17 Sep 2026 22:46:12
Last night we had 2 FBs in Dalot who is always an accident waiting to happen, and Mazraoui who is decent in a decent team, like Morocco, but is nowhere near good enough to lead a defense with 2 very young CBs in it. Besides which, I read that he really wants to give up football and study to be an imam, so - if this is the case - I wonder if his heart is in it. Symptomatic of the poor mental approach was high 5ing a player who jhas just made a bad error nearly leading to a goal.
The club failing to invest where it was absolutely obviously needed was a dumb risk which looks like it won't pay off. Maybe having a more aggressive and stronger midfielder like Baleba and the return of MdL when he gets back up to speed, will improve things, but in the meantime these losses sap the confidence of the whole team, and especially the young ones. Speaking of which, Rashford has started the season brightly but his final product has been terrible. He should have scored last night. Again, he's in danger of losing confidence and then effectively downing tools.
The cost of not getting into Europe is maybe £100m a year in revenue. The cost of a top FB is maybe £25m a year in salary and amortization.
A classic example of penny wise pound foolish.
18 Sep 2026 06:26:06
Our bigger problem is we seem to back and place people in roles who want to learn on the job. These sort of people are usually yes men and would work with whatever they are given. Nothing wrong with the above but you can't have all departments with these type of people.
Our backroom, coaching and managers are filled with these types of characters.
Basic things like conditioning and fitness of players should have been sniffed out by somebody competent in the backroom.
Wilcox seems to be the main culprit as he was the man backed by the owners and berrada after fumbling with amorim a manager who knew what he was doing.
Hope carrick can turn things around as it is still early in the season but chances and evidence of this happening is very less as he is surrounded by incompetent fools above.
18 Sep 2026 11:29:56
He wouldn't be in the job right now if he didn't have incompetent fools above him.
18 Sep 2026 12:28:45
Wilcox out.