The really terrifying thing for United is their massively expensive new players are the ones infected with the failure malaise. Cunha and Mbeumo missed their penalties. They struck me as "will these do?" signings in the summer. Not exactly elite...
Yeah, the attraction of playing from goalkicks was, in part, that it was relatively easy to simulate in training and work on. But, pressing developed really quickly, so that pressing shape has evolved to squeezing any advantage that existed into...
Football has eaten itself.
"Being good with your feet" is now a shibboleth, so goalkeepers end up like James Trafford last week looking like Coco the Clown. The problem with fetishing possession at all costs in all positions is that sooner or...
TBF it is probably easy to fix the club - they just need to run it competently - but the problem is that this would require a complete purge of the leadership and the football side of things.
Appoint a manager who uses tactics based on what...
Thing is, he's really not. But United are beyond salvation, absolutely us a couple of seasons back but on steroids.
Onana is a case in point, signed ahead of the better shot stopper de Gea because Onana was supposed to help them play out from...
You remove Sir Jim'll Brexit and you sell the club.
But the Glazers have no interest in doing that. This is a not a "problem" per se, for them now. It's Sir Brexit's. Played a blinder, the Glazers.