And considering how he's done, I wouldn't give him the option to sign a single player again. That means the players and their cost are partly their responsibility. But at United, managers get big say over the transfers. Now, in another club the DoF would identify the players and Antony would not have even entered the discussion, never mind for 90m. The third, is that after getting his man he has for 16 months of him being here, failed to get any form out of him. At some point the DoF would have certainly told him "Ajax are holding out for 90m, are you sure this lad is worth it or should we go for another option? This will impact how much we can spend on other players". But let's not act that he wasn't made aware of the cost and doesn't share part of the blame for the expenditure. He shares that responsibility with the DoF who signed it off, of course. He would have been told how much Ajax were asking for and what huge a part of his budget he would be. The second is that he sanctioned the buy, considering the cost. His ability to judge players who can make it at this level is immediately extremely suspect. He's a very limited player with a bad temperament to boot. There are managers who are worth giving time but ETH is not one of them.Ĭlick to expand.The main gripe for that scenario, is that he chose to sign Antony. The romanticism of Fergie and the concept that any, literally any manager will come good if they are given plenty of time is only going to set us back further. The signings we have made under him have set us back more than any other manager. I fear the longer we persist and the more money we give him to buy his players on top of what he has already got, it just puts him us further and further behind. I was very much in favor of appointing him and was impressed with some of the performances we were able to put together last season but he has shown to be lacking in so many areas since (it’s not just this season but also the second half of last year) that my belief in him is completely gone. I don’t think he has the talent, the knowledge, the tools to make it happen. I just don’t think ETH is the one to trust with the rebuild. It all screams desperation and short term fix. There’s very little that has happened in the last 3 months that has given me any sense of long term direction. We got Bruno struggling and a £55m younger signing that could potentially at least try to temporarily fill in for him glued to the bench and then coming on to play in unfamiliar position. We have Rashford badly out of form and Garnacho getting 15 minutes a game. We got players like Mejbri coming in, playing well and then being sent back to obscurity by McTominay and Eriksen. However what we have seen for virtually entirety of this season is the same group of players, that I am absolutely certain will not improve much, putting in the same performances. This seasons issues are not about results as they haven’t even been that terrible, we are still relatively close to top 5. If what we were seeing right now was a team full of young players who can build a foundation for the future, playing different brand of football to what we already know doesn’t work in the long run, and shrewd, well though gradual improvements to the team that can support this growth, I wouldn’t actually mind a season or two of poor results. I do strongly agree with the concept of having a manager here that can bring long term change and would gladly support him through growing pains. Ultimately I think his recruitment has let him down and brought him to a point where I don’t see how this finishes well. I don’t think he was hired with the goal of being maybe slightly better than Ole at playing the same brand of football, nor do I think he’s capable of turning us into a different, better team. I’ve watched it (well most of it) and I don’t think it comes out with a really compelling argument supporting the quality of the job ETH has done and in many places echoes my sentiments.
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