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Manager Jose Mourinho

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Borodin55 said:
What can I say ....:bow:
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I often visit Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and was corrected about the pronunciation of a place name by a snooty cow in an art gallery in Peebles last October

Mrs B told me to leave it but I went into the local tourist board and told them what happened
They had a good laugh saying she was talking out of her arse and that I had got it right originally

I had great fun at this gallery when I returned!
Stupid cow 🐄
 
Darnswim said:
If you want to control the pace of the game, Winks is pretty useful.
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I'm sorry, but Winks doesn't even control the pace of a game - if he did we wouldn't ever be in a situation where we go from 3-0 up to 3-2 and scraping by, which has happened many times. He has no composure, no passing range, gets outmuscled on the ball...

I honestly don't know what Winks does, but it isn't much.
 
Friendly Manc said:
Pogba didn’t get Jose sacked. Jose got himself sacked. Results were awful, our football was dreadful and Mourinho just spent every press conference moaning about not having a new CB despite already spending a small fortune on Bailly and Lindelof. Like I’ve said before, Jose is fine when he’s winning. As soon as that stops it becomes a nightmare and he turns on everyone.

I don’t particularly like Pogba or his personality but he isn’t the reason why Mourinho lost his job.
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If OGS loses control of the wheel, who do you want in?
 
B-0-Sspurs said:
If OGS loses control of the wheel, who do you want in?
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Solskjaer isn’t the man to take us forward, he should never have been appointed really but he is definitely clearing out the squad and focusing on young, hungry players - something we’ve lost touch with over the years.

I hope we’re looking at Julian Nagelsmann but we’ll let Ole clear out the c**p like Young, Shaw, Static etc first.

Hopefully Jose will take Matic off our hands - he loves a big, slow player for some reason ;-)
 
Bazali said:
Totally agree

Ridiculous melting from posters who should know better
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IMHO it wasn't the defeat itself, it was the manner that was the most worrying. It was just like watching the Pochettino team of August to November, same narrow defence, same non existent midfield, same slow ponderous attacking.

If you didn't know there had been a managerial change, you would have thought it was same old.

Which in itself begs another question......
 
Airfixx said:
Come on.... We have 2 ACTUAL right backs.... Whether you rate them is another story entirely.
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Aurier can't defend, making him a wing back - hence why we play with a lob-sided back 4. Would you want this man in your penalty box?

KWP, well he seems to get shafted by both managers so far, I wonder whether we'll even see him in a Spurs shirt.
 
Jayc1 said:
Aurier can't defend, making him a wing back - hence why we play with a lob-sided back 4. Would you want this man in your penalty box?

KWP, well he seems to get shafted by both managers so far, I wonder whether we'll even see him in a Spurs shirt.
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We have two actual right backs.... I'd rather they were better too, but it doesn't change that reality.
 
fruityloopie said:
People need to be pateint, i think Jose used this game to test a a few ideas with personel, knowing that Man U would press the two in the middle and Rashford would be a thorn on our right, Moura i think will be the first out the door, and probably Sissoko, as he can only really be effective on the right,in how Mourinho want's to setup, as his short comings will be at the detriment to the team

Ndombele [passing thru the lines, able to beat the press, once his engine is up] and Le Celso[due to his versitilty] will be safe, one of the early things that Mourihno mentioned about the two in the middle is one being more postional and the other the play maker, and i feel thats the reason why Mourinho has given so much play time to WInks and Dier, Mourinho wants to see if Dier can get up to speed and Winks, can beat the press and play forward passess, both are currently struggling.

Going by how Lille were set up when Sacramento was there their game was based on rapid and patient ball possession and deadly counter-attacks.
This season Lille are failing to replicate their form of last season with their current coach trying a host of personel and tactics.

I think rapid and patient ball possession and deadly counter-attacks, is what we will be moving towards, we have seen glimpes of this, the defence is still an issue, and i feel Sanchez will survive, but we do need further recruitment in both full back positions and possibly another centre back.

We lost the game last night, although due to mistakes, but it was the middle of the park, where our deficiences was so evident, and as a result our front four were starved of opportunties until Ndomele and Le Celso came on, even though at that time Man U had decided to shut up shop, but you could see for the last 15 minutes the tempo and passing improved slightly, although Aurier's final ball was up and down, when we managed to create the space.
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Good post!
 
So this article basically says Klopp and Pep are better manager because they scored better team goals on Wednesday

Sports Journalism at its finest - must be Guido's mate
 
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