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4 Major Reasons Why Players Flop At Manchester United
If you rate ALL of Manchester United’s major signings since 2013, the vast majority of them became big flops such as Paul Pogba, Angel Di Maria, Memphis Depay, Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez, Harry Maguire, Jadon Sancho – only to name a few. This Post Looks At 4 Major Reasons Why Good Players Flop At Manchester United.
Crazy having Maguire been a part and captain of the worst United team and defense in the premier league era. Maguire is the most expensive defender flop ever to play for Man U.
It’s actually criminal that they’ve put Maguire, Fred and Shaw in Amber while Blind, Mata, Mkhitaryan and Martial are all in red. They all contributed to trophies for starters and were a lot more consistent in a shorter period. Let’s not kid ourselves with Shaw either. He’s been at the club 9 years nearly and he’s arguably had a good 1 and a half season. It’s just one big mess.
Let’s agree that the best signing for United in the last 10 seasons was Zlatan Ibrahimović not only because of his impact on the field but also in the locker room he was a great leader and kept everyone in check, look at what Pogba and all the other brats did to Mourinho after Zlatan left. Fellaini with Mourinho was definitely a green card.
Here Are 4 Major Reasons Why Players Flop At Manchester United
1. Poor decisions from management makes players flop
A lot of those players didn’t succeed due to mismanagement and confusion within the club. You can’t really criticize someone like Mata who has always worked hard but wasn’t really given a role in his last few years. United still have a good squad of players; it’s now obvious a lot of the problems are coming from within the club rather than just on the pitch.
4 Major Reasons Why Players Flop At Manchester United
Peter Taylor says “You can argue the toss on quite a number of players. Perhaps value for money should be part of the consideration, which would certainly justify making Pogba red, but could make Dan James amber because he was a cheap buy and was sold for a good profit. What this overview does highlight is that United’s recruiting has been worse than abysmal and explains how a billion pounds has been wasted. Despite that long history of buying failures, United hasn’t moved to employ expertise in key administrative positions to ensure the right players were signed. We are still paying far too much for transfers and far too much in wages. The likes of Arnold, Murtagh and Fletcher are out of their depth and need to be replaced by capable staff. As for our scouts, what do they actually do?”
2. Manchester United has issues beyond borders
Listen guys, loud and clear; Jadon Sancho is a freaking great player ! All the many years we saw him perform at Dortmund would put him in the same tier list as Lewandowski and Gündogan. All three of them are amazing players and able to play freaking beautiful football.
Jadon Sancho will shine again; no doubt about it he clearly is gifted !
But United obviously has issues beyond players and coaches.
4 Major Reasons Why Players Flop At Manchester United
It seems like a lot of great players and coaches perform pretty bad at United in general.
Fred in amber? He’s shown a small amount of quality at times but more often than not has been a liability. Not sure why Mata is in red. Was a bit part in his last couple of seasons but did well when he came in. Before that he was consistent, picked regularly and put in some very good performances. Shaw and Maguire in amber? Some English bias there probably. Lukaku got 42 goals and something like 27 in his first season. May have been mismanaged in my view.
3. Clueless scouts recommend wrong (flop) players for Man Utd
Ten Hag is a Manager who didn’t watch the history of big money flops at United, ADMITTEDLY DIDN’T WATCH TAPE (“the past is the past “,he said) on the highest paid keeper in the EPL…
Then add 5’9″ central defender was exactly what Man U could not add. We can’t afford to add Halfbacks that are 5’9″ with De Gea in the net.
Should they just fire Ten Hag now ? What’s the point in if he came to this organization and wasn’t aware their scouting/front office/board go out of their way to put square pegs in round holes.
Ten Hag is asking for players that don’t fit. ERIK Ten Hag is not getting players out that don’t fit.
And if he thinks he can be shambolic and last long enough to bring in 7-8 more 60 million dollar players that may eventually fit, he’s sorely mistaken.
If Ten Hag doesn’t want to bother to self scout… Then his time at Man U is already effectively over.
We all know the scouting staff/front office/board certainly isn’t smart enough or capable enough to do it for him.
4. Man United Glazers Ruin the Club; New Owners Must Take Over
It’s true Man Utd needs new owners and proper executives and a director of football and a new team practically. The big mistake to me, the big problem of United came since Sir Alex retired. They should have stuck to the first manager and let him do his work to build a core team, by now we would have had a proper team. But every one wanted success too fast;
After Alex Ferguson, everyone was too quick to jump on the new manager for bad results and not play this way or that, instead of letting him cut out who he didn’t want, bring in who he wanted, have a new philosophy not chaos. We changed so many managers that the team we have now is nothing but built on every single previous manager, never a proper change and philosophy. Any new manager we have now has to stick with it. It’s a ridiculous vicious cycle.
