Accepted we’ve had the first major change for years, but the club and its top leaders are the common denominator over the last 11 years. We’ve tried everything, club legends, tacticians, been-there-done-that’s, bringing through youth in the squad or buying big names. Nothing is fecking working.
keeping EtH until summer would be absolutely asinine. Would mean a whole season of pretty much bottom half footy, toxic as hell environment, and just a throwaway european campaign. Shit even last year we only had the cup run due to some crazy luck
Keeping ETH until the summer is compounding one failure with another even bigger one.
But the signings we made look heavily influence by ten hag and its hard to be confident they will fit in under another manager, which just seeks incredibly stupid. The decision to retain him was alway most likely to end in more of the same
The only signing I would say that about is maybe Zirkzee. The others are good players who can fit under most managers. It is still to early to say anything about Ugarte I feel.
I think even Zirkzee can be a really good fit in the right system.
Yeah starting all over with a new Frankenstein of signings would really help us right now.
Who so ever we get should work with the squad we have and should not be dictating the direction of rebuild .
Of course we haven’t. Is anyone really believing that? Even in the summer the general consensus was that this takes many windows to build.
In order:
But if poch won a trophy or 2 you know how the Story goes. He’d have bought himself another couple of years. We give managers more time than they deserve. We can’t think short term, we need to go for a manager that can develop us and potentially challenge. That guy needs to be the same guy, Alonso, Nagelsmann, Inzaghi or even Amorim should be the 4 we target.
Yep. But people love big names.
There’s really no need to call it a dumb viewpoint, mate. We’ve accrued some of the largest amounts of debt out of the top clubs, and often had signings dictated by the American board. We’ve now got Ineos in, and it’s a positive change that will take time, but Old united and shit-era Liverpool didn’t have a club run like this. We’re a business, a brand making as much money as we’ve ever had but doing much more poorly on the pitch - and it’s often felt like that doesn’t really matter.
That’s a good dilemma to have at least.
Why wouldn’t we? On paper Emery should get a bigger paycheck and be at a bigger club by going to United.
A lack of footballing culture. SAF was everything, without him we have none.
I honestly don't see them at hags picks, they don't suit his football.
What is his football?
Direct, no thinking, robot stuff.
Suprised if he gets that at any big club though. Wonder if it's a sign of the declining appeal of the job
I would argue de ligt as well. Most top teams seem to play a high line these days and not sure that's achievable woth two slow centre backs
The weird thing about this rumour is that Tuchel never really had that control and never demanded it. Only after the Chelsea takeover he briefly had big influence and was so bad and unmotivated about that, that it was a big reason why Boehly was unhappy with him and ultimately let him go. So I truly have a hard time believing that he demanded something like that from United.
finally get a structure in place but for the sake of a manager who didn't want to sign for us we will just go back to how it was before. Ok.The timing of the rumour makes me wonder if it could have emanated from the club as an excuse for not appointing a new manager
And big ears.
De Ligt was Bayern's best defender under Tuchel and played all the time if he was fully fit. Don't see why this should be a problem.
Mislintat himself seems to be a problematic character as well. But you are right, there seem to be these situations during Tuchel's career. The way I see this is that he has clear views on what kind of players he needs for his squad and as long as he aligns with the DoF on this question there is no issue. If the DoF starts delivering different types of players it seems to create problems.
Talking about dumb viewpoints... You act as if those clubs simply rolled the dice on their manager decisions and made it a numbers game. Feck sack, we went from Moyes to LVG to Mourinho to Ole to ETH. ETH is the first manager that could be described as somewhat modern. And no, modern doesn't necessarily mean good but just look at the clubs you so intelligently listed. How many has-beens are in those lists? How often did they do two almost perfect 180ies like we did with Moyes and LVG and then from LVG to Mou?!
What could he then do, that can't do right now?
