OGS: "I feel good about the players for Tuesday. We can’t get a lot worse than we were today."
Posted Apr 13, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC
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similar to what the team was told during half time to lead a comeback
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He’s not delusional
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In the summer, Ole needs to do to this team what Poch did when he first took over at Spurs - spend the pre-season focusing on fitness.
This team has less energy now than it did in Ole’s first few months. And it’s really affecting results. We can’t press as often nor as effectively as we used to. And the beautiful attacking movement off the ball that we saw a couple months ago was nowhere to be seen in recent games.
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Molde fan here. Don't worry. When he came to Molde he uprooted everything and made sure that the players were taken care for and monitored on everything from what they eat through the day to their fitness level with professional chefs with tailored meals and fitness coaches tailored to increase the stamina.
Gave us 2 titles that.
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Yeah I’ve heard that he’s very much into investing in sports science and nutrition regimes for players. Which is good because it’s needed at Utd,
I hope he has the ability to implement such a system though. Because there are so many other responsibilities he has to attend to at a big club like Utd. Which is another reason why I think it will be very important for us to get a Director of Football.
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Probably why Ole had said he would like to get a technical director. Ole is a team sort of guy. Likes building a team of experts to help him succeed
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Needed especially for Lukaku
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Stop. I'm pretty sick of the snide remarks. Especially from people sitting behind a keyboard with two left feet.
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I love the flair
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Thanks for the insight!
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Very good to hear. Thanks for the insight!
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Nut
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The attacking movement is gone because teams aren't giving us space to get in behind , also pressing is one of the hardest things to get right in football
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I think it’s more than just that. In the first few month under Ole, there was often good interchanging movement that would occur between our wingers and our central midfielders during the buildup. It was good positional play that would draw opponents out of shape enough to advance the ball.
All that was almost totally absent vs West Ham. Players were so static off the ball.
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I don't think it was more than that , A lot of the time it was just whatever came up during a counter which were going to see less of because teams will sit back I think teams weren't prepared to go from a JM team that sat back , to a high pressing team also our midfield positional play was more letting Pogba free and now our midfield has been back to poor form
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I don’t think it was just Pogba having more creative freedom. It was also important that Lingard and Martial made attacking movements and found good positions. Even in situations when opponents tried to be compact and deny us space.
That clever movement has been sorely lacking from them recently.
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Our forwards also have been in lack luster form of late. Lukaku, Rashford, Martial, Lingard all have been below par for a few weeks now (when fit).
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Love that he's honest, but not unnecessarily harsh either.
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That's the spirit!
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I like this. No favorites, we were just shit and it's the harsh truth.
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I like that he is criticizing the team while not naming anyone specifically. Although the attacking players (privately) need some tough love from Ole, they've been abysmal in recent games
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Be careful Ole. Some of our team don't take well to criticism.
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Criticizing your team as a whole is different than singling out specific players publicly
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Yes!
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The Ole Politeness Judo. Always get me.
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I sincerely hope the asshats in these threads leave for good. You're not welcome
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Oof
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With this squad anything is possible.
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LMAO
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We should've been patient and got Poch
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Yeah, fuck Ole's exceptional start and the huge amount of points he's caught up for us. Let's throw out the manager that hasn't had a transfer window and picked up our club from absolute negativity.
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Go support tot u cunt
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What if the reason we went for Ole is that Poch didn't want to leave?
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Don't think blaming the players is a good idea, when he started he was saying how amazing the squad is but now he says that we need a proper rebuild
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Difference is he was brought in for an interim manager, he had to use what he had. Now he's OUR manager. We have to rebuild.
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It still lowers the confidence of players if you flat out say that we need someone else in this position to them
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Nah, he's saying that the collective team was not good enough. Not picking out individuals. 4/6 Losses is garbage and the players need a kick up the ass.
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He's said it's the survival of the best.
He didn't single out a single position, or a player or anything, he just said we're not United standard, and he's completely right, and the players know he's right. If we were top of the league you'd be like wtf man, but we're 5th.
He's challenging every single player to fight for their place in the team next season.
Players like for instance Mata, who was given a chance today, just absolutely bottled it. Poor and not good enough.
Scott McTominay and Fred on the other hand have stepped up and showed they can play some proper football and be United standard.
Well now we know for next season, keep them two and get rid of players like Mata, Rojo, Sanchez etc. who aren't performing.
His point isn't to lash out at the squad, it's literally just: "if you want to stay, prove that you're good enough"
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Our players are a bunch of pussies if this would demotivate them
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It is obvious that we do not have the players to challenge for titles. He was here to save our season, now he is here to rebuild the club.
