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We can maybe categorize 6-7 players in our entire squad who are technically capable of playing a possession system. But, despite the fans and the club knowing this weakness, it often gets overlooked that we just can't compete with teams on a physical level, we just cannot. I doubt any of our players fits in that "tall, strong, physical, technical, fast" category. Not saying he needs to be elite in all attributes but have sufficient ability. That's why we see this intense and good football for 25-30 minutes and then we drop off. This is going to need some squad overhaul, seriously. Also. thinking from a different perspective, my biggest criticism for ETH would be he placed a lot of emphasis on results right from the start, instead of style. Can't blame him tbh because he wouldn't be given time to fail while experimenting, like Arteta at Arsenal. He completely abolished his plans after the 4-0 defeat to Brentford. Our tactics last season SUITED and PROTECTED our players because it was all about results. This season, even though we can admit it is because of injuries and tactical flaws from ETH, our players just aren't capable of a diff style of football. The same happened with Ole when his trademark was counter-attacking football (which suited Rashford, Martial, Maguire etc) and then in 21/22. our board got Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo which just forced him to rethink everything and basically play a diff style and we saw what happened. It is no coincidence that our 21/22 and 23/24 seasons are same, but at least we are in a cup final. Same happened with Jose in 18/19 after getting 81 points in 17/18. I seriously think that we have an "identity crisis" at our club and that is what failed all the good managers we had. Solution? Stick with one philosophy and style (that's only possible if we stick with one manager whether ppl like it or not), overhaul the squad according to the profiles fit to play that style and if the current manager is failing, then buy a manager who plays a SIMILAR STYLE. We have went from Van Gaal, to Jose, to Ole to ETH who are ALL different!! There has to be ACCEPTANCE from our fanbase that we aren't an elite club now. It's sad that most of our fans fail to understand it and ask for a new manager which will just complicate and worsen things after a string of good results for maybe 1yr at most. That is basically choosing a 1yr of honeymoon period followed by the same downfall instead of 2-3 yrs of difficult period and then have sustained success. I really hope INEOS continue to identify the actual problems at the club. There's a long long list of things which needs to be changed, VERY LONG!!

Ole's United's Vibe: You WILL score against us, but we WILL outscore you!!!.

The vibe against Coventry was depressing when we conceded goals because we were still in a competition we could win. When we conceded against Sheffield its just like hysterical laughter.

7:57 garnacho is not ready but marcus is not it we're better off gettng someone better for cheaper (fee and wages, all) like jack clarke, williams, fuhrich... etc garnacho's output is better which is already good enough to say he should stay. he also puts more passes, crosses, and carries into the box than rashford .

Those forwards need to be told, either pass to Højlund or you'll get dropped. How can they be allowed to get their shots off when Højlund doesn't get any service from those who are supposed to be there to provide it?

One thing Steve didn’t mention is how we loose the ball unprovoked.The opposition doesn’t need to press aggressively at all for them to get the ball we loose the ball so easy..That why Coventry got into the game during the Fa cup semi.we kept on loosing the ball and for every time the recover the ball it boost their confidence to come out and play more yesterday was no different

This team doesn't have that "you're not going to beat us attitude" from the top down. Ferguson expected this from his players

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Do you know what a "Bagatelle" game is? The ball gets shot up to the top and then falls randomly hitting static pins on the way down, eventually falling according to chance, into a "win" or "lose" slot at the bottom. This is United!

Onana has actually had 2 clangers in a week as well .

i heard a crazy stat after the game yesterday, that the most amount of passes hojlund received from one player was 4 passes and the player that gave him those passes was onana, like seriously how bad is it that our striker is getting passed to the most from our keeper

Title says "This isn't all Ten Hag's fault", within the first minute of the video, basically lays out how it is If the team he puts out doesn't know what they're doing, if everyone in the team can't do their jobs, if they team looks like their is zero idea what needs to be done: THAT is on the one whose meant to be leading and coaching them

I don't think the comparison between Rashford and Garnacho is skewed. Rashford has been awful in every category and game this season. The fact that Rashford barely tries and his bad body language is part of the reason fans are frustrated with him. Garnacho is just a kid learning the ropes, and he puts in the effort.

one thing about Hojlund nobody mentions. Yesterday I saw Garnacho running behind defence and crossing it into a good position while Hojlund was jogging and watching Garnacho what he's gonna do. The problem is Hojlunds positioning. He holds the ball well and is good with his back to the goal, but facing the goal he can't pick the right spots where you'd expect your striker to be. He's at the edge of the box, or being short option for the player with the ball. In times when u want him to occupy the space around center halfs, he ain't there.

