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odizeey:
Na dressing room we dey blame now?

Not sure how you read my post. All I know is that the players should also be blamed. ETH is struggling but the players are also to blame

afrodoc2:
Casemiro and Mejbri's cards have softened us in midfield. Both of them need to be taken off.

Exactly. He should have taken one of them off for Amrabat before the goal, especially with the increased pressure on our midfield

How can a whole team lose form this easy. I think he has lost the dressing room. It's a shame that he might be sacked and this useless players will still remain. They will play well for like 8-10 matches for the next manager, fooling him in the process, only to start playing nonsense.

Most of them are only playing for money and not the glory.

afrodoc2:
The guy is having a stinker.

All of them....

Our players are low on confidence....would have expected Hannibal to have been raken off by now. They were targeting our MF even before the yellow cards.

main24:
I am not making excuses for ETH but assuming he started implementing any style of play from day one, he would have been sacked by now because he would not have won any trophy and fans want the trophy fast .

But meanwhile I still believe in him even though it's frustrating .

I think I'm sitting on the fence in terms of believing in him and otherwise. However I still think he deserves till the end of the season even though I'm frustrated too. I stopped watching after the second goal cos I knew there was no way back. In fact i couldn't see how we would score a goal.

Personally, I would have taken an unambiguous style of play to anything we achieved last season. It's my belief that a clear system would have covered up for some of the players we are angry with now. It's a systemic sport and I think that's the reason why some of our players played/looked better in their former teams. Players look outstanding in their former teams but once we buy them, they become awful. That says a lot about us and our managers.

We DESPERATELY need a world-class and effective DOF with sound strategic knowledge about football. That position isn't just an administrative role.

What I have learnt from our situation is that playing style is VERY important right from the first season that the manager is hired.... It's more important than gaining all these little and temporal achievements.

Patience is also important. I wouldn't sack ETH till the end of this season.

eph12:
I really want him to succeed here but I'm not sure he wants to succeed. He needs to ask for help asap

From where? He has been backed if we must be honest.

eph12:
Yeah chelshit, tottenham and LFC were poor last season, so it looked like we were fine. But when you sit down to watch how the team play you just know there will be a collapse soon.

We had some horrible horrible performances last season as well. I'm struggling not to call out ETH cos I really want him to succeed here... but....

eph12:
It may not be this bad but we weren't good for majority of last season. We had a Rashford that picked form and we managed to keep it tight at the back while Rashford scored at the other end. When he lost the form, we struggled and almost lost top 4.

Remember DDG won the golden glove? We didn't score a lot but we also managed to keep it tight at the back for majority of the games

I agree with everything you said. Most teams were generally poor last season. The manager has switched back to the formation of last season and we are still poor. Something has to give at this rate.

Teams are not scared to play against us anymore. Sheffield now plays like prime Barcelona.

nitrogen:
Good save by Onana. Wait, what’s going on? This is worse!

Confidence? But against Sheffield United, I doubt...

Our play is just bad... no CF will enjoy playing for us.

COMPAQ:
There are reasons for that.

Hydro power generation is better during that period

Weather is much cooler and electricity conducts better in cool weather, so transmission losses are less

Due to cool weather people don't use AC as much, so demand is much lower, so there is more electricity to go round. In June, July, August and September I could sleep with just fan, but in the last few weeks, its been getting quite hot so I am now using AC more.

The grid is more stable due to all the reasons above

Absolutely. Thank you for the explanation. Makes perfect sense.

It means that I got my suspicion right. Nigerian government under diffrent leadership always claim to have improved electricity supply during this period on a yearly basis but I noticed that it is always a lie. Just as you have clearly and smartly explained, it is just an improvement that is effected by the weather. It has never had anything to do with successive government doing anything with regards to the electricity issue in that country.

It's just shameful the way they claim this temporal improvement.

If my memory serves me right, I think power is always relatively better in Nigeria during wet season?

nitrogen:
I guess the board and the fans forced players on ETH. When the pattern of player recruitment is clear to everyone. Abeg, we need smarter takes in here.

I did not absolve ETH from the failures, Nitrogen. I understand we are all disappointed, frustrated and angry but please calm down my brother. I am probably one of the first to say that his talent identification is so questionable and I even read from some of Ajax fans to that effect. His DOF in Ajax ensured that they got players that were good enough for them while considering their financial capacity. The fact that he went back to signing players he had worked with says a lot about his ability to recruit the right talent. More than anything, for me, it shows that he's limited, unable to think out of the box and very traditional or one dimensional in his mindset.

