You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.If we can't defend what's the point of having mourinho. Conceding those tap ins from basic cut backs. He has every one fit and had ample time to coach them.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.If we can't defend what's the point of having mourinho. Conceding those tap ins from basic cut backs. He has every one fit and had ample time to coach them.
Ah, two wrongs make you right ... Dear oh dear.And the judgement before was after two games?
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Ah, two wrongs make you right ... Dear oh dear.
When you say tested, were you talking about open play or set pieces? Just to be sure, you know?
What system would stop both CBs ball-watching and being the wrong side of their man or marking empty space? Unless we stop literally every ball into the box, there's no system that can protect from those fuck ups.
So slating them after one bad one is as justified? How many seasons (barring injury) did Toby and Jan play along side one another?In general. You need to defend good at set pieces and open play. Otherwise you do not have a solid defense.
We had that with Toby and Jan. We don't have it anymore, but loads were again full of praise after 1-2 solid games...
Did you read my post?
Apart from the thumping we took against Brighton? The loss at home to Newcastle? The huffing and puffing in the first meeting against Villa? The defend at all costs against the then mighty free falling Watford away? The cluster fuck at Bayern?
If you're talking Poch two seasons ago - yeah, no shit - this season? Stop airbrushing things out to make invalid arguments. It's tiresome.
So slating them after one bad one is as justified? How many seasons (barring injury) did Toby and Jan play along side one another?
We're so quick to stick the boot in.
Criticism is warranted I agree, statues on a training ground last night, only so many times you can try and coach a footballer to do what you want them to do - when they go out onto the pitch it's down to them - Dier and Dave have look solid if unspectacular. They're not a patch on Toby and Jan in their pomp though - which you'd expect.
There's no system to compensate for the defensive fuckups like last night. Poch didn't have a magic wand to protect against those kind of things. If you have to "protect" your CBs because they can't stay goal-side of their man, it's a personnel issue.
There's no system to compensate for the defensive fuckups like last night. Poch didn't have a magic wand to protect against those kind of things. If you have to "protect" your CBs because they can't stay goal-side of their man, it's a personnel issue.
If we can't defend what's the point of having mourinho. Conceding those tap ins from basic cut backs. He has every one fit and had ample time to coach them.
Yeah I realised that after posting, we're coming at this from the same direction.Where do I am slating them? I was referring that I said judgement is still out after some meant we are now having a solid defense...
I guess you get me wrong here because I feel we pretty much think the same here.
All the way back to recruitment again.He asked for reinforcements as he saw the components of his system falling away leading to the events you have stated.
Either you are an actual optician or an idiot. How can anyone call Levy short sighted? He wants success now, and I can't blame him, after years and years of planning and building we apparently have everything in place.
Nailed it.IMO, it was short-sighted because hiring a manager who is meant to "deliver trophies" implies we were on the precipice of success, we weren't. We fluked our way to the CL final through individual moments and luck. Inter should have scored against PSV in the last minute but for a last-ditch challenge that saved our campaign, lucky. City had a goal disallowed for one of their players having a pube offside, lucky again. Dortmund was basically the only game we didn't squeeze through by the skin of our teeth.
We sacked our best manager in decades for an apparent winner. The guy who is detested at almost all (maybe with the exceptions of Inter and Porto) of his former clubs. Poch stated repeatedly we needed a 'painful rebuild', Levy clearly disagreed because we have a fancy stadium. Our squad stagnated after years of non-investment and hesitancy/refusal to get rid of deadwood because Levy's valuations weren't being met. We have been lumbered with a half-squad for years and Poch delivered results in spite of this. Up until this year that is, which was the culmination of all of the club's wrong-doings and obviously mistakes on Poch's part.
It's now becoming more and more apparent that "painful rebuild" is necessary. Poch was right, Levy and 90% of the fanbase were wrong. I'm just as bad, I felt Poch had to go as well, but replacing him with this outdated clown when what is needed is an out-and-out rebuild is... You guessed it... Short-sighted. We're going to be the first club Mourinho doesn't win trophies with, unless Levy sanctions 10 plus signings in the summer and they all hit the ground running. Mourinho isn't a "project" manager and we're back at being a long-term project due to Levy's inertia in previous transfer windows. At least we have a lovely stadium though.
There's no system to compensate for the defensive fuckups like last night. Poch didn't have a magic wand to protect against those kind of things. If you have to "protect" your CBs because they can't stay goal-side of their man, it's a personnel issue.