I tend to think Onana hasn't been a great signing because he dropped so many clangers at the start that you may have forgotten. Since Christmas he has been really good, and I think he will be an excellent keeper for us. De Gea was a good enough keeper and we should have kept him; it was stupid to prioritise spending all that money on a keeper this season when a midfielder, striker, or a defender was a higher priority. Onana is the reason we didn't qualify from the CL group stage.

Garnacho isnt there quite yet, but he's only 19 and is performing more consistently than Rashford, therefore deserves to play ahead of him. Ronaldo was probably not quite as ready as Garnacho and played a lot too at his age. I am not saying Garnacho will be anywhere near as good as Ronaldo, but he is the nearest comparison I can think of.

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Its not all Ten hag's fault but most of it is. These players came 3rd last season, ten hag changed the tactics and we went to shit. He hasn't managed their fitness well and insists on a style (if you can call it that) which requires an insane amount of energy to play for 90 mins. This leads to more injuries. These players havent given up on him as they have under previous managers. So why not adapt the game plan?

The vibe around United is like around Rangnick. The difference is ETH isn’t conceding an inch. Rangnick’s openness, although refreshing and necessary, was his ultimate downfall. I don’t think he quit even if some players did quit. I still think some players have that quit in them. Ste is typically more right in his analysis than wrong. Recently he’s missed it by a wide margin. There’s actually been plenty of chances and urgency just not the quality. The defense isn’t even make shift anymore. It’s more patchwork than my great aunt tessie’s quilt. Casemiro is worse in cb than at cdm. Also the same problem exists, not enough creativity from the wingers. Also as a side note, fucking stop harkening back to the good ole days. They’re gone. Grow up. Keano would have done this or that, stop. Keane was the man of his era who also was temperamental, and did violent shit that would get him banned for months these days. Fuck comparing eras. You can’t. ETH has no options but play and manager lesser or unfinished players. The blame is the injuries, the infrastructure above him who couldn’t recruit or appropriately but players or support any manager. The manager owns some mistakes but I don’t blame him for much. Case, Eriksen both only could give him 1 season. Ffs, the drop off in form is ridiculous. Im disappointed by yesterday but I understand it. I hope they finish strong, get lucky, get a couple injured players back to do a wonder in the final. Guys, the season is a mess but relax, it’ll be over soon and it starts again in August. Hope renews.

I don't want to change the manager, but it's not possible that we still don't have any pattern, any cohesion in our games. In NONE of our games!! And i don't want to hear about injuries. Because since September, the coaching staff SHOULD have implemented at least a shadow of a pattern in all of the players. Not just the starting 11. But we don't see anything. So, because of this, it's very hard to defend the manager anymore.

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In what world can you say 'Onanas been great' 🤯 He made a few good saves but ultimately he's to blame for conceding the penalty. He's been directly responsible for a least 10 howlers this season.

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You can feel that we have been unfortunate with decisions, injuries, off the field sagas this season which isnt on ten hag. There is a lack of mentality in the squad. But the worry is that as a manager your job is to analyse where things are not right and find ways to improve that. The openness of games and the gaps in midfield have been there all season think back to the wolves game. To not address that is on ten hag. Its his job

Same story with the wide forwards not passing to Hojlund all season though. So if it's not a tectic then I've no idea why it's continued. Or more precisely why all our other attackers as a group have decided to do this and Ten Hag hasn't said anything about it. I can only conclude that the manager is ok with it if not actively encouraging it.

At What point does hojlund have to Take a little blame for not getting in position for a pass?

Happens every year at this club. We have a year where things seem to be taking a positive step in the right direction then the next year they are a complete embarrassment & the same players we praised the year before look like they've never kicked a football before. It's almost inexplicable. I actually came into this season really positive but I remember a couple of times last Summer making the joke that this season will be a disaster because that's the typical pattern.

