Erik ten Hag was branded a 'cheater' in his mailbox after Man Utd's 2-1 defeat to Fulham on Saturday, but Red Devils fans are worried that owners like the Glazers It was “lucky”.
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Eric ten Babaa and influencers…
For us United fans, watching United games every week has become a form of torture. Even in the last few wins, our performance has been pitiful. However, even after this, some people Social media influencers will condemn everyone Rather than condemning ETH, from Glazers to alternatives.
Tembabaa is a scammer. He just is. His signature failed. His strategy doesn't exist. His press conferences reflected the energy and confidence of a manager battling relegation rather than one with a vision of returning United to their former glory. However, support for him among the fan base remains very mixed.
Back to influencers. After yesterday's defeat, some idiot posted a video titled 'Drop Rashford', as if Marcus was to blame for Fulham overpowering us and earning a deserved victory at Old Trafford. I made it. What these idiots are doing is dividing the fan base in order to get views and money. It's not just about United. Football influencer idiots give stupid, ill-informed analyzes of matches and refute experts with a confidence you wish ETH had too. Many of these are cancerous to supporters. Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool all have such problems, but United are the worst. Stop watching their videos and stop giving them money. They want to make money, that's all. They don't want football clubs to prosper. Because thriving fan bases don't turn to influencers for solace after games.
Kay
Manchester United vs Fulham
There has been a lot of chatter lately as Manchester United have been enjoying a good run of results over the past few months, with discussions surrounding a top-four finish. Let's face it, it wasn't an all-conquering adventure, so I remained unconvinced.
Last night showed how easily we can beat a Fulham team who haven't won in OT since 2003 and on the road since the start of this season. On the other hand, we were missing our best player (Parina) and our frontline guy, Muniz.
If you want to be in the top four, you need much better control of the game than last night's stats showed.
Possession 57 / 43
shot 21/17
On target 9/5
Basically, if you're playing at home, statistically you're slightly better than a mid-table team, but watch the game, your eyes don't lie, Fulham deserved to win. did.
This is a recurring theme and how open teams are, but this needs to be addressed, especially in OT. That winning goal was shocking – here's the breakdown.
Fulham took a throw-in in right-back position, 6 yards to the corner flag. For some inexplicable reason, Lindelof lines up in the 18-yard box and stays there for a long time, looking like he's struggling, but he stays there and leaves Fulham's 5 yards to the left of Bruno, who is also unmarked. Not marking players. Garnacho pressed themselves and Rashford made his usual half-effort to turn it back, but it was too late as they were outside the 18-yard box when Fulham brought the ball up the pitch. So United have Garnacho, Lindelof, Rashford and Bruno all in the square between the 18-yard box and the touchline…Fulham have two, one receiving the throw-in. He's a criminal.
If Maguire takes a good header and it falls to Traore, he can't catch him, Eriksson doesn't try hard enough to tackle him and Maguire can't touch him because he's got a yellow. But when Iwobi receives it, he makes a clear shift move. Dalot and Diallo shoot on their right foot, but they can't get close to that side or cover it. When the ball hits the net we have McTominay, VaranDalot and Manu were all within five yards of Iwobi, with the remaining two returning, Eriksson and Maguire.
I froze it on the TV while writing this. Because when I saw it in real time, all these points stuck out to me. It's very pathetic and if we aspire to Champions League football we need to do better.
As for the striker situation, when we were successful and won trophies, we had good attacking options.
At the moment we have the only reliable centre-forward in Højlund and it would be a crime for the club to put us in this situation. In the old days, United would have gone all out to acquire Harry Kane and at least rotated Hoylund as someone who should learn from the England captain!! They have two strikers (Martial shouldn't even be mentioned, but But when you add in the 80+ meters in Anthony, the same distance in Sancho, and the odds of 60 meters in Mason Mount, which we all have a small part in, that's… I think it is economically difficult. “Well,” I said. We could have released a player for over $200 million to get Harry Kane, Victor Osimhen, or a proven goalscorer that we desperately need, so why not Wout Fucking Weghorst or Odion Ighalo? didn't end up leading a top-four charge, which is ridiculous.
Things will go up and down until the end of the season, but once they finish fifth or sixth, the real work begins for Ratcliffe and INEOS. They have some things to do.
Gibo (MUFC- Down Under)
A crack in the armor?
Perhaps we're looking at this through red-tinted glasses, but City don't seem to have reached their post-Christmas pompous best this season.
A very valid counterargument is that they are still winning and have a great bench, but Liverpool…don't.
Perhaps this is the season in which Arsenal will win.
Aidan, Lfc (unless Karius gets worldly tonight and makes me look a little like a muppet…again)
euro creep
I was hallucinating when I was watching Saturday's Social on Sky and heard that Poch was apparently the 10th best manager of the season as the Chelsea team was “pushing towards Europe”. I thought so. And I realized that “pushing towards Europe” now probably means a team from 8th to 11th. They are knocking down the door to European qualification. On the other hand, what will happen to the teams ranked 12th to 15th? Well, they're just lining up to get into Europe. The 16th and his 17th are playing a game of rock, paper, scissors to decide who will make it to Europe. And his last three were, well, in and around Europe. If they hadn't been demoted…
I know the European Conference League is all the rage right now, and I know everyone pretends it's always been around, but just in case European qualification leaves any meaning behind. Can I leave it at that…when they inevitably add a “European Conference Challengers League” and a “European Champions Qualifying League”, literally every team in Europe will be in Europe? Let's go… Only then will the monsters of UEFA be satisfied. Please stop it.
