Pretty amusing interview with Rafael in the Atlantic this week. There is not that much in it that makes for juicy headline, it’s more just the overall tone of it that makes it interesting.
If there is one thing that approaches the juicy headline level it is his take that the player failed Moyes rather than the other way around. In his telling, far too many of the players had an unrealistic expectation that a different manager would be able to maintain exactly the same vibe and approach as Fergie and responded negatively to that, not giving Moyes the chance to be his own man and rejecting his approach before it had chance to fail. Reading between the lines, it seems that maybe they’d have done better by going for someone far more obviously different in style and demeanor to cut off that unreasonable expectation of continuity from the outset.
Also sounds as though as soon as things started going south under Moyes, the players took the attitude that ‘well, we won the title last season, so it’s not us it’s the coach’, which made things go bad even quicker.
Even at the time it looked like a weird appointment, but it’s even more clear now he really was on a hiding to nothing.
Agreed. He inherited an absolute mess.
Being insistant on reinventing everything didn’t help him either.
Allegedly Fergie had a say in Moyes appointment.
What better way to maintain your own legend than replace yourself with an abject failure?
Or is than too Machievellian??!!
“No worries Ole, you know that winger, full back and CB you asked for, well I’ve gone one better and bought you another central midfielder”
And you know exactly what the thinking is…how do we get Pogba to play like he does for France?
Rather than just fucking him off like the poser he is, they’ll continue to bend over backwards to find a way to make him work.
Hey N’Golo mate. How do you fancy doing all Paul Pogba’s running about for him, just like you do for France but twice a week?
N’Golo…?
And for that privilege, we’re going to need you to take less in wages… maybe a 30% reduction sound alright?
Edison Cavani? Isn’t he like mid 30’s now surely?
cavani is 33, had to stretch that out for ten characters
I was chatting to one of my United supporting mates yesterday and he basically convinced me these fuckers have no chance of top 4. Seriously, go through their squad, it’s atrocious.
They did well after lockdown because Moysey Gunnar Solskjaer could play the same 11 pretty much every game and they had an easy run of fixtures. With two games a week every week these are going to struggle big time.
@ILLOK also dont forget an absurd number of penalties than cannot be expected to see them through for a whole season.
For a couple of years during Van Gaal’s and Jose’s tenures I used to bang on saying that the players arent as bad as they are performing…individually there were still several you could expect to pluck out of that dysfunction, stick him in a decent side and watch him perform. Chris Smalling last year for Roma is a perfect example (yet somehow despite being the best defender Utd owned last season they still dont see him with a future there this year). But that isn’t the case anymore. I’d take Rashford, but Im not convinced any of the rest of them would hold down a place at another CL challenging side or make them better.
only went to this page because it’s the original source for the compilation of VVD’s long passes yesterday, but damn, this guy is so shit
And some of our fans abusing Neco.
Do they still have Ighalo?
until the end of january i believe