Those boos at the first subs yesterday felt telling

1. You're right about the mentality of the team. Going through the motions most of them , except maybe Bruno and Hjolund and Garnacho , the rest of em won't give everything until the FA cup final (maybe against Arsenal, we'll see) 2. VAR might seriously be fixing games or impacting games without much oversight

Erik is trying to make Eddie the eagle into a gold medalist 😂😂😂😂 get with the programme Erik.....jam the midfield and cover the defence....your attack is pants....don't even use Rasmus 90% of the time?????

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The point you made about having so many questions and having no answers feels so true with Manchester United football club

The lack of service we provide for our strikers is genuinely insane, Honestly feels like if it isn't Bruno creating then no one is. For his first season in the league Hojlund has had a trial by fire.

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Absolutely agree, especially point #2.

That “ you might beat us “ line cracked me up. Spot on though

Like you say Ste the games are boring, the big worry is ETH coming out and saying we are one of the most dynamic and exciting teams. He has to be watching something different. And I know he scored but how does he start over Amad? And then when Rashford is fit you know he comes straight back in to replace Antony!

Ten hag has been watching Hojiland not getting any service or shots in every game whilst Rashford, Garnacho and Antony just shoot all game and run into brick walls - Yet he does NOTHING about it

Garnacho hujland Antony mainoo all still developing. They’re young players. They’re going to be great and inconsistent at the moment. We haven’t had a settled back four all ssaon either that’s a major factor. He’s building a young team it’s clear to see that. We need patience and we need to BACK THE MANAGER. He’s proven in building a young successful team. I’m convinced he’ll get us there to be honest.

Stop making excuses, he signed our forward line almost entirely yet his signings are contributing the least. Without Bruno, Garnacho and Mainoo, we would be fighting relegation and he had nothing to do with signing them. If our main problem would be shipping 3-4 goals a game, that could be explained with injuries because our backline is a joke. But our main problem is goalscoring and that's entirely up to 5hag.

Ste, I don’t know if it’s possible or if you have the access to it but can you compare where our average defensive line is this season compared to last? There’s acres of space between our defence and attack!

VAR needs to go, they need to simplify the rules and make decisions clearer. If officials miss something during a game in real time you can accept that, but when you spend 5 mins reviewing a video clip and give a completely different decision to a week before when you spent 5 mins reviewing a video clip, it starts to stink of bias.

According to 5live commentary yesterday it was a really entertaining match. Maybe all the relentless online fan stuff is just destroying the team

Thanks for the video Stephen 😎

Anthony was not bad yesterday Ste, he got in good positions. Way more than rashford has done in the last few weeks. Plus he’s not a defensive liability. Garna much better than rashford too. It’s not a conspiracy man. It’s evident

United scored, i didnt even celebrate cause i wanted to hold until the final whistle, guess i already was seeing this comming... Thats what it feels supporting united theese days...

Keep up the great work bro

These players and coaches don’t strike me as taking their jobs seriously. Either on the pitch, during the warm up, the match, recovery, diet, training, preparation, readiness to play, lifestyle or all of the above. They aren’t serious professionals

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Well done for your hard work with paddock Ste

Squad has a severe lack of technical ability to play high level football. Build the team around Bruno, Mainoo, Dalot, Martinez, Shaw (If he can stay fit) and Onana. Players comfortable on the ball and taking it under pressure.

oh wow paddock has more viewership than QPR. thats seriously impressive. love the club even though i cant afford to be a member haha

Drive and motivation is partially on the players, partially on the manager. Tactics, Manager and coaching team and if this is the best they have got, then they need to be given the sack.

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Everyone seems to forget we didn't get Quatari investors, we've maybe 1 good window to go for players we want we cant have another abysmal season and then start a rebuild. I just dont think Ten is that guy for me, I want continuity but another season wasted under this manager who's track record of injury/signings/uplifting team/players is abysmal. He cant even uplift Anthony what are you lot expecting from him retaining the same manager?

Garnacho is like a headless chicken at times doesn't think..

