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I agree, the fired LVG way too quickly, at least he’s been there & done it as a manager. Solksjaer is a rookie without a clue how to fix what’s going wrong. They are in deep trouble because Man City & LFC are getting better & better, Arsenal will improve under Emery. Chelsea will get better too, maybe Spurs will drop off when Poch & players move on.

We'll see...  The result of their match vs the Gunners at home will def be a turning point if they wanna stick with Solksjaer or not.  El Sackiko!

Hahah, I have to admit I did not see this coming.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/reactions-news-legends-arsene-wenger-wants-to-become-manchester-united-manager-20190926


This would be tremendously funny if it happened.

Of course Solskjaer is not the man to bring United to former glory. But I think people are not really aware of how low United has really fallen and that it will take time for them to crawl back up.

They will just waste more time if they change managers after every 10 games, that club needs stability and currently I think Solskjaer with this team he is starting to build is doing quite ok.

The problems are above his head, they wasted a ton of money on signings that just are not performing and are either fed up with football or just lazy and that mistakes were done before he arrived at the club.

^That is just Mourinho way. Whine about everything and never admit you are wrong. In the meantime fire some physio or pick a fight with a player and kick him out of the club to keep the tension going.

I like coaches which are man enough to say something like "I chose wrong tactic for this match and that is why we lost" or "Oposing manager surprised me and that is why we looked bad in the first half".

My problem with Mourinho would be he'd public single out players for errors made after almost every loss claiming (he or some players) didn't play according to his plan, but he'd attribute every success to himself.

He creates imaginary enemies with everyone, even within his squads, It happened at Real, Chelsea and United. Some of his decision are often right but he doesn't handle them with the slightest maturity.

^  Poch please.

Edit:  I wouldn't mind seeing Naglesmann at the EPL too. 


What Mou did wrong at United was whining about his players and the club which was doing more harm than good for everybody concerned including himself.  I'm not saying he's wrong, he was right.  But it was the wrong thing to do.

Man Utd need to bite the bullet, fire Ole & put somebody in temporary charge until they can get somebody who deserves to be manager. Look to Simeone, Pochettino, Anfelotti, somebody who has won stuff as a manager. Ole is a joke.

Done my predictions for this weekend any way

Yeah, things should only be reviewed if there's some doubt. Otherwise, why look for a problem?


If the other team requests a review, sure, but I still think millimetres offside isn't an issue.


I think they're not meant to do this, but you can do a similar thing to they do in tennis (I think) where you only get three calls to request a review.

I agree with you to some extent, If there is no real goal threat and/or the offside isn't noticeable at first glance, then play shouldn't be stopped, You can't keep reviewing every goal or stopping play for a potential offside that wasn't even in question at first glance. However, If for whatever play has to be stopped to for a review, then being just a micrometer offside(If it can be proven) should be enough reason to disallow a goal.

Another problem is the fact that players themselves are always requesting for a review and referee often are left with no choice. There should be a certain standard in place to determine whether or not a review is necessary, at least one the assistant referee should be able to determine the necessity and therefore make a signal.

He is more experienced and it's for sure better manager. But Mourinho's style of play was awful. He also bought players randomly. Lukaku - not to go in Chelsea, Fred, Sanchez - not to go in M.City. too many misses. He wins a trophy with a lot of luck. Remember the semifinals games against Anderlecht and late win in 110min.
Last three signings look best on the field and it's OGS players. There is a problem because they need to replace the minimum 10 more players and it can be in one summer.
It will be more pain here for MU supporters.

Mourinho was doing better with this squad than Solksjaer is to be honest. He won a couple of trophies, admittedly they still weren’t doing great but better than now.

There's still opinion when you've got to decide on whether it's offside or not and that's why we have officials. It's not always clear cut even with var and what happens when they're on the line. You really can't see millimetres even with var. They brought in the phrase 'clear and obvious error' but that's still open to interpretation and sometimes things are given in one game and not in the other. As for time, that's different. We don't need var for that but refs don't blow the whistle bang on the time they should and let the game run especially if the team is attacking. My issue is is var should only be used when called upon or when there's a serious incident. Don't review everything just because. If the incident is so small that nobody noticed then it's probably irrelevant, and someone being millimetres offside isn't relevant or serious in my opinion and is causing far too much time to be wasted along.



But this is happening far to often and they seem to be running things back longer and longer. I've seen several matches where nearly five minutes have been taken to view the var system.


They need to get rid of this culture of sacking managers after a handful of bad games. Managers don't have time to achieve anything unless you move to the Barca's/Juve's/Man City's of the world. Fergie would have been sacked in his first season if he was a new manager today. What Leicester did to Ranieri did was disgusting. Had they have given him a little longer I'm sure he would have bounced back like they did anyway.

I really don't like LVG, I know i am not objective but I can't stand his smug face drooping blame all around, while never admitting he made some wrong decisions every time his team doesn't get full 3 points.

I quite like the new generation of attacking minded coaches like Klopp, Nagelsmann, Bjelica (Dinamo coach) and even Lampard. I know I will get burned by mentioning Lampard but I like the way Chealsea plays under him and the fact he is giving regular starts to club youngsters. The club can only profit from that in the long run.

They would probably finish outside top 4 with Guardiola and Klopp combined. Their team only has names on paper, it has no balance and no chemistry and Pogba is doing whatever he wants most of the time.

Solskjaer is not their biggest problem, I'm still not sure he actually is a problem - at least for now. They need a better manager, but currently? I feel they have more chance of doing well without major shocks.

^  If they don't give him the sack they finish below the top 4 and potentially finish below it for a couple more years. 

If it were up to me, they should've just stuck with LVG and started a slow rebuild of the club from the back room to the squad.

But Solskjaer is actually doing OK things. I feel that Woodward is a much bigger problem for them than any manager they had so far after Ferguson.

Sack him, ok. What will you do next?

LMAO!!!

Well...  More likely Solksjaer than Emery.  Arsenal sticks with their manager and what should the club expect with their squad compared to the likes of City and LFC?

United on the other hand...

I think it does. It is a rule that is geometric, there are no opinions about it. It either is or is not, imagine if in basketball somebody scored a winning 3-pointer 0.2 seconds too late. You cant say 'well, it's less than half a second, man'.

I'm for it, as long as it looks at an actual play that led to the goal. Not the whole minute before, because if the ball went out of play in the centre and then both teams continued to play and team 1 scores a goal 15 seconds later you cannot disallow a goal because VAR said it was actually out.

I think VAR is going to end up costing a team a victory based on an incorrect decision as well. The Portugal game I linked above got it wrong. There was another match - may have been in the champions league - where the ball went out of play but from an angle that var didn't have access to it looked completely different from the ones they did. Guarantee something major will happen sooner than later.


I haven't heard anyone call to scrap it completely but we don't need forensic analysis to see if someone is millimetres offside and none of the lower leagues get to "benefit" from it either, but them stopping the game to review something will just make it worse as bad as letting them play on. The ball is already almost out of play more than it's in it and it's just getting worse with var. The worse thing is letting the players celebrate then five mins later it's disallowed.


No, but you can be a little bit offside and a toe offside doesn't need to be reviewed.