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Just so we are all aware, Utd have just signed 2 midfielders in a 29 y/o on a 5 year deal & a 22 y/o for £50ms, both who absolutely wouldn’t be in Poch’s ideal plans.
They’ve gone from high intensity coach -> low intensity approach -> high intensity within 10 fucking months
@ThatsFootballTV What cloud cuckoo land do these ex-players live on? It's 1 win in 10. It's November. We're in the relegation zone. We could drop to 20th after the Liverpool game.
First instance of cheating by Australian team under Smith and Lehman was at Bangalore test in BGT 2017 where Smith said he had a brain fade moment. Obviously it wasn’t brain fade and my man VK stopped the cheats!!
@SkySportsPL Enough of this 'he cares' and ‘soul’ of the club bullshit. Get a coach who can actually coach a team. That team shouldn't be anywhere near 18th.
Once again, United will probably go out and appoint someone who isn't a tactical continuation of any recent groundwork laid
Amorim --> Carrick --> Poch (?)
rigid 3atb -> possession -> vertical football, intense
Mbeumo, Cunha etc. (half space attackers) were signed for Amorim's narrow attack, not Carrick.
Tielemans + Santos were signed as the beginnings to start committing to a more ball-first model. They weren't signed to play in a run-heavy system
They're talking about this bullshit "one window = one area of the pitch gets addressed" transfer model, when the type of profiles required in said areas change drastically from season to season because they keep fucking changing the coach & any ideologies he had previously signed the other players for
and THEN they have the cheek to wonder why it never works
i can't emphasise how badly we need to continue putting pressure on jason wilcox and omar berrada. these two clowns threw away 3 games because they weren't prepared. we lost 5 potential points in the league because of them. sir jim has to grow some balls and fire them both today.
How can you justify keeping a director of football who has now overseen the sacking of three permanent managers in three seasons, and made countless mistakes in the transfer market? Michael Carrick cannot be the only significant dismissal made over the break.
It’s not a one size fits all policy - defensive tactics vs a Mexico team who struggle to beat their man and are only pumping crosses in, is fine. But doing the exact same thing vs the best dribbling + creative force of all-time who can land the ball on a 6 pence won’t work.
It goes under the radar but it's not just Casemiro's goals that we're missing but Sesko's too. That guy was too clutch, 75% of his goals were match winners.
I've never, ever known of a football club to keep a manager in position, not because they believe in him, or their data says so, but because they do not know what to do next and the consequences of making such a decision forces them to take responsibility, which their allergic to