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As Frank and the team do also. Coach the team to win (or not lose). Play football to win (or not lose). At the moment, neither of these conditions are being met either.
The job of coaching isn't to win, it's to coach. Sadly not everyone can win
Tad simplistic to say it started with Ange (though he is not without fault), it's years of chronic mismanagement at the club - the current issues with the players and manager don't stem from their own tenure but with cumulative frustration. And it's reached boiling point, the only remedy is success and we're not close to that
And I still stand by what I said. Vicario, whilst I understand he's saved us multiple times this season already, had a very easy decision to kick the ball out of play and get back into position but yet he chose the most stupid thing to do.
I get that, but so far, we've not even seen anything to show coaching has done anything.
I didn't mean to post that tbh, I started writing it and then thought I'd hit the back button but must of published instead. It's a fair bit more nuanced than what I wrote, obviously, but in very simplistic terms I find the notion that someone is actively not doing their (coaching) job, if they lose, extremely difficult. They might be doing it badly, sure, but they are not willfully shirking their core responsibilities and therefore we can't conflate "not winning" with not doing their job. Especially when combining that with the justification of single player targeting. It's all a bit messy
Of course. I've not coached so don't know what goes into it and I'm not saying they're not being coached, but it just doesn't look like its had much of an impact.
You support the club and the players during the game because that’s the whole point of being there. Nobody’s asking you to ignore form forever, but there’s a difference between holding standards and dragging your own side down in the middle of a match.
If you think booing during a game actually helps, then crack on. If it gets the frustration off your chest and you genuinely believe it makes the team play better, that’s your call. I don’t see it that way. I’m not here to convince you otherwise, and you won’t convince me either. The players have their view on it as well. Ask Messi or anyone from any level of the game; no one hears boos and thinks, right, better avoid that mistake next time because kosher kid in row 12 is unimpressed.
If you think screaming abuse helps them sort it out quicker, fair enough.
