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11 Dec 2024 09:46:50
Sounds like Diego Leon, a 17 year old left back from Paraguay will be joining.
1.) 12 Dec 2024 12:59:51
Interesting signing. Seen some clips of him. Not sure what they feed 17 year olds in Paraguay ? be interesting to know Ashworths influence on that signing because he was involved in some South American signings for Brighton I believe.
2.) 13 Dec 2024 01:48:22
His departure makes sense now. Wilcox just wanted to clone his USB.
26 Nov 2024 09:45:47
Further links to Alphonso Davies and now Theo Hernandez today.
Both would suit that left wing back perfectly, but I'd imagine little chance of signing either.
1.) 26 Nov 2024 10:24:07
Caolan_2
Unfortunately I can't see either playing for Utd. I'd love Utd to pip to Davies on a pre contract.
2.) 26 Nov 2024 10:28:25
There will be lots of links to wing backs and will be interesting to see which side (left/ right) Amorim wants to put a full back and which more winger.
Ait Norie/ Alvaro and the Sporting ones.
Will be interesting to see which way we go.
3.) 26 Nov 2024 10:44:17
A recent link I saw for LWB was Nuno Mendes at PSG. Whether it's just an easy Portoguese link or there's something there who knows.
4.) 26 Nov 2024 18:57:56
Shaw is not suited to the role now even if fit he is more a lcb now i think malacia does suit it a little more so.
I think it might be a role garnacho should be aspiring to fill in the same way amad has on the right.
I don't think there will be much to spend this winter without selling to generate amy substantial funds.
With maz and amad on right and garnacho and malacia on right plus dalot there are options until the summer at least. Not ideal but if the players apply themselves and stay fit they are OK options for a few months I think.
16 Jul 2024 14:28:43
Report from the guy who first mentioned us having a bid accepted by Lille is saying that Yoro is currently discussing personal terms with us.
Fingers crossed it's true, thought I'd share for anyone who hasn't seen it.
1.) 16 Jul 2024 15:05:31
Fingers and toes crossed Caolan_2.
2.) 16 Jul 2024 15:28:26
Still think he’ll join Madrid but would be an amazing statement signing if he does join us.
Generational talent - reminds me of a young Varane.
(And no MdL if Yoro arrives - can’t look past injury concerns, despite him being a formidable player)
3.) 16 Jul 2024 15:53:58
Why would signing Yoro affect MdL, if we've been bidding on 3?
4.) 16 Jul 2024 16:05:08
They’re hedging their bets on either MdL or Yoro. Be one or the other (both would expect to be first choice alongside Martinez and not be back up)
Apparently they’re waiting on Yoro’s answer; if that falls through, they’ll go for MdL.
5.) 16 Jul 2024 17:16:19
Lille will be pushing hard to get this through also.
I hope they will sign 2 of jb mdl and yoro.
There is no way we should be going into the season with maguire as 3rd choice behind an 18 yo unproven player and martinez given his injury record. So assuming lindelof leaves we need at least 2 in at cb imo. That will allow yoro time to develop and mature physically.
The 2nd looks likely to be mdl or jb. In an ideal world full of pixies and fairy's we sign all 3 and maguire moves on.
6.) 16 Jul 2024 17:59:29
I wouldn’t bet against us going for DeLigt even if Yoro chooses to come. Great depth plus we could go 3 at the back or Martinez could be played slightly further forward.
Yoro and DeLigt for the same money as Maguire ?.
7.) 16 Jul 2024 18:24:03
The last time we signed a French teenager for this kind of fee we got stuck with Martial. Let’s hope Yoro proves to be a better signing.
I can’t say I know too much about him, but his desire to move to Madrid worries me a little, especially when we have two other talented CBs for whom we are the preferred choice. I’m all for building a young team for the future, but not if those young players plan on leaving us once they start to hit their prime.
8.) 16 Jul 2024 21:57:20
Call me cynical, but Yoro wants to join Madrid and is pushing out stories saying he might sign for United to hurry them along with a bid.
9.) 17 Jul 2024 07:47:03
Like a smoke screen, Grim? ?♂️.
10.) 17 Jul 2024 10:23:58
Ornstein reporting he’s on a flight to UK for medical.
11.) 17 Jul 2024 10:24:23
Latest reports are he is flying to the UK to undergo a medical and finalise personal terms.
