thebillfella wrote: ↑06 Jan 2022, 10:23
forestfan wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 22:11
Reports that some players are unhappy with Rangnick already. Have said players ever asked themselves if
they might be the problem?
murf wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 13:10
Square 1 at United was a lack of balance with too many attacking players and became Square 1+ with the purchase of players in the wrong area (Ronaldo and Sancho). It was as if there wasn't a plan....
Above is what a few of us were saying all along when most were just pointing the finger at Ole as the problem. All the problems start at the inept club leadership at the top and sooner or later people will understand how flaky some of the players really are.
The fact that Phil Jones came out of the last game with the most Kudos tells you a lot about the mental strength of some of the players there right now.
Is there a thing with the leadership thinking they have already spent stupid money on loads of defenders (must be at least £200m????) and none has really worked (arguably has a bit with Maguire (at times) etc) so why just repeat that process? ??
The core of a team (IMO) is the keeper (now OK again after a blip), centre backs (now on a blip) and the central midfield - McFred have developed reasonably well but are still well short of being at the (approaching world class) level that Man U should be striving for. Bruno in a slightly less defensive way is borderline 'core' (see also Henderson and KdB) but certainly can add to it...... when he is happy and he currently isn't.
Once that core is sorted then the more fluffy bits can flourish but they need that solid base to be a consistently good team.