My friend who is a liverpool fan was stunned when he saw his play a none attacking brand of football, when liverpool could not defend a cold. I think that spineless play for a draw when they could not defend for shit has done more bad than good from him
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My friend who is a liverpool fan was stunned when he saw his play a none attacking brand of football, when liverpool could not defend a cold. I think that spineless play for a draw when they could not defend for shit has done more bad than good from him
I guess over 350 million € spent doesn't help you beat the likes of Burnley, Stoke, Huddersfield etc nowadays…
Really starting to get sick of this guy at the moment. Just cheer the up FFS and try and bring back the arrogance and swagger to old trafford rather than this everyone is out to get me bullsh*t which is out of his mouth every damn week.
The excuses are out. The end is near
At that point in the season and how things were going, it was extreme cowardice to do what we did there. Please don't compare our result with Arsenal's.
Excuses as always with Jose.
In fairness, it did the job didn't it!
The Tottenham thrashing aside, they've been excellent against big teams this year, especially away
Good thing our striker only cost the price of 2 FBs.
The excuses are out. The end is near
At that point in the season and how things were going, it was extreme cowardice to do what we did there. Please don't compare our result with Arsenal's.
Ok how did Chelsea do at Anfield?
You would have been the first one crying if we opened up and lost by 3-0.
Exactly mate. That game destroyed the season for us. The players have been visibly deflated since.
The acolytes will lap it up though.
The Kane comparison doesn't really make any sense. He is playing great because of Pochettino's setup. They are playing great stuff on their day and Kane is a fantastic striker of course. That our goalkeeper is our best player and still need to do tons of saves all the time doesn't speak four our team, it even makes you question our defence, which really isn't that good.
Sarri needed a bit of time to get to the top flight, does it matter? Once he arrived there, he did a great job at Empoli and Napoli now. At the end of the year he might have won Serie A. And I know that Jardim proved he can be very pragmatic too, did a great job at Sporting and Monaco nevertheless. They are managers on the up atm, you can go for Allegri in the summer too. At the end looking at records from the last decade brought us to van Gaal and maybe Jose, but they might have their best days behind them and it doesn't matter today.
In the end we need to look at someone else if it isn't working. To just put the head in the sand and ignore big problems will just lead us into a bigger crisis. Jose is a short-term manager, he never struggled so much for having an huge impact on his team and he never improved a team further in his third year and more, so I don't think it's likely those things happen here.
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I am saying even the greats make mistakes. To bash Mourinho for selling 2 players in his long and prestigious career is boring and pointless. Especially when one of them is Mo Salah. Especially when he went on to win the league anyway.
Well the past few years he decided to keep faith with 60% of the players who were not good enough to the point its become a god awful siege mentality, blind, rojo, jones, smalling, young, herrera, lingard, fellaini, carrick, mata, he plays no 10's has wingers, average wingers has fullbacks, CB's who spend half the time on the sidelines, and strikers who have very limited overall ability will score some goals case point lukaku who seems to not be able to handle the heat when it gets tough. The summer activity over the past few summers was not ruthless enough or effective to see a transition when allot of these players have been here since 2010-14
At that point in the season, we were far far more likely to win 3-0 at anfield, than the home team. feck's sake Mourinho has conditioned some us so well that our first instinct is the fear of losing 3-0 if we opened up and played football.
There’s no such thing as a long term manager. Do you think if we got Pep that he would have stayed here 10 years when he did only 4 at his boyhood club.
Yes keep hiring and firing managers till we eventually get it right. Hiring journeymen who have won nothing is the answer though to all our problems.
He's cracking up. If the results don't improve pronto, it's going to get ugly here.
At that point in the season, we were far far more likely to win 3-0 at anfield, than the home team. feck's sake Mourinho has conditioned some us so well that our first instinct is the fear of losing 3-0 if we opened up and played football.
Probably the most underrating of Anfield fixture I have ever seen in my life.
We hadn't done that under Fergie against far worse Liverpool side at some seasons.
At that point in the season, we were far far more likely to win 3-0 at anfield, than the home team. feck's sake Mourinho has conditioned some us so well that our first instinct is the fear of losing 3-0 if we opened up and played football.
Yet Liverpool have barely conceded 3 goals at Anfield this season.
You confusing their away day dramas when they actually had one of the best defences at home.
Boring and pointless why? Those 2 are amongst the best in the prem atm.
I guess if you want you can add Lukaku and Robben as well...
Yeah agreed then. Don’t think we will sign anyone though. The players we need won’t be available.
I agree with everything Jose said in his press conference, in fact it's exactly what I have said on here for years to defend Jose and LvG
Utd's spending has been nothing more than par for what a big club ought/needs to be spending even to have a hope of competing. To complain that we are 'only 2nd' because we have spent £350m is like the boss of Force India demanding to know why they failed to beat McLaren in the constructors championship last year after investing millions
We have some stupid, ungrateful whiny fans (as do any club) - if you don't like it and you are not happy please go and support City because the cold reality is that we will be looking up at them for a while to come yet - and even longer if we get rid of Jose
Utd's spending has been nothing more than par for what a big club ought/needs to be spending even to have a hope of competing. To complain that we are 'only 2nd' because we have spent £350m is like the boss of Force India demanding to know why they failed to beat McLaren in the constructors championship last year after investing millions
We have some stupid, ungrateful whiny fans (as do any club) - if you don't like it and you are not happy please go and support City because the cold reality is that we will be looking up at them for a while to come yet - and even longer if we get rid of Jose
You mean apart from Conte whose already done it last season?
