The College Dropout

Arsenal don’t score a lot of goals from open play do they?

Agreed seems it’s correct the decision according to the law. but is a shit law. You shouldnt be able to throw elbows like that.

Not worried about Brighton and Brentford in the league. Both would be delighted with 55 points. A lot of people would want Howe out with that total.

Brighton have half a dozen players that can play RW and AM but only 2 proper strikers. Pedro’s not a 9.

Minteh’s looked good since he’s come on imo. Adingra is often bad when I see him. Then he’ll do something useful. Then go back to being bad.

It’s been an awful game.

Lucky boy. That’s a red imo.

Why do people think Dibling will be cheap? Defensive teenagers like Gray and Hall have gone for over £30m. Dibling will go for closer to £50m than £30m imo.

My point is - by taking the coaching job Rangnick tanked his own credibility as DOF or whatever his initial role was. Giving the managers job to literally anybody else as an interim would’ve allowed him to focus on that initial job. He didn’t need to coach the players to run the rule on them. No DOF has needed to do that. He had a good track record as a DOF but he was horrendously under qualified to take the managerial job. Which showed. Then undermined his DOF job.

He could’ve done that without being coach. Like every other DOF in football. Being coach ruined his reputation as DOF. Bringing McKenna would’ve meant he could’ve studied the players up close without tarnishing his reputation. So that the leadership would actually listen to him. It was an awful appointment from the start. ETH was a good hire on paper but he should’ve been sacked after finishing 8th. But they let him buy more dross like Zirkzee (I’ve jinxed us here).

Rangnick had been managing for a combined 2 years in the previous 10 years. Being 60+ years old and never managing a club close to the stature of Man U. He should have never managed the club. The stint was a horror show and undermined his credibility. Better to give it to some youngish assistant than Rangnick. Carrick, the Ipswich gaffer - whoever.

And again - which club asks their DOF to be their interim manager? Weird behaviour from shit leadership. Glazers are legit awful. Agree they might as well have listened to him. But he didn’t need to tank the team and his reputation to get that analysis.

Good point but I think there’s a middle ground. John Terry is one who had a great balance. If he had to slide, block etc. he would but also was composed and had great positioning. Always playing in a compact team in a mid to low block helped too. Rudigers one of my favourite defenders atm. Very under rated I think. Doesn’t get the credit he deserves for his overall football ability and non-physical defensive awareness and positioning. Not afraid to crunch an attacker when needed.

I think a lot of CBs are scared to go to front because it can make them look silly. I love VVD and Saliba. But they both do this thing where they back off from an attacker because they don’t want to get embarrassed.

Since when did a DOF need to manage and coach the team to get a full understanding of the internal issues? The whole thing was just weird.

Can’t compare Amorim to Howe. We had such a positive atmosphere we just needed 1 thing to fall in our favour. ETH has been the worst Man U manager of the lot. And I thought Rangnick was a poor appointment too. They’ve signed a lot of garbage under those managers.

I agree with this fully. I just couldn’t understand how quickly the pendulum swung away from Howe. West Ham was a massive nadir tbf. I was braced for the worst. For me Howe has earned himself a full season. Only a relegation battle would make me want us to sack him mid season. Let him ride our 38 league games. If he finishes 11th and he gets sacked - no problem. I also don’t think the squad is so good that changing managers will govern us a massive uptick mid season. It’s his squad, he’ll likely get the most out of it. If we want/need a change do it in June when we can refresh the squad.

I remember there were more than one in favour of this.

You were never knee jerking calling for him to be sacked. You said we were bad which was the truth. I’ve never been a Howe fanboy but I was shocked by how quickly people turned on him. We were bad but we weren’t that bad. People were acting like we were 15 points off the pace and needed a change. It felt like the twilight zone. Having barely changed my stance on how I became one of his biggest supporters football fans are very fickle

What’s the point in this?

The comments are funny. Particularly The Shield reference. I think it’s not sustainable with European football. But being overpowered physically is a good way to get ahead of the pack. We do need to increase the technical floor of the team but that power, athleticism, aggressiveness should remain as our identity. Someone like Hall might not be a natural to it but he’s grown into that.

If he's a poor trainer I don't want him. He's not good enough to justify that. We need determined, mentality monsters.

This was after the contract no? The lack of work rate is astounding. It’s Kyliann Mbappe levels. At least Mbappe knows he has to do something to justify that lack of work rate. Even when it’s going bad for Mbappe you can see the weight of expectation on his face to deliver. Rashford could not give a fuck.

On steroids?

Just had a look on Chelsea forums and Twitter. Not much talk of Tosin. But seems like Madueke train’s poorly and has been dropped twice as a consequence. Avoid lads like that.