I actually wouldn't mind a Morata, wouldn't have minded Werner, not for the goals, but they work really hard. Just tell Ronaldo to be on the end of everything.
ETH: "We need new players and quality players. We will try and convince them to join." | Mirror: ETH believes FDJ will join Utd over Chelsea
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Ralf being proved right with every passing second.
The board will have delighted when he went...imagine him calling the cnuts out all summer.
The board will have delighted when he went...imagine him calling the cnuts out all summer.
We will TRY and CONVINCE?
A little bit too late now.
A little bit too late now.
2 out of the 3 players we've signed were totally unnecessary, familiar to EtH and didn't address any of the problems we've had for fecking years. Our single biggest remaining target is another former player and fellow Dutchman. Arnautovic was said to be one of his other targets.
He's definitely been dictating transfer policy and he's been getting it completely wrong. He needs to concentrate on coaching and back the feck off with transfers. The board needs to prove its moved on from past mistakes and start getting scouting right.
Good thing we are coming out with this now at the end of the fecking window
I hope the crybabies at our club don't constitute this as manager throwing them under the bus
But, the pressure is on the board to get few signings in next 2 weeks. So, what does the Caf think? How many will we sign and who?
Didn’t he say he was happy with the quality the other day? He wanted to learn it a hard way by giving these players a clean slate this summer.
Problem was pre-season was pretty good on the whole and yet again they fooled a manager into thinking he might not have as big a problem as he was led to believe. The end of last season people just put down to them freewheeling to the end.
He's on 375k/w, no?
To be fair, it's the board pushing for evolution because it is cheaper than revolution.
I'd say it is a pretty mucky slate now.
Nonsense
I guess the question for the CAF is: Is Ten Hag just trying to distance himself from failure by calling out the players..? 
Seriously anyone blaming ETH for all this should feck off
A competent club would have already sorted this out
Incredible isn't it
We need 2 midfielders, a striker, a right back, and a goalkeeper. Pretty sure, still the same as the end of last season, just added a new goalkeeper. De Gea distribution is not helping at all.
This.
Should have done more research and looked at the pattern of each player for the last 2 seasons at least. Would have given him a better idea.
Then again, we have an incompetent excuse for a DOF. Stupid that we the fans can see all this, and they are sat right there and didn't figure this shit out? No manager can make this work. Need a whole clean slate.
The players are to blame, but Ten Hag is the one who came in, utterly blanked Rangnick and refused to listen to him about them and said he was excited to work with the existing squad. He made his bed in that respect. He gets credit for it only taking two games to realise how desperately wrong his position was, but that credit is probably taken away again by his push to sign the Argentine Warwick Davis to play centre back in the Premier League.
He has some blame though, no? Why is it always the finger should be pointed at just one section of the club.
The board, players, and manager are to blame, though EtH should be given time, but he has to learn quick and fast.
So ETH didn't bother to check facts from the past and only counted the pre-season and training sessions?
Also our players have an agenda into fooling him in friendlies in order to keep their place in the squad?
Well we're the furthest thing from that
A competent club wouldn't have scrapped their strategy of integrating an experienced team builder into the fold at the first opportunity.
Now we're still left requiring...an experienced team builder
“Try to convince them”. Lovely.
If ole said it he would be panned. If Ralf said it people would love it. On one hand it's sad the excuses have started already. On the other hand, he needs to apply pressure on the upstairs function
It's not his squad.
Trouble is if you have people at the club chipping in with opinions about the players, trying to big up players who do not deserve it.
We know that a few of our players don't belong in a high press team. DdG and Ronaldo are the obvious ones. We also know we don't have a decent defensive midfielder. None of that has changed so if we play high press and out from the back we are going to be easy meat for a few months till it gets fixed.
So we need to accept this season isn't going to be much fun. All the fantasists who thought ETH would have us back in contention in a few weeks can now wake up and smell the reality that this club is a crumbling mess.
So we need to accept this season isn't going to be much fun. All the fantasists who thought ETH would have us back in contention in a few weeks can now wake up and smell the reality that this club is a crumbling mess.
How do Brighton and Brentford manage to play some decent footy with just a tiny fraction of our budget? I’m sure it is possible to do better with the players available to him..
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Because Ole built this joke of a team you dumb feck.
My question exactly. What has ETH been doing? What has the club been doing?
ETH needs to stop restricting himself to eredivise. The difference in quality between the Dutch league and the Premier league is huge.
I don't entirely blame Erik for giving these players a chance. He's used the preseason and these opening games to assess them, and now he is fully justified to replace any of them with a number of potential replacements. He's seen how shite they are for himself. I'm sceptical that we will actually go out and get the players needed, because recent history tells us that we are not amazing during the transfer window.
Cool enjoy
Are we also going to accuse him of being negative? He's speaking the truth and it's unfortunate our directors let him see it for himself. Unlike ETH they had all the necessary information to know this.
Our players think they are a lot better than they really are, and that they are entitled to win because we are Manchester United. Teams like Brighton and Brentford play with a tenacity, focus, structure and togetherness we can only dream of.
The good players wont join ffs
Everyone here keeps harping on about this not being his squad, yet he's believing in them. If he has to sod the lot of them on the bench and play the youngsters to prove something to the board, I'll have more respect for him
He is in a tough position, but I just think he's been a bit naive in thinking his style could be done with this team.
Sancho looked great in preseason where did that go? Martial great in preseason now injured. Rashford great in preseason, not looks completely disinterested. Ronaldo end of last season appeared to be no problem, then his agent whores him round every CL club in Europe. Barcelona being t*ts. I think he had a good idea where the problems lay and the club, yet again, promised the earth, but yet again are not doing what they should to give the manager a good chance. They can't sell the players, they know they can't sell the players, unless they do he will not get all he wants. That is due to mismanagement for years. We have average players on elite players wages. An elite wage will not turn an average player into an elite one.
What we needed was players in early to prevent this desperation with 2 weeks left of the window.
I don't see anymore than 2 coming in, id like to see 5!
I don't see anymore than 2 coming in, id like to see 5!
At this stage nothing more than a total clearout will suffice. That means going with the young lads and potentially struggling badly for 2/3 seasons but if we don't, we can forget about winning trophies anytime soon