However, I think the board could do better by having a better DOF to work with him. There was a rumour or joke that on this thread that you are one of the stakeholders and board members of the club, so you might have understanding on what's going on behind the curtain, but I think we need a better and footballing DOF first.

We need someone who isn't learning on the job. We need someone who has the experience and pedigree of previously working in that role for a functional club. For me, there's a difference between a DOF that will support the manager to get the kind of players the DOF wants and one that will make the manager see why we need better players than the ones the manager is requesting for considering the ambitions and the future of the club.

With regards to the fans, we were all fooled by many of his acquisitions. I remember how we were all raving for the purchase of Antony, Onana, and some other players. Mount was probably the only player people were against his purchase.

michaellovaldo:
Exactly!

He makes the basics look like further maths, when the ball is bouncing, you adjust your step to get a better aim at the ball not turn to superman, his reflexes don't even look natural, and he keeps giving meme poses every game.

The other guy Bayindir is a better shot stopper but the pressure of handling the Manchester united goalpost every week is also something. I hope Bayindir is giving a trial tho in the coming weeks, let's see what he's got

I think I read somewhere, before we signed him, that he is prone to making costly mistakes as well.

Expert17:
Why is De Gea still at home in October?

🤣🤣🤣

His wages. Most teams don't need goalkeepers

larride:
So you mean we got a grade b version of DDG?

Expert17, come outside.

Grade D. He's not even good with the basics

larride:
You want to sell "UCL best goalkeeper" just 10 games into the season?

Them suppose tie you for market give you community flogging.

Inserting DDG into every of your post won't make the pain go neither will it stop Onana from conceding stupid goals.

We wouldn't have lost this match with DDG...i can even say same with some of the matches we have lost this season

YourBestWriter:
I stopped talking about average players like fernandes and rashford because I know it will change nothing. The only thing any TRUE manutd fan will do is to stand by the manager and hope for a better tomorrow.

The players are terribly bad; probably one of the worst set of players I have ever seen in a United shirt. They are all afraid of being the scapegoat, yet they don't want to fight and redeem themselves from such bad name. A club full of unprofessional professionals right from the top. I just feel sorry for ten hag; he doesn't deserve this.

Oh well, hopefully the glazers decide to leave, and perhaps light at the end of the tunnel.

How about Lindelof? A very passive defender

I do not think Onana will come good. I highly doubt it. He was made to look good because he played in a team with better defense. He's definitely not good with his hands. His decision-making in terms of coming out for crosses and corners are very questionable to say the least. I decided to watch him closely during this match and I can say that he's definitely not gonna make it here. Before the equalizer, he made a mistake that almost cost us as well.

He's also not a goalkeeper that will save us points. Rather he's probably going to cost us. His long ball distributions are also not that great like we thought.

Very unpopular take from me- I have said it a few times that his ETH's talent identification is questionable, however, we can't just put all these blame on ETH. He was failed by the board as well. We, as the fans, also contributes to these failures. For example, 90% of us, including myself, were clamouring for the purchase of Onana based on only one game (the finals against City).

eph12:
Why did ETH sub in Eriksen? Was Hannibal injured?

I think we missed his energy after he was subbed off

We have bought a very very very very useless log of wood as a keeper.

Tactically poor. We are also being bullied, I would say. They have strong and very fit looking players. Same can't really be said about us. Hannibal has been doing well

Was hoping to catch the second half, but it seems it's not going well from the comments here.

main24:
So far this has been a sh1t show.
It seems I will soon join the ETH out club. I just can't see any pattern of play whatsoever.

CC: ChristoBam and eph12

Would I be wrong if I were to say to you that you should give him some more time. It's never easy when you lose that many number of first team players to injury. I think Liverpool had same issues last season

odizeey:
Abeg. Abeg. Abeg.

Hahahaha.... okay, we miss a solid RW

Very very unpopular thought from me, but I think we are missing Anthony. I just wish he was more talented.

Leyqute:
Would Gernacho have performed any worse than Rashford tonight? He seems to be having the wrong intentions every time he gets the ball.

I doubt.... even Pellistri has not been having it easy on the right flank with the physicality of the Bayern players.

I'm lost for words. Anyway, I kuku already accepted that Bayern will beat us home and away.

chrisley024:
This man's sub and his tactics are just erratic

There's always that team that just makes most managers look like a mumu. I still want to believe Brighton is ETH's.