Ludens the Red
Full Member
Any new manager is stuck with:
Shaw
Young
Lindelof
Jones
Bailly
Matic
Fred
Mata
Pereria
Rashford
Lingard
All players that arent good enough. They have continuously failed. Some under 3-4 managers. You could add a few more to the list.
Where is the will to replace all these bottlers? What manager would take on the job?
The 'Ole out' group see that list as world beaters under any other manager.
I feel sorry for him. He has to work with the dumbest and useless bunch of players in the premier league.
I don't think people are expecting a miracle or for us to turn into challengers over night and we all know the squad isn't the best but it is quite clear we are making absolutely no progression under Solskjaer, I love the guy but for goodness sake, we are six games into the season and we have already dropped points against Wolves, Palace, Southampton and West Ham and in none of those games would I say were we 'unlucky'. Then you look back at last season and those performances against Cardiff and Huddersfield. Maybe a handful of players from these sides would get into our team.
He's been here what ten months and I still don't know what our style is, he's said the right things and wants us to press and play quickly but I don't ever see it. There's been literally no tactical development, there's no difference to how we started under Mourinho last year.
I get that we have injuries as well but even before then some of his team picks were alarming, his substitutions have been strange as well.
Under LVG and Mourinho although it all went wrong there was clear and visible improvement in between that initial 6 months to one year period. Under Ole, it's just getting worse and worse.
I know hes not completely in charge of recruitment but what the hell was he thinking leaving us with two senior players who can play as striker, it's madness. He should have been banging on the door of Woodward trying to get an extra body or two in.
I'm not knee jerking nor do I think there's a quick fix but this is exactly how myself and a lot of people saw this going. It was a huge mistake making him the permanent manager, we've backed ourselves into a corner now. It IS going to get worse, football isn't magic, there won't be a sudden change in fortunes but you should see gradual changes and improvement, I see nothing.