Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 575. (Read 777360 times)

Ten Hag should have been fired before the season started. Then the new coach would have had ample time and opportunity to work and experiment with the squad. At the moment I don't think Manchester United's performance will improve even if Ten Hag is sacked. Even if a new coach takes charge of this troubled team, the performance of this team will remain erratic for some time.

But if Ten Hag can't do well then maybe Manchester United management can decide to fire him quickly. Manchester United's performance is very poor with Ten Hag. He even changes the match strategy every match. It is difficult to predict in which match this team will perform well. Betting on Manchester United and Chelsea matches is very risky.

Injuries are like chronic big problems in Arsenal. It can come from their internal medical team problems but with cases like Merino, it's purely unlucky situation for Arsenal and it's hard to explain why it came quickly like this.

Merino scored a winning goal for Spain against Germany in Europe 2024 and contributed to his national team trophy but I am very doubtful on ability of this player as well as his chance to succeed in Arsenal and Premier League. This injury makes things worse and he will miss many matches as well as opportunities to train with new team mates. This injury will make his adaptation in Arsenal more difficult and create pressure on his come back after recover process.

Ten Hag luckily gets very big support and patience from Manchester United because his performances are poor enough to be fired. This season starts like a nightmare for Ten Hag and Manchester United but overall statistics only shows his very bad management as a head coach. The odds shows big risk that Ten Hag will be fired in this season but it isn't first time we thought Ten Hag will be sacked. Eventually he succeed to stay in Manchester United but if he fails in management improvement, he will lose his job certainly in future.

Nicolas Jackson will get plenty of first team football at Chelsea, as long as he stays injury free then his chances of continuing to improve will be greater with the support of the likes of Cole Palmer alongside him.
Regarding your question, Chelsea has now loaned some of its players to other clubs to gain playing experience, just by loaning them, that's how Chelsea develops players who are not in the main squad plan and but get time to continue to hone their skills and flying hours. Yes, you could say Chelsea management is a little better than their neighbors Man United who overall the management of this club does not work well in terms of developing players.

Arsenal was not lucky enough during this season and they recently lost their player Mikel Merino who he joined this team just a few days ago. Mikel Merino was the player Arteta wanted to hire him and he tried to get Mikel Merino ready for the games in this season.
He left Real Sociedad and started playing for Arsenal to have the chance to play in strong teams. But in the first training session in Arsenal, he got injured and it seems Merino's going to be out for 2 months.

In my opinion, the problem lies with the entire management, starting with the owners and ending with the directors. When you have an incompetent management and owners with no vision for football, then the entire path is open to the team's failure. Note that even though Erik Ten Hag is in a team that has great financial power, he is not managing to win the Premier League, and this season he spent 200 million dollars on signings, the money used to sign "Matthijs de Ligt, Noussair Mazraoui, Leny Yoro, Joshua Zirkzee and Manuel Ugarte". In my opinion, they could have signed better players. For example, they could have signed Victor Osimhen and Viktor Gyökeres. With that, Manchester United's attack would be very strong, then they could sell other attackers and recover part of the money they spent.

with a bad squad and poor results in the premier league since he arrived, the management keeps saying things like this:


source: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41096292/man-united-ceo-omar-berrada-erik-ten-hag-our-full-backing

If the coach really has the full support of the board and they believe that everything is fine, then why did they add two more assistant coaches? I'm talking about Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rene Hake. For the Manchester United board, winning the FA Cup or some other cup is a reason to be content and ignore the Premier League. It seems like they don't have any big goals.

Ten Hag has had a very difficult start and as expected he has received a lot of negativity about it, negative statistics are published where he is the second worst coach in the club's history who has played more than 100 matches, where the percentage of lost matches is about 28%, and bookmakers are giving low odds (about 4) that he has the highest chance of being the first coach to be sacked in the new season in the Premier League. So if the team does not start winning, anything can happen.

I refuse to blame the players for Manchester United's poor performance this season. The main reason for this is that Ten Hag was given ample opportunity to build his squad with players of his choice. And Ten Hag has built his squad with the players he wants. Manchester United bought Antony and Hojlund at a high price. But the team does not get better performance than them. This is why I blame Ten Hag for Manchester United's poor performance.


Manchester United won the FA Cup last season by defeating Manchester City. And perhaps this is why the Manchester United management backed away from the decision to sack Ten Hag. Earlier we heard strong rumors that Manchester United management will sack Ten Hag. But in the end Manchester United management did not take any such decision.


