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Manager Thomas Frank
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I loved nailing players’s clothes to the ceiling
There was certain players in your dressing room you hated being injured. When you came back from training anything could have happened.
I have hundreds of stories like that which I’ll never forget and yes it was idiotic but brought us together.
When it’s that level of hours, I’ve no issue with a proportion of them being spent dicking around. It’s not like any of us spend all our time at work just concentrated on the tasks of the day, with no chat, water cooler runs, kettle switch-ons, etc.
Lose at home to the worst West Ham team in 30 years and that ice is very thin.
Definitely mate,I’ve heard people moan about football being played by robots on the pitch and want them to be robots off it too. You can’t have it both ways
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I loved nailing players’s clothes to the ceiling
There was certain players in your dressing room you hated being injured. When you came back from training anything could have happened.
I have hundreds of stories like that which I’ll never forget and yes it was idiotic but brought us together.
I was captain for a while and tried to give rousing speeches at HT and usually got peppered with plastic cups and not all of them empty!!
Yup. Goofing off for a bit is okay as long as there is accountability and standards. This is something that I think that we need to work on as a club but it goes beyond who is manager. The manager plays a part in it obviously but it has to start at the top. The leadership of the entire football operation has to operate with that in mind. Professionalism, high standards and a drive to compete and try to win so that it trickles all the way down. Once that is the standard then the goofing off is allowed as a reward.
I think that it will be easier to implement such a shift now that Levy is gone because during his reign more or less everything at the club moved through him. He micromanaged everything to a degree where he was involved in everything but not dedicated to anything. It'll be easier to have the guy in charge of football operations to set a high standard when he is also not spending time discussing commercial deals and hotels.
In that regard I think that recruiting executives from the City group is clever. We can complain about the sports washing and how the City group are funded all day long, but we cannot deny that they run a high functioning, high standards operation.
Carrick been working with this Utd team less than a week
It's far from perfect, but immediately their shape is better, on the ball is better, runs/passing angles more positive, and probably better defensively
In a few training sessions it is clear what progress is already made, and what sort of football they aspire to
In 30+ games I'm yet to see anything like this from Frank.
It's far from perfect, but immediately their shape is better, on the ball is better, runs/passing angles more positive, and probably better defensively
In a few training sessions it is clear what progress is already made, and what sort of football they aspire to
In 30+ games I'm yet to see anything like this from Frank.
He is a nice guy no doubt, and nobody doubts he is working as hard as he can either. At some point though people will just conclude that he doesn't know how to make it work. If we lose today it is going to flip the switch for a lot of fans.
Nothing personal
Quite a fan of him at Brentford
Really nice guy, amiable, open - love a lot of those videos where he's happy to discuss management/tactics etc
I don't hate him, at all, but I do hate that he's our manager
Just isn't up to it, and it's plain for all to see, imo
I said it earlier either in this thread or the Heitinga one. But I think that bringing in Heitinga is partially as a way to make the players buy in more.
Frank is a laptop/armchair manager with little to no of a playing career. The further up you go in management you still need that because players have a tendency to listen to someone that has been a player and thus gets how players think and operate.
Frank could make it work at Brentford because he originally came in as an assistant and got the head job two years later. So the players already knew him and were comfortable with him. That is not a luxury that he has here not to mention the pressure and type of egos at this club.
Heitinga is a former player that has played at a high level and knows the pressure at a big club like Ajax and Atletico Madrid. And at Liverpool he acted as a bridge between the players and Slot. So bringing him in was probably partially with that in mind. He speaks footballer, knows how the pressure at a club that wants to compete works, and he is a people person.
I feel uncomfortable listening to him and I feel the players will feel the same way. Maybe others feel different but I don’t think he’d motivate you to go out and run through a brick wall for him
I hate that he’s our manager and it won’t work.
We will win today and we will beat Burnley and then that falseness will kick in that we will turning it around. The league table will tell us we are in a good post but the next 4 after that ends the whole season.
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This is how I think we'll feel when we make a change
Our Carrick equivalent would be Robbie Keane I guess.
Carrick putting more and more pressure on today. Played a counter attacking team in which they try to keep 2/3 players higher up to spring attacks.
Why does Frank keep insisting on a flat 4/5 players including even the striker to defending deep. Then when we do win back possession, we have literally no chance of properly breaking. Even if we beat a player, the players have so far to run.
Then on the ball, well, the less said the better.
Just terrible all round.
Why does Frank keep insisting on a flat 4/5 players including even the striker to defending deep. Then when we do win back possession, we have literally no chance of properly breaking. Even if we beat a player, the players have so far to run.
Then on the ball, well, the less said the better.
Just terrible all round.