I remember the performances were shocking all season, but we managed to still win. People were saying that it was a sign that we were getting to the next level like Fergie's Utd - winning despite being crap.
The inevitable was that we stopped doing that - but I don't think the performances changed much for the entire season, really. It was arguably the same in the CL - some great moments, but both Liverpool and us were a bit crap during the whole campaign.
So what you call 'shocking' performances produced 45 points in the first half of the season.. the revisionism is absolutely insane.
But do you remember how many injuries were at the time and we lost dembele in jan and not replaced. If I am not wrong there was a time only Lorente and eriksen were available in the attack. Its ok for argument sake to show the results but for fair argument you must also consider the reasons behind it too. till jan we were flying and at one time just 2 points behind league leaders. It was exciting football we smashed 2 teams over Christmas period (one was everton we scored 5 and maybe second was bournmouth). And what was the reason for all this: oh yeah we signed no one for 3 windows and all blame was on poch and baldy got none. Even now you are blaming poch instead of baldy.Exactly. At the risk of this being a 'Poch' thread (people keep steering back to it), they need to remember how that "finished 4th" season ended:
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14 points out of 39 (1.1 pts per game). I recall it being a major miracle that we hung on to 4th, and it almost seemed like no one else wanted it!
The summer only served to split apart what would have easily been a season no different to Fulham's
But do you remember how many injuries were at the time and we lost dembele in jan and not replaced. If I am not wrong there was a time only Lorente and eriksen were available in the attack. Its ok for argument sake to show the results but for fair argument you must also consider the reasons behind it too. till jan we were flying and at one time just 2 points behind league leaders. It was exciting football we smashed 2 teams over Christmas period (one was everton we scored 5 and maybe second was bournmouth). And what was the reason for all this: oh yeah we signed no one for 3 windows and all blame was on poch and baldy got none. Even now you are blaming poch instead of baldy.
We all know Jose will manage another team and be hugely successful. He will probably manage another 4 teams and we will be the only team he has never won anything at. It’s just what we do.
he'll have to dramatically improve as a manager to do that. wasn't us being Spurs that caused him to be really, really bad at his job
If he goes to Newcastle after they have taken over which I would bet on, he'll get his players as they'll have money to spend.
he got loads of money at united and spent a lot of it on his players and still underachieved. he's just not a good manager anymore
He literally won 3 trophies.
I’m sure this has been discussed but his social media posts venerating his own career after his sacking have been borderline Trumpist malevolent narcissim.
There's a whole thread if anyone wants to discuss it on there.I’m sure this has been discussed but his social media posts venerating his own career after his sacking have been borderline Trumpist malevolent narcissim.
If he is so wonderful still why was he sacked from his last THREE jobs ?he got loads of money at united and spent a lot of it on his players and still underachieved. he's just not a good manager anymore
If he is so wonderful still why was he sacked from his last THREE jobs ?
How many people are calling him wonderful here?