12.) 17 Jul 2024 20:51:11
Madrid are for putting a new bid in apparently. He’ll end up there, get the feeling all the noise today was to speed them up and give them a prod to get moving. It’s clearly worked.
25 Jun 2024 13:05:29
Ugarte linked today.
1.) 25 Jun 2024 14:40:46
We had an offer rejected apparently.
2.) 25 Jun 2024 16:15:35
Ugarte would be a hell of an update.
His work rate is amazing.
3.) 25 Jun 2024 22:19:34
He'd be an ideal signing. Let's see what happens.
4.) 25 Jun 2024 23:27:58
Not great technically apparently which is why he was dropped by PSG.
5.) 25 Jun 2024 23:31:11
Bid rejected out of hand apparently. Duno if we will go further or what’s happening!
6.) 26 Jun 2024 05:29:53
Fuser, I wouldn't say that. He's perfectly fine technically, I think the issue at PSG is that he isn't a great stylistic fit for Enrique.
He's a tenacious, combative, ball winner. His pass success rate is over 90%, but you could say that is because his choice of pass is fairly safe. He isn't an expansive playmaker.
Which I think is the real issue at PSG. Enrique prefers to have a playmaking No.6 at the base of his midfield. Also given PSG's dominance and lack of real competition in Ligue 1, you could argue a player of Ugarte's profile isn't particularly needed that often. He's probably more useful to PSG in the UCL than domestically.
22 May 2024 22:59:36
Talk of McKenna not going away in the press.
1.) 23 May 2024 00:36:13
He really should take a vacation because next season he's going to be busy.
2.) 23 May 2024 04:19:09
I sent a text to my cousins 2 lads no word -they know him pretty well and meet up during the year - He had offers last year from Palace and Spurs apparently sounded him out.
3.) 23 May 2024 16:25:01
Ed002 are we interested in mckenna?
{Ed002's Note - He is certainly an option and obviously knows the club well.}
4.) 23 May 2024 19:08:09
The players didn’t like his coaching when he was there because he’d come from the academy
Proved those charlatans wrong.
5.) 23 May 2024 19:38:06
If he moves he will end up at Chelsea or Brighton. Too early for him at united imo, different beast being a united manager.
6.) 23 May 2024 20:03:24
Sky sports reporting McKenna s reps met Berrada and Wilcox last week.
7.) 23 May 2024 20:08:27
Blackpool, I read that McKenna has his Ipswich players (not just older players) taking coaching courses in order to educate them and improve their tactical understanding. I’m not sure how common this is but I was quite impressed when I heard it.
With our squad being half made up of cabbage brains, I can see why they didn’t like him.
8.) 23 May 2024 20:12:04
Sky reporting talks took place.
9.) 23 May 2024 20:48:17
Ed02 - do you think he'd be a good appointment? Big step up but has earned a lot of praise with what he's done with Ipswich.
{Ed002's Note - There is a risk with appointment.}
10.) 23 May 2024 22:17:50
A risk the club ruins another manager? ?.
11.) 24 May 2024 05:22:10
Brighton.
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30 Oct 2024 14:02:16
Ed001-
I hope you don't me asking but what are your thoughts on Amorim as a manager?
{Ed001's Note - has been excellent in Portugal, plays attractive, attacking football and wins things. However, he has not really had to deal with the big egos and I do have worries over his attitude and the way he mishandled the summer. He publicly flew to West Ham, only for them to get peed off with him and turn to Lopetegui (though I bet they regret that choice now!).}
1.) 30 Oct 2024 16:00:24
Thanks Ed.
I actually forgot that he was in London, do you know what pissed West Ham off? I’m not too familiar with that!
{Ed001's Note - from what I can gather, he didn't seem too committed to joining them. They felt he was just using them to draw out better offers from the other teams looking to appoint a manager that summer.}
2.) 31 Oct 2024 00:18:19
I see, thanks for that Ed!
{Ed001's Note - very welcome.}
30 Sep 2024 09:34:46
I'm not someone who reads too much into tactics or pretends to understand loads. But I watched the game with someone who coaches yesterday, and all he said to me was you can see a well coached side in what they do without the ball.
It got me thinking about us. We can't press very well, we constantly leave gaps in midfield and behind our full backs. Time and time again the defensive mid is exposed and teams have a free run at us.
Yes the shot conceded stats have been down this season a bit, but we've played arguably 3 good sides in Brighton, Liverpool and spurs and for the best part we've been miles off.