Been a united fan 34 years and I've been there through many a successful year and now 10 years of shite, the vibe I get watching games is we don't ever look like scoring then if we do somehow score I'm sat here thinking right now comes their goal because its inevitable they score, this season especially agaisnt Coventry I've actually felt a little embarrassed to celebrate when we score because we just don't deserve it its a wierd feeling ill tell you that. I used to be a season ticket holder but working hours and family have limited my time now but I feel.sp sorry for the fans that travel week in week out an have to experience that. I think ten hag needs time, this season has been marred by many injuries plus I hate chopping and changing managers so often, a new manager comes in new philosophy a new style just starting from scratch again and again gets you no where.

I partly agree, but the thing about Garnacho having too many shots. Half true, but not completely fair. Our wingers are often fed balls not positions where they can only shoot. It’s not like every time we play them into they have several options on. The spaces between our players is criminal. Every pass needs to be a worldly

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It's the classic case of "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link", and at the moment, the defence crumbles like a biscuit.

I just think keep him for next year, back the new structure and direction of football and if he succeeds (I hope he does and think he can) then brilliant. If he doesn't the next manager, who won't control transfers, will be a year further down the rebuild and have a better chance to succeed

I don't think boring is the best way to describe it. The games you mentioned were hard to watch as a united fan, when I was watching Burnley, Coventry and Sheffield there was a constant feeling of dread, like watching the game was pointless even when we went up 3-nil against Coventry, it just felt like it didn't make any sense.

Totally agree. Garnacho wasn't great the last 2/3 games garnacho and Rashy played together. I think Rashy actually did alot more than garnacho in those games. Garnacho was looking tired.

Stephen Howson spot on again

Onona passed to Rasmus more then anyone else 4 Bruno second 3

4:08 😂 You are spot on here. They lack belief.

Ste, Rasmus is TERRIBLE on the the ball or the turn, he’s so predictable he can’t outplay defences unless it’s a tap in.

I think you make it a really good point there and something I’ve said all season. We lack the ability to manage a game and have control that allows us to reduce the in match intensity. This high load and high intensity load accumulates over the season, which is likely contributing to, part of the injury problem.

Keeps subbing off our best players - it backfires - keeps doing it again. Keeps playing players in their wrong position - it backfires - keeps doing it again. This is on Ten Hag

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When the chips are down you see what leaders and their ideas are made of Epic fail from ETH , make of it what you will .

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Here we go with the Rashford defence again

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I learnt one thing. But it’s a constantly repeating lesson - each week, each game. INEOS must END the CHAOS. Ten Hag’s time is up the moment the final whistle is blown at the cup final. Makes football and business sense. INEOS will get it.

Garnacho is 19 and still overall, makes better decisions than rashford. but he also works a lot harder than rashford. so yes, rashford needs to be sold.

Garnacho is 19 and Rashford is 26. Garnacho has only been paying first team football for two seasons but Rashford is an established player earning 300+k per week and has been in the first team for 8 years. If he doesn't understand why he is getting so much sticks from the fan base when his output/ performance is similar to Garnacho then he really should look at the mirror and ask himself why and not accusing the fan base of abusing him.

the title of the video is 5 things that WE learned...... quite clearly to me that doesn't include some of the players.... I was at the Sheff Utd game and I know exactly what you mean about it being weird, the atmosphere. It wasn't until the 4th goal went in that I felt in the least bit comfortable, up to that point it was mediocre. My trips to OT this season have really not been very satisfying at all despite me having seen us win 3 out of 3. The shots quota that you reference is, for my money, as a direct result of us playing inverted wingers, no-one getting to the byline and putting crosses in for a striker in the box, when they stop about level with the edge of the box and look to get the ball on their dominant foot the crosses when they come are not the best for a striker and if there isn't a cross to be had then they'll look to shoot, hence the stats.

Understand the criticism of Anthony and garnacho not providing for Hojlund but when you’ve got Bruno in the team you have to question hojlund’s runs and touch as a reason for him not getting a shot off in a game. Bruno is a chance creation machine and Hojlund is failing to make the most of that. There was a chance yesterday Hojlund between the two CBs, ball over the top and he’s clear, poor touch and too much reliance on his left foot and fails to even get a shot off. The kids got ability but needs a lot of coaching on where to take his touch in terms of getting across the defender and getting his shot off. The fact he failed to get a shot off in the box against Coventry when it was 3-2 is another prime example. I think he can be a success but questions need to be asked of Hojlund as well as the rest of the team rather than just saying he doesn’t get any service.

