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Originally Posted by Rickey
This time I disagree with u ilovepantyhose..the knucklehead is using a wrong strategy n thinking that will always make himself fail n shoot himself in the foot if he thinks that by neglecting the Carabao cup, he can win the Premier league or the champions league or the FA Cup...
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having spending so much to build a squad, OGS needs to win a trophy to show for it. but realistically speaking, i don't think man u will win the UCL this season, but they can challenge for the title provided there are no major injuries and they hit their stride come Nov/Dec (i expect varane/maguire pairing to gel by then). giving up on the carabao cup may allow the team to focus on BPL and UCL, but there will be less matches for the squad players to prove their worth. OGS has shown himself to be less of a risk taker, so for the FA cup i guess that he will field squad players, and first teamers who are not injury prone. imagine playing away to a non-league club and an important first teamer suffer a serious injury, worth it?
it may take 2-3 transfer windows to complete the clearout of players because the players OGS intend to sign may not be available or too pricey and he doesn't want the situation where a player suffers an injury and there is no cover. so he rather keep the deadwood around as cover, wait until he can sign the player he wants and then clear the deadwood out. the current depth of squad is decent, with the exception of DMC and DR, so OGS may target to sign a DR next (he might not wait for dalot to reach full potential) and a DMC when matic contract runs out (good to have another DMC around, who is in his prime).
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Originally Posted by PaulPogba
Ronaldo and Cavani were good footballers with years of experience. No way OGS can coach both. But you still need the other players to get the ball to them at the right place right time. The defence had to hold up and goalkeeper have to stood tall without conceding...
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u r right, OGS doesn't really need to coach CR7 or cavani. instead he should be coaching the wingers/full backs to deliver better crosses and midfielders to get into dangerous positions where they can shoot from range, and coach the set piece takers to provide better delivery
playing 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or 4-5-1 isn't confusing, because man u has been playing with a back4 since SAF days (Eng clubs have been using back4 system mostly since EPL started), 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 are variants of 4-5-1. it was LVG who introduced a back 3 (or 5), this formation didn't take root because of the ingrained back4 mentality and the defenders had miscomm over who is in charge of which area or which opponent to mark, esp when a striker runs between 2 defenders, each defender may be expecting the other to mark the striker (gg liao)
OGS is still facing the problem of overemphasis of playing down the left due to pogba, imagine when rashford returns to action, the left will be super congested. i think OGS has to work on the understanding between sancho/greenwood/AWB, because AWB doesn't overlap like GNeville or Rafael did, the interplay down the right is weaker than the left