Now the reports this morning are he's going to be in charge of the next 2 games. I honestly can't believe it. No one wants a manager sacked because it means the results are not good, but it's getting very hard to even want to flick the telly on to watch this dross. Last season and the beginning of this has sucked away pretty much all enjoyment/ excitement around watch United.
1.) 30 Sep 2024 10:04:30
I think the whole club needs to go through a reflection process. The managers fate is out of his hands, but the players need to seriously take a look at themselves and decide if they are willing to play and fight for the club and each other, if not we just need to simply get drop and get rid.
Whether the manager is around for that is a separate question, and rightly or wrongly Ineos will make that decision. The only thing I think will help ETH cause is that he will now have more allies in the changing room backing him, and I think it is a handful that are causing problems.
It will be an interest couple of weeks/ months, the media will love every second of it, and no doubt we will see every manager linked to us again. As Doris Day once sang, Que Sera, Sera.
2.) 30 Sep 2024 10:47:29
I read your first sentence above caolan and I had to scroll down to see who wrote it. At first I thought your first sentence was a confession from etch. Ha ha.
3.) 30 Sep 2024 11:50:55
???.
4.) 30 Sep 2024 12:16:00
My friend is a coach of a Premier League youth team. He said he had no idea how bad United's first team were until he watched the entire game yesterday. Maresca has taken literally a couple of months to get Chelsea looking like they know what they are doing. One Hag has taken two years to do the opposite. I'm sick to death of watching us schooled tactically by almost every team we play. He has to go.
5.) 30 Sep 2024 12:51:23
RWWD- if you can watch our youth teams. There’s some stunning football on show at times.
Only silver lining of things atm.
6.) 30 Sep 2024 12:51:23
RWWD- if you can watch our youth teams. There’s some stunning football on show at times.
Only silver lining of things atm.
7.) 30 Sep 2024 14:45:35
We can debate systems, structure, tactics line ups and try and lay the blame at someone's door. The players were awful collectively. some of the stuff that was happening was basic stuff that should not happen at this level.
The marking of players like Maddison and Kude was so bad and caused us all kinds of problems. We were so far off them that the only way was to get there late and foul Madisson repeatedly. Just a really poor day by everyone involved. No one gets a free pass when you turn in a performance like that.
8.) 30 Sep 2024 15:00:14
Ahmad we have lost 8 of our last 20 games at old Trafford 40% loss record.
We have won 1 of our last 9 European fixtures.
The manager over last 28 games has a worse record than gary neville at valencia.
We had a neg goal difference last season and again this.
The manager is responsible and answerable for all the above
€700m spent on 21 new players for him and he produces a team that delivers disorganised chaos. He is useless.
9.) 30 Sep 2024 15:33:09
The players couldn’t give 2 hoots. They still get to go home to a model wife, mansion, millions in the bank and numerous cars
They’ll all blame each other with no one taking responsibility
Out of this whole squad I can honestly say I’d only keep 2 players 100% with a few others maybe but the rest are average at best and are stealing a living
I backed Ten Hag but can’t see how he comes out of this
All we want to see is some passion and desire not much to ask when getting paid Astronomical amounts.
10.) 30 Sep 2024 15:54:56
Wouldn't it be great if, when a manger is fired, there was the option to get him to take with him all the unwanted players he brought in at no cost to the club!
11.) 30 Sep 2024 19:27:12
Tumble
I am not bothered about what happened last year and the stats means nothing to me. injury galore different team. I am very disappointed we have lost two games at home to top 6 rivals in such a pathetic way.
Granted managers are the first line of firing but what some players did yesterday is not a manager thing. Granted his team his selection and he will wear it and players don't get fired mid season.
I was stunned by what we were doing in the first 20 minutes. We are not talking about highly difficult stuff but abject failure of hitting a simple pass or using their heads and simple stuff that you expect from top pros not making a bad start any worse after conceding a cheap goal.
Roy Keane talks about this stuff all the time that managers can do very little when the heat is on and its up to players and individuals to get it together, organize other players around you etc etc
People are going to say its how they are coached, you can coach systems, structures, positioning etc etc but what a player does in a split second when under pressure is an individual thing. We have had many players over the last 5 to 10 years that have seen multiple managers come and go and no one has transformed them into something they are not.
We created our own pressure cooker in the first 20 minutes by just one bad pass after another or one poor decision after another. Watch the game again and many individuals taking turns being really bad and losing their composure.
