All the players we’ve signed from the Dutch league have question marks. Martinez had a brilliant season last season but if he’s poor this season then has he been a good signing? There’s still a lot to prove, and if Erik had his was we’d have Gakpo firing blanks for us up top this season also.
We seriously need to ditch the Manager function for DOF model, but problem is we are lacking identity and its hard to just go a random route from a position of weakness and a bad DOF might be even worse. Are we holding, pressing , countering? We did the LVG borefest we did the Mou big lad defensive counter, we did the Ole free play english stem thing, we are doing whatever EtH is trying. Problem is replacing players at a loss 1-2 every season makes it hard to catch up to any sort of change in direction and form a squad, all while brilliant players age or get out of form. That much is clear. Let's hope Onana and Martinez redeem EtH from Antony signing. Antony I just don't know, feel if we're insisting on using such a moot player it will cost us dearly, and might as well field 4 in mid and not be smashed like last two games. Functioning midfield > useless wing play.
You always have to start with a manager DOF though, because we didnt have any principles of play for a DOF to look at and focus on. It will also help us with our academy and how players focus on their development.
The trial with Ragnick didn't end well either.
Because we were hesitant to commit to his style too. I do think it was the right decision
.Ragnick was never going to control anything, nor should we let that fraud do so. Seriously stop it with this rewriting of history. He was originally going to be a consultant on a part time basis, our DOF is meant to be Murtough.
Sometimes we might revert to a system which more closely resembles 4231. But what I’m slowly catching onto is that these formations are outdated. The structure of the top teams is fluid but fundamentally changes depending on phase of play and all that convoluted nonsense.
Glad that chapter ended.Because we were hesitant to commit to his style too. I do think it was the right decision
In theory, we've committed to a style now, so over the next few seasons it should be easier for to recruit and bring players through and also agree on the profile of players we need
Are you joking?
Thanks for this post.
What a strange logic, if Martinez will be poor. 2 games into the season. What if he'll be great this season too?
Many said, even at the time, that his statement about needing 10 players was not that shocking. He just did a terrible job with what he had. He looked like he regretted taking the job from about week 3.
He’s available for a relatively low fee yet no one’s interested. Should say everything really.
Yeah he looks tidy from the clips but more squad player / rotation material. Like a budget option to fill a gap. I’ll take what we can get but it feels like we are too slow to grab the actual top level talents.
How has what worked out? ETH is getting close to his 10 new signings so I'm not sure why you're trying to present a characterisation that the club didn't know transfers were needed or wouldn't invest. It just hasn't all been done at once. You don't get all the shiny toys at once and have to show a bit of patience to totally revamp a squad. That's nothing to do with not hearing what Ralf Rangnick had to say, that is the reality of financing the purchases so I'm not really sure what your expectations were or whether they were reasonable.
Gotta love that PR!
He was his own walking PR.Gotta love that PR!
Accusation: Are you joking?.
Response: The question here actually is do you even know what you are talking about?. RR has a proven record of building clubs from the bottom up. He even developed his own philosophy of an approach to playing football.
What is Murtough's pedigree in comparison?. Being Woodward's right hand man?
Ralf Rangnick has no credibility or sympathy from anybody within Man United due the awful job he did.
R) He was given an old, unfit "unprofessional" team with way too much player power mid-season. No training time/pre season and no new players to work with. just expected to work magic. This is the proverbial sinking ship - no new captain would have saved that team. This wasn't even his main thing to do at the club, his job was to find the rot which he did with expert precision.
Accusation) Constantly using diversions to distract away from his primary job and throwing others under the bus to make excuses.
Response) "Ralph Rangnick advised Murtough and Arnold many of United’s players are “not fit for purpose” and physically cannot cope with high-energy opponents who run further, faster and harder".
You disagree with this point of his?. You thought the players were good enough
A) Whatever we think of the hierarchy at United, and I don't rate them very highly, you need a director of football that can actually work with people that are in situ.
R) If the players are shit and recruitment is shit, that's a problem above the manager.
• It's kind of key. They have to be the go between. Whatever his routine at Leipzig etc was it worked.
Because they listened to RR and didn't ridicule him thinking they know better than him. And so are now realising the rewards they wanted.
"At a big club he didn't have the gravitas"???.
He's not a bloody planet with his own orbit and gravitational force ffs!!
or "communication skills???."
Utter clueless nonsense. RR probably speaks better English than you mate because clearly you don't know what you are talking about. Everything he put in his dossier is bang on correct. It was too true for the Glazers liking and he knew exactly what the crack was with the squad.
and far too many bridges were burnt - because the people above him were idiots
"in the process of him being caretaker manager." The role was more than that, was an advisory role to see why the team isn't going anywhere inspite of money being spent on the playing team.
Pretty much anybody with a credible record as a DOF at a major top flight club would be better than Ralf primarily because they wouldn't have any of the same baggage.
No point in having a DoF anywhere if they aren't going to listen to him. RR and ETH could have been a dream team working together with the Murtough/Arnold/Fletcher team behind them. But no. Ten Hag's ego got the better of him and we are going to be suffering from shit players and mediocrity until he gets dismissed.
Murtough is just another yes man. There's no dissenting opinions nor transfer target alternatives to acquire. It's a pathetic appeasement of the manager getting all his old players some who were not needed and other players who are over the hill.
He was a Woodward right hand man of overseeing the old misfits staying at the club on extortionate contracts and it's exactly what is being built again now at this club. If Woodward was the finance man running the club then John Murtough was his pragmatic football support as ex head of England elite performance once upon a time before moving to Man Utd in a cushy #2 number.
Don't want to get involved in this argument but one question: is it now debatable, that RR recommended certain players?
It's not debatable transfers should have been made. But he did absolutely nothing as a manager, used his time for pressers in which he said the most obvious things and nowadays it seems every time he speaks he adds 5 more players he recommended, all he's doing is protecting himself and trying to sugarcoat his time at United as a manager.
You've called my post a piss take, but then went on to say "Do you think Casemiro is going to play all of these.".
