I will be residing in my cave when the festival season starts, roughly from Glastonbury in June to Blissfields to SGP to Obnjan to Festival No 6 in September. Until then, you are stuck with me. God, Celta Vigo are dreadful, aren't they??
I'm not sure if this is a serious thread or not (the lack of choices suggests that it isn't), but I doubt there are many United fans who will claim to be happy with the way things are going down at OT at the moment. They haven't really got the players that JM likes to play his way and I think he's probably done about the best he can with what he's got. I have said on another thread that I do not see JM as a good fit for United. Sir Alex built his squads around players that he brought through the ranks at United and used United's coffers to acquire good established pros to compliment what he had. I don't think that's the way JM likes to work. It will be interesting to hear what kinds of noises come out of OT over the Summer given how (relatively) badly United have done this season. If JM gets a big fighting fund then we'll know that the United board intend to stick with him for the long-haul.
Jose has always played boring football just look at his time at Chelsea. Another season like this one and he be sacked fortunately.
His default style of safety first doesn't gel with the expectation of attacking football at OT. So he was always going to have a conundrum trying to get them back to the pinnacle of the division. That said, if they won the league grinding out 1-0's every week they'd take it I'm sure. However, this season they've come nowhere near, but he can still turn a pretty disappointing season into a respectable one by winning the EL next week though. Next season, the expectation will be much higher if they spend big again, his honeymoon period will be over, and they'll expect a challenge at domestic level, as well as a decent showing in the CL.
United will spend big in the summer, as they have done for the last few summers. They are at least 3-4 players away from a title challenge. They need to give JM more than one season, would be daft appointing him otherwise. The side he inherited from LvG was mired in mediocrity, they cannot expect JM to turn them into world beaters overnight. Ultimately with a club like Man United, a season finishing outside the top 4 is deemed as unsuccessful, but if they won the Europa, thats 2 trophies AND champions league qualification in the bag.....surely a success in anyones eyes. As for the way they play.....we know JM likes to build his teams from the back, and defensively they have done okay, but I still maintain they are overcompensating for the lack of talent in the defence department by sitting back and this in turn hamstrings them creatively in an attacking sense.
^^^^this "a success in anyones eyes" Especially JM's who very much sees himself as a Euro specialist (and rightly so imho). Getting United into the CL via the Europa League and winning a trophy will be a massive vindication for him, so you know he's going to go for it! His plea to Palace to "go soft" on United is a clear indication of that.
Spurs, City and Liverpool (or Arsenal if they finish 4th) would all take 6th and winning two trophies (and CL qualification via one of them), over winning nowt and finishing in the 2-3-4 places, so with that in mind, the league finish really doesn't matter too much, but we gotta win that final otherwise the league place all of a sudden becomes a massive failure of Moyes proportions, bigger even. If he does fail to win it, I hope that his focus will be on the league next season, play the kids on Thursdays and lose the excuses of fatigue by doing so. As for the dullest football, I'd say other than the guff we've served up it'd be Watford for me, utter drivel.
Either Pulis or his Portuguese counterpart, though in the case of Sunderland, Middlesboro & West Brom it's more to do with not having the money to buy the quality players, whereas Mourinho does, but doesn't, and if he finds one on his books he stops their creative expression. As much as Roman gets digs for Chelski, his main gripe with JM was boring football, he wanted to be entertained whilst winning. The Glaziers, on the other hand, are all about the balance sheet, so winning trophies whilst boring fans to sleep doesn't really bother them. Pragmatism versus entertainment, I can't decide which has more merit: When I play computer management games it's all about the pragmatism. I set up not to lose, and have a very defence oriented formation 4-1-4-1, 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-2-1. My players usually having a lot of height and power down the spine of the side with more speed and mobility out wide, with my flair player usually a AMF. Playing PES or FIFA though, and it's a different story, it's about getting goals, so I play a 3-3-4 which is really a 3-1-2-1-3 (I'd love to see someone use it for real, though only someone like Biesla would do it.)
They were awful the other night. I understand to an extent playing that way at Anfield the Emirates etc. But to come to a pretty average Saints side and play like that was embarrasing. United way my arse.
United spent £170m last summer on top of having players like Young, Rooney, Carrick , De gea, Rashford etc and I have not seen a single united match where they tried to entertain. So its them for me.