Reality is we look terrible when we play teams that press us properly and these players don't react well to pressure and that's on the manager to figure it out. Not just this one but also the next guy if they make a change.
its a bit like golf I guess you can stripe it on the range before going out and miss nothing. Then you go out and hit a few bad shots, Some guys are good at dealing with bad shots and get it going again and some just go from bad to worse. Mentally very frail.
I used to dismiss it but maybe Neville has a point when he says the pressure of playing for united and the weight of the expectations turns good players into average players. What we saw yesterday we have seen before. Other cast members a different manager some with great resumes and some with average resumes but the same script.
12.) 01 Oct 2024 08:50:43
Ahmad all players at the club he either signed or deemed them good enough.
It’s time to stop hiding behind the excuse of the players constantly. It’s clear there’s no belief in what they’re being asked to do.
09 Jul 2024 13:11:01
Some reports in France saying we've had a bid accepted for Yoro of 50m plus bonuses.
Still expect him to end up in Madrid, but thought I'd share in case folk haven't seen it.
1.) 09 Jul 2024 14:02:27
I assume one of the de Ligt / Branthwaite / Yoro reports are a fib. Probably this one!
2.) 09 Jul 2024 16:33:36
I think all 3 are targets and depends on which two we get over the line. I think Todibo deal not being allowed has made us reshuffle the deck.
3.) 09 Jul 2024 17:40:25
I agree that all 3 are targets and probably looking for 2 from 3 or 4 that we are flirting with.
I think it's quite clear that JB is 1st choice.
But it looks like buyer and seller are too far apart in valuation right now. That could easily change.
Yoro is complicated due to the player wanting Madrid .
Deligt complicated perhaps due to the euros and potential interest of others and bayern being busy with their own fire sale and incoming.
If 2 come in the surely it's the end of the road for lindelof and maguire. That excites me more than who we sign to be honest. I've not seen anybody linked at cb worse than those 2 so whomever we get if those 2 leave will be an upgrade.
De ligt was my fav player from that ajax team he was a monster but he has had a very volatile time since with a few injuries and a bit of poor form. His link with eth might revitalise him and get him back to his best.
Now we have a fee fixed with lille psg or Liverpool have the ball firmly in their court to match it and offer yoro cl football and a regular starting place easier than we could perhaps. But maybe they don't value him at that price.
Will be interested to see how it pans out.
4.) 10 Jul 2024 09:24:49
I'm not sure why he'd do it to himself, he was broadly mocked for half a season by fans and punters for being too slow and a million miles off the pace.
Admittedly like a few players he was being asked to go above and beyond, playing a lot at CB. Still can't believe there wasn't a better option than him given the amount of mistakes but all history now.
By all accounts a top pro and vastly experienced, I think it'd be good to have him around to rotate in his favoured position but can easily see him going off for a final payday somewhere warmer.
5.) 10 Jul 2024 12:47:33
Rumours are United want two CB's from those we've been linked with it looks like we have two profiles, a more experienced player ready to plug straight into the starting 11, and a talented younger player who is good enough to play when needed, but still has some developing to do.
It looks like Todibo was first choice for the 1st team ready option, but with UEFA putting the kibosh on that it looks like we have switched to MdL who we previously didn't think was an option due to his cost.
Branthwaite is clearly the first choice for a younger option, but we have also bid for Yoro knowing he ideally wants Real Madrid. I think we know our chances are slim with him, but it's worth putting a bid in if we know it'll be accepted and see what happens. Maybe he feels slighted that Madrid don't show more urgency or desire to sign him and he chooses United. Maybe he sticks to his guns and wants only Madrid.
My suspicion is that we will eventually land Branthwaite for more than we ideally wanted to pay, but less than Everton want.
14 May 2024 09:25:51
36 games into the season and Ten Hag finally changed the tactics to be more compact and solid at the back. It nearly got us a point on Sunday, but I'd imagine arsenal had another couple of gears.
My major issues with ten hag has been his persistence with the rubbish we had seen in every other game this season. Basketball matches, no control and just allowing teams to walk through midfield and have shots on our goal. A high press with a deep defence. If he had changed up in say November/ December, I reckon we could easily have another 10-15 points on the board.
I don't know if it was arrogance or naivety that the previous system would work. Constantly talking about injuries being the reason we are having such poor results, yet with a fully fit team we saw the same issues. Against arsenal, I think if we had Martinez, shaw, rashford and Bruno in that system we would've had a better chance.
