I do recall reading some Reddit ITK talking about how the staff wanted to let these youngsters establish themselves as better options than the older underperformers over a few months. Transitioning the playing time instead of a just suddenly throwing them all in at once. But the point being the coaches were both unimpressed by the incumbents and excited with the youth.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær | 2021/22 Discussion
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Agreed. The lack of respect is something I’ve written about before but it’s still going on.
Basically, Solskjaer gets 10/10 for intention, and a lot less for execution.
Made a few amendments.
Challenge? He should count Pogba's return as a blessing. The same player that pretty much gave him the job and the number 10 role he played to devastating effects in December- Febuary is already waiting for him. The chance to drop the nonscoring, non assisting number 10s like Andreas and Lingard for good and perhaps rescue what might be left of the season is no challenge.
Lately, as in since the start of the season? After he has had the opportunity to condition them to play the way he wants and assess the squad with that perspective? Weird, right? The reason he persisted with the Matics and the Youngs last season was simple: They were first teamers drilled in the way Mourinho wanted to play. The reason Young still plays is because he can play both right and left back, and until the rise of Williams there were no other alternatives in the squad to AWB and Shaw with Dalot out injured.
Thought we played quite well, but each to their own. Hopefully a run of games get Pogba back and get a charge on the go, especially over December and Xmas a lot of points will be dropped, players back consistent run bit of momentum, season aint done and dusted just yet.
How are the signing he made debatable? AWB and James have been our two outstanding performers this year and both are really young. AWB for example had 6/6 successful tackles, most of anyone vs Brigton and its hardly mentioned because its seen as a standard performance from him. James has 3 goals and 3 assist and could have a couple more had our other players been more clinical. Maguire was bloody expensive, but we have lacked a leader in the back for years now and he fits the bill perfectly
Young, Mata and Matic are ancient, they wont be getting any better unless Ole invents some sort of age reversal potion. Lindgaard being terrible and Shaw being permanently injured is nothing new either and no amount of coaching is going to change that.
Hes much less pragmatic than Jose (everyone is) and his style is completely different than LvG. No doubt LvG would have us play better attacking football, but he hamstrung himself by being way to rigid and buying and playing players who were clearly a bad fit for his system
Inter apparently want to get Sanchez permanently (https://www.teamtalk.com/news/inter-milan-chief-makes-stance-clear-on-alexis-sanchez-future). Lukaku had to go because he was a twat and Herrera leaving was out of his hands. He still got rid of Darmian, Fellaini and Valencia and i am sure more deadwood will follow once we get some new players in. Considering how ridiculously thin our squad is, he could not realistically ship out 10 players at once
And him loving the club isn't irrelevant. Both Jose and LvG had/has massive egos and its pretty clear that affected how they managed the club. Both of them wanted instant success, and they tried achieving that by purchasing old players and obvious mercenaries when it was quite clear the club was in dire need of a proper rebuild. Ultimately, both of them left the squad in a worse state than when they arrived, and we are still paying that price today
The Caf is same as the team at the moment blows hot and cold from one week to the other.
One loss all we see is Ole out, can't manage - ole out
One win and we see stuff about building for the future.
One loss all we see is Ole out, can't manage - ole out
One win and we see stuff about building for the future.
The lies that Ole has told, especially regarding Pogba sicken me. Says he wants to build the team around him and that he's under construction for the captaincy, only to play him out of position and give the armband to Ashley Young. All while he sacrificed Champions League football
If Sunday turns out not be another false dawn and he gets us to play like this week in week out I might change my mind about him
Exactly. I can't sum it better than this. Unlike the cnut before him, I've no doubt that Ole wants best for the club and has the right sort of idea on how the club should be, whether he has the skills to actually implement is where it gets tricky.
Same. I doubt that we will but fingers crossed.
And that's a wrap. Summed up perfectly
If ironical, please ignore this response:
You are actually sickened by your empathy with Paul Pogba? It disgusts you that a guy like Paul Pogba, having sacrificed so much for this club, has been told by this Solskjær dude to play in a midfield two like he did for Deschamps and several times under Mourinho? After all his toil and taking responsibility, he has been told he is a candidate for captaincy and the team will be built around him even if he rather wants to play for Real Madrid, and this makes your stomach turn at the injustice? Mino, are you sure it’s not just the turkey’n’tuna double mayo sandwich you had for late night snack at that questionable food truck?
Is there any way to make Ole a better manager more quickly than giving him 3 seasons? Can he also fly out to Dubai and perhaps do a coaching retreat of some sort?
What? Young has only played because Shaw was injured. Now Williams seems to be in the picture that will only push Young even further down.
Granted he may play in the cups with the younger players, but there's nothing wrong with that.
Well he’s back against Sheffield. You confident he’s going to be on that bench?
Pretty fair
Shaw might be back but he isn't going to be fit to start for at least 2/3 games.
Sheffield Utd away is a hard game, I wouldn't be surprised if Young starts.
Pretty fair
This is my view I think. Heart is in the right place, the basic idea is good but I don't feel he has the talent to carry it through to completion. He's a placeholder in my eyes, so if he's finishing further down the table at each attempt (6th last year, ? this year) he needs to be moved on.
https://redd.it/dui5m8 Molde won their League again, with basically the team that Ole built. The guy knows how to build successful teams, repeatedly.
So you’re counting our final finish last year? You are aware where we were when he took over? I mean, count the terrible performances after PSG, but to count the position isn’t fair, imo. I feel the same about his talent level, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. Only McTominay seems to have clearly stepped up a level, so it might just be natural progression.
On a lesser scale, it is impressive. RBK imploded though (won 20 out of the last 30 leagues or something).
Young shouldn't even be lacing boots, let alone starting games! Williams MUST start at LB for the foreseeable, him and Shaw need to battle it out now. Enrol Young into his retirement home already!
They are one of the richest and strongest sides in that league if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't use them as a barometer. He fluffed up Cardiff and still has a long way to go here, so let's just reserve judgement.
I understand that this is what most fans want, I would rather have Williams starting getting experience but do we really expect him to start?
Martial, Rashford and McTominay have all improved under Ole. Rashford is on 12 goals atm already, so he'll definitely be having his highest scoring season to date, will certainly reach 20 goals!
Williams bossed Reece James and CHO at Stamford Bridge! and Brighton was light work for him too; looked so comfortable on the pitch and loves a good scrap too. It's a no brainer to start him whilst Shaw is still returning!
Agreed, I think he will also give shaw a run for his money too.
I put emphasis on the world ‘clearly’ because we haven’t seen anything new from either Martial or Rashford. They’re a year older, but not consistent enough so far, imo. What I will give Ole credit for is playing them in the position they’re obviously most suited to, which can’t be said for LVG or Mou.
Assume you’re gonna give Jose full credit for any success Utd have this season?
He has played his part in taking us to the position we are currently in...
Depends if it's done with players he bought or not. I do give him credit for McTominay, for sure.
You are mistaken.
SHaw is the most frustrating player we have on our side. Surely he eneds to be phased out and I won't mind Williams making the LB position his own.
Couple of things i see new with Rashford. He is using his left foot more. Solskjær has been encouraging him to do this and he also talked about this on the Post Partizan match huddle. Rashford's decision making has come leaps and bounds and looking little better now. Moves are alteast getting to the final third unlike before where it gets spoilt right in the build up when Rashford tries to run with the the ball from box to box. I agree with your point Ole has made the right choice in making Martial play as a striker.
I think the phasing out period has begun, one more injury and I think hes career at Utd is done.
He tends to pick up "knocks" that keep him out for months, it is not good enough.
We need reliable players in each position.
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