Answered the question as if it were framed, are you surprised, in my opinionThat's a little too honest
Nothing surprises Ten Hag.
I'm assuming he interpreted "impressed" as "surprised" in this context.
Great manager, shit DoF. We still have a poor squad which will make it a tough season for him. We need at least 3 more players.
Good thing is that we see big improvements already considering he just joined
Would say 4 more players for first XI absolute minimum which are RB,CDM/DLP,RW,ST
Spot on... One/two of them are bound to be out at some point, whether injured or just to rest and rotate.Our attack is so thin.
If 1 of Martial/Rashford/Sancho are out, the drop in quality is staggering.
I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but I think we should have made 1-2 more signings regardless of De Jong.
Which one don't you think is needed then
RW for the first 11 we have Sancho. Although maybe you want to start him LW?
We do need more depth though. We need at least 2 attackers in my opinion
The only one that isn't needed is a striker IF Ronaldo stays. Otherwise agreed. However, I don't think we are going to sign a Dalot upgrade, so I would give Laird an opportunity and sell Wan Bissaka.Which one don't you think is needed then
Dalot is going to get found outThe only one that isn't needed is a striker IF Ronaldo stays. Otherwise agreed. However, I don't think we are going to sign a Dalot upgrade, so I would give Laird an opportunity and sell Wan Bissaka.
The only one that isn't needed is a striker IF Ronaldo stays. Otherwise agreed. However, I don't think we are going to sign a Dalot upgrade, so I would give Laird an opportunity and sell Wan Bissaka.
Which one don't you think is needed then
There have been positive signs in pre season from Rashford and Martial.i think we can get away with Dalot and AWB at RB while throwing in Laird....
i believe we need 2 serious signings....not 4 brand new starters
1 CM and 1 forward not necessarily a striker...martial, ronaldo and even rashford can play up top
I thought the main difference was Martial, Pellistri and Maguire all spooning easy chances while one of Madrids subs managed to bury a half chance.
There wasn't much wrong with us technically or movement wise. We just have soft defenders and no real cutting edge.
I think maguire has actually looked OK in pre season, but you couldn't imagine Dalot or Lindelof lasting more than a half for a team like Madrid because when they do have to defend near their own goal they fall to pieces
That's exactly the technical difference I have been talking about.
The reason we failed to score was that the first touch/short passing/shooting ability of many of our players were not up to the standard.
Short passes slightly ahead or behind (Bruno), half chances shooting straight at Oblak (rashford), First touch too heavy (Elanga was a culprit for a couple times), etc.
That's why we controlled the game but failed to score. There was no problem with pattern of play or formation. Just players failing to execute the plan.
Whereas Felix took a half chance well and put the ball into the bottom corner.
5 of our front 6 tonight are actually technically average or poor (in terms of first touch, ball shielding and short passes):
Rashford - average (good first touch but no ball shielding and short passes always off)
Elanga - poor (poor first touch)
Martial - good
Bruno - average (his ball shielding/first touch under pressure are AWFUL)
mcFred - average compared with other strong teams' midfielder
We would have easily trashed Madrid 3-1 or 4-1 yesterday if we replace Elanga and Rashford with like of Son Heung Min and Mane.
Who is out there that can provide us with a similar output to Son & Mane then
Just feel we could do with left footed RW option and don't see that as Pellistri/Amad
He’s been given a coaching role as well as that apparentlyThought Fletcher is Technical Director?
Nothing surprises Ten Hag.
Room full of people: "Surprise!"
Ten Hag: "How is this a surprise? It's my birthday, after all..."
For me, ETH is in the same league as Klopp and Pep. He has a different style of play than we are used to, he pays a lot of attention to details and technical football. He has shown with Ajax that he can get the best out of the team he has, and in time I am sure he will get the right players into the team.
We must remember that it is easier to get hold of the right players when we are in the CL. So right now it's up to him to get us back into the top 4 and I have no doubt that he will probably get us up there and then it will be easier for him to get the right players who can be there to fight for the title.
Regardless of whether we like Ronaldo or not, he will be perfect up front, because he will, if anyone, be able to get something out of the passes that Eriksen will be able to send into the box. Some of our players are just not good enough "yet", they need to learn to understand the technical game and then be a bit faster than they are right now. Otherwise, I think there will be quite a few replacements again this winter.
ETH is the right coach for Man Utd. and I believe he is the most important signing we have made this summer.
Nice to see the players buying in. If we have to play Scott regularly then we're going to have limitations on offense that no manager can fix.
If we can get away with a 3 of Fred, Bruno & Christian/VDB, look more attacking minded, then I I'm hopeful.
We can only bring in so many players, 3 new starters would be good enough.
De Jong, Fred and Eriksen sounds tasty.fred, Bruno and Eriksen would be suicidal
we need another CM for sure
fred, Bruno and Eriksen would be suicidal
we need another CM for sure
Alot of guess work there. I'm not convinced.True. In years past the Greenwood's incident would have been handled on the downlow with a lot of hush hush. I mean even the girl's father was siding with Greenwood on this whole issue despite what he'd done to his daughter. Just tells you how easily this could have been hushed and swept under the rug if there were no social media and undisputable proof and evidences of what Greenwood had done.
I would imagine in years past before social media, this issue would have been brought up by the girl, club and Greenwood deny, then they settle it with the girl and her family, especially given how eager the father had been trying to exonerate Greenwood. He'd take the settlement money and everyone move on.