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coachtfd · 17 hours

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As I expected. Who knows with journalism these days how true this is, but it at least seems like INEOS sees what many of us see: we’ve changed managers plenty of times, it’s time to actually complete a rebuild and that starts with overhauling the squad. How many Arsenal players from before Arteta took over are left, and look at what they’re doing now. He’s moved three of his captains on — Aubameyang, Lacazette and Xhaka — among other players. He might move a couple more on this summer if the whispers are true.

People think I’m being emotional about Ten Hag; I’m not, I’m as ruthless as I’ve ever been. But that energy has already been directed at a number of United managers over the last 11 years. It’s past time to point the finger at someone else and they don’t sit in the manager’s chair on match days.

#tfd #summer transfer window #manchester united #arsenal #soccer #football #premier league #arteta out #go on mikel do the ting #it’s ten’s time now #erik ten hag #mikel arteta #mufc #ten hag out #pierre emerick aubameyang #alexandre lacazette #granit xhaka #bbc news

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coachtfd · 3 days

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You’re so in love with Ten Hag or rather the idea of Ten Hag specifically that you refuse to see and acknowledge his faults and shortcomings. Anyway, his days are numbered and I personally can’t wait to see him booted. He is not a good fit for United. Ah and he can take his former Ajax players too.. Onana and Antony are both appalling and Martinez is a walking injury.

It’s not that at all. I liked Ole in the job and when it was time to go I said so. I don’t think it’s time for Ten Hag to go. I’ve seen the mistakes he’s made, I’ve seen the baffling press conferences. But I’ve seen far more of our players underperforming and making needless mistakes. I’ve seen us sustain a number of injuries that exceeds almost any other big club in Europe. Onana was the best ball-playing goalkeeper we could afford, probably not even the one he would’ve picked if we could do better.

I just think that more than a decade of neglect and gross mismanagement has finally hit its boiling point and Ten Hag just happened to be here when it did. When we have stories coming out about Casemiro leaving the country to find out if he’s injured because our equipment is so outdated it isn’t catching injuries and our medical staff is that incompetent, I’m not going to lay that at the manager’s feet.

It’s been a terrible season, but sometimes you just have to push through the storm until you hit the clearing. Changing managers is fleeing back to shore for us right now and we really need to get to the other side of this storm. Everything we want to achieve is on the other side. I maintain: turn the squad over and actually make it better. If he struggles after that, then that’s a fairer assessment.

#tfd #anon #answered #manchester united #mufc #soccer #football #premier league

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coachtfd · 3 days

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The look on that little boy’s face after getting Tarkowski’s shirt is why we love the game. ❤️

#tfd #everton #brentford #soccer #football #premier league

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coachtfd · 3 days

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You just can’t legislate for stupidity like this, it’s utterly amazing. Don’t know what Casemiro is thinking and Onana is just doing the same thing he did against Wolves, missing the punch completely and leveling the opposition player; this time we got punished for it. We do it to ourselves, mistake after mistake. 😑

#tfd #manchester united #soccer #football #premier league

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coachtfd · 3 days

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It’s really hard to take anyone complaining about United’s tactics seriously when I’m reading an article about Allegri’s “tactical surprise” for Juve’s match against Milan.

Is he still using 3 center backs?

“Yes.”

Is he still using 5 midfielders?

“Yes.”

Is he still starting Vlahovic and Chiesa?

“Yes. BUT he’s benched Weston McKennie so he can move Cambiasso from wing back into midfield and he’s moving Tim Weah into the wing back position.”

So he benched one American player to move another American player into a position that he’s not going to be comfortable in, the back 3 will play like a back 5 for most of the match again, 8 behind the ball, strikers are on their own. Right, I’m predicting 5 or fewer shots on goal again for Juve, bet $100 on it and thank me later. United you should sack Ten Hag immediately and get this man in right now. This is the kind of ingenuity our current manager clearly lacks. 😂

#tfd #it’s ten’s time now #erik ten hag #allegri out #soccer #football #max allegri #premier league #serie a #massimiliano allegri #juventus #ac milan #milan #italy #italia #weston mckennie #tim weah #andrea cambiaso

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coachtfd · 4 days

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Like it or not Ten’s time is up at this club. As soon as we lose the fa cup final and finish the season outside of the top 4 he gets the boot.

