“These aren’t his players! INEOS need to back him or the green-and-gold scarves are coming out again!”
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How many games until the “we’re not a sacking club. We back our managers” talk starts?
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Half and half wankers.
Oh wait… the Gold reflects their past glories and the Green symbolises their envy of us.
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About 10 games?
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That statement sounds to me as though he is playing for time due to his own limitations… not those of the players, or transfer kitty he will inherit
If he thinks he can remain under the radar while he gets to grips with the job, or making the best fist of it at least, he has certainly joined the wrong club for that…
This PL is ruthless on the managers of clubs with no ambition, he will have little chance of surviving the media onslaught coming his way if he proves to be little more than a paper tiger
I do think he is trying to set out some needed hard truths, while greatly underestimating the challenge involved in that. If the Club is genuine about expecting to begin to show progress largely with the existing stock of players, the difficulty he faces is that if does not self-evidently happen in fairly short order, someone needs to be the scapegoat.
That said, I do think there is some untapped potential in that squad. Just watching how Sancho and McTominay have flourished once away sets that out.
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Think that Hodgson made us look worse than what we were. And Amorim’s actually stating the truth, United are shit.
Don’t think the problem is that Amorim isn’t a good manager. He clearly is.
Liverpool didn’t choose him because of the massive whole scaled changes that he would want. And that’s for a fully functional slightly underachieving team that liverpool was. Imagine what’s the case for United.
He did, but that was a desperately weak side. Lower talent level than this ManU side, without question.
What Carragher must have been thinking in that moment…
Look at any of the sides ManU has put out this season, and you easily get to 5-6 you’d swap. That photo was before a European night, no less.
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Jonjo is going to be better than Gerrard…
It’s Babel who amuses me in this pic with his 1000 yard “WTF have I got myself into” stare
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More bald heads than the PGMOL.
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More bald heads than peaches in a house of mirrors
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The realism wasn’t necessarily wide of the mark, but he should balance that out and also offer hope. Something along the lines of his own version of getting them back on their perch. He can manage expectations with a blend of realism and hope. We are going to get there, but there’s a lot of work to do, that sort of thing.
All I heard about were the problems. Twice I think. To my mind it seemed small.
He spoke a good amount about what he wants to see differently from the players. He’s clearly got a vision for what he wants this team to do, and isnt going to ETH it and try to find some milquetoast middle ground between his ideals and what he thinks the players can do. He is going to force them to do it the way he wants, and is just being clear that it isnt going to take overnight, and it is different enough to what they have been doing (we’re bought to do?) that some (lots?) may not get there.
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When you put it in these terms it’s actually strikingly similar to Rafa pre-Liverpool.
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Hopefully it takes him ages, and hopefully the finances will be too tight for him to make the moves he would like, due to previous waste.
We’ll see what we’ve got in due course. Another Villa Boas, or another top manager coming through who will establish an identity and win the big prizes with them?
Hopefully the former.
You got hope even in the depths of despair. Unless you support MU.
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Is that Jovanovic in front of Ngog? I’m trying to figure out who’s in front of Reina without cheating and looking it up…
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