Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 563. (Read 778195 times)

I also agreed that some of those underperforming players at Man Utd would cost Erik ten Hag his job, it's very obvious Rashford had a dismal performance in all their matches why not bench him for another player unfortunately Sancho who would have been a better alternative winger had been loaned out, if Erik ten Hag continue to play definitely nothing would come out of the team positively, truly Arteta start his squad based on player individual performance for instance in their last match against Brighton he started Leandro Trossard ahead of Martinelli based on former instant impact after coming on against Aston Villa by scoring a goal that exactly how I expected Erik ten Hag to play his squad.

One of the most unique thing with Manchester City is the availability of individual brilliance for each of the wings, take Jeremy Doku for instance, he is one player that can drive the ball from the wing, move it forward towards the goal mouth of the opponent and cause havoc, Jack Grealish can do the same thing but doku does it better, same thing on the central midfield with Kevin De Bruyne, he is an incredible individual that can make an impactful difference in a game and this same applies to Haaland as well upfront, so you see that Manchester City have individual players that make the difference for them at different angles. Arsenal on the other hand play with a combined effort of teamwork, which to a large extent has been working perfectly for them but they can spice it up by getting individual players just the way they recently got Raheem Sterling to help make individual brilliance in contribution to the teams effort, this will actually help them to stand strong and be unique.

MO Salah has an amazing start to this season and is currently in scorching form. He is the most fruitful buyer of LFC in the previous few years while other Buying is also fruitful but as a right winger and the contracts Liverpool fans are very much concerned about the expiration of top players like Van dijk, trent and salah

Mourinho's one of the kind. But at United, he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back. Ten Hag's getting the players he wants, Mourinho? Not so much. That second-place finish? Mourinho calls it his greatest achievement. Think about that. The guy's won everything, and he's proudest of coming in second. That tells you everything you need to know about the mess at United

Give Mourinho the same backing as Ten Hag, he wins the league. Easy. Mourinho's a control freak, always has been. He wants to pick the players, set the tactics, etc. That's how he wins. But at United, his hands were tied. Mourinho can be a pain in the ass. He'll fight with anyone, even the owners. But that because he cares. He wants to win, and he'll do whatever it takes

The problem is, football's a team sport. It's not just about the manager, it's about the whole club. Owners, players, everyone's got to be on the same page. Mourinho's got to learn to play nice, or he'll keep burning bridges

Todd Boehly gunning to LEAVE Chelsea after just two years as crucial relationship ‘deteriorates’

What is about to happen to Chelsea when the investor are trying working away and the reason maybe huge but  come to think of it since when Chelsea finished 2021/22 season they have been battling to even make it to Europa league talk less of champions league, I think Todd Boehly has not satisfied with the way Chelsea are going, too many players are no positive change.

Since the beginning of Ten Hag's arrival, he has not succeeded in lifting the performance of the Manchester United team even though he has made many changes in each season, the support from Manchester United management has been very maximum for Ten Hag and also the time has been long enough to wait for the process carried out by Manchester United but there have been no positive results.

Now there is nothing to expect from Ten Hag, we have seen at the beginning of this season that Ten Hag has again failed to make Manchester United better.
Two defeats from the first 3 matches of this season are enough to prove that Ten Hag has failed again this season and management has indeed not been able to make big decisions at the beginning of the season but in the course of this season it is possible that Manchester United management will fire Ten Hag, I think that will happen.

Well, it's actually true that almost all Manchester united fans want Eric Ten Hag to be sacked, which is quite understandable, because since he came to the club, this year is going to make it three seasons at the club, and their is no significant improvement made by this Manchester united side as hoped for, so I understand the angle the frustrations are coming from, but let's be sincere here, Eric Ten hag is not the sole problem of this Manchester united team.

The hierarchy of Manchester united are also part of the the cause because over the years, since sir Alex Ferguson left the club, they have practically turns the club to a commercial club just as Luis Van Gaal rightfully said, and they have cared less on what have been happening in the field of play, so that winning mentality has gone out of the players as it were in the days of sir Alex Ferguson.

 so for Manchester united to return back to it glory days, they actually needs to invest heavily in the team and give the coach time to implement his playing system, and in my view, Eric Ten en hag is the right man for the Job, because he has proven to be a winner, by using Manchester united to win some trophies in his two seasons at the club even when they are not in good form, so I still believe that he can still turns things around.

It is the early part of the season but where other teams have been able to perform well at the beginning of the season to keep themselves in a good position in the points table, Manchester United has not been able to keep up with all the other teams. The current manager of Manchester United seems to be an incompetent manager in all aspects. If he had failed for a season or two then maybe he would not have been criticized so much but he has been in charge for Manchester United for several seasons but he has always failed to prove himself. But the big question is why a manager is not succeeding where there are good quality players. Looking at Manchester United's performance, it seems that the team has become like Brazil, where despite having talented players, they are not able to achieve anything due to an incompetent manager.

This will be more problematic when the substitutes have skills below the core players so that the rotation carried out will have a worse impact. Although in some cases this actually happens better where the substitutes can play a much better role. I remember how Maino's debut was and who said he had the best ability as a debutant but he proved he deserved to be given trust so that his game got better and improved.

The problem faced by Man United is because their players are too selfish and they don't play collectively because they are too focused on individual achievements. Garnacho and some other players held the ball too much and sometimes they did not pass at the right time. Even though the chance of a goal would be much greater when the ball was passed to another player, that's what happened.

They really need new hands, i heard that Ten Haag will leave Manchester United in October, don't know whether this information can be validated or not, but that's the rumor i heard. If Ten Haag really leaves, there are 5 suitable manager candidates to replace him, Gareth Southgate, Thomas Tuchel, Kieran McKenna, van Nistelroy & Graham Potter. Which manager do you think fits Manchester United's style of play philosophically?