Sorry if this is a ramble, but I'm just baffled at why he's finally made a change in the bloody 36th game of the season.
1.) 14 May 2024 10:10:35
Hard to know the why.
Perhaps it's under instruction from wilcox who knows.
But the mistake from casimero aside we were competitive to a large degree.
As you say they probably had more gears to go through.
2.) 14 May 2024 10:54:46
Caolon,
We are so depressing i just stopped watching us play. I will watch us next year when eth is out.
3.) 14 May 2024 11:20:55
I read a really interesting article the other day suggesting that EtH believes this is a personnel problem rather than a system or tactical issue.
If you remember in the summer EtH stated he wanted us to be the best transitional team in the world.
His system is designed to maximise transitional opportunities, encouraging the opposition to commit players forward, thus leaving space for counter opportunities if/ when the move breaks down. This is why many games this season have been more akin to basketball than football.
The article suggested it was the Utd defenders inability to cope and win important defensive duals and bad decisions and wasted opportunities by the attackers rather than the system?
Obviously the ever changing back 4 has placed great pressure on the defence and the loss of form to key players such as Rashford and Bruno has severely impacted the team’s ability to create chances and score goals.
I’m not saying I necessarily agree with this position but it certainly made me think.
4.) 14 May 2024 11:54:22
DLIB- that’s all well and good. But football and all elite level sport is problem solving. Like I said above, when he’s had a full team available the same issues have persisted.
Last season I’d praised ten hag for his flexibility and how we adapted in game to opponents. This season he’s cut his nose off.
From what I can see to my untrained eye, we go man to man in midfield, and it kills us every game. This is why I’m so fed up of what I’ve seen this season. If I can spot these issues, I know for a fact he can. Adaptability is key. Every great manager adapts. We’ve flogged a dead horse tactically.
5.) 14 May 2024 12:39:15
That's a bit extreme backpass.
No appointment or individual being kept or sold would ever stop me supporting the team or club.
It's of course entirely your own perogative but supporting the team and club imo should not come down to one or 2 transient employees.
So your support and others like you is dependent on you getting what you want or the club sacking who you don't want.
If sjr and team decide eth is the man then I'm good with that I may not be happy but it won't stop me watching or wanting them to win and watching and supporting them in every single game.
6.) 14 May 2024 14:28:48
I challenge any manager to cope with the amount of injuries we’ve had to contend with this season.
If Arsenal turned up to Old Trafford on Sunday without Saliba, Gabriel, White, Odegard and Saka they’d struggle. For context we were without Martinez, Varane, Shaw, Bruno and Rashford!
EtH has used over 14 different combinations at CB and been without a recognised LB for most of the season. In addition he’s had only fit 1 recognised CF in the entire squad and that’s an inexperienced 20 year old with only 1 previous season of top flight football under his belt!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and for everyone insisting that he should have been more pragmatic forgets the lessons of the past!
Most supporters hated the football under LvG and it quickly unravelled for Jose once results suffered. Many posters at the time boldly proclaimed they’d rather see the team lose, trying to attack than playing negative, defensive football. The evidence is still there in the chat if you can want to look for it.
I don’t think we can argue the football this season has not been exciting. It’s been end to end, we’ve enjoyed thrilling comebacks, we’ve given up some commanding positions, we’ve scored and conceded late goals, we’ve had some great wins and took some heavy defeats.
What we’re now saying is we don’t like transitional football as well. It’s only exciting if we winning or there’s a structure that makes sense and we can understand. We now want a return to more pragmatic football. My advice, be careful what you wish for.
Liverpool suffered last season with injuries as Newcastle have done this season.
If people want EtH out, I respect their opinion but let’s not yearn for a return to pragmatic football we didn’t like that either!
7.) 14 May 2024 16:22:10
My advice would be don't expect a new management team and dof to make the same mistakes as non football people like Woodward when it comes to making crucial decisions and appointments.
8.) 14 May 2024 16:50:59
DLIB.
The football has been crap. What’s exciting about watching your team concede 20+ shots a game, vacate midfield and fall apart like a wet cake late in games after being exhausted playing basketball.
To me that’s not entertaining football at all. I’m not asking for full Jose football at all, but ten hag should’ve gone much more pragmatic with the personnel available to him. We could end up with 16 defeats. Yet if we were more solid in I’d say at last 5/ 6 of them we would have 15 more points.
