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Recent content by Tangles

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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    And the upside is? INEOS are as dumb as the Glazers are?
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Lots of players putting their hand up for worst defensive player at United. Dalot and De Ligt were the front runners but Mazroui and Onana making a mark today. Maguire about the only one looking better in the new system. Onana looking like an 80s Euro keeper at corners is one thing but now...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Conditions were part of it but that was a better team performance. The 11 that started seem to be Amorims 1st choice and like Ole and ETH he will learn that he has to rotate even if he doesn’t have the depth. The chopping and changing of the lineup has been an issue but Amorim is trying to...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    The summer looked better with players moved on and the new guys not just being older names to sell shirts. Hasnt really paid off though. That was better window than the Glazers though. Signing aging stars to high wages to sell shirts was dumb. They need to play the younger players and to bring...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    So again the media is talking about a squad clean out yet ignoring that United have been awful at that. Giant wages for aging players on long contracts. Ineos was better during the offseason but there is a lot of work to do. Dropping Mainoo was madness. Play he and Collyer if you have too...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Amorim doesn’t look like he will change his system like ETH did for a squad unable to do as told. So he is pretty much playing chicken with Ratcliff and the Glazers. Outside the top 4 gets you fired normally with the latter.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Ericksen and Casemiro in CM. Amorim really must think he needs more evidence of how unsuitable they are to the role. 5 at the back and no midfield. 😂
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    They need a proper rebuild where the squad is fixed and they bring in younger players and guys prepared to do the work. Ratcliff seems to be in a rush to win and find a quick fix due to his age so the new manager and little progress cycle is likely to continue. at one point I though relegation...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Mainoo looked tired at the start of the season so agree that he was overplayed and then went to the Euros. Dalot has been horribly defensively for years. Fans and managers wanted his forward play over his defense. Now even his forward play has relapsed. Bruno has to create everything outside...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Watching the game now and that 1st card was laughable given the amount of contact the ref was allowing. But once you’re on a yellow you can’t make a challenge that gives you a 2nd. Keepers used to be protected from being impeded and blocked. Has that changed this year. United are bad but teams...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    It’s a mid table squad. A squad assembled under multiple managers with different styles for stupid wages that cause selling issues. A squad assembled as much for shirt sales as anything else. A squad managers didn’t have control of. The path forward involves good windows and sales. It involves...
  12. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    From what I have read he likes to play a 343 with wingbacks and 2 DCMs. That doesn’t fit this squad at all. There isn’t 2 fit DCMs unless you count Casemiro. And why would you. There definitely isn’t 5 fit defenders. There isn’t 1 fit LB with Shaw mia post England. Then you have to fit all the...
  13. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    The player control seems out of control. Across all the 5 managers there have been issues. Rooney was an issue, then Pogba, then Ronaldo and then Sancho. And I’m sure there are more. Maybe stable structure above the manager helps but it seems like the players are in charge.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    ETH really seemed to want to play ball control without a proper DCM and it constantly didn’t work against any team with a pulse. Team looked better at the end of last year when he played Mainoo and Amarabat together. He just didn’t really want to do that. 5 managers in 10 years. Maybe a...
  15. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Unsurprisingly they mentioned needing 70 points for the top 4 as a reason for the sacking. So while the Glazers have given some control to Ratcliff it’s the same metric. Top 4 or else.
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