If the rot continues what happens ?

[HolisticJim]

I haven’t looked at the stats but my sense is the over the past 15 months our goal difference has been much lower than previous 5 years. Suggesting that our superiority was already eroding as teams worked us out

Add to that injuries etc. and we go from superior to inferior.

We are still having lots of possession, and no one apart from Spurs has absolutely hammered us in terms of margin of defeat.

If we can still get 60% possession and have a world class striker we should be able to win matches.

Am sure Pep can figure.

I actually feel there is a real dirth of top tier players available right now.

In years gone by, I could reel off a list of names. Now I really do think there just seems to be a global dip in talent which has also led to us not buying players for key weak positions.

 

[wattle]

When I saw this story about different colour kits, I thought surely no adult would actually give a shit about something so silly....

Sorry for being such a child then ;)

 

[hello]

As long as he wants.

He will be hurting right now. He will be searching for answers more than anyone else.

Nobody is better equipped to provide them than Pep.

We may find that WHEN we come out of this, IF we have backed and supported our manager in his time of need, when we have won another title with him - he may then extend again to reciprocate that backing which he so badly needed.

People need to give their heads a wobble.

lets hope Santa is bringing him the 1st edition of "How to win football matches with midfielders that can't or won't run"

 

[Always Ali]

lets hope Santa is bringing him the 1st edition of "How to win football matches with midfielders that can't or won't run"

Or, a copy of "Why not try playing right footed wingers on the right, and left footed wingers on the left - An idiots guide to going past the fullback without having to cut back onto your favoured foot".
Fascinating read apparently, Grealish, Doku and Silva have purchased copies to give him on Christmas Day.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I actually feel there is a real dirth of top tier players available right now.

In years gone by, I could reel off a list of names. Now I really do think there just seems to be a global dip in talent which has also led to us not buying players for key weak positions.

The same market conditions therefore apply to all clubs.

Equal oppotunities & restrictions..... the key differentiators then being academy's and coaching.

 

[Gray]

If it continues for a long time we will get relegated.

So what, we have done it before and enjoyed playing in the lower divisions.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

At this moment I think they are better managers.

Pep is in a hell of a rut and needs to pull himself out of it

He simply does not have the players available to him to do anything different until January. Pep is the greatest manager of all time. If he can't fix it nobody can. Which is why him looking completely clueless is putting the fucking fear of God into me because if he goes a new manager won't improve it.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

I asked various Livarpool, Man Yoo, Chelski, Arsenal, fans at work yesterday would you take Pep as manager. None of them said thay would. I'll remember that in May and remind them.

Load of bollocks from them. If Pep left tomorrow they would be dancing in the fucking streets and they know it.

 

[TShed]

If the rot continues what happens?

I'll tell what has to happen, we have to get new fans. Read into that what you want.

We’ve already got too many new fans that could be half the problem

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

He simply does not have the players available to him to do anything different until January. Pep is the greatest manager of all time. If he can't fix it nobody can. Which is why him looking completely clueless is putting the fucking fear of God into me because if he goes a new manager won't improve it.

He may look clueless, but you can be absolutely sure that his maniac's brain is racing at a thousand miles an hour since the beginning of this crisis (its cruising speed is five hundred). He's already said he's not sleeping well nights, and I reckon that's an understatement.
I'll say it again, because it apparently needs saying on this forum, to the point of nausea: he may be partly responsible for getting us into this mess (and there's messes and messes — United have just been pasted at home and are sitting solidly and hopelessly in thirteenth position), but there is absolutely no manager in the world I'd rather have to get us out of it. Every single player who's worked with him has said that they've never worked with a manager like him. For me, that counts far more than what any fan might think.
And I will continue to say that unless we drop into the relegation zone. Even then, I'd have to have a big, long think about it…