Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

Honestly who gives a shite about Europe, club needs a full reset, less games and time on the training pitch will help. We can also get by on a smaller squad without Europe. I'd be absolutely delighted to miss out if don't getting CL (We're not).

Nah, thats not totally true.

He then un-did his "fix" by putting Eriksen back deeper, where he's a libility, just to introduce the totally ineffective Garnacho. So he gets zero credit there imo.

Starting Martinez game after game when his form is utterly rancid and he's been at fault for countless goals is just silly and reckless at this point. Should have been dropped at least a month ago. Repeated bad calls there.

Didn't he take Ugarte off recently after just 50 odd minutes ? (think it was the Bournemouth game) and it totally exposed us in midfield and they killed us.

I don't have much confidence in some of his decision making.

You are just a Pandora's box of bad opinions tonight

See, this is a reasonable take, but let's just give a little time to deliver that improvement.

He's going to start getting full training weeks with the team now in the New Year and losing to Arsenal in the cup would open up even more time on the training pitch.

I don't know how you'd deliver instant improvement playing every 3 games with a squad lacking in morale and little to no time for tactical instruction.

I'm sure Ruud could've had us finishing top 8 this season with no tactical revolution but I'd prefer we take a bigger risk and actually try to get better long-term.

By the way I expect the team to be playing a lot better by the end of the season.

Probably should be casmaerio you put you ire towards if it needs to be a player as that's who we signed while Newcastle signed their Bruno

It's going to take a very long time to sort out this squad.

In terms of this summer, Evans, Eriksen, Maguire and Lindelof all have contract expiries. None of them are worth keeping, not on their wages. So first thing you've got to do is bring in at least one, preferably 2, CBs to cover the three exiting (who all still get games) and account for Martinez's form. And you'll want at least one, preferably two, CMs to replace Eriksen and account for Casemiro's age. That business is just to keep the up with departures before you do anything else.

Then you can go shopping for wingbacks. That's 4-6 new players so far. If you get all those done and still have some money left over (hard to see how), and then you can start looking at other positions like striker.

Amorim is in huge trouble if he doesn't start finding a way to win with these players, because INEOS will be doing the sums and think its a smaller problem if we just get a coach who plays with 4 at the back and doesn't need us to sign 2-3 wingbacks to get his system working.

When we had Cas & Ugarte playing together in front of a flat back four (under Ruud) we were far more solid, and harder to play through. It's less than two months ago that we drew with Chelsea with this selection. And look how far we've fallen in that short time.

I know everyone wants to back the manager and his philosophy. But honestly it's very difficult to see how this group can play his 3-4-3. We just don't have wingbacks, and on the left side we have very little at all. Maz and Dalot as wingbacks is simply not working.

If you move Amad to RWB, which is the obvious choice - we're then left short in the No. 10 position. 3-4-3 just doesn't add up with this squad imo.

But if we aren't in Europe we can clear out more players and get their wages off the books + some transfer fees in. We don't need a big squad without Europe and we can get the ball rolling on shaping the squad. (Maybe i'm being naive here)

It's all a complete farce. The last number of signings, the timing of ETH exit/Amorim arrival, the determination to play a system the squad doesn't have the players for. INEOS have made a bad situation considerably worse. If this were a Mom and Pop shop, it would be boarded up. If it was a PLC, the board would be long fired. It's like someone on acid playing FIFA Manager.