It’s one thing to know what needs to be done, and it’s another thing altogether to be able to get it done. For all the deserved praise being showered on Thiago, here’s a 31 year old who is not the most quick or athletic of players, producing a Pirlo like performance – would you not as an opposing coach stick a midfielder on Thiago with instructions to not give him the time to play his passes? Thiago was playing like a kid in a park, in no small part because he was given most of the park to play in! The absence of the much maligned McFred shows up most glaringly in these games. Most of the time, the attackers are making it up as they go, with zero signs of any kind of practiced coordination, the very thing that both City and Liverpool currently excel at.īut the real problem is the midfield.
And for turning Fernandes into a headless chicken running around in an apoplectic frenzy. While he gets kudos for getting Sancho into form, Rangnick has to take the brickbats for shredding Rashford’s confidence and somehow converting him into a player that would struggle in League 1. For all the talk about gegenpressing, I’ve not seen any evidence that Rangnick’s United have any clarity about what to do when out of possession, or whom to mark. And on current evidence, it doesn’t look like there is any defensive coaching. Defenders can look much worse than they are when the collective is uncoordinated or when even one player doesn’t do his job. Watching United’s defence leave Pukki and co in acres of space in the penalty box in the last game against Norwich should have left nobody in any doubt about the potential scoreline of yesterday’s game. Whisper it softly, but these players aren’t anywhere as bad as they’re being made out to be. If the problem is the players, rather than the manager, how is it that Solskjaer (by all accounts a man way beyond his depth) took the same set of players to 2nd position in the league as recently as last year? Actually, it was the same squad of players minus Varane, Sancho, and Ronaldo, which is a greater achievement. I’ve said it before but go down the Arsenal route, under 23’s, second jobbers with a season or two’s experience and give the youth team a chance – if nothing else they’ll have desire and passion. So I’m keen to hear who United should be shopping for. All reasonable players but top 4 players? United now are shopping in the mid tier bracket – Ward Prowse, Calvert Lewin, Lamptey, Neves etc. We need a 20+ striker – Kane, Lewondowski forget it. Midfield needs massive repair – Rice, Phillips, Bellingham – they’re not gonna sign in this lifetime. So who the hell do you suggest United sign? But most fans will see the same premier league games United scouts do and most will have a pretty good knowledge of world football.
Hopefully a few others – Dalot, Bailly, Jones, Rashford, Martial. This summer out go Pogba, Cavani, Mata, Lingard, matic at least. So the watching world knows United are in freefall. Ralf Rangnick is a ‘lame duck’ on a shocking night for Man Utd, while the Red Devils need to go down the Arsenal route in the transfer market.
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