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A weird weird first year.
So frustrating in so many ways, yet ultimately successful. Despite my (correct ) assertion that we wouldn't make top four, I've always felt we were improving from the minute he got here. He's weeding out the shit and he's upped the quality of the squad. He's made mistakes. He was bound to, but he's been mostly vindicated and I can only see a big improvement next season. His struggles only underline the idea that this Post-Ferguson spell is a really £#%&!ing hard time to manage......but there's genuinely nobody I'd rather have in the world to sort us out. I think he'll improve us again this summer. I trust him. The next step is to add a little more quality, a more ruthless streak and make the side more expansive. I think we're in the best shape we've been in since Moyes left in terms of next season. |
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should have been first choice after fergie left. if nothing he is an organized winner. notes , player knowledge , prem experience.
the two sirs £#%&!ed it in a big way and we had 3 season of absolute shit management. DFM and Mashie Pea Face. those 4 people plus some other board members £#%&!ed it big style. by now Jose would be somewhere else due in part to his personality and we'd have another manager. when he does go keep fergie and bobby the £#%&! away from the room. |
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Qualified for Europe, by hook or by crook. More silverware, more success and he's only just begun. |
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best first season as a united manager in a long £#%&!ing time! |
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Seriously though, in terms of team development I think l we are left with a question mark. Just about getting past average sides in the Europa and mugging Southampton at Wembley don't indicate we are ready to challenge. I think we need to be much better next year. I keep coming back to it, but Pogba is key. He turns 25 next season. Needs to lead. |
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To be clear: I thought we'd comfortably get top four at the start of the season. Once we had that sequence of draws I didn't. Once we were chasing a big gap and didn't budge after that seven game winning streak, I just didn't fancy it. I think there were improvements happening within that though. |
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So it still seems a slight contradiction to me that you see notable improvements yet spent all season not backing us to catch them or any others for a top four place. If there has been such improvements, why did you have such little faith? I quite fancied top four up until March tbh. Probably the Bournemouth/West Brom draws that killed it for me. |
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They're not mutually exclusive are they? I don't think Liverpool are any better than us. They were more confident than us, had a big lead over us and a manager who had an extra year with his feet under the table than ours. My feelings of improvement were more general: better players, better football, more xonfidence. The reason I didn't think we'd get top four was the flaws in the squad, the position we'd left ourselves in and the commitment to the cups If, hypothetically, we'd gone out both cups early and The group stages of the EL, I think we'd have got top four. Liverpool certainly dropped more points than I thought they would. As did Arsenal. The draws lost vital points, but also created it's own pressure and that transmitted to further draws and affected our performances, but I was genuinely optimistic regarding 'the bigger picture'. |
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