The problem is that none of them press at all. You can cope with 1 player who has no defensive contribution whatsoever but not 3.Originally Posted by Spikey M
The problem is that none of them press at all. You can cope with 1 player who has no defensive contribution whatsoever but not 3.
Lazy narrative imo.
They are eleven points clear. Sounds to me like coping.
Despite what happened last season, that league is a one horse race let's be honest.
Also, I'm not sure working with the best players (including the greatest ever), coasting to domestic silverware to add to your CV and having a shot at the greatest prize all amount to a very tough gig. Tuchel certainly survived it okay.
So let them play their three lazy superstars. No need to bench one just so Dirk Kuyt can press.
The City game this season was evidence of how it doesn't automatically mean failure.
Which is fine in the League but I wouldn't be surprised if they get some absolute bummings in the Champions League, which is the only thing that actually matters for them.
Maybe, we'll see I guess.
Wasn't Tuchel constantly fighting with the board/Leonardo and ended up getting sacked mid-season whilst 3rd in the League?
He's obviously gone on to be great at Chelsea but I don't think his time at PSG was all roses.
I'm picking up a 'Pochettino good' vibe here.
I'm not massively sold on Pochettino but it can't possibly be worse than the last couple of months.
He's no Steve Clarke.
Mark Noble.
None of which have managed 1000 games.
Plus, his two headers basically won their first Premier league so that should buy the same credit as Solskjaer in 1999.
Cheating Manc bastards.
Just leaves Steve Bruce open to manage PSG. I’m sure that was the plan all along.
From what I can tell the only thing that's changed between now and the other best part of 20 years he's posted here in exactly the same way, is an admission of a period struggling with his mental health.
Which reflects on everyone extremely well.
He's taking over Boris.
Would have won the CL if Mbappe wasn’t a bottling bastard
Leonardo getting in with the ragheads (thanks Taz) early doors was a great career move. Who is he to be undermining actual managers?
I was thinking that. Last time I thought about him he was looking pretty and dishing out platitudes on the BBC at World Cup 2006.
He had something to do with Kaka going to Milan, got some sort of non-job there for a few years, eventually fell into the big job... Even his Brazil caps were mostly Copa America/qualifiers during those years when the big names never bothered to play in them. What a career.
Ernesto Valverde?
Has Hiddink finally retired/died?
Bruno Martinez it is.
I'm a twit
Steve 'The Fifth Candidate' Bruce.
Is the Steve Bruce rumour actually a thing beyond here?
I was talking to my dad earlier and he said he'd read it in the paper. I thought it was just a joke here.
Schmeichel has said Bruce should get the job and apparently Bruce's agent has been ringing the club up.
Ed Woodward must be absolutely cringing at the thought of hiring those last two names. Their journeyman manager faces alone are enough to set the social media side back five years.
Lucien Favre looks like Rod Liddle, while Ernesto Valverde just looks like every front of house manager at every edge-of-town motel in Spain.
Poor Steve
I'm amazed we've done something so competent.
What has he done outside of Leipzig that seems to run pretty competently without him?
I'm not sure it's even competent, it's just more flavour of the month shite vis-a-vis German managers.
Oof. Pretty interested to see how this goes. He's basically a dictator so I wonder if he'll immediately be allowed to give Carrick and co the chop.
Yeah it does stink of this a bit, he's obviously got pedigree but I'm not sure it's a good fit at all.
He's too good to piss around with interim jobs.Poor Steve
He's a million times better than Carrick. I'm pretty happy.
I reckon if they'd announced the appointment of Helmut Müller and cited his famous 'sausage of steel' midfield setup, at least 30% of United fans would have become giddily excited without even googling him.
To be fair if we had a manager who was going to implement the Sausage of Steel I'd be unequivocally in favour.
What's the 2 year consultancy bit about? He's a manager, not a non-exec director.
I was curious about that and he's not manager at Lokomotiv, he's their "Head of Sports and Development."
So it'll partly be just to bung him to come even though they may have no real intention of giving him the job but maybe they'll chuck him in with Murtough and Fletcher. I know Murtough is United's "Football Director" but I've no idea what that actually involves so if it's not the traditional DoF stuff maybe get Ragnick doing a bit of that?
But it's mostly to slip him a few extra quid I imagine.
To stop them from giving him a fat new contract if he does well.
Aka the Schweinsteiger era.
New manager bounce just in time for Arsenal
It's a director of football style gig I would think. Objectively it's probably the best decision they could possibly make. Now they just need to let him have the reins and see what happens.
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