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Originally Posted by Billy Redface
This.
It isn't the players.
The team is a reflection of the manager. We saw the effective side of it on Saturday and bad side tonight.
Liverpool play like a Klopp side. They lose continho, they still play a Klopp side. It a flawed and they have weaknesses, but it's a side with a clear identity.
Same for city with Guardiola. Same with spurs and poch. Same with Everton and Sam Allardyce.
And it's a style that the club just isn't enamoured with. Listen to the crowd midway through the first half. It's the approach they hate.
The hope was that he would be adaptable and experienced enough to know that his style, without compromise, wouldnt be acceptable here. We saw glimmers of change (Jose is playing the way that United shooooould) but when we've got to the business end of each season, hes reverted to type.
When it works, it gives us isolated moments like Matic's winner and Rashford's opener this week.... but when it's back round again, we learn nothing. We start again and it's the same lack of identity and safety first football.
And he's not even as good at it anymore!
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All true. Even the Liverpool game was a horribly ugly football match, mostly on Mou's effective tactics. It worked and for some winning is all that counts, but when he is not winning what are the arguments for Mou. The football is dreadful, all about isolated moments from individuals with no desire to develop an overall style.
He just wants to react to the opponent, allow their game to dominate his approach instead of trying to play some properly constructive football. You have people who were infatuated for years with the idea of Mou, the alpha and omega of what they wanted post Fergie, this is what it is.
13-03-2018, 11:06 PM
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