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Doesn’t surprise me Ed. After Rafa, they’ll probably be a reaction to get a home boy in and help lift things, get the team up for the fight etc. You see this often at clubs after big name failures. Get the ex player back in and get some passion back. The usual modern day cycle.
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The next Everton manager might not do that much better given the poor signings made over the years, but if he is simply able to get the team up for the fight, that will lift things and give off the impression things are changing. But they need to obviously also get the recruitment right. Another case I think of a club thinking that throwing money around will be enough. No patience anymore. All got to be now, now, now. Hence the profligacy.
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Sean, most probably. Culture very different now. You have to be a real charasmatic galvaniser in the dressing room now.
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Emergency board meeting about Rafa apparently just reported.
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Both sides a work in progress.
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Very good Villa goal. Quick dribbling, passing and movement around the box pays dividends.
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Stevie must be frustrated with these gaffes at the back. Utd playing well though.
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At the moment City have everything right – the recruitment team, the manager, the money, the owners. But you need all of them at the same time to absolutely dominate. When Pep leaves, City may well still have success but they’ll lose their dominance.
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Title race RIP…
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Should have played Gordon after his FA Cup goal. Couldn’t have been any worse than what that front 3 served up.
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No creativity in midfield. And no quickness of feet or quality up top.
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Bizarrely, this may actually play into Arsenal’s hands. Now more likely to get a draw compared to if the game had been open. And then they have the home leg.
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Hard to defend Xhaka there Adlab. Jota last man, it was a poor desperate lunge from Xhaka.
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Vintage Xhaka…
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So Rangnick’s gone in to turn things upside down? I could have done that Ed. Not bad work if you can get it 😆
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I think a Ten Hag figure would work best after a period of turmoil at a club where expectations drop off and the job almost becomes a free hit for a manager. A bit like when Rodgers came into Liverpool. The problem is we’re now closing in on 10 years since Utd won the title, so the pressure in the background is increasing. And the money is still there to throw at it. It’s almost like the club need a crisis off the pitch to reset things on it. They’re just drifting at the moment between two tracks of being patient on one hand and impatient on the other. It would actually make better sense for Utd to have gone down the Conte route because that would better match their business in the transfer market. Should have blown the bank with Conte, then got Ten Hag to pick up the pieces 😁
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Until Utd have a unified board, manager and recruitment team all working together nothing will change. Up until now, they’re basically on one hand trying to play the longer term game by building more patiently, but on the other hand they’re still spending big on players to try and get things going as quickly as possible. So it’s as though they’re trying to straddle both sides, but now seem adamant that they want a long term man to sit in the dugout. But even with that “right man”, will the board be able to restrain themselves from blowing money on big names? A similar story seems to have played out at Barca, with the club, after Pep, seemingly prioritising a manager who plays the “right way” whilst simultaneously blowing money left, right and centre to try and quickly bring back the glory days, and nearly blowing themselves up in the process. So they seem to be trying to be patient whilst being impatient. It’s what I think tends to happen at a club after a period of dominance – it’s like they’re looking for a quick hit to quickly bring the glory back. Liverpool arguably went through a similar pattern in the 90s and they rarely changed manager. Interesting that it took Liverpool to nearly go bankrupt themselves before they finally turned a corner.
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They’ve not really had much of a bounce under Rangnick. But I don’t think he’s that kind of manager in terms of lifting a dressing room. Can imagine him being more like a school teacher with the players. And if all this is a build up to appointing Poch, I’d feel pretty underwhelmed. Man Utd quite simply need a winner.
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Thiago Alcántara starting rehab tomorrow from a hip injury. Jurgen Klopp said the rumours about him being out for a lengthy period are wrong. “Neither March nor end of the season is in my mind.”
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) January 9, 2022
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'Yep, close enough. Whatever. Let's move on.' pic.twitter.com/EWUXumvj6I
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) January 7, 2022
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