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Harry Maguire Transfer Update Shocks Man United Fans
Harry Maguire Transfer Update : the Most Expensive Mistake.
Manchester United could reportedly let go of club captain Harry Maguire in the summer transfer window.
According to Fichajes, Harry Maguire is one of five players that Manchester United are prepared to sell in the summer. The Red Devils need a major overhaul, but they will also have to offload first-team players to incorporate new signings. Some of the senior players have failed to live up to the expectations and could be on their way out of Old Trafford in the summer.
The real issue is that the head coach is just the part you can see. Safe to say that same level of competence has been applied to every level in between. The playing squad was described repeatedly this week as “the most expensive ever assembled”, but this ignores the reality of overpaying for overpraised footballers.
Harry Maguire is the most expensive English defender by an absolute mile. Is he the best English defender? Is he even a very good defender? Is he, in reality, a game and eager footballer who played at a decent level for Hull (54 games) and Leicester (69) before this inexplicable garland was placed on his slab-like brow, and the game became unwinnable?
Manchester United will now cruise past five years without winning a trophy. During this time the club have employed three laughably disconnected managers, done nothing to promote or protect their own infrastructure, splurged on an incoherent jambalaya of starry players, tried to join a super league and, as a kind of sparkly distraction, elected to pay half a million pounds a week to a non-essential 37-year-old celebrity.
What message, as we say in football journalism, would it send out, what template would it set, if such multi-layered ineptitude were to result in success? As opposed to the just rewards of haunting and cinematic failure?
Harry Maguire Explains Why Rangnick Is Better Than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Make no mistake, this runs deep. There is still a temptation to be wowed by the moth-eaten pageantry, by the spectacle of Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes sitting like ancient sad dying gods around the TV punditry table, and to seek overly simple one-shot solutions.
Scholes, who looked genuinely soul-sick in the post-match chat, kept suggesting that “a really good manager” could solve United’s on-field problems. There is even a hint of the obsession with the past, with that great lost Fergie-land in the skies. Clubs are no longer governed by a single personality. Success flows from policy, clarity, interlocking corporate tiers.
But Scholes has a point. Since Alex Ferguson retired United have hired three managers, including the past two, who have never won a major league title. Louis van Gaal and José Mourinho were doomed attempts to import instant success. Ralf Rangnick, almost touchingly, is a doomed attempt to bolt on a soul, a method, a sense of someone here actually having a plan. Yeah, let’s get one of those method guys in.
Ralf Rangnick is the next in the firing line. Some sources believe the German coach is out of his depth at Old Trafford, and certainly when he came up against Diego Simeone, it was clear who was the coach used to navigating his team through difficult European knockout ties, and who was managing his first such game since 2011.
But again, how much of that is Rangnick’s fault? The German was deemed to be the “standout candidate” by the club’s hierarchy as they searched for an interim manager to replace the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November.
The latest failure on their quest for European glory, then, cannot be laid entirely at Rangnick’s door, given his lack of experience at that level.
“I don’t blame Ralf Rangnick, by the way,” said ex-United defender Gary Neville on his Sky Sports podcast following the Atletico defeat. “There’s big players in this club, there’s big problems in this club. Structurally from the very top, from the owners.
“The Glazers owners, to be honest with you, are not good enough. The owners need to sell the club. I’ve said that all season.
“Something big is missing, and it comes from the top.”
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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