I'd say United's performance will improve if Ten Hag doesn't come up with any weird match tactics. Manchester United players have the ability to perform well. But due to bad match strategy, this team is lagging behind. Ten Hag should be fired quickly if he fails to develop a stable match strategy for this team.

Well, it looks like this has to be done. It's not just a change in players, but I don't think this club can continue to keep Ten Hag if bad results repeat themselves this season. I think the root of the problems at this club lies in the existence of a competition system between players within the squad itself. All players compete to attract more attention to get more plays or something like that. This competition brings quite visible pressure. Where sometimes the players seem to play uncomfortably. And sometimes their teamwork doesn't seem so good. The chemistry in the team looks quite weak. Maybe if there are big changes in the squad then there will indeed be a better improvement. But let's see first whether MU will improve this season or not. The season is still long and I think we have to give this squad more time.

I already know that Eric Ten Hang is an average couch and I don't think he's bringing anything good to Manchester united again after staying this long with no improvement. However, what I don't understand is how he's maintaining his ego and arrogance. You'll see other couch feeling remorseful when they're not performing as expected but Ten Hang will always try to bring up a story or history to justify his incompetent. That bald man has no regret ever and his pride is making things more difficult for him. He's lucky to have a good relationship with the board and they seem not to care about his performance any more.

I agree with you. Chelsea will repeat the same thing this season. And I'm pretty sure that's what will happen. Last season we saw Chelsea win by big margins in several matches. I even remember Chelsea beating teams like Tottenham by a big margin. But even then the team's performance was erratic throughout the season. Except for the last few games of the season, this team probably won't win three games in a row. After watching Chelsea's impressive performance against Wolves this season, our expectations of this team were high. And in the match against Crystal Palace most gamblers bet on Chelsea to win. But Chelsea failed to win the match. I don't know exactly where Chelsea's main problem is.



Osimhen is a striker. And Osimhen has already proved that he is a regular scorer. Osimhen helped Napoli dominate Serie A in the 2022-23 season. Osimhen performed well in almost every match resulting in a stable performance for Napoli. A proven scorer like Osimhen was exactly what Chelsea needed. Even though Osimhen cost Chelsea a huge amount of money, I still think Chelsea should have bought Osimhen.

Of course, Ten Hag must be blamed for Manchester United's current condition; apart from him, who else can we blame? Is it the fault of the players for failing to improve their performance? Ten Hags is to blame for everything because Manchester United has been playing the same way for the past two seasons, with no progress in their results. I don't see the point in signing more players because Ten Hag's strategies have not changed, and a team that only signed one player during the transfer window has defeated them with three goals away.

To be honest, it's surprising that Manchester United hasn't sacked Ten Hag to hire another manager after all of the defeats and poor performance, It's funny that Ten Hags and the management believe he's the best manager and still backing him because of the trophies they've won over the last two seasons, I even saw news where Ten Hags compared themselves to Manchester City because they've been winning trophies too.

Finally I see someone who shares my viewpoint right about overhauling this Manchester united team, although i opted for a gradual but quick overhauling. Before the summer transfer I remember emphasizing in few of my comments about a systematic overhauling of Manchester united squad due to how many of the players in the club who are no more in their best form to produce the needed result for the task ahead on Ten Hag taking the team back to it's glory days. Their continuous stay in the team makes Ten Hag efforts to improving the performance of the team unrealistic and the quicker the management of the club recognize this fact and act on it the better for the success of the club in staying competitive and winning matches.

It seems like this club is just repeating what they did last season. Because last season they did the same thing as now. Sometimes they surprise us by managing to make convincing wins. But then they will disappoint us in the next match with a loss or a draw. This team will not be consistent if it keeps changing coaches every season. And I think no matter how this team performs this season, I hope Boehly keeps their current coach and gives them more time. because forming a solid squad sometimes can't be done in just one season. but for some coaches sometimes they need more than one season.

If Osimhen came to Chelsea then Chelsea's spearhead would actually be better. But I don't think Osimhen was a priority from the start. Chelsea simply continues to prioritize any younger players in the transfer market with potential that looks promising.