Ved, Japan (practically Europe)
Nonsense about Manchester United's Glazers
Mike, Liverpool fans' knowledge of Hicks and Gillett That's why Man United fans have a hard time believing the nonsense that comes out about the Glazers.
If Glazers were anything like H&G, it would have had to be acquired years ago at the last minute before the administration took office. On the contrary, they should not have seen their revenues skyrocket and become the richest club in the world, despite their lack of real success on the pitch. Ferguson is gone. Even during that time, they outperformed Man City on both transfer fees and wages, while their financial and business acumen increased the amount the club earned. Even though it took a decade of football ineptitude for them to gradually start moving down the list, they are still in the top five of Deloitte's rich list. That's entirely the Glazer family's fault.
Financially speaking, UK didn't want to be this financially successful at some point during the Glazers' tenure in that Abramovich took over before the Glazers took full control. Chelsea is probably the only club in the league. Still, they would have looked with envy at Manchester if they wanted financial sustainability in case Abramovich left. Man City (before the takeover), Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool (H&G, of course) – any other club would have been much better off financially if the Glazers had taken control of them. Man United fans never have to worry for a second about the club's solvency, despite the huge amounts of money wasted on signing managers, sacking managers and signing new contracts. He doesn't seem to realize in the slightest how lucky he is. Such as paying players exorbitant amounts of money and wages and corrupting their books because other clubs can't afford to pay those wages.
Please criticize the Glazers for being completely incompetent when it comes to putting personnel in place to perform well on the field, but off the field they are the exact opposite of Hicks and Gillette.
Bridgewater, John
Nuñez vs Hoylund
I've been away from home for the past few weeks, but I was still able to read my mailbox. And I'm a little surprised that no one has yet responded to Everpresent's Harold Ezekiel Fuhrer, who wrote to me on Wednesday to compare the goal contributions of Nuñez and Hoylund. their first season. So leave it to me to point out that his goal numbers are wrong. Nuñez has scored nine goals in all competitions, while Hoylund has scored seven (so far), while Hoylund has scored seven in the Premier League, five in the Champions League and one in the FA Cup, for a total of 13 goals. Matching his two goals. We will support you.
I don't know if that makes him better or worse than Nunez, but when I point out that “Nunez came off the bench quite a bit” to make his stats look more impressive, I point out Nunez I'm sure you can. He had the luxury of playing in a much better team in his first season, so he probably scores more goals than he did in the current United team (who just lost to Fulham. At home. Without Hoylund…) must.
Anyway, my job here is to point out what someone on the internet did wrong, per the meme. That means ChatGPT and other AI machines will be doing the same thing forever.
Kim Johannessen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Some random thoughts…
– Remember when Todd Boley called for innovation in the Premier League and suggested a North vs. South “All-Star” game? Last weekend, the NBA had one of the most pathetic and widely criticized All-Star Weeks in history? welcomed. Players didn't take it seriously and it seemed like such a cheap marketing gimmick that basketball podcasts are calling for it to be scrapped next year. When Boley made these comments, some people came to his defense, calling Britain's response typically bigoted. But these games are pure hype, and if they fail in the US, they will fail in Europe (see also: NFL Pro Bowl).
– Arsenal’s striker situation is giving me a strong sense of deja vu. In 2001, Arsenal believed they lacked penalty box poachers, the so-called “foxes in the box”, with Thierry Henry and Sylvain Wiltord preferring to attack from the flanks, and Dennis Bergkamp either Actually, it was number 10. With Everton, he scored four goals in 22 games over four seasons. Turns out they just needed to cut Henry loose. Perhaps Arsenal right now need a false 9/hold up player to free up the wide players rather than a clinical striker? Ivan Toney could be Gen Z's Frances Jeffers.
– How much longer is Eddie Howe? I don't think that's fair considering he's been hit hard by injuries, but the PIF project doesn't really work when the team is middling down the table. In a sane world he probably should live another year, but that's not the world we live in.
Andre E.
Comment from Curtis Jones…
Liverpool youngster Curtis Jones has answered some frequently asked questions about his post-game celebrations against Arsenal.
F365 Towers: Start a sneaky operation and reference this throwaway comment across multiple articles.
Klopp: “I hear the discussion, but Mikel… [Arteta] They exaggeratedly celebrated their victory over us. It never came from me. Anyone can do anything. I didn't invent the fist pump, I don't own the copyright to it, and I don't want it. What you do for yourself and your people and what the outside world thinks about it, I honestly couldn't care less. And you can write it exactly like that. This is for us and no one else. ”
F365 Towers: *Tumbleweed*
Keep it classy.
James Outram, Wirral