Would have been easier(and truthful) to just agree. Poor comments.
What has the cost of City's fullbacks got to do with 8 points from 15.
Wish press would ask him why are we so God awful going forward and is he coaching any attacking football in practice whatsoever? Is he drawing attack plan, players movement, tactics and the way of attack other then just getting the ball to your flair players and hope for the best.
Manchester United aren't a bigger club than Inter?
See that as a direct message to Woodward. Open your purse strings.
Jose's feeling the pressure, and he wants to buy well in January. Hopefully his targets, whomever they are, are mint and not another Mkhitaryan.
His answers are very trump like I dare say.
It might sound awkward but the point grabbed felt like it came more from Lingard's quick thinking than a collective change in how we attacked them in the second half, our approach play didn't alter or improve.
Who are you quoting there?
The excuses need to stop, a club can't just buy an entire new squad every time a manager is changed, that is the reason why the manager usually gets the boot when teams are not performing well as it is much cheaper to replace a manager than buy a new squad.
He has been backed and not all of his signings have worked. Which of the players has he really improved that he inherited?? That is a part of the manager as well. Pep may have bought new FBs, but he improved the players that he inherited massively as well.
He has been backed and not all of his signings have worked. Which of the players has he really improved that he inherited?? That is a part of the manager as well. Pep may have bought new FBs, but he improved the players that he inherited massively as well.
You realize that thing can change dramastically when hitting rock bottom? L'pool did before going into our game and played out of their skin as they usually against us at Anfield. After that game, they improved. They still had shocking result, but overall they start scoring plenty again. What if they can do it? This game as our problem is overstated. Problem is with players' attitude vs Huddersfield, many moment against Chelsea, Watford, West Brom, Arsenal, Bristol,... where our player didn't put in enough effort and let the other get back into game (even winning). We may not control the game via possession, but as our top form, we can stifle opposition into not to be able to play and hit them in counter. At the moment we expose ourselves and make bad decisions when the chance appears. It's not tactic/ approach issue. It's question about quality for those players who is experienced.At that point in the season, we were far far more likely to win 3-0 at anfield, than the home team. feck's sake Mourinho has conditioned some us so well that our first instinct is the fear of losing 3-0 if we opened up and played football.
Spot on.
Of course there are different managers. You can plan with guys like Klopp or Simeone for a longer time and get a project going, of course that doesn't mean they will be that long at any club, but they are more suitable to it than other managers. Guys like Mourinho or Favre reach their heights and then feck it up and their team drops down, you probably try to remove them as long as things are steady. Pep wouldn't be here forever and he won't be at City, but there is not much to suggest that things will get a lot of worse during his time there, once his teams start to dominate, they keep it up for 3, 4 years. Jose never proved that he can do that or that he can build further when things aren't going that well, he is usually just a big up and then it goes down. He never was in a situation like that and his comments don't give me trust to know how to solve our problems.
We didn't hire journeyman who won nothing except for Moyes and he is not comparable to any of those mentioned names. LvG and Mourinho won several things in their career, but their prime wasn't/isn't at United. If you want to wait for a manager who has already 10 titles in his pocket before he arrives here, you will most likely miss his prime again.
How far has he fallen. Seriously need to do a gap year, learn some new shit or something.
Mourinho needs to get on with trying to develop the players that he's got. No one has the money that City have but Man Utd are closest to them in financial terms. Man Utd still have the money and clout to beat off almost all competition for players in the Premier League and their squad should be beating Burnley, Leicester etc.
The comments that really embarrass him though are about the lack of ambition shown by Burnley today. He employs exactly the same tactics when up against one of the top 6 so he has no right to moan at teams doing that to him. Yes, it's frustrating when teams do it but you can't have a pop when you do it too.
The comments that really embarrass him though are about the lack of ambition shown by Burnley today. He employs exactly the same tactics when up against one of the top 6 so he has no right to moan at teams doing that to him. Yes, it's frustrating when teams do it but you can't have a pop when you do it too.
I'm actually baffled by how many of you that want him out. Who would you rather have?
Why is he cracking? If it weren't for City doing unreal this season, we are having a DECENT season.
You can't compete with a team who has won 17 games in a row. Nobody has ever done that before. Sometimes you just gotta hold your hands up and say that it's done.
You can't compete with a team who has won 17 games in a row. Nobody has ever done that before. Sometimes you just gotta hold your hands up and say that it's done.
Did you want him out of Real Madrid years ago?
feck all.
Just deflection tactics. Albeit poorly executed, just like his management over the last couple of months.
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