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There is NO REASON for Gareth Southgate to be linked with the Manchester United job
Gareth Southgate is the only person in the Universe who can turn Manchester United into Middlesbrough within no time
The English media is trying all their best to push Southgate to united, but he is championship level manager at best
The England national team is waay better than this Manu squad, and he has had 0 success ( reaching semis ain’t success). So what exactly are people expecting if he becomes Manu boss
Absolutely no way! Why would Man U hire Southgate? That would be the worse decision in the history of the game.
ETH outwitted Klopp last weekend in one of the best and most dramatic FA cup clashes in years and I’m sorry but Southgate would not have won that game and ETH has had to deal with Ronaldo, Sancho, Greenwood and so on, he deserves more time
Soccer Football – Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag on the pitch before the match REUTERS/Umit Bektas/ File photo
I have been saying this for weeks now. If United were under any other manager especially Southgate, they would be fighting for relegation right now. The problem at United is not Ten Hag but the players.
People keep saying that Ten Hag’s style of football at United is not attractive and no identity but there is so much that a manager can do if the players themselves are not good enough or not putting enough effort. Ten Hag’s Ajax were playing attractive football and he managed to get them to the SF of the CL.
Without him, look at Ajax now. And the media keep pushing their agenda to get Ten Hag sack and replace him with a much worse manager like Southgate. If Ten Hag is managing England right now, with the players they have, we won’t see such a passive football like we saw yesterday vs Brazil. Ask Liverpool fans, would they replace Klopp with Southgate? I rest my case.
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Liverpool only have themselves to blame for loss to Manchester United. Had to find a way to squeeze in the random Bruno slag off in between. Dude was dead on his feet at full time, and had to slot in to center back for the last 30 minutes.
SportsFila reflect on Manchester United’s 4-3 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup Quarterfinals and look ahead to the semifinals where Erik ten Hag’s side will take on Coventry.
How come everybody seems to have forgotten that 2 of LFC’s goals were pure luck?
More shots, same shots on goal, higher goal expectancy. What is this narrative that Liverpool should have put this game away, if anything we should’ve put this game away! They had a good 20, 25 minute stint where they kept the ball in the second half, but did nothing with it, we deservedly won this game.
David de Gea is still without a club since leaving Manchester United this summer (Image: Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)
For Liverpool fans: don’t say that we lost to Manchester United because Jota Trent Alisson and jones didn’t play. We have to stop doing that every time a team loses a big game it’s very stupid because had you won, you wouldn’t be saying that. Don’t forget that when y’all drew 0-0 to them at home Trent Alisson and Jones started. Keep in mind how well they’ve been playing despite having lots of injuries they almost beat Manchester City’s full strength squad last week.
Also, you lose to Manchester United, 2 fringe players for them decided the game for them, Liverpool didn’t play well and a loss is a loss you have to accept it otherwise you’re a sole loser and are unwilling to take it.
It’s interesting how nothing much is said about the mistakes made by Liverpool, but all criticism is piled on Bruno; how supposedly poor he was.
Ten Hag claims United is moving in the right direction 👀 WHAT DIRECTION IS THAT?!
Every time he speaks after a dismal performance after the match I always sit there saying to myself “What on Earth are you talking about”.
The media trying so hard to get ETH sacked…..when liverpool had bad injuries with VVD out, y’all didnt have the same energy
Most fans want ETH out because of his poor tactics and substitutions. I also felt he should be braver to drop non-performing players irrespective of names, and even play academy players if he has to.
Now I’m ETH in because I realise from Rooney’s and Ole’s recent interviews that the mentality of these players are incredibly low and it’s no longer just speculation that the players can’t cope on this stage.
I can understand ETH saying positive things and coming off as “crazy” but if you have players who are weak minded and aren’t willing to fight, you can’t be tough cos they’ll cave and where does that leave you for the rest of the season?! Jason Sancho case in point. I rather come across as insane to the media but hope that I’m lifting the team enough to get a string of performances to save my job and give the fans at least something to cheer about until I can have a summer clear out.
Keane is a freaking legend but that approach with these weak players will kill them and ETH would lose the dressing room.
This man keeps dropping off bombs on and off the field..A gift that keeps on giving..Most delulu man on this green earth
What a GIFT! Hand him a 15 years contract and 5 years add ons
The problem for Utd in recruiting an elite manager in the Summer is that Liverpool, Bayern and Barca will also be looking for new managers.
From the moment I heard “A new era begins. .” from ETH. I knew it was the joke of the century. He has the guts to say it while Klopp/Guardiola are competing against each other by 1 point in the Primer league he acted like he can compete with them ro
