**Official** English Football Season 2023/24

[Niall]

I'm not Ten Hag out yet, but the signing of this absolute mug Onana hasn't done him any favors.

 

[Aidan11]

Those VAR officials at the weekend must have been wondering if anything could take the heat off them.

Then along came Onana....

 

[Socerer 01]

United are finished

 

[Niall]

Yeah this side is in a really bad place.

ETH gone by Xmas, maybe harsh but he hasn't helped himself with some of his signings and my god Onana just an absolute disgrace.

Casemiro's legs are gone, Varane is not the player he was and always injured and Bruno is soooooooo bad this season.

 

[Furball]

Keenly waiting for the @Furball thoughts on Lampard.

Season ticket is going back if we appoint him.

 

[Aidan11]

Ten Haag must have lost some kind of bet to sign Onana.

 

[GIMH]

SWA

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah this side is in a really bad place.

ETH gone by Xmas, maybe harsh but he hasn't helped himself with some of his signings and my god Onana just an absolute disgrace.

Casemiro's legs are gone, Varane is not the player he was and always injured and Bruno is soooooooo bad this season.

Why would we put him in charge of signings, nobody respectable above the Ryman League lets managers make signings in 2023. He didn’t even do any of it at Ajax. It doesn’t matter who the manager is when the club is that dysfunctional.

 

[Socerer 01]

Yeah this side is in a really bad place.

ETH gone by Xmas, maybe harsh but he hasn't helped himself with some of his signings and my god Onana just an absolute disgrace.

Casemiro's legs are gone, Varane is not the player he was and always injured and Bruno is soooooooo bad this season.

Bruno hasn’t been bad he needs help from others and some rotation, he looks fatigued. Casemiro does look done tbh

i saw Onana play for Inter last season and he was great, dude’s confidence is probably destroyed atm he needs to be out of the firing line for some time

 

[Niall]

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Bruno hasn’t been bad he needs help from others and some rotation, he looks fatigued. Casemiro does look done tbh

i saw Onana play for Inter last season and he was great, dude’s confidence is probably destroyed atm he needs to be out of the firing line for some time

Yeah the signing of Casemiro was always high risk like Matic you get maybe a season and a bit from him at a high level and then the decline is rapid and brutal. Their is a reason why elite teams when it comes to signing cdms these days sign them young.

Why would we put him in charge of signings, nobody respectable above the Ryman League lets managers make signings in 2023. He didn’t even do any of it at Ajax. It doesn’t matter who the manager is when the club is that dysfunctional.

Yeah giving him free reign when it comes to signings was pretty "interesting" to say the least.

I don't want him gone as the club is a mess and not many obvious alternatives, but if he doesn't beat Brentford and Sheff Utd he is doomed because City and Pool are going to do some bad/hilarious things to do this mob.

He's got big calls to make , the keeper needs to be taken out of the firing line and Amrabat may as well go into midfield. It would mean Lindelof and Dalot as full backs and Maguire as centre half but not many other quick fixes I can think off.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Lol @ the VAR audio

Oli's saying delay.

Cracking laugh, that.

 

[Skipper Pup]

Just a few pages ago there were plenty here saying ETH wasn't to blame and it was on the owners.

Seems things have gone full 180 and now United fans are realizing that the coaching of this team simply isn't good enough.

I can't lie as an LFC fan its somewhat enjoyable to watch, especially after the "end of an era" banter we copped last season from their fans. There are no excuses for how United are playing.

 

[Furball]

Spending hundreds of millions to put his 2019 Ajax side back together is an interesting recruitment strategy.

 

[Uppercut]

The owners hired ETH, so there's no way they're not at fault even if he is a bad manager.

I still think he's a pretty good one, but I don't feel very strongly about it either way. Whether he's good or bad at his job, he's so obviously not the problem.

 

[Chin Music]

As an outsider, I am very surprised at the way that Man United have built their midfield. There looks to be a mobility deficit to say the least. They seem to have got very unlucky with injuries at the back but I can't say I'm impressed with their midfield rebuild over the last couple of years with Eriksen/Casimiero/Mount not exactly the most agile.

 

[sledger]

Yeah, and even if he was a problem (and as an observer, I don't get the impression he is), getting shot of him would clearly not arrest the general malaise that Utd have plodded into over the last decade or so. The outward impression is that it is a deeply unhappy and gloomy organisation these days.

That said, as UC noted above, allowing ETH to dictate his own transfer policy is totally ****ing nuts. Like genuinely negligent management from the higher ups.

 

[sledger]

As an outsider, I am very surprised at the way that Man United have built their midfield. There looks to be a mobility deficit to say the least. They seem to have got very unlucky with injuries at the back but I can't say I'm impressed with their midfield rebuild over the last couple of years with Eriksen/Casimiero/Mount not exactly the most agile.

Tbh Man Utd's "midfield rebuild" has become a bit of a meme. It's been an ongoing joke thing for literally ten years or so now. Pretty much every year since Fergie jacked it in it's been a case of "Man Utd just need to add the right midfielder(s) to crack it".

Each time a new player is signed, they are heralded as the "final piece in the puzzle" or whatever. But it's pretty much been one disastrous/underwhelming signing after another.

Fellaini, Schneiderlin, Pogba, Schweinsteiger, Fred, Casemiro, probably others I am forgetting. None of them have set the world alight, and some of them were complete failures. The only one who really sticks in mind as being quite good was Herrera, and he wasn't exactly amazing either.

 

[sledger]

Van de Beek another name that can be added to that list.

 

[sledger]

In fact, thinking about Utd's transfer activity over the last ten years or so in general, there are a lot more big misses than hits. Loads of major misfires. Makes for pretty bad reading on the whole.

 

[Uppercut]

We haven’t had a good midfield since Keane retired tbh. Old man Scholes was probably the best version of Scholes but he could only play half of our games because he was ancient. Michael Carrick had some good spells but has become much more highly rated in retirement than he was at the time.

We trotted out some property shite midfields in massive games. Darren Fletcher and John O’Shea got a ton of minutes under Fergie. We lost a title on goal difference with a starting CM pair of Anderson and Cleverley.