Ermmm....he could have fooled me against Sevilla last season. How did we "compete" in those games - it was dreadful , timid and shambolic. Our squad was easily better and way more pricey than theirs.
He's conservative in his approach to winning he wants to win 1-0 not 10-0 we all know that.
He clearly felt over the 2 legs play cautiously and try to win 1-0 over 180 minutes he's a man who's quoted as saying in 2 leg competition if he's playing at home first he considers 0-0 a great result as it removes the risk of away goals. He wasn't low scoring ties that we control by not giving away chances that didn't work because Seville were able to cut through us easily and we carried zero attacking threat.
The point is in those games Seville won because they played like a team at that point last season Utd were a mess playing like individuals. We were still trying to fit Sanchez into the team, Pogba was out of form/injured and started both games on the bench, Lukaku was struggling for goals, Matic was knackered etc.
Forget what the squad costs or earns bad players with bad attitudes can cost/earn lots of money Utd's squad I don't think has the talent to make big splashes in Europe apart from Pogba not one of our outfield players is getting a move to Juventus, Madrid, Barca etc.
..........Which strikes me as being very childish and completely inappropriate for a Man Utd manager. I expect our manager to care more about the club and less about his image and work hard to put it right rather have a hissy fit and then search around for anything and everything to blame but himself.
The simple fact is that if you look at the players we have , many of them have shown what they are capable of at times (and very much so at other clubs) so they can't be that bad. I would be fascinated to see what would happen under a different manager with a different way of playing and man managing.
I've got this hunch that we might be quite surprised at what they can produce. A crap manager can make world beaters look like dummies if he instils negativity and fear into his team.
True but self preservation is the era we live in for management now they're hired guns/consultants paid to do a job that they see as short term fixers not long term career moves. Go in get sh*t done cash your cheque and leave. You won't find another Ferguson those guys don't existing the Ferguson type people are the sporting directors now they make long term decisions they employ coaches to make short term ones like who plays on Saturday not should we buy/sell/loan this player. The only manager who maybe has that loyalty and those qualities is Howe he's built something at Bournemouth.
I think there are serious questions about some of our players ability very few were proven at the top level prior to coming to Utd and those that were never really created the form from the previous club at Utd but they weren't signed from teams who played like Utd apart from maybe Matic coming from Chelsea. I think there are good players there but the balance when you put them all together isn't right and it has been that way for a long time Fergie built great teams not every player in that team was a superstar but he was doing something that helped the team. You don't need 10 Ronaldo's you need a few Park's or Brown's no thrills reliable players Utd currently don't have enough of them we have to many who go from an 8 to a 4 game to game.
In the hypothetical world if we started the season again with a different manager I still think this team would be looking at 3rd or 4th this season but it might be a bit more fun to watch and currently we are looking more like 6th or 7th as the wheels have really come off.