Something that should be really looked into by Liverpool, finding suitable replacements when the transfer window opens in January or the good old days of Liverpool could be long behind us. It doesn’t matter how well the team might be doing right now with the absence of Klopp as these are key players in the team, Trent, Salah and Van Dijk.
Would these guys really be open to taking new contracts?
I’m not sure about that although, you would agree that they’ve played their hearts out for Liverpool and should they choose to leave, they leave the team as one of its very best.

Mohamed Salah has amazing and unbelievable stats in total goals he scored for Liverpool in Premier League. Since his highest and most successful season in 2017 - 2018, with 32 goals in Premier League, in other seasons after that, he managed to score goals very stably around 20 goals each season. So far, there is no signal in latest season and in early matches of this season that his ability to score goals will drop significantly.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/mohamed-salah/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/148455

Trent can be kept at Liverpool but Salah and Van Dijk will possibly let go as free agents in the next summer. With their star player positions, they will nearly not accept 1-year contract offer from Liverpool and also disagree to receive lower salary. It's problem and conflict between old star players and their clubs over years and I believe both Salah and Van Dijk will be ready for choosing their new clubs.

The manager of the year awards will not be determined by the performance of coaches in the current season besides it's called manager of the year and not of the season so Pep Guardiola has done exceptionally well even though Mikel Arteta has also been a back to back competitor with Pep Guardiola but yet he hasn't done enough to win the award. Fabian Hurzeler has also done well for Brighton but I prefer Unai Emery who displayed world class performance for Aston Villa last season and project them to the champions league and as for Arne Slot, he is just new to the premier league and hasn't really done much even though he started the season well so Pep Guardiola is technically outstanding and i believe the award suits him well.

Honestly speaking, when Manchester United make any mistake the blame is always on Ten hag because that’s how it’s suppose to be. I had this same discussion with a friend about Manchester United and the opportunity Rashford get always despite his poor performance, I think Ten Hag is sending a warning and a last chance before making any move, Manchester United need a strict coach right now not the one that will be considerate that’s the reason Arteta and his boys keep performing good despite the recent game. Just watch out The next match Arsenal will play against Tottenham, Arteta will never hesitate to bench a player who performed poorly previously but, when it comes to United Ten hag always act different.

Until the last season, Arsenal with Arteta was progressing, they were even able to avoid the usual decline, but it was still not enough to become champions, and statistically they were assessed as one of the strongest teams in the Premier League. But Guardiola managed to create a winning mentality in City and it will be very difficult to break it, besides, I understand that the selection of players in City is stronger, I do not want to say that Arsenal is much inferior, but in my opinion there is a difference.

Obviously, Pep Guardiola is my favorite coach of the year and i will want him to be the manager of the year. And Arne Slot just got to the EPL, i won't call him out on this one before giving any credit to him i will say Mikel Arteta has been wonderful as well. After Pep Guardiola it is Mikel Arteta. Their tactics are great, last season we saw how competitive they were in winning the EPL. This season both managers have also done marvelously well to not lost in any game.

If you are judging based on the number of matches won you won't rate it using this season it will be from last season. The league just started, in time we will know if Arne Slot can keep up with this performance, i dont see him any better than Jorgen Klopp.

Compare a coach who has won many titles including Champions League at different clubs like Pep Guardiola with a young coach who did not win any big title including a domestic league title like Arteta is not too accurate. They can be both talented, I agree, but Arteta has many years ahead to prove his management ability and to win big titles too. They are directly competing for Premier League title in the last two seasons and this season is a third consecutive season, they are direct competitors.

A title as a best manager in Premier League is main target of Arteta as it will be a first big title in his coach career. A personal award like a Best manager is only a bonus but Arteta actually does not need that recognition. A Premier League trophy is enough to show his management quality in Premier League.

No one doubts that Arteta can present the PL trophy for Arsenal if they can continue to consistently improve the team's performance throughout this season, I'm sure it will happen because we can see in the last 2 seasons that Arteta has always been able to make Arsenal's team performance development even better, for this season too.

Building a team is not easy, everything takes time and process and what Arteta has been through with Arsenal so far is clear evidence that they are on the right track.
I have no doubt that this can continue to be maintained, I even speculate that Arteta can bring Arsenal to win the title this season.

I remember during the time that Chelsea just came under the management of Todd Boehly, the coach Thomas Tuchel was doing good with the team, but he was still sacked because I heard he did not have a god relationship with the new owners of the club. Since that decision was made, Chelsea has been affected in their performance.

The owners of some clubs interfere too much with some managers and some managers cannot tolerate it. Managers have a right to it, because they were hired to do a job, and some of them will not be able to do that work properly if the management keeps interfering.

Good relationship between the manager of a club and the owners helps the team to be together, a divided house can not flourish, when the manager is not in a good terms with the management the whole situation may affect the performance of the club entirely because the manager may not be concentrating in his coaching jobs and players also may not have the zeal to give their best in the football pitch in so doing politics may be introduced in a way that individual players may decide whom to support or take instructions from as the ugly situation is going on either the club owner or the coach and this may lead to underperformance of the football club.
No matter how good you are as a manager in as much as you were hired by a person or group of persons, you are answerable to them because there are conditions and reasons that made them to hire you as such you don't act on your own, although many managers has used their coaching strategy to bring success to a club and thats the purpose for their employment but before you make any step as a manager, you must involve the owners of the club before anything although sometimes club owners are very annoying in terms of decision making.
As for morinho we know that he is not a bad manager but he is arrogant although am not judging him because different people has their personal character but I believe that what happened may be as a result of his attitude and nothing else.