Yes it does mean that. You are basically hoping that the opposition never does anything extraordinary and when you start a game with that approach and then concede an early goal, it is very difficult.
It isn't out of fashion, LvG just didn't have the coaching know-how or he hired some dumb coaches under him.
)I think it would go a long way if supporters got behind Mourinho and the team. It would make Jose happier, and energize the team. We should all unite together instead of encouraging the constant negativity of media. (but no flying posters please
The constant agenda against Jose and the team is beyond ridiculous.
There aren't that many, only one right now at a top club is Simeone(and Mourinho) and he hasn't won much. That sort of football is only good for financially weaker underdog clubs, you can't sign 100m players and then park the bus, it won't last long.
He openly admitted that he takes no active part in coaching and delegates them to his assistants. He may have the right idea but didn't sign proper assistants.
I doubt they read this forum. Match goers have been supporting Mourinho and the team all along.I think it would go a long way if supporters got behind Mourinho and the team. It would make Jose happier, and energize the team. We should all unite together instead of encouraging the constant negativity of media. (but no flying posters please
The constant agenda against Jose and the team is beyond ridiculous.
For that Jose must be behind the team, and personally i don't think he is. Whether we are talking about the squad or the club itself. I have a feeling his bags are half-packed already.
Then how can you not remember Moyes' days when we just hoofed the ball to Fellaini and got dismantled by every team in the league even when we had 10 players defending at all times as well? We're not playing great under Mourinho, sure, but to claim we're playing the most negative football under him is ridiculous.
It's possible to play absolutely awfully and win the game.
The obvious difference is that Moyes did not even finished one season. So it was in category of a forgotten mistakes.
Seriously now. This is becoming beyond ridicoulous.
The underdog thing is true and it's the basis for the siege mentality he tries to create. For good or bad reasons a sizable portion of United fans just haven't bought into it and probably never will. His fit here will remain an awkward one for however long he stays
The opening game (H v West Ham) was great from beginning to end. A real quality performance. And an all too common false dawn.
Yup. And, like Jose. it was worse to watch in his second season than in his first. Have both of them lost confidence the longer they've been in the job?
The only really enjoyable stuff has been the fightbacks. The football may be terrible, but the players have frequently shown there's nothing wrong with their mentality. For this, Jose must take much of the credit.
I seem to remember quite a lot of games in his first season (not just in the early part) where we played well, battered the opposition and only came away with a point. It seemed that a simple solution was at hand: bring in a more prolific striker. Which we did, but at the same time our play suddenly got a lot more laboured. Maybe Matic for Herrera didn't help.
Good point re. Valencia. He used to make our right side look a lot more effective than it did last season.
The match goers I know are not looking forward to the season and were hoping for a managerial change but feel it a betrayal to voice their concerns during the match. This is just a tradition at the club. Fans pretty much stuck with Moyes and LVG and did not voice that many concerns during the match.
We also backed Moyes and Van Gaal. Fellaini for 30 million was ludacris. Mata, albeit a good player, we overpaid for. Just because Moyes was an idiot and didn't know what to do at the transfer market doesn't mean that the club didn't back him.
Moyes was inherintely negative. What the flying feck are you talking about? This is the guy that wanted to make it "difficult for Newcastle" and in all of his press conferences and interview was extremely negative, always downplaying United and always talking about how we must stop the opposition rather than punch through them. I think you have forgotten pretty quickly what it was.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
That's negative. Mindless crossing is stupid and negative and of course, for that boring tactic to be effective you need someone big or tall to get at the end of crosses which was pretty much what people moaned about when We signed Lukaku or kept Fellaini. There's a reason why Moyes signed Fellaini.
There's no gnashing of teeth but there's nothing that's not shit or negative (aside from Mata on a helicopter) when Moyes was the manager. Even worse when you think We were the champions just a few months before He came here. I don't think We played better under Moyes at all.
I think it would go a long way if supporters got behind Mourinho and the team. It would make Jose happier, and energize the team. We should all unite together instead of encouraging the constant negativity of media. (but no flying posters please
The constant agenda against Jose and the team is beyond ridiculous.
