I shared a similar view back when he was winning the 3 CLs run, but imo, the second Real Madrid stent proved to me he's a top quality coach can get from his players far more than his natural abilities.
The current Real Madrid squad is in no way or shape better overall than us. They only have Banezema, Kroos, Modric, Ramos and Courtois as top players, and 3 of them are on their already last legs in football. The rest of the squad is pretty average and he still did excellent with them.
I honestly think Zidane will like a lot of our squad and will be able to get a lot more from it, imo.
Unfortunately, I haven't looked that deeply into the Spanish League but was under the impression, that all competitors made the best from their somewhat hampered starting positions. I wouldn't be against Zidane, he surely has something going for him. It would be a bolt move by United, this sounds like something Woody would really go for but he is not going to take this decision. Lets see, where Zidane ends up next season, I would love for him to go somewhere out of Real Madrid to show, what he can do outside of the circus.
Now there’s something I’d never thought I’d see.
Envious of Chelsea, a managerial roundabout club.
Seen it all now
While I somewhat agree with the notion, I think we need to make sure, that our "moral highground" stance doesn't morph into some ignorant mumbling. Chelsea is successful despite that roundabout so just shrugging it away doesn't really make sense. They also didn't made too many excessive transfers to argue that they just spent the cash to make it work.
There must be some sort of stabilizing factor within the club and thats the key point: obviously big clubs benefit from having stabilizing factors in their football hierarchy but this doesn't necessarily need to be the manager. Just because SAF was able to be that for a long time doesn't mean that's the only way to go. Actually let's hope it isn't because chances are quite high, that we won't be able to find someone like SAF again anytime soon.
The McFred duo proves that he goes into games scared of losing.
Ah come on, going for having a solid base in your team in the middle of the park certainly isn't a sign of being scared to lose. It may be a little conservative but certainly not the worst thing in the world. Our issue this year has been reliable chance creation and while Fred and McTominay certainly can be better in some aspects of our game, chance creation certainly shouldn't be their main job.
I get it, sticking to it for 90min against inferior teams when seeing it causes issues because your offensive personal isn't able to do anything is a problem. But then again - then it is on the manager to adjust.
Roman has great long term plan.; his nong term plan is current season. And that is how top clubs should work and that is how all top clubs work. Long term is just excuse for owners.
That is a very very shortsighted and expensive stance to have. The best football clubs have longrunning plans about how their squads should look like, how they want to play and what kind of players are therefor needed. Just imagine we have Greenwood on the cusp but then go out and buy another young forward just because he is the latest hot thing.
Big clubs have to have stabilizing factors that have long-term on their mind - granted, that doesn't have to be the manager but this is a very important distinction to make.
True. Just 1 or 2 penalty kicks go differently and most of the posters ranting in here would still be silent like they were when we were winning games.
Even if that is true - the "fine margins" theory you proposed would then still apply, doesn't it? Even IF we 1 or 2 penalty kicks go differently and we get the cup, we still would have 120 min of not being able to beat Villareal on our table. We still would have a fair view number of unconvincing performances in the season on our table that were just pushed away by saying "game wasn't great but job done because the result is good". We still would have went out of the CL. Fine margins doesn't stop where it suits one's argument and therefor is some sort of doube edged sword.
Thats why it is probably best to focus on the actual events and results. Granted: had we won the EL, the mood around here would be different - but therefor more "right"? Probably not right, it would only mean that the "Ole in" brigade would have a "good argument" to show for "look we have a trophy, great progress" while everything else that has been written in here in the last 48h would still be valid criticism.
