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  1. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    If you sack him then I don’t think you can get a manager that will have expectations of the players or that has a very specific style requiring players that match it. That just hasn’t worked. Might as well hire someone who can adjust to the talent and grind out a CL spot while you clean house...
  2. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Wingers or forwards who don’t track back isn’t a uniquely United problem. It did leave a lot of space for the Liverpool fullbacks to exploit though. Listened to Neville’s comments and he called some of their play madness and schoolboy. He seems convinced it’s coaching since it isn’t addressed...
  3. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Dropped points from 3 penalties in 3 days. 2 of them soft AF. Looks like refs want ETH sacked like some of the senior players. This United team is so soft. Any game where it’s physical and the refs allow contact they shrink from it. There often isn’t challenges until they down a goal. What’s...
  4. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    They rely on Mainoo in the middle for energy and he looked tired for maybe the 1st time this year. Garnacho didn’t have it today either.
  5. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Shaw, Martinez and Casemiro were back from injury but only Casemiro looked like a complete passenger.
  6. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Mainoo was covering that space before he went off. I get why ETH sent on McTominay for a goal but it was always going to open up the game as McTominay can’t be bothered. The back 5 isn’t good enough to not have cover. I’m guessing at Ajax it was.
  7. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    He was solidly home reffing all game with tackles and free kicks. Tried his best the last 10 mins to manufacture a goal. 2 yellows in 10s is BS. Yellows for diving is supposed to be a thing and he didn’t give a blatant one earlier.
  8. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    VAR didn’t even know what it was for.
  9. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Vinnie Jones 😂. How many games would he last with VAR?
  10. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I know you can’t play today like Keane did but there are so many matches where I just wish we had someone like him out there to show some passion and make a tackle before you concede a goal. Casemiro last year the closest we have had in along time. Him being not up to it and past it (then...
  11. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Question on the Liverpool example. Where they ever hated like United seem to be now? I don’t really remember before 85 when I was in school and started following. The Liverpool parallels are there. Current United is not likely to have a squad good enough or deep enough to win the league. Cup...
  12. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I don’t think the current social media/media environments help clubs at all. Not for football. The constant United in crisis stories for the last 10 years generate clicks and keep them in the headlines so help the marketing profile. The tabloids were always doing this in a way but it just seems...
  13. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    He tried to offload both Maguire and McTominay and then both ended up starting due to injuries and the low squad quality. I would go full Jose with a double pivot, the best 4 defenders fit (so no Dalot or Reguilon) with your best 2 wingers who will track and just play McTominay as the sole AM...
  14. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Takes effort. Comedic defending. Fullbacks who don’t defend, wingers who don’t track back, keeper errors, McTominany thinks he’s Lampard with less work rate. Long list. The Rashford red when leading was critical.
  15. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    ETH seems to hate a double pivot so he will play Amrabat or Mainoo with someone like Hannibal as the AM. He could maybe play Eriksen if he’s fit. Can’t even track who is not injured these days.
  16. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Bayern were better in 2nd gear. Not only technically better but seemed to have an extra man with and without the ball. They also played more physical and the ref was fine with it. Shame no United players took the hint. Midfield looked totally outclassed but tellingly we looked closer when...
  17. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    looked like he wasn’t ready for it to come all the way to him. On replay Martial is there for the header and decides not to bother hitting it to the surprise of Onana.
  18. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Moyes, LVG, Jose, Ole and now ETH. A plethora of different players. It’s not the managers in control. The marketing arm runs the club. Wanting a British player for the 7 shirt then hearing the board wants him playing more this week is emblematic of the rot in the club. I don’t expect some guy...
  19. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    The owners put in place a purposeful strategy after Alex to sign “names” to sell shirts and other marketing reasons. Multiple managers did not get the players they wanted and got more established “value proven” players. Or cheaper options. It was an attempt to have Galaticos strategy on the...
  20. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Under the Glazers selling players has been worse than buying them. They hold on to them and then they have little value when they do try to move them. Worse is that they don’t believe the marketplace when they do. They tend to hold out for internal valuations that don’t reflect any actual...

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