I’m not convinced it is and I think it would be a very big mistake to sack him now. There was a roar from the crowd when Rasmus scored, there was a genuine excitement in the commentator’s voice that I haven’t heard in a long time; he’s definitely building something. When you look around at some of our main competitors, a number of them are about to go through significant transitions as they replace managers or seek to replace their aging superstars. This is way bigger than style of play or tactics.

Personally, I’ve had enough of the complaints about tactics and style of play. Please, sometimes our “tactics” were give Ronaldo the ball and watch him beat 3 to score, or set Becks up for a free kick and watch it curl into a corner. We had our trademark counterattacks and could keep the ball when we needed to against most teams, but we scored and won any way it worked. That’s actually why we were so successful, because we were so unpredictable. Mourinho’s Inter shut Barca down because their patterns were predicable and he prepared his team accordingly.

City is predictable, they execute at a high level but they’re predictable. We’re not City, winning is our way. We played good football because we had good players, not because they were committed to playing one particular way. That’s not the soul of this club and I think Ten Hag is beginning to understand this. As the quality and depth of our squad improves so much is going to improve in our performances. Let the rest of the world try to be City, this is Manchester United. We don’t follow trends, if anything we set them. And we sure as hell don’t follow City.

#tfd #anon #answered #erik ten hag #it’s ten’s time now #manchester united #soccer #football #premier league

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coachtfd · 5 days

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Who even wants Pochettino now? Either Mourinho or Zidane can fix this motherfucking mess of a club. Ten Hag should go back to Ajax that’d be for the best for all parties especially United.

I was just being sarcastic about Poch, but fans keep acting like Ten Hag’s been the worst Big Six manager this season and he hasn’t. There’s a changing of the guard happening and we cannot afford to lose him now to get someone who doesn’t know these players or this club and probably can’t handle the job. Mourinho has no desire to raise young players at a club like United and if people are complaining about Amad’s lack of game time now, bring back Mourinho and see what happens. Also, if people don’t like our current style of play, do they think Ajax or Barca are knocking on his door? 😂 Zidane is waiting for the France job, people need to let that go. And the first thing he’d say is what we already know: he can’t win the league with most of these players.

#tfd #anon #answered #manchester united #soccer #football #erik ten hag #it’s ten’s time now #premier league #mufc

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coachtfd · 7 days

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We’ll take him! Got a nice right winger position he’ll fit perfectly into. 😁😁

#tfd #mauricio pochettino #the gift that keeps on giving #cole palmer #chelsea #manchester united #soccer #football #espn #premier league

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coachtfd · 7 days

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You know what? We should sack Ten Hag and get Poch. That’s the manager most of the fans wanted two years ago, right? After all, he’s been less of a “fraud” than Ten Hag in the same time, Chelsea clearly have a better style of play and culture under him, and winning Ligue 1 with a squad that has Messi in it is actually harder than winning the Eredivisie with your best players constantly being cherry-picked by clubs like PSG, United, and Barca. Okay, he struggled to figure out how to play with three of the best attacking players in the world but, psh, details. Surely he can figure out Rashford, Højlund, and Antony (because he’d never play Garnacho since he sometimes doesn’t track back). Yes, let’s listen to the fans and give them the manager they originally wanted.

There’s an old West Indian saying: “If you won’t hear, you’ll feel.”

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coachtfd · 9 days

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“Sometimes people with the worst past end up creating the best future.”

— Unknown

#signal boost #unknown #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #inspirtation

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coachtfd · 9 days

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The Cautionary Tale of Bayern Munich

I suppose you think I’m laughing when I look at Bayern’s league position because I just hate Bayern Munich, but that is not the case. I’m laughing because I remember when Guardiola was there and complaints about the style of play were beginning to surface (imagine that Premier League fans). There were complaints about their lack of success in the Champions League, like anyone else could do so much better. “He’s a fraud, he can’t win the Champions League without Messi, I don’t understand what he’s trying to do, it’s not good enough, it’s time for him to go.” Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.

Credit to Hansi Flick, though, who eventually won the continental treble fours years later in 2020 (a pandemic year so I put an asterisk on that). But then they got tired of him too. And when you look at them now, you can’t help but laugh because they had someone at the helm that could’ve built an absolute dynasty for them if they’d been more patient. Not that City is complaining, as Bayern’s loss has totally been their gain.