Is it possible we're in a "trust the process" period where Ten Hag believes if he keeps pushing whatever it is in training, it'll eventually click on the pitch, especially when he gets personnel back/transferred in to suit what he wants? Not sure he thought Casemiro would be this bad or that he'd be rolling out a patchwork back line that cannot play close to the halfway line like you'd want week in week out. Maybe he (and Ineos) acknowledge that it will come together? Even Ferguson had some horrific seasons and results when he first arrived but they get glossed over when talking about ETH "in the Premier League era". I don't see what sacking _yet another_ manager will do, handing _yet another_ manager's set of transfers over to the next guy (along with players from that last 2, 3, 4 managers) to try and gel with future transfers. You said on another video about trying the same thing over and over with ETH approach to games, but same can be said about our approach to hiring and firing managers. The problem is the club, the hierarchy, the facilities and still a number of the players that simply are not good enough. Firing ETH would be a huge mistake imo, he should get next season to show progress. As for Amad, I think he's easing him in after that injury, one thing I like about ETH is he's protective of his younger players.

Re. Garnacho and Anthony, totally agree. Garnacho should be impact only sub. Anthony should be sold!

I agree with point 1 especially, yet you want Eth to stay but 7 of the starting 11 were Eth players

Deep man

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If I look at this squad what needs removing is a 90% turnover of players Onana, awb, Maguire, varane, Evans, lindelof, shaw, malacia, mctominay, Casemiro, Fernandes, erikson, ambrabat, mount, sancho, Antony, rashford, martial, greenwood You look at those players and I would say those all need to go along with the manager, but that requires a complete rehaul of the transfer policy, with a level of Sherlock Holmes’s brains to have the brains and spine to remove that amount of players, and trust this ownership to even replace any of them, that’s without replacing the manager with any kind of competence

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although we do have a crazy issue with mid doing the vanishing trick I also blame on the wingers if not more . part of our DNA is good crosses all I want is the ball crossed to Hoj have bruno attacking from outside the box and Mainoo and CDM ready to shoot or recycle the ball out wide for anythere cross .. my wish list any of these would be great even one from each category : CB ----- JC.Todibo (RFoot) A.Silva (RFoot) Branthwaite (LFoot) G.Inacio (LFoot) ============== CDM ----- A.Vermeeren M.Hjulmand Y.Fofana ============== CM ---- A.Vermeeren J.Neves M.Wieffe ============== WNG (I looked for assist over goals ) ------ N. Williams (14 Assists / 7 goal) O. Dembélé (14 Assists / 5 Goals) P. Neto (11 Assists / 3 Goals

In the real world, if you under perform in your job, you get a disciplinary if it continues you can be sacked. I feel the players have no disciplinary action that scares them. Something needs to be introduced to maintain standards and professionalism and instil fear for lack of performance. Fines to start with, perhaps substantial ones, especially for lack of professionalism or repeated mistakes like cutback goals. If it continues and certain players keep cropping up, they get dropped or worse dropped to reserves with a look to then remove from the club.

Changing manager wont do anything for us, its not what we need. We need a consistent starting 11, with injury free players, a few good transfers, better bench with more options, sell a few players. We have no deep in our squad.

Garnacho is a raw talent and will do well if he works on his service to Hojlund. Antony just doesn’t have the brain to find Hojlund

Least Garnacho is trying to get his shots away. Marcus doesn’t look assed to do anything. Sure he’s trying to hard and making wrong decisions but fuck me man. .rashford makes no decision and passes backwards then stands there some more. . Once Garnacho decides to pass more , he’ll be a weapon. . Marcus is as dangerous as my dead nan .

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Its not that it isn't exciting, but us as fans are just waiting for them the shit the bed the entire game. It also feels like Garnacho and Anthony are both trying to justify their participation by scoring rather than playing on Hoiland even though that would make ppl 100% happier with their play.

We learned that Bruno can’t play a through ball to save his life