I have said before that Manchester United's fault is the coach, Erik ten Hag needs to be sacked if not the team will not win anything this season, Chelsea is even better than Manchester United this season, against Liverpool I was expecting a good performance from Manchester united because they have good player's, I know that Liverpool will beat Manchester united but the performance of Manchester united is very poor in that game, even La Masia boys will not play like the way Manchester united player's played against Liverpool, Erik ten Hag is the one that will chase all Manchester united fans away if the team did not sack him before ending of this season, imagine he still have mouth to talk that he didn't see anything bad in the game and he is winning trophy for the team, Manchester united is more than FA cup that he is winning so he should not think of FA cup that he has win for the team.

The team appointed him as a coach to win them a league title, not the FA Cup, Manchester united needs to act fast before the team scatters because I don't see the extent of signing new players and the team performance still looks poor if Manchester united president and the board didn't sack Erik ten Hag before the end of the season that means the team will never progress and they will also lose many fans. And about Liverpool, Liverpool is the one that can challenge Manchester City if not there is no other team that can challenge Manchester City to win the trophy this season.

Even with Osimhen joining the Chelsea squad, Chelsea are not in a position to dominate the Premier League at the moment. Chelsea's overall situation is shaky now. Chelsea are not in good shape. However, having a regular scorer like Osimhen in Chelsea's squad would undoubtedly improve Chelsea's overall performance. At the same time, we could see stability in Chelsea's performance.

Chelsea's performance has been erratic. The team won against Wolves by a huge margin of 6-2. But lost the next match against Servette. In the last match of the Premier League against Crystal palace also drew 1-1. Chelsea failed to win in both these matches due to poor performances from attacking players. However, Chelsea's overall performance is likely to remain erratic this season. Chelsea's performance is unlikely to stabilize.

If we understand this team from the perspective of an ordinary club owner, it will be difficult for us to understand. But we have to know that the current owner of Chelsea is a skilled businessman. Todd Boehly is quite famous in the business. And I think he also applies this to the club he currently owns. He tries to invest in every player who looks like he has long-term potential. And we know that if a player is still under a long-term contract and then the player shows high quality and then other clubs are interested, then Chelsea in this case could benefit because the release clause might be quite high considering that the contract is still quite long. Let's see if it will work or not. But one thing that is certain is that these young players appear to be developing well at Chelsea. Because the club has high hopes only for young players. Even though they are not consistent, they sometimes surprise us with their very good performances in one match. Although sometimes it gets worse in other matches.

The truth is that Chelsea is very much interested in signing Osimhen but the amount is what has been holding them back because to them the money is too much for them, though I no that when a player has something big to offer money shouldn't a problem but I believe Chelsea management has there reasons, though even if Osimhen is a very talented player what are the chance that Chelsea will become better if he finally joined them?, the reason I'm saying this is because Chelsea performance is not that good at all in terms of competing for the premier League trophy but adding Osimhen can only improve there front line but can never guarantee there chances of wining the league.

Chelsea board doesn't waste time before triggering button towards their managers especially the ones that doesn't  fit into the system. Meanwhile Manchester United is very different from other clubs, there's absolutely more entangled problems to fixed in Old Trafford,  from the coach to the players. We should try and understand the prospects orientation of Manchester United. They're elite club and the board have been adamant to sell huge shares of the club inother to make things go right. Glazers family have to do better because it's not encouraging watching the Red Devils failing to win games and easily losing points.

Mehn why is it always the coach that is the problem? If a player makes terrible mistakes, it's always the coach to be blamed for losing the match. We all saw how the Manchester United players were full of mistakes, players we do not expect to be seeing such mistakes from. Imagine losing so much ball in your central midfield as a team what do you expect when the midfield is weak? Of course, your opponent is going to utilize those opportunities and shoot on target. That is what has been the case of Manchester United. The only mistake Ten Hag is making is the fact that he has refused to sell those fucking players on the team. The players you mentioned should all be sold and replaced because I don't see any good contribution from them if not laspes.

I will definitely blame coach Ten Hag for such a bad situation of Manchester United. I don't even know why Manchester United didn't sack Ten Hag and hire a more experienced coach. Last season we also saw Manchester United's erratic performances and Ten Hag's bizarre all-match tactics. We are seeing the same thing this season.

Hojlund has been dealing with injuries. As replacements for Hojlund, Rashford and Antony were available to play in this position. But instead of Hojlund we see Bruno in the same position. We have never seen Bruno play in this position in the past and he is not used to playing in this position. However, as usual in every match we saw poor performances from Manchester United. I would say that unless a new experienced coach is appointed we will not see an improvement in Manchester United's performance.