Premier League 24/25 Thread

[weasel]

Agreed. On first viewing it looked like a straight red, but once you see the second angle you can see the slip and the fact contact is fleeting.
VAR should probably have sent the ref to the monitor.

Arsenal escape a red last weekend. Yonder unpronounceable CB should have gone for that block/tackle.

 

[theforceuk]

I don't really care any more if Ten Hag gets sacked or not, in another 2 years we will be talking about the next manager getting sacked. There are still 3 key players in that squad that are toxic and have got 3 managers sacked. I'll give you a clue they're all English, on massive contracts and there game is suited to playing counter attacking park the bus football. Ten Hag is a good manager and will remind everyone in his next job. Look at Ralph Ranick how he was treated by the players and media. Then look how he got Austria playing at the Euros. It's so obvious what the biggest problem is at Utd and it's not Ten Hag.

I can't wait until the new manager gets a bounce and those same old players have a point to prove that it was Ten Hags fault, then after 2 or so months they decide they don't fancy it any more and start blame shifting again. I just hope INEOS will realise that until Man Utd get off the hamster wheel the 3 year cycle will continue. For. Now the cycle is getting shorter.

One thing I will say about Ten Hag is he's a fighter and the closest thing at the club we have to anything resembling the glory days. Every time he's out in a corner he fights his way out, they will probably get a result at Porto. But certain players know that a loss to Villa will be enough to get him out next Monday.

On a positive note it's shaping up to be a great season, Chelsea, Spurs and Villa look to have got there act together and Liverpool look to be on an upward trajectory. Should be entertaining!

 

[weasel]

Lads, it's Utd……

They'll beat Porto and draw with Villa. Doing JUST enough to stagger on for a few more weeks, by which time someone else will be 'in crisis' and the media circus will have moved on.

Brentford, Fenerbache aka Jose coming back, WH and then Leicester in LC after the next (AHH FFS, WHAT THE **** DO WE NEED ANOTHER ****ING DULL AS ****) International break.

I saw something implying Utd/Ineos weren't keen on sacking ETH as it would cost them 18-20m. It would 'only' have been 10m if they sacked him last summer. Alternatively they could have, maybe, not given him a one year extension over the summer. Not like he is going to find a bigger/better club coming in for him.

Even if he goes, who is out there? Tuchel? He falls out with everyone inside two years, hardly what Utd need. Potter/Southgate hardly one the fans will be excited about. RVN, very limited managerial experience and probably just another club legend to be ****ed under the bus.
What Utd need is a manager who knows how to rebuild a club, or knows how a good club should be run and who will tell the Board AND be backed by them. The latter might now happen with Ineos, but I'm not sure. Really, you need someone like the Jose of 10yrs ago. His brand of football is finished now though, and needless to say Utd wont be daft enough to go back. Besides which Jose is now a parody if the man he used to be.

Ohh and I did see someone on Twitter saying sack ETH and appoint Ancelotti. Apparently Utd are the biggest club in the world so Carlo would obvious bin Madrid for Manchester.
It gave me a laugh.

 

[theforceuk]

Give me a break on Ancelotti, players haven't got the mentality for a coach like that anyway. They moaned that Ranick made them train in the dark and that Ten Hag makes them run to much. Imagine Rashfords reaction to being subbed because he keeps losing the ball.

I see Bruno's red card has been over turned, was hoping to see a starting 11 without him in it!

 

[theforceuk]

Tell me sacking Ten Hag will make things better long term one more time.

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[weasel]

Utd's problems are many. The manager is one. But a new manager doesnt solve them. For evidence look at what happened when Moyesy got sacked, and LVG, and Jose, and Ole, and Ralf.

Recruitment has been piss poor for years. It is easier to settle in at club that is flying rather than one in all but permanent crisis. But how many of Utd's signings since Fergy left have improved or looked good value for money. Not many.

The constant leaking of news and rumours is another.

Pish investment in infrastructure and training grounds.

The behind the scenes staff, scouts, coaches, medical staff, all seem poor.

I'm no fan of theirs but I'm not sure if the Glaziers cop any blame. Yes, they leech money from the club and they are the worst kind of owners, BUT all Utd managers have still had money to spend, and invariably spent it badly. It may be that X manager wanted (say) Kane for 100m but the owners only wanted to spend 70m so he ended up with Hojlund (for example) in which case we can blame. But we don't know if those conversations happened, plus every manager always wants more.


All in, the club is a mess, and has been for years

 

[theforceuk]

All roads lead to the Glazers, INEOS have just spent £200 million on 6 players that are meant to go into the starting 11 and everyone expects instant Brazil 70' football, it's ridiculous. Ten Hag has his issues don't get me wrong. All the money spent and we haven't had a fit left back since January, simple things like that stand out to me, Luke Shaw should have been replaced by now. The goalkeeper is like a poppadom stopping a bowling ball, but no desire from anyone at the club to replace him.

As for the leaks, apparently Rashford has leaked that he's not the leak!