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Same as he doesn't need to pick Young. But he still does. & the philosophy, as stipulated has to start with the 'keeper, & he's £#%&!ed that up as well. The next two signings are massive, we're still badly missing half a spine of the side (CB & 'keeper when De Gea goes) & for many of us Rooney is descending into parody as well. I still can't fathom how little pace is in the squad after that much has been spent as well. I want nothing more than an Ajax '95-esque United, I'm no naive enough to think it's actually possible, but it's not disingenuous to expect more from him than he's doing. |
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hence tbh I'm maybe more interested in his strikers... for example, at AZ in 2008 - and I just had to check this - he had Dembele, Pelle, Mounir and Ari. None of them household names at the time, but a useful combination of technique, imagination and power. at Bayern he had Klose, Muller and Olic (did he have Gomez as well?) at Barcelona he had a half decent selection, and also at Ajax in the past. he's now at a club where the strikers are absolutely key to much of the success down the years and he appears to be neglecting that quite badly. we will not win anything, and are unlikely to even challenge imo, if he doesn't strengthen. I really want his possession game to succeed, but... yes, he wants United to come to his way of doing things. but he also has to come towards United's way a bit as well, especially in terms of scoring goals - or at least threatening to. he has shown he can mix it up already, but he has to have more than fighting for 2nd balls higher up the pitch as a plan B. |
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I question the current application, and doubt it will be retained long term, thus threatening to make the post-fergie supermarket dash look even more like those blue @#%&!s than it does now. |
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Far too much is made of it, just because of the phrase used. |
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for example, we do not need to be reminded constantly of the holistic need to keep players sweet. when his philosophy is being criticised for the over-emphasis on structure or analytics it isn't necessary to point out that xyz was a little upset because his mum dad's dog died and our philosophy is always with the human blah blah blah |
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it's always the first thing people that criticise him use against him, too. it's bizarre the way people keep sarcastically referring to it. |
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I'm surprised his book hasn't been translated by now. Unless I missed it. |
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