We won a lot under Sir Alex playing with two wide players and crossing the ball. Then why does everyone want to change that? Styles are often defined by the players rather than vice-versa. Also, let's not talk about exceptional circumstances where we have a once in a life-time Barcelona/Bayern teams. It's hard to build a special team on a consistent basis. Those kind of things happen once in a generation, most of the time you try play to your core strengths but at the same adapt to nullify the opposition.
Moyes isn’t Fergie, no one is. Moyes needs to implement his own style on the team, I feel he is trying to copy Fergie and may feel under pressure to do so. However, Fergie built his team on how he knew to win football matches, Moyes needs to find his own way, at the moment he’s more like a diluted version of Sir Alex.
While I agree that style can be defined by the players it’s more so the manager who dictates what style they play, Martinez, Mourinho, Pellegrini, Guardiola, Ancelotti all joined new clubs this season, all clubs have now changed their style of play, some more noticeable than others. Rodgers at Liverpool is another good example.
As for certain teams coming along once in a generation, Barcelona, Munich, Madrid, United, Milan, to name but a few have all had exceptional teams, yes it’s hard to stay at the top, but the really true great clubs do.
I am worried. In fact, I have become very skeptical about Moyes' managerial stint at this club. I believe that the current squad, despite it's obvious weakness, still should have competed for the title rather than languished at 7th. In any sport mentality counts as much if not more than talent and we have shown unprecedented weakness at times. There were times this season when we had opportunities to build momentum and we repeatedly failed. I don't think Moyes has done enough to inspire confidence in the players and some of his statements show that the pressure of managing United may be a little too much for him. His squad rotation and subs have also left much to be desired..
I agree, therefore can you not understand why people are worried about our style of play, or our one dimensional predictable football we seem to be playing more often than not. Against Arsenal we tried to mix it up a bit which was encouraging, it didn’t work but its gave us a glimmer of hope that he might start to change things for the better, the next month will tell us all we need to know.
Different threads are littered with posts from people saying that. I don't think you would have to look very hard to find them..
There’s a difference between wanting us to lose and understanding that we may lose while he is trying to implement his own style. If the fans saw progress I’m sure he would get a lot more backing than he currently is.
What style should he implement? A style that every 442/zonalmarking reading yuppie, who knows too much about football, wants him to? Where does he win with that? Who should he try to please? Poster X or Poster Y. Style will come with better players and winning. Easier to play with style when you are winning. Losing sows seeds of doubt and that is why we see a tentative United team in the premier league. In Europe we have played consistently well this season.
His own style, anything that shows us he knows what he’s doing. At the moment the team looks disjointed, we are predictable in our play which seems to be very one dimensional, his subs seem to confuse the players even more. It gives the opposition confidence that they can beat us.
You say style will come with better players? Are our players suddenly not good enough to play to a certain style? Is the team not full of international players, players who have won all there is to win domestically? We haven’t actually played that well in Europe, we had an easy group, however Moyes should be given credit for us finishing top of the group.
So, let's not kid ourselves and be honest, at the end of the day we all like winning first. Everything else comes in a second.
Of course winning comes first, who’s kidding themselves? Problem is we arent winning? Does he look like changing it round, no all we hear is ‘well keep doing what we’re doing and I’m certain our luck will change’
