Thats fair enough. He's clearly worse than Pep and Klopp.That's just completely irrelevant. ETH and Xavi are both 2-3rd tier managers.
The problem of ETH is that in his league, there are 3 tier 1 managers he has to fight against, and he's just not as good as them. Despite having more money on his hands than all of them.
I don’t know Serghei! Big success on a consistent basis, long-term is challenging without significant financial resources. No doubt! But we have also seen how smaller teams are challenging the big guns in their respective leagues (outperforming some of the big spenders). So at the very least, short-term success is feasible under a great manager (even when resources are limited).I can agree. Never said big money = guaranteed success. I said big success with little money is close to impossible these days.
ETH has disappointed me so hard.
I thought because of his Ajax side and how they played, he would come to the Prem and be a Pep-lite. 60% average possession or so, as it is they average a measley 50.8%.. terrible. De Zerbi, Postegocolou have been at their clubs for less time but they have already imprinted a nice ball dominant style of play. Hell, even Emery at Villa has them with 55% average.
They just have 0 control of games, play like a mid table team.
What statistics you base that on if I may ask? You say players bail him out but Onana had long line of howlers that cost them games. Attackers are also wasteful with the opportunities they get. They do create chances.
Tbf man u first half of season riddles with injuries.Part of their bad year is the terrible recruitment they did over the summer.
IF you saw United last season, you saw that ETH is the man to take them forward: clear principles of modern football in pressing, counter-pressing, and building up.
This season is a step back. Hopefully with a new SD and a proper sporting structure that the Glazers never cared to implement, they can have a project similar to Liverpool's when FSG took over and installed Gordon, Edwards, and Graham
UTD should be below Chelsea some 6-9 pts based on performance so far.
And they are 9 ahead.
UTD's players are bailing ETH, while Chelsea players are letting Poch down
parallel realities