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[Grays_1890]

It seems to me to be more about him being such an abrasive character. He's made half a dozen players train away from the first team in less than 12 months, he's called his team crap and said he wants to quit a few times. I'm sure there's a connection between that personality and his stubbornness in his tactics, but to suggest the troubles are all down to playing a system that many teams play is very short-sighted imo

I think weirdly he is what Man United need, they need to clear house BADLY and its going to take a fall guy to weed out the deadness and the trouble.

Its now a club thats about 10 years into its rot, so whoever is going to fix them is going to need 2/3 years to do it and its going to take someone who isn't going to be like for the first year and half to do it

 

[Kandi1977]

It seems to me to be more about him being such an abrasive character. He's made half a dozen players train away from the first team in less than 12 months, he's called his team crap and said he wants to quit a few times. I'm sure there's a connection between that personality and his stubbornness in his tactics, but to suggest the troubles are all down to playing a system that many teams play is very short-sighted imo

There aren't many teams that play 343, and there's a good reason for it. But the biggest problem isn't the system. It's Amorim playing Bruno Fernandes as one of the two central midfielders! That's their biggest problem.
None of the midfielders they have are really suited/good enough for the way they want to play, least of all Fernandes.

You need your two midfielders to have exceptional positional awareness, and at least track players when defending. Bruno has none of those skills. He's an attacking midfielder. And only that.

Hopefully, Amorim will keep misusing him, as they will concede lots of goals because of it.

 

[Dicko]

I hope Amorin stays for a long time. They wasted so many years with Ole and ETH and it looks like they are going nowhere fast again.

 

[DubSpur]

It seems to me to be more about him being such an abrasive character. He's made half a dozen players train away from the first team in less than 12 months, he's called his team crap and said he wants to quit a few times. I'm sure there's a connection between that personality and his stubbornness in his tactics, but to suggest the troubles are all down to playing a system that many teams play is very short-sighted imo

There's a problem with the system when you don't have the players to play it. It's often a midfield two of Bruno and Casemiro. Bruno is poor defensively and Casemiro can't move. To play it you need two top quality midfielders that are mobile and defensively aware. I don't know how many games I've seen their midfield being constantly played through.

 

[tommysvr]

There's a problem with the system when you don't have the players to play it. It's often a midfield two of Bruno and Casemiro. Bruno is poor defensively and Casemiro can't move. To play it you need two top quality midfielders that are mobile and defensively aware. I don't know how many games I've seen their midfield being constantly played through.

Probably just semantics but that’s not a system issue. He’s just picking players in the wrong roles. Totally agree with @Kandi1977 that Bruno should never be played in a 2 in the middle, but shuffle the players around a bit and there’s no reason they should be this bad. There’s far more to it, like the examples I gave.

Too much credit is given to a formation.

 

[tommysvr]

I think weirdly he is what Man United need, they need to clear house BADLY and its going to take a fall guy to weed out the deadness and the trouble.

Its now a club thats about 10 years into its rot, so whoever is going to fix them is going to need 2/3 years to do it and its going to take someone who isn't going to be like for the first year and half to do it

He’s only hurt them even more because he’s literally relegated £80m players to the reserves. He is the person they need, but he’s just going about it in such a weird way imo.

 

[DubSpur]

Probably just semantics but that’s not a system issue. He’s just picking players in the wrong roles. Totally agree with @Kandi1977 that Bruno should never be played in a 2 in the middle, but shuffle the players around a bit and there’s no reason they should be this bad. There’s far more to it, like the examples I gave.

Too much credit is given to a formation.

It's a system issue in that he is picking the wrong system to get the best out of the players at his disposal. They need three in midfield to get the best out of Bruno.
Shuffle the players around a bit? Where could Bruno play in a 3-4-3? He doesn't suit the system at all.
What two midfielders have they got that can play in that system? Possibly Mainoo at a stretch, but he's not getting a look in.

 

[parklane1]

I think weirdly he is what Man United need, they need to clear house BADLY and its going to take a fall guy to weed out the deadness and the trouble.

Its now a club thats about 10 years into its rot, so whoever is going to fix them is going to need 2/3 years to do it and its going to take someone who isn't going to be like for the first year and half to do it

Personally i am loving every minute of it.