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That’s again disingenuous argument. They get better by being coached and allowed to play games.Three players have improved over time, when playing for ETH. Simply because they are 18 19 and 20 and playing regularly. Sure he can have a bit of credit for realising Garnacho and Mainoo should be nailed on starters, but then everyone else with eyes could see that. Hojlund was a huge gamble that will always represent really poor squad planning, putting a huge burden on a £72m 20 year old to be your club's only number 9. Cant solely blame ETH for that but you also cant give him credit for giving Hojlund such a prolonged chance to impress, because there was no other choice.
Also, he won a trophy. Not trophies. Following in the footsteps of greats like LVG and Mourinho. He was also humiliated in the CL, which is his supposed forte.
Otherwise we cannot give any manager any credit for any youth players developement by your logic. Sir Alex didn’t help Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Beckham, Ronaldo etc. Yeah, na.
Ten Hag backing Højlund to be the main man is on him. If he fails you will blame Ten Hag for playing him so when he’s showing good signs he deserves some credit too. We can’t only blame him when things go wrong and not acknowledge when things go right. Otherwise you’re just arguing in bad faith.
If I can find an easy to use site for that date (or if any of you lot can) please link me and I’ll do a write up on it when I get time.It's a good thread though, i'd be very interested to actually see the data on how many games players have missed through injury. If that's going to be the go to excuse for our crap season then that's the important data. I'm sure we'd be high up on the injury list what with Mount's long term problems along with Shaw/Casemiro/Mainoo. I know Sheffield United have had huge injury problems, probably the worst in the league by some distance.
Start of the season plan appeared to be:Sorry who is Mount supposed to have been displacing in the best eleven again? Mainoo? Casemiro? Bruno? Garnacho?
If he wasnt fully fit when available then that just means his default state is unfit and we spent £60m on a pseudo-footballer at ETH's request.
Casemiro
Bruno Mount
At least we can agree that spending £55m on Mount and playing him when not fully fit has likely contributed to this long term injury.
That for me was poor management.