Could there be an argument made that Manchester United need to hire a Marco Rose/Julian Nagelsmann? A prodigious ‘coaching’ talent and someone who won’t necessarily be fazed by the unqualified cabal that would be working above him?
Maybe Manchester United need to stop looking at the market for solutions, because they are so bad at it, and for a time focus on actually building an on-pitch strategy, where every phase of play is focused on. Sometimes it’s as if United see off the ball work as a chore not a
Task to sink their teeth into. They remind me a little of Deontay Wilder: they know what they do well and what they rely on, but don’t necessarily try and improve beyond that. When it’s good, boy it’s good, but when it doesn’t work, you get nights like Wednesday. It’s been that
Way for years. Perhaps a coach needs to come in and install a style of play that signings are then based around, rather than the other way around. You can’t have a pressing team with Pogba, Matic, Mata etc in it. They all have opposing characteristics, good ones, but opposing.
Most premier transfer targets are some of the best players in the World. We’ve seen United managers want Muller, Lewandowski, Bale, Sancho etc. If you can’t get those players, which it seems United and Woodward can’t, you need to do what Liverpool did. Build a style, then get
Players who fit in around that. Then once the sustained improvement comes, you can then move back into the market for Van Dijk and Alisson Becker.
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