and most clubs get it wrong more often than right) but knowing when to move on is actually relatively easy and that's when we have consistently missed the ball. Basically we handicap ourselves with the way we treat the managers role compared to other clubs.