25 Mar 2015 22:15:02
JMB
I love your passion and enjoy your posts but to suggest you have been calling for the current team and set up is ridiculous. Yes weall wants to see Herrera and many of us wanted to see 1 up front and yes, injuries have forced some of the selections. However, you seek to take to much credit here. Nobody had Blind at left back and nobody had Fellaini as a regular starter. Like it or not, LVG has 'stumbled' ' on a winning formula. To try and take credit for having foreseen this is just plain nonsense.
26 Mar 2015 01:39:23
AJH who is trying to take credit? Blinds natural position is left back so it's hardly a masterstroke to move him there especially considering we all know Carrick and Blind together in CM won't work. On top of that Rojo and Shaw have knocks so it must only be LVG who can put 1+1 together and 'stumble' on that selection right?
As for Felliani I have been championing him from the start this season after he decided to turn up. Believe it or not I like Felliani and he is the main reason we have won many games this season including the last two. So why drop our best outfield player? If I can see that and others can see that then obviously LVG who stands 20 yards away on the touch line can see that.
I am not taking 'credit' I am only explaining that essentially we all wanted a 4-3-3, certain players to be dropped, other to be introduced and a few shifted around and that is now what's happened.
26 Mar 2015 09:20:02
JMB,
I think it just comes across as a bit arrogant and like you can't give LVG any credit.
26 Mar 2015 09:45:29
Juan, the problem is that every week as the team has changed formation/personel/tactics everyones opinion of what we need to do has changed. You yourself have just admitted that you have only been calling for Fellaini to be in the team since he "turned up".
Could it be that none of us fans really know what is best and are just stumbling in the dark looking for the answers with nothing to go on?
LvG has always been a controversial character and as such people will either love him or hate him. Much the same as a certain Chelsea manager.
But he has a proven track record, EVERYONE learns how to do anything through trial and error. And this is the same even for experienced managers. As they will be working in a new enviroment with different characters and as such no manager can be expected to take a bunch of individuals with different characters, temprements and levels of interllect and then impose their ideas on those players and for all of them to pick up understand and adjust to those ideas at the same rate. That is why you always have to give a manager time. The only time that changes is if the manager has lost the dressing room such as Moyes did last season. Once that happens the players no longer respect the manager and no longer listen to their ideas therefore there can be no progress.
LvG has had several months to build relationships with the players for him and the players to learn to understand each other, and for those player to learn to adapt to those ideas and for LvG to learn what he can get from each player. He has tried different formations tactics and has seen how each player has adapted to those and how they work as a team. He has then come up with different plans and ways of taking those players and knitting them into a team which gets the best out off all those players.
Has this happened by chance? maybe but I would be more inclined to believe that if it had happened staight away, but after many months of trial and error i would be more inclined to say that LvG has worked out how to get the best out of the players and for the players they have started to understand and come to terms with LvG's ideas. Or more commonly referred to they have "clicked".