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no DoF, extensions for players that wouldn't get on any of the other teams in the upper half of the table, running contracts down, letting players go on a free while keeping sanchez, overpaying for the wrong players, in the wrong positions, for the wrong reasons.
we re not rebuilding shit. its not negativity, its not pessimism, its realism. we will not challenge for the PL/CL unless the club is sold. as long as the glazers and woodward remain at the club we will only ever challenge for 4th at best. young will be starting RB and captain next season.
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When the players play like they did today (bar a few) they deserve it. He didn’t single anyone out, he didn’t overdo it, but he’s right
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you re right. we should pay them absurd wages for not giving a fuck about 80k people spending good money watching them week in week out.
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He said we
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He said we
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He was working with players from the Norwegian league dude. Suddenly he got names like Alexis, De Gea, and Pogba on his team sheet. That's a HUGE step up. Now he's used to the team he is out of the skies and into reality.
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Talk is cheap, prove it on Tuesday
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Mate you were complaing earlier that he would paper over the cracks and not be ruthless on the team. He calls out the team despite the result and you still give him shite.
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He said he feels good about Tuesday.... last few matches we've been Jose level shite
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Because he expects us to play better than the shit we put out today...
Hes calling out the team but not completely shoving them under the bus like Ole Jose would do.
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You mean Mourinho?
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We haven't been good no. Not by any stretch.
But he said he feels good about the players. You slam the team and how poor the personnel are day in day out the act shocked when can't perform.
So you are slamming the team for how bad they are and slamming ole for not being able to make that team play brilliant.
I've said it to you today, just wait man, wait. It's for your own good.
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I want to be wrong, so watching it pisses me off, I know when teams are on the right path and we're not. I really think we're wasting time with Ole.
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What do you expect him to say then? He’s pretty much said what you wanted him to say.
He’s almost sarcastically saying that we can’t get worse than today because there is no worse than today as we were crap. Do you not get that?
Or would you expect him to say “we were shit today so we’ll probably be shit again on Tuesday”.
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I'm just hoping we perform on Tuesday. Hes talking a good game at the moment without backing it up
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Tbf, I think Ole should be judged on getting top 4 and not the UCL.
But fucking hell, he'd give himself so much more leeway to fuck up if he manages to pull off a win against Barca.
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Funny thing is, top 4 was barely in the picture when he came. So he’s brought the top 4 pressure this season on himself by his initial success.
If he won like 5 of his first 8 games we would have been happy enough once the quality of the football changed and we’d have never expected a CL spot.
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This is the underrated point of all of this, its fallen of and people are acting like top 4 was a given, we were no where near under jose its only because of ole we are in the conversation.
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Personally I like the fact he can kick the players up the arse without having to single them out. I notice a lot of players are also taking responsibility and that is something different to the Jose era.
Being constructively
sturnstern is a must with today's player power. Big ups to Ole, shit form atm but hopefully Ole can pull us out of it.Onwards and upwards GGMU
*stern, not sturn. I say this to be constructive, friend. :)
Yeah, quick typing cause I'm bored at the inlaws. Thanks for the correction, mate.
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You missed a comma after "ONE MORE TIME". Leave.
GGMU!
Too bad it isn’t translating to improvements on the pitch.
Singling players out and singling nobody out appear to be having the same result.
Only Pogba, Fred and Jones really turned up today, while Martial was quite poor.
Martial needs a run of games. He showed some deadly runs today. As a whole the squad has been poor. Too many players have lost form. Not sure why
The lack of ability to string half a dozen passes together is utterly baffling. The number of misplaced passes in the first 60 minutes was shocking. I can’t speak for the end of the game because I didn’t see it, unfortunately.
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Martial has been having a sputtering return from the injury. Lad needs a run of fitness to get into his groove again. Most players are like that especially younger players
Can't take a chance at a player hopefully finding his form at this juncture of the season imo. We can't afford to lose a single game now. One game lost in CL and we may be heading out of the cup, the only chance to win a trophy this season. One game lost in the league except the City game and we are fit sure out of the top 4 race.
We need players to pull their weight and not make the team carry a dud. Felt good to see Ole making quick substitutions yesterday. That's a great sign showing that he is growing. Unfortunately our other options are as bad with Lingard, Mata and Sanchez being duds. Atleast Lingard is great for pressing as a false 9 although he provides very little on the ball for months now.
I thought Lukaku was quite good, he was making runs and making stuff happen in the final third.
He was trying yes, but things didn't quite come off for him.