Too much excuse making for poor decisions.
9.) 15 May 2024 05:24:56
Yup. I’d prefer entertaining football that gets results, but would settle for crap football that gets results or entertaining football that doesn’t; at least for a while, if needed, while a manager attempts to imprint their style on the team. Sadly, we’ve been treated to garbage football that’s yielded garbage results for quite a while now, and I think most of us have had just about enough of it.
09 Dec 2023 20:23:54
I'll be shocked if tenhag is in the dug out for our next game. That felt like Ole against Watford.
1.) 09 Dec 2023 20:46:57
Prepare to be shocked mate. We are in limbo atm until the sjr deal goes through and he starts bringing in his own people. Most of those above eth are on borrowed time so nobody is making that decision to sack him…. at least for the time being!
2.) 09 Dec 2023 21:23:30
Manager of the month?
3.) 09 Dec 2023 23:02:20
What Tim says makes sense, you bringing in a new CEO and DoF to run the club you let them make the decisions.
It might well be that the person they want won't be available until the summer and then they will have to work out the best way to finish the season.
4.) 09 Dec 2023 23:10:17
Tim’s right: ETH safe until SJR comes in. Glazers can’t afford to sack him and won’t care anyway - they’re passing on sporting success to SJR.
However, as soon as new leadership team in, then, if results don’t improve, ETH could well be on his way.
5.) 10 Dec 2023 06:26:34
Ten hag is not the issue here. I honestly worry for people if they actually think Ten hag is the main problem here. These players just give up when the going gets tough we've seen it time and time again. Bring in a new manager and they might chuck the effort in for a little while but they will revert back to their old ways after a while. We have players still in the squad from LVG/ Jose/ Solskjaer/ Rangnick's tenure it's no coincidence and we still need to move on and replace about another 9-10 players. Until that happens and there's a change of structure above expect more of the same crap to continue.
6.) 10 Dec 2023 07:09:16
Well Damon he has made 16 signings including loans and we still start with Martial up top and Johnny Evans coming off the bench. I blame him for that.
7.) 10 Dec 2023 07:28:39
Damon
Iwe all know the players are the issue. But there's people now hiding behind that fact to allow the manager slack. At ht a blind man could see we needed to change things. His subs are reactive not pro active. Picking martial who is a waste of space has to be questioned. Everyone was at fault yesterday including the manager.
Its amusing on here how its changed from this teams not that bad and getting kane in we can challenge to bin them all. there's 95% of the squad stealing a living overrated on wages they've never earnt just been rewarded with.
Moving forward we have to have a wage cap joining players will always look at deals mount shaw bruno rashy are on and compare themselves to that. Then we just continue being a pay club. There shouldn't be many that don't have a price on there head. Anyone joining shouldn't have there wages doubled. Bruno was given a new deal after getting top 4 is that a achievement that should be rewarded?
8.) 10 Dec 2023 09:46:20
I want ETH to succeed and last year I thought we were on the right path
But this season my god, yes injuries etc but he has got to be able to set us up better than this! Every other team in the league is better organised, more solid, and offers more of a goal threat half the time! Not good enough.
9.) 10 Dec 2023 11:13:03
Couldnt disagree more Damon, 18 months on and no one knows what style of play ETH is supposed to have, how many players have improved how many of his signings have been a success?
Im the first to admit I hvae no idea who could come in and make improvements people will say Nagelsmann, Big Ange, De Zerbi, Emery blah blah blah my point is ETH seems to be far from the manager we thought we were getting and is looking way out of his depth.
Yesterday was nt just bad it was shockingly bad, to think 11 players could go out and represent a PL team and play like that in front of 75000 fans. ETH cannot be allowed to distance himself from that i couldn't care less if he stays or goes anymore he's just a grey grey man with very little personality doing a poor job.
10.) 10 Dec 2023 11:18:30
He can't pick Hoijlund every game if he is running his legs off and getting no service. Maybe ETH was saving him for the Bayern Munich match?
I am sure ETH impresses upon the players time and time again the need to start with high intensity and it's not his fault that the players don't listen. He has like previous managers inherited a mentally shot squad.
We need to back him and give him another season at least once the Radcliffe deal goes through. He is surely trying to get rid of the deadwood but presumably there are very few takers. He can't buy if he can't sell due to FFP rules. That makes his job doubly difficult.
