14 Apr 2024 11:02:24
Rumours that EtH has lost the dressing room - a recurring theme at United since SAF.
Is it the manager and tactics or the players or the whole club? One things for sure is that after spending a billion pounds we are a mid table team
I’d don’t trust my judgement with this lot.
14 Apr 2024 12:18:29
The dressing room is too big, has too many players, and has too many cliques.
It's impossible for any manager to keep a group of players this big and disjointed together and pushing in the same direction. While the going is good it works. But the moment things get tough this squad turns on itself and they eat eachother.
I don't think it's possible to have 36 first team players and to not have a group of them dislike or become disenchanted with the manager as simple there there too many players to get regular minutes. Meaning there is always a core group of players who don't play regularly and as such won't buy into the manager or his tactics.
They will be the first ones to turn on the manager when things get tough as they never really bought into him in the first place.
You then have those who are regulars in the first team but who have close friends or are in cliques with players who aren't. Players who maybe have fallen out with the manager.
For example is it a coincidence that Rashford's form went completely out the window around the same time that Sancho (a close friend) had a very public fallout with the manager?
It could be a coincidence or it could be linked.
The same happened when Jose turned on Shaw, the form of several of the players close to Shaw dropped.
These players who have torn loyalties between the manager and friends who don't like the manager will be the next to turn against him.
Then there are the ones who have no particular strong feelings either way, but they tend to go with the crowd as they have no reason to fight against it.
This tends to leave the manager with a few close loyalists, often the players they have brought with them or have worked with before.
But by this point it isn't enough to save them, they don't have enough players to put out a team that is truly playing for them.
14 Apr 2024 12:50:24
Rinse and repeat. Too many toxic players that have done this under multiple managers. Right now my biggest issue with talk of replacing ETH is that it could further delay moving these players on. We only have 4 or 5 players good enough to start for any team with aspirations of challenging for the league. We need 3+ new starter level players in and a whole boat load out.
14 Apr 2024 14:50:12
Also doesn’t help if the manager has no emotional intelligence and no people skills.
14 Apr 2024 15:08:20
Spot on utd Road. If I was a player I wouldn't trust him.
He is only 5 mins away from his next fall out.
Ignore tashfords non effort for 6 months a call out garnacho was dumb but to be expected from eth.
Its not even up for debate now he is on his way out no doubt about it.
Some players will go with him and that's a good thing.
14 Apr 2024 15:36:06
The dressing room lost us a long time ago. Ship turn all out and star again.
14 Apr 2024 18:58:37
You would think after 2 years at the club he should be able to remember where the dressing room is.
Perhaps this explains why he keeps picking Rashford. He keeps forgetting how bloody awful he was in the previous game.
14 Apr 2024 20:25:35
Rumours that [insert manager name] has lost the dressing room.
Of course he has, the only surprise is that it took almost two years.
14 Apr 2024 20:52:15
The Utd dressing room must be the most pathetic and tedious working environment on the planet. You can just picture the moaning and bitchiness.
15 Apr 2024 09:41:41
Lol wazza.
Apparently he has no personal skills or emotional intelligence. Jesus, lads on here really have no clue ?.
15 Apr 2024 14:04:32
Angel, it's hilarious. Rumours that he can be "difficult" to get along with surface and the a couple of weeks later some sections of the fanbase are suggesting we've hired Rain man to manage us ???.
15 Apr 2024 21:09:51
You'd have thought after no renovations in the ground, the dressing room would be in the same place it always is.
16 Apr 2024 00:34:23
Yeah I’ve totally misjudged EtH boys.
The players are so motivated they’d run through walls for Eric it’s plain to see. Not to mention how he’s got the best out of Ronaldo, Sancho, Maguire, Van der beek and Varane and increasing their market value.
You can’t argue that he doesn’t get the very best out of his footballers and never have I seen such fitness levels and resilience to injury before.
It must be so inspiring for the team to see how uses the media to show his unwavering defence of his players and takes total accountability for his decisions.
Give him £400m to rebuild this team in his image and new long term contract. There definitely aren’t any managers capable of surpassing these elite levels.
16 Apr 2024 10:14:43
What a ridiculous post Utd Road. ETH isn't without his flaws but its easy to make him the scapegoat over a decade of issues.
Ole openly came out and said bringing Ronaldo back to the club was a mistake. We overpaid for Sancho and he is known to have disciplinary problems, he's hardly set the Bundesliga alight since his loan. ETH actively tried to move Maguire and Van de Beek on in the summer, is it his fault there was no interest because we have amateurs negotiating.
A lot of keyboard football experts here with absolutely no substance to contribute.
16 Apr 2024 11:53:25
Good managers improve players and keep their jobs.
I can’t wait to see him lead us out in August.
As I said by every conceivable metric Eric is the best.