I'm working on the assumption that the three years means the big one, to him and most European managers, which Is the CL. That would be his three year aim, and quite rightly. I'd like to see us challenging for the league next season, which to me is after one year, and if we don't win it to be seriously challenging (i.e. winning) the season after, which is two years. Enough to keep those players you mention more than happy. That plus the kudos of playing for Manchester United and the rewards it brings of course.
Who was the interviewer that asked Gerard Houllier "well Gerard, now you are in the sixth year of your five year plan how do you see it going" (naughty).
#itk Good post However, you missed one when pointing how old players are now and where they'd be in three years time; LVG is 63 years old Got to have been someone from the Mirror
Not really Sky. He said judge me in three months, not that he would have it all sorted out in three months.
Judge me in 3 months. Well for me, the conclusion is that he is not the miracle worker he was made up to be
Nobody could forsee the defensive problems which have cost us at least 5 points. We have 4 senior cb and every single one is injured. He would of known they were injury prone but to this extent? I dont think lvg has experienced glass defenders. He wont make that mistake again and i doubt any of our centre backs will be here much longer. Rojo aside.
If he buys two centre halves it could be curtains for Jones and Smalling. Probably already is for Smalling. Evans deserves a chance though, not his fault he's been injured. Regardless of the defence though, he should find a way of winning comfortably today.
Yes. United had more injuries than most. In that sense LVG and United have been unlucky. But one of the features of a big club is the ability to cope with injuries to first team players (certainly one of the characteristics of fergie's teams)
He should and i expect he will. Evans should be grabbing his chance and taking command at tge back but hes not. Hes indecisive and panics far too often. We know hes good enough as hes shown it, hes bulliee the biggest and best strikers around but when he plays right now, marcus bent would be a concern for him. I would keep jones, hes only 22. Him and rojo to stay and smalling, evans sold to sunderland. Buy a vlaar or shawcroft and a hummells. Another rb too. Not coleman as we would need to buy two because rafael wouldnt stay.
Fergie had brief periods with similar defensive issues. He didnt cope. We were comfortably thrashed by fulham with carrick and fletcher in defence, opening day defeat to everton a few years back and other results. Fergie didnt have it constantly though. A game or two then vidic and rio were back. In that respect im not worried.
Evans benefits from having a boss next to him at centre half, as does Jones. Evans with Vidic was always excellent as Vidic barked out the orders. He doesn't flourish without someone calling the shots. Smalling simply is not good enough. I don't see the reasoning in buying an inferior right back just so that Rafael doesn't see his arse. He needs competition. If the new right back is better so be it.
Coleman would mean rafa leaves. We would then need to spend 40million on rightbacks. Rather keep rafael and spend 10-15million on competition. For that money we should be able to provide quality competition for rafael. Therea no real leaders out there just now. Vlaar is captain at villa, hummells is a talker rather than a shouter.
I prefer Evans tbh. He can hold his own and in the long run will be dependable in the likes of OShea or Brown were. Smalling has been a complete waste. Jones could be kept on but with 2 new CB's coming in how much game time would he get being 4th choice in defence or in midfield. In which case he really needs to move on.
Yet Moyes did better with less. Moyes didn't do damage. He was left a squad at the end of it's life and the club made a complete bollocks of the transfer windows The difficulty LvG is experiening shows how difficult the PL is these days, he is a very good coach and spent a lot of money but in the end he never managed in the PL and I bet he is surprised by how difficult it can be to beat the "lesser" teams, in Holland or Spain managing a top club and beating the bottom half teams is propably a lot easier to achieve.
