<<<If Ten Hag had stayed I think his United team finishes 6th-8th and maybe wins the Europa League. Clearly not good enough for where United want to be. But 3 months later his successor has us looking over our shoulder at the relegation spots and using “worst in history” language. Fair enough, but we weren’t the worst in history when you arrived, Ruben. You’ve made us that.>>>
It’s like watching a cheating x wife slowly fall off a cliff giving you time to assemble a table, booze, some mates, your new smoking hot missus and a really good band.
It’s taking something from Mourinho’s book, half understanding when and how to use it, not having the same success or aura like him to put the players under the bus, amplify it by putting the complete team under the bus instead and then hoping it’ll work.
Assembly as in organise, russel up etc although showing her the nonchalance of nipping to the shops for some flat pack whilst she’s starting to lose balance is quite intriguing.
And before anybody thinks otherwise, met my wife when I was 16. 30+ years ago now. I have friends with x wives, maybe I’m just paraphrasing their hopes and dreams.
Surely a better analogy would be seeing the noisy bragging neighbours, who have recently been made redundant and have decided to do an insurance job on their house, that have just discovered that they didn’t renew the insurance premium, now panicking and trying to work out if the leaking roof will counteract the raging chip pan fire that they have started in the kitchen.
It’s important that a new manager needs to also learn how to work with his existing squad than always wanting a new fresh team altogether. It’s crazy that many United fans are also buying the ‘need a complete new team’ nonsense.
How can a manager be so closely wedded to his formation that he becomes absolutely handicapped without having the right players to play it? Unless you’re a Pep and can spend 100MN on full backs every year, it doesn’t work for majority of other managers.
Then there’s also the case for them where they have highly overpriced and high wages earning players who couldn’t care less. On top of it, he’s gone ahead and said they are all part of worse United side. Why would anyone want to buy them now? Without them being sold how does he plan to buy new side completely? He’s stuck with most of these players whom he has now called practically useless.
It is always a manager that is problem with them, till they replace him and then it’s the players till a point they realize it’s the manager again and the cycle continues.
If they had half a milligram of sense, they’d say “Shut up in the media. Play the best you can with this squad and we’ll see how you’ve done at the end of the season.”
I’d sack him now for yesterday’s epic “players under the bus” statement.