A good manager comes in and buys good players.
Not moyes & fellini, not lukaku & Mourinho, not LVG & Rojo, not Ten Hag's buying Antony,Weghorst, Amrabat etc.
I want a better manager and I blame the manager because he would buy better players.
Pep wouldnt sign a single player listed above and would buy only players that fits his system.
So again, more than blaming the players - I blame the manager.
Who fits in with the current squad is a different story because that's actually got to be tested out.
For example people say Rashford can't play Possesion football but he arguably broke through under Van Gaal's possesion system whilst players like Sterling & Sane played for Pep's possesion sides too.
The mentality out of these players would change with a manager of high quality with better man management skills too.
I blame the manager for poor management of what players we have aswell as how they are used.
- Managers don’t have a magic wand. A better manager would undeniably do a better job than a worse manager. However in the modern game, a manager is only a part (albeit a huge part) of the solution and any manager working under the incompetent clowns being the Glazers would be hamstring by them.
- You say Pep wouldn’t want xyz but he did want Maguire, Ronaldo, Fred and Sanchez. Klopp wanted Brandt (I think) and not Salah who was the club’s choice.
- Rashford worked under LVG in a possession based system? Well, did we succeed - did we win the league or come close? Did we play great football? Rashford was an impressive young player at the time but using a failed managerial stint as proof of him apparently working in a possession based system when his skillset says the opposite, makes no sense. Sterling and Sane (at least till he dropped of a few levels) aren’t thick as a wall of bricks either.
The way people here underrate Sterling is weird.
I do believe the manager is the most important person for the type of football a team plays but using the manager to shield the players is wrong and this mindset will result in another 10 years of a bad culture. ETH has to go but so do players who have proven themselves to be below the desired level.
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Likewise the way you overrate Sterling is weird. Him at Chelsea under Pochettino is the same thing happening to Rashford here under Ten Hag.
Sure modern game has changed but we had so so so many bang average players under SAF who still managed to get use of them.
I think a top manager might not always want our players as a primary option but wouldn't cry as much as the fans who don't want them because they would be able to get better use of them.
Do you know how I can prove it?
Because we looked better last season than this season under the same manager and everyone was expecting us to go a level up in season 2 of Ten Hags reign - but suddenly people seem to forget the positive aspects the players showed last season alongside the manager & then this crap version is all they see from this season where the players are suddenly the root cause of all our problems.
You can believe what you want - but I don't think you can get 11 world class players, play them with such below average tactics where we let in 30 shots against Brentford because the space between our pressing line and defensive line is so big that we pretty much don't have a midfield & expect them to carve out result after result.
Sure maybe a match or two individual quality of an individual players can win a match but a team is bigger than the quality of 11 individualised players -
And who builds a team?
The manager.
That's why when the whole team is playing sh*t I blame it on the manager not the players.
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