sparx99
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Some of us really need a perspective :
- Ten Hag is no more incharge of this team. So stop blaming someone who is not in the house. Amorim is the man leading this team for the last 10 games. The buck stops at him. Amorim is down there shouting instructions in the dug out, not Ten Hag.
- This whole freefall mentality needs to stop. No club has a divine right to win, but neither one has a divine right to say this season is a lost cause.This sort of narrative is absolutely mental that we cannot do anything with these players and it will be a bad season, it's a write off. If football was looked at like this by everyone, no team will ever fight for relegation. No team will ever fight for anything and fans will never go in the stadium. A bare minimum everyone who puts their hard earned money to buy tickets and watch the game needs to see fight,grit and effort for the shirt. And, currently the manager has been completely unable to do that.
- This isn't some FIFA game or Football Manager, sell everyone and buy new 11. A manager and his coaching staff has to be smart enough not only to use the hand given to them in the best way, but should also be able to improve the players at his disposal. I wonder what will people do , if United ever got a 2 transfer window ban. Will we just allow Amorim to go till league one , because we cannot buy players and the manager is incapable of improving anyone ?
- A manager change is done to improve the results and performance.At the end of the day, it is a results business. Amorim has neither got results , nor has he been able to stop the slide.The buck always stops with the manager. Right now, I believe we could have an academy manager incharge and he could have probably had better results. He just looks rabbit in headlights and the jump from Portoguese league to this league seems to big for him. There will be a time, when the lot of us need to decide, that the club is bigger than anyone else, including the manager.
For me, he is on borrowed time. Let's hope there is a turn around, but it looks unlikely sadly.
I don't think there was any lack of effort today though. You can't see them dig deep against Southampton or with ten men against Arsenal and say the players aren't trying for the manager.
What I think is more likely is that the players have to think about what they are doing in every phase of play because they don't understand the system or know it well enough to play through instinct and muscle memory. Those split-second pauses on the ball mean you get picked off by the press and suddenly you're chasing your tail. In attack that delay is the difference between playing the pass to split the defence or too late and being caught offside.
This is why I think the back to basics stuff under Ruud was an improvement because its just simple football that the players can easily understand. Training when to press or drop in a wing back system having not played it before is much harder to do especially without a pre-season or much time on the training ground.