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Manager Jose Mourinho
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The fact that he has been fit and only made 2 or 3 sporadic appearances (and been utterly feeble in all of them) is a clear sign that he is finished.
Mou has not used him at all and Poch gave him one meaningful sub appearance away at Leicester where he cost us the game on his own. He's finished as a player at this level, his knees are totally destroyed. The staff see him every single day in training and he can't even reach the bench anymore. He's done. It's very sad but that's the reality.
The fans are depressed as hell too.
Its in the bald twats hands to do something.
He also started the Champions League semi final. That was rather an important game and Poch trusted him. Albeit he went off early in 2nd half for Llorente as we changed our shape.
I don't believe his knees are gone - if so we would not have had clubs interested in signing him. All injury information has to be shared with other club .
I think its just the fact that he is 29 years old, on a decent salary; and playing a position where we have younger players that need game time (Dier, Skipp, Winks).
I thought Mou's tactics/coaching was masterful today. It was clear that he was trying to wait for Liverpool to tire and then go on the attack once he saw a window. We just couldn't capitalize on some wide open chances unfortunately.
We should be better than that though, especially at home. We're not Burnley. I don't want him here next season personally. He's outdated and the football is tedious.
Tactics were spot on
Back him. He's incredible. The top 4 is most likely gone, so he should really take the last 16 matches to analyse all of his options (who to get rid of and who to keep). One thing is what I'm afraid though, just like Poch, his favourism towards ceratin players (we all know towards which players for each of them), is what can be the end of him here. Also, who said he doesn't play young talent?
Tactics today were fantastic, you can see just how great he is as a manager.
Sadly, players that simply aren't good enough letting him down massively, he needs backing in the market but we all know that's not going to happen.
Sadly, players that simply aren't good enough letting him down massively, he needs backing in the market but we all know that's not going to happen.
Yes, I liked the tactics today myself. Some are slagging him off after only a few games in charge, but I think we're just starting to see his effect on the team.
Nevertheless, it's baffling that he started Eriksen today. This has to stop.
We lost!
Sorry, his tactics were fucking terrible today. Why did he play Eriksen? A player that's leaving and is woefully out of form. If his plan was to play without the ball for the first half then why play Eriksen over than Gio, a player who is far better without the ball, as he's able to press and win the ball back (just as he did the moment he came on)!!!
And if that was his tactics for the first half they scored we didn't! It meant we had to score twice against them, they haven't conceded ONE goal in their last (now) TEN games!!!! He got his tactics completely wrong in the first half, anyone, who can't see this is blind.
This take by spitty is spot on, begs the question of why the fuck change the manager.
Sorry, his tactics were fucking terrible today. Why did he play Eriksen? A player that's leaving and is woefully out of form. If his plan was to play without the ball for the first half then why play Eriksen over than Gio, a player who is far better without the ball, as he's able to press and win the ball back (just as he did the moment he came on)!!!
And if that was his tactics for the first half they scored we didn't! It meant we had to score twice against them, they haven't conceded ONE goal in their last (now) TEN games!!!! He got his tactics completely wrong in the first half, anyone, who can't see this is blind.
This take by spitty is spot on, begs the question of why the fuck change the manager.
Changing the manager was the right decision, Poch had reached a situation where all sort of things were going wrong and stubbornly he just ploughed on. He could have been treated better by the club and the squad, but he could have handled things better.
Changing for Jose was a crazy decision, what we needed was a manager who could keep us at a decent level for a couple of years while laying down the base for a proper challenging squad. Instead we'll get Jose trying to reclaim former glories, but not hanging aboutlong enough to do anything.
Loads of issues to resolve but we were closer under him even with the problems than we are with Jose. It's like voting extreme right-wing then switching to the extreme left-wing in alternate elections.
Agree we could have gone for another manager whose philosophy was closer to Poch's, this would have made total sense, players would have got a new voice and all that goes with that. Most importantly there would have been at least continuation and the hope of further evolution had the appointment been nailed.
But if Poch would have been given the backing it would mean he could have dropped Toby, Jan, Rose, Eriksen (he had taken a long time to do this but was finally doing it in his last handful of games), he could then start the rebuild that is still required by playing younger players until the window (assumption is that he would have done this if he knew those players were to be replaced, some evidence to support him not playing academy players though). He deserved that at least IMO.
Either you're on the strong drugs or you're big Vic's mum.
Riddle me this...
If you can't oust Dier (struggling himself after a severely disrupted 18 months) & Skipp (who doesn't even play) nor Winks (who's the manager admits is not a DM) in the pecking order when we desperately need a decent DM.......?
I'll leave you to work the rest out.