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It’s fine to give Amorim a free pass this season but Froggy I really know a lot of fans started to lose faith on him and think might be Man Utd should hire someone else this summer

Or start the next game and rest for the Fulham. I genuinely hope we have a fully fit Joe for the crucial Arsenal game.

Same. That would do it to me as well. That cup win would outweighs everything else.

I talked about that last summer already that we would regret not cashing in earlier, and given up Anderson / Minteh. Anyway we should also take note of his age, and remember he is a Brazilian. Most of the Brazilian players would regress at late 20s.

That couldn’t explain why he is that inconsistent among matches. It is not just technique. He simply looks like off the pace. Thats not just technical issues. Being able to boss 90mins in one game doesn’t mean his body is naturally excellent at recovering his stamina in time and boss another 90 mins.

Joe is a beast but he doesn’t have the stamina and natural fitness to perform at his best consistently.

Most of the people would take a fatigue loss after 9 straight wins. It’s totally fine. We should start to worry if we have another few losses like this. now it’s still too early for that. That said, the club should bring in 1-2 players before the end of this window to support Eddie.

I am fine with Howe today, I just worry that the fatigue problem strikes again.

We are lucky. Joe could have been sent off

Shouldn’t pass to Bruno in the first place

You and others probably got my message wrong. There are a lot of similarities re this run and the performance in 22-23 season, which shows how GOOD Howe is, when we are able to give him a solid starting eleven and injury free squad. I don’t think it’s something related to changes Howe made to his own approach (not his tactics, he did change that). As I have said, we probably can’t get anyone better than him outside. However, next season, we will be back to Europe, or even ECL. The extremely demanding schedule will hit again. The “solid starting eleven and injury free squad” will likely be gone, and we don’t have capacity under PSR to massively improve our squad depth. It waits to be seen how Howe would and could take this challenge, and I don’t think he can perform magic to change the outcome (lower league position, fatigue squad, cup run without results), which is what I mean, his ceiling. It doesn’t necessary be Howe’s fault. It is just what he can do at his best under the environment we are in. 1 year later, if we really crashed out again in the early stage of ECL, and staying in the middle of the league table, instead of calling Howe out, may be the club, the fans, and Howe himself, should evaluate thoroughly what the squad is really capable of and make decisions to give up some competitions and focus on just 1 or 2. That’s what I mean, “accept the truth”. Instead of going all-out in all competition and crashed out due to fatigue, I would rather just focusing on league and give up all others, including ECL. With our starting eleven, and just focusing on those 38 matches, we have legit chance to challenge for title. Got it? Is it pessimistic to say we can get the league title under Howe?

I expect him to break the consecutive win record as well. That doesn’t mean all his problems last season were gone. We will know next season.

I somehow hold a different view. It reallly depends on what the next tough run would be like. If that’s a carbon copy of last season then I am afraid that’s the ceiling of Howe, which we probably need to accept since we couldn’t find someone better

I am fine with the transfer but given Pope is not ready yet, we should request to complete the transfer at end of Jan. not now.

We all know Isak is technically gifted but his tactical awareness is also outrageously good considering his age. Interestingly this is not something rated by the Real Soceidad fans back in those days. Isak probably excelled in this aspects after making the move to here, which is around 22. In the past probably he would be starting for any team at 18 already.