Times don't change at all, football can be played in a variety of ways at any time and this has always been the case. It is the style of football that is objectionable, not any apparent success that may or may not come with it. Believe it or not had we finished in fifth this season playing open attacking football with plenty of attacking football, entertainment and goals no one would be complaining. That's the bit that seems to be completely escaping you.
That is the real point in question. It has been the style of play fed up to us by LvG that has always been the issue with the fans. I wouldn't mind if we had been kicked out of the CL if it had been after one of those epic, nail-biting CL games at OT - but it wasn't. I wouldn't mind 5th if we were almost there, had our all-out attack minded football cost us a shed-load of goals and we lost 4th on goal difference - but we're not. Instead we have seen some amazing young talent (and I seriously believe that under the right manager our team could challenge strongly in the PL) bogged down by LvG's outdated tactics and his ridiculous insistence on possession play with no real objective. The philosophy of keeping the ball for 90 minutes and preventing your opponents from scoring might have worked in Holland in 1970 but not here in the modern game, not here in the PL, one of the most dynamic and exciting leagues in the world. The longer LvG stays the more stifled the talent in our squad will become and new players will run a mile when they see Woodward approaching. He has to go.
You do realise nobody on here is talking about positions, results or success? You do realise that we're talking about the pedestrian football United are currently playing? I would rather see us lose playing expansive attacking football where our players reflect their full potential, than scraping a win playing dull, unimaginative, thick pea soup. Now explain to me how that's being plastic? Or have you just come on here having read the title of the thread and thought you knew it all when you didnt?
There's no escaping it tbf. But in all honesty, the Swansea City draw is a massive let off for Van Gaal. He can now rest assured going into that final game that he needs to justify fck all with the result. He's got away with it. Crystal Palace look ****e but regardless of whether we win or lose the FA Cup, Van Gaal will be at the club next season. Awful awful lack of leadership by United.
You know the funniest thing about all this. Van Gaal can't be sacked because it's still mathematically possible for United to get 4th. He has rinsed us to to the very end of the season... and now another 2 weeks just to confirm it. You have to laugh, he is a jammy ****
Yeah, it was obviously the stand out result but at the business end of the season it'll prove to be that not even managing a draw from a winning position against West Ham was the final nail in the coffin. It was there. They ****ed it up, again.
Also 0-0 at home against a shambolic McClarenised Newcastle. We won the possession by miles in that game though. UIR, where are you to tell us all how we were so wrong? Hiding, that's where!
I think he's busy hiding fake bombs around OT to delay the end of the season indefinitely, so LVG can never be sacked...
Unless the highly unlikely event of us beating Bournemouth twenty nil happens, he's gone after Saturday. Not long now chaps. Light at the end of the long dark tunnel is nearly in view.
Nobody "wants" to give him another year, but it is looking more and more likely that he will see out his contract.
A good way to describe your "support" of Chelsea this season! You backed the wrong horse with Spurs in the end.
No, it would be the fact that he was the 4th best performing manager, making the team look **** but getting the results of a fashion.
That wouldn't have got us 4th, we still would need to beat Bournemouth, which lets be honest would be an achievement in itself for LVG.