Man Utd

[Dr. Winston]

And rightly so.

It's pure arrogance to do what he's doing i.e. here's my 3-4-3, if you don't like it, tough shit, we're just going to keep doing it. It's mental. They don't even have wingbacks, for a start.

The mess there is not all his fault of course - but he's really not helping himself at all. If he gets thumped in the next two games at Anfield and the Emirates, if things don't improve by March I think he could easily get the sack.

I'm certainly not disagreeing. As others have pointed out, it's a situation that we've got some experience in too. Managers should be more flexible in the way they want to play if the tools available don't suit it.

Not many are these days.

 

[monmouth]

I think their biggest problem at the minute is that t hey haven't really got an idea of what style they want. They've chopped and changed so much since Fergie retired and let different managers spend hundreds of millions on players who don't suit the next manager that they've tied themselves in knots.

They need a huge clearout, but it's hard to see many of their players being all that attractive to the kinds of clubs that will give them anything like what they paid.

They were the same after Busby. They got very lucky with Robins' equaliser at Oxford (?) or Ferguson was toast too. They are in a really vicious cycle now again.

 

[monmouth]

I'm certainly not disagreeing. As others have pointed out, it's a situation that we've got some experience in too. Managers should be more flexible in the way they want to play if the tools available don't suit it.

Not many are these days.

Or maybe be capable of genuinely coaching them...

Imagine joining say BP as a head of dept and saying, 'I don't have the people to do what I want but I'm going to do it anyway'. It's ridiculous in any other management context. Part of being a manager is playing what's in front of you with what you have and then recruiting within your means.

 

[CygnusX1]

Rooney will sort them out….