31 Mar 2024 22:53:57
Anyone want to see mount at 10 instead of Bruno and hopefully Casemiro instead of mctominay. I'd also play diallo in place of rashford. Might not make a difference but we couldn't be any worse.
01 Apr 2024 07:11:06
I'd definitely try that. Rashford offers nothing. Diallo can go RW and Garnacho LW.
EtH seems to have hair favourites. He is stubborn as a mule.
01 Apr 2024 09:43:25
Garnacho is making the RW his own, I wouldn’t move him.
I’m all for dropping Rashford, his attitude stinks and he needs to go. Unfortunately the replacements are Antony and Diallo who are worse, so it makes sense that we are stuck with Rashford, for the rest of the season at least.
01 Apr 2024 09:53:49
I find this "manager has his favourites" line pretty funny to be honest.
Anyone noticed that Jose's favourites, pretty much became Ole's favourites, while the same players were Ralf's favourites, and now those same players who were the favourites of the previous managers are the current managers favourites.
It's almost like multiple different managers have spent hundreds of hours on the training pitches with these players and all come to the same conclusion about which ones are the best players ??♂️
The argument that they only play the players they sign doesn't even hold up. Garnacho is naturally a LW player, but has been starting ahead of the current managers biggest purchase Antony for nearly two months now on the right.
EtH has literally moved a kid out of position to try and find a solution to drop Antony. That doesn't sound particularly stubborn to me.
People complained that Antony got picked because he was the managers favourite. But completely overlooked the fact that at the time Greenwood and Sancho were unavailable, while Amad was injured meaning the only other option was Pellistri who underwhelmed every time he has played either with us or on either of his previous loans.
Reality was that Antony was the best available player at that time. Since then Garnacho has improved and stepped up, shown he can be relied upon and has taken Antony's place as a result of that.
The only thing I'd criticise the manager for is that tactically I think we need to change our shape in possession from a 3133 to 3223 we need an extra midfielder deeper to protect against the counter.
Tactically the issue we have had all season is the gap between the defence and the forward line is too big. But I'm sure the manager has his reasons for not changing things, and it's more likely due to the players he has available rather than an unwillingness to change his tactics as he has shown himself to be a pragmatic manager and more than willing to alter his tactics to suit the game/ players he has available.
01 Apr 2024 10:40:00
Shappy,
All managers have their favourites.
01 Apr 2024 11:37:51
They’re called the best players.
01 Apr 2024 11:43:58
Correct mad hatter.
Rashford was not a Jose favourite shappy what are you talking about?
Managers favourites under ole were
Rash martial Bruno maguire awb Shaw mctom
Ralph's were not obvious
Eth
Onana martinez Bruno rashford Antony (until it became untenable)
Jose's favs matic I'd say that's it.
01 Apr 2024 12:06:41
Exactly Shappy, it’s no coincidence. The manager has to select from average players with poor attitudes. It doesn’t take much to stand out in the current squad.