Sacking ETH and getting in a new manager won't change the fundamental problems. ETH built a thrilling team at Ajax and he can do it again.
11.) 10 Dec 2023 12:19:12
Salford I do tend to agree, that team is so far away I’d imagine from what he envisages his team to look like but in order to get himself the chance to fulfil this job he needs to show us something! Yesterday he picked martial and expected what exactly!? He hasn’t got the players he wants available but still think outside the box and show us something! Yesterday was a killer . Felt an important day for ETH tenure .
12.) 10 Dec 2023 12:38:58
I doubt very much he's going anywhere in the short-term as the people who'll make that decision aren't even officially at their desks yet. But as an investor I'd also be highly dubious of giving him any pocket money in January. I see Erik's already put the feelers out suggesting he doubts we'll do any business. Other than a few more dodgy loans (see: Malen) I think this is his lot and he's got to prove that his 'process' is working cause there's no sign of it at the moment.
13.) 10 Dec 2023 12:41:04
Bruno got booked yesterday. It was an easy way out for next weekend. I really do think the team would excel if he was sold. His petulant attitude on the pitch is not what you need in a leader.
14.) 10 Dec 2023 12:50:45
Some of the players are the problem but Ten Hag isn't helping himself by continuing to pick those that always let him down.
Good managers are able to find solutions to problems but Ten Hag looks like he isn't even trying.
15.) 10 Dec 2023 19:23:50
The isssue I’m having with ten hag right now, is that we are seeing the same issues week in week out from the 1st game of the season.
16.) 11 Dec 2023 07:22:15
I see everyone is criticizing the manager for picking Martial. I think you have to manage peoples minutes with Bayern and Liverpool coming up. If you are in eth shoes you have to believe martial should do a job against Bournemouth.
TBH we were very poor and so many players were poor and if it was just a martial thing I would agree. Front 3 were all poor and Bruno and Mc were just as culpable. When you get 5 of your front 6 turning in a 3/ 4 type performance, you get a result like Bournemouth.
Finally I looked like shaw picked up an injury as he asked to come off and we are back to crisis mode in defense and could not happen at a worst time.
17.) 11 Dec 2023 16:15:41
Didn't ten hag want Kane and Darwin Nunez prior to that? He doesn't want to have Martial starting I can guarantee that. A lot of his signings are also injured plus the fact the likes of Sabitzer, Butland, Weghorst loans were out of desperation more than anything else as there was no money to spend. He wanted De Jong they gave him Casemiro as a panic buy after losses to Brighton and Brentford. He wanted Kim min-jae the club gave him Jonny Evans on a free. A lot of the players he actually wanted weren't delivered. He's got the hardest job on the planet he needs time. Sack him and do what exactly? The players get off scott free again nah not having it. It can take 3 or 4 years to get the squad you want especially the state of ours when he came in. If we bring in another manager they won't suddenly turn the likes of Maguire and Lindelof into Ramos and Puyol.
30 Oct 2024 09:36:40
There’s also reports going around about ETH having little to no interest in the academy, making the players do extra harder sessions after defeats (injury complaints perhaps) and an inability to communicate. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Sick of seeing people saying the players do it again and get someone sacked. That’s his squad, the buck stops with him.
He’s gone, it’s time to forget him and get behind the new gaffer.
01 Oct 2024 12:49:10
Ed if you don’t mind- who would you appoint if you were involved with the club?
{Ed002's Note - Thomas Tuchel.}
13 Aug 2024 21:10:24
He was in the team of the season at 18 in France.
13 Aug 2024 14:13:22
Yoro is the most exciting signing of the lot.
07 Aug 2024 15:16:12
Only really saw him in the euros final. Looked very impressive.
12 Jan 2025 21:11:23
If he’s not up for the fight sit at home.
15 Dec 2024 08:01:07
Ratcliffe gave an interview to Andy Mitten for a United fanzine just last week.
11 Dec 2024 09:47:46
What’s the point in yearning for someone who didn’t provide proof of funds, or make an acceptable offer of any kind.
09 Dec 2024 14:25:53
Angel it’s probably the tip of the iceberg. It feels like pretty much all the biggest clubs are going to be doing that. Wait till there’s a new stadium, it’ll soon be over 100 a ticket. Which is a joke.
09 Dec 2024 13:26:44
Ratcliffe like all billionaires, not a great guy. But how bad must the financials be if they’re having to make these calls?