the soundbites for the media are completely meaningless.
Ten Hag | First MUTV Interview (10am BST) | Press Conference (12pm BST)
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the soundbites for the media are completely meaningless.
It would at least help if you would refrain from putting words in other’s mouths.
I for one am not asking you to shut up. I haven’t called you delusional (you called others delusional). I do think this season was terrible. I don’t think the last ten years have been ok. I do want a lot of changes.
What I don’t want is more of the same: I don’t want a CEO with no football knowledge chopping and changing the managers on a whim every other year, letting them identify players, buying five fairly random players every fourth window to placate fans’ emotions and the media’s sense of drama.
So I ask myself, if I want something other than that, how is that going to look?
If I were to ask you - given your view that we have been a ten year ongoing collapse and now are at our worst so far: What kind of changes and steps would you realistically implement if you were CEO as of tomorrow? What goal would you deem realistic for this up and coming season based on our current situation? And how would you, as CEO, want a new manager to talk about the club and players on his first press conference, on the way to achieving those goals?
1)Arnold the new CEO has left all footballing matters to John Murtough. Since then there has been swift and drastic changes to our set up over the past 2 months. We've lost head scouts and the chief contract negotiator, various other back room staff have also left. ALL footballing matters lay at the feet of John Murtough.
2) Why on earth would the new manager acknowledge something that has happened before his employment. Why would he mention backroom staff he didn't even get the chance to even meet. Highly unprofessional to call them out.
So what is it you exactly want?
Listen mate, just calm down. Put your hands together, take a deep breath and say AAAGHOOOM AAAGHOOOM. Repeat 10 times and go to bed.
How many players will he have back early ie 27th June? And who will be back later?
I mean it's partly your fault for providing the link which many will click and that gives the stupid trash of a newspaper the hope that such news articles work and the cycle continues.
Just one press conference and already some "fans" in here having a proper meltdown. It's pathetic. So many journos and "fans" so blatantly wishing he failed from day 0. His job is going to be even harder than I thought.
We don't look for proof that things didn't happen. You're making assumptions about Ralf's role in choosing the new manager. There's no reason to believe he was involved in any capacity.
Well I'm sure the feeling is mutual. I've never been impressed by anything Danny Murphy or Simon Jordan have done or said.
The last brave beacon of truth in a world of deluded fools. Maybe one day the scales will lift from their eyes. We can but hope.
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If he can grab top four this coming season I will be impressed. I won't be judging him at all until next season.
Our players are not shite! This myth needs to die.
Our squad is poorly constructed, so that it doesn’t perform to the sum of it’s parts. It’s not built to an overarching philosophy so not all players play the same way and our recent managers have had wildly contrasting styles again muddling the overall objective. You wouldn’t argue that Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane have weakened our squad.
Erik can see players that he can use to suit his system and will obviously replace those who do not. 3-4 new players in the correct positions to suit his playing style see us comfortably top 4 next term. There is a hint of new manager saying the right things to suit his players and the fans but we are certainly not the disaster area many would have you believe (talent wise at least. Attitude is another issue!)
Totally correct. It's the team that's shite.
This is a good watch.
I trust the Caf's self-restraint.
He's so alpha.
"we're desperate, can you play right back?"
He seems to have a healthy disdain for the media - he clearly feels he has better things to do with his time, which is absolutely right.
Rangnick used the pressroom to fire shots at everyone and their mother, because he just wants to watch the world burn. Ole used it to lay on the nostalgia, so we could party like it's 1999. Mourinho used it to deflect blame, so we all knew he was the exhalted Special One.
This guy just gets through the questions, gives little away and keeps it brief, and personally I find that encouraging. I don't want a manager who tries to be "pally pally" for the cameras so he gets an easier ride when the football is shit and the results don't go our way.
Rangnick used the pressroom to fire shots at everyone and their mother, because he just wants to watch the world burn. Ole used it to lay on the nostalgia, so we could party like it's 1999. Mourinho used it to deflect blame, so we all knew he was the exhalted Special One.
This guy just gets through the questions, gives little away and keeps it brief, and personally I find that encouraging. I don't want a manager who tries to be "pally pally" for the cameras so he gets an easier ride when the football is shit and the results don't go our way.