To me, it’s a cautionary tale when it comes to sacking managers. Some need to go soon after they get there, sure, but most you should probably stick with for a few years and build a team around them before you can really judge their work. Because you can chop and change all you like, but if you built a relegation squad, staying up under a new manager this season does NOT guarantee you’ll stay up the next. The same is true for finishing in a European position.

I understand the cost and toll of relegation or missing out on European football, I do. But these club owners fail to realize that most of the time they’re in these positions either because of their mismanagement or because of the mistakes made by people they hired and continued to retain despite their repeated failures. If you build a team that can’t win the Champions League and you don’t win it, whose fault is that? If you build a 6th place team and don’t win the league, whose fault is that? The media, pundits, former players, and fans all blame the manager, but these clubs build weak teams then wonder why the manager can’t make them strong. Or they sack the one who did the minute there’s any sign of a return to their actual level without truly examining the root causes for the regression.

I know I’m a bit unorthodox, and clearly I am for thinking that a manager who took over a 4th place team but now has them in 10th more deserves to be on the chopping block than a manager who took over a 5th place team and comfortably finished 3rd. Imagine what he could do if you built a 3rd place team and kept the squad healthy enough to field their ideal starting XI in 85% of their matches…like I said, I’m unorthodox. But then why is it working for the clubs that actually do it? Personally, I think they’re a little unorthodox, too, and it’s why they’re doing better than everyone else around them.

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coachtfd · 9 days

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Is this your perch knocking manager??? Lmao this bald fraud better get sacked by the morning idgaf anymore. Sancho IN Ten Hag OUT

Oh please. Sancho isn’t the answer, I’ve said it before, and he absolutely proved it under two very different managers by the way. Frauds don’t play in Champions League semifinals, so parrot something smarter, please. The goal that kicked off the comeback was the result of a classic Dalot error that he’s been making since Mourinho brought him here. Casemiro intelligently assumed that Dalot would pick up Simms who was right in front of him and went to mark the player at the far post to and cover Onana. Instead, per usual, Dalot made the wrong decision and tried to mark a player he was never we going to reach because he was massively out of position yet again.

Our defensive frailty comes from having way too many players out there who aren’t fit enough or fast enough, and who lack the required intelligence and composure to make good decisions in critical moments and manage games. Ten Hag isn’t the reason Dalot blew a simple defensive assignment, but that’s what he’s working with. He’s made at least 3 critical mistakes in the last couple of games and it’s costing us. Add in the fact that our medical staff is so inept and the technology they’re using is so outdated that we’re down to one fit center back and we have no left backs.

Ten Hag never had seasons like this at Ajax because he had a far better structure, more competent staff, and better players around him. I stand by what I said: fix the administration and staff around him, improve the quality of the squad he has to coach, and then we judge him. I bet you we play better when we do. Me, I’d start off by removing McClaren and getting Patrick Viera who did a very good job at getting the Palace players to play a more sophisticated style of football. He’s not a #1 but I think he’d be a solid #2. Then I’d poach Gallagher since Chelsea need to balance their books and the fans don’t even appreciate him. Reunite those two and see how much we improve.

#tfd #anon #answered #it’s ten’s time now #erik ten hag #manchester united #mufc #soccer #football #premier league #jadon sancho #2023/2024

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coachtfd · 9 days

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Be as condescending about spurs as you like, you couldn’t beat ‘em

Oh absolutely right. 😅 We’re not beating anyone of note lately. We beat Chelsea and then drop points against Spurs. I’m not happy about the direction we’re going in at all, we’re better than this. We had the firepower to put them away, even if we’re still leaking goals for fun.

#tfd #anon #answered #manchester united #soccer #football #wsl 23/24 #wsl #barclays wsl #woso #muwfc #tottenham #tottenham hotspur #spurs

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coachtfd · 9 days

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Skinner’s halftime team talk should’ve been simple and concise: “Ladies, it’s Spurs.” Pick it up, let’s go. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#tfd #manchester united #soccer #football #barclays wsl #wsl #woso #wsl 23/24 #muwfc

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coachtfd · 12 days

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