I have very little time for what most of them UK pundits say. It isn't genuine opinions, its what's going to get them clicks/plays online - hence why sharkting on United is so popular, fans lap it up.
There is absolutely a massive need to rest players - Martial and Pogba need to be at their best for us to secure 3 points over West Ham and Leicester. I think Bruno and Rashford should also have sat, but we weren't actively trying to lose to Chelsea.
Agree Romero should've played, agree we shouldn't have switched to back 3. But we can't play the same XI 3 times a week and expect them to perform at the standards required, top flight football simply doesn't work like that anymore. Ole isn't perfect but you're attacking him for things that simply aren't fair to attack him on. He has to make changes short term, otherwise he has to make bigger changes medium-term for injuries. Our squad depth is a big problem, but one that OGS has made reasonable progress on so far, considerign what he started with.
Its unfortunate, but the FA Cup is a lesser priority than winning CL qualification at the minute, so the rotation has to come in the FA Cup. It isn't ideal by any means, but neither is our squad and the lack of recovery time between games.
The pundits I am talking about are people like Scholes,Shearer etc.who certainly know more football than anyone on this forum.
When you are the manager of Man Utd earning $15000000 a year and are not performing, then you have to expect criticism.I attacked him because he did not pick a team that would beat Chelsea.Easy to say now, but when I saw the line up I said to my wife ' we will lose this game'
Yes he has made some progress --- we have been playing some decent football. The fact remains that unless we win the last two games we will have less points than we did last year. I don't think that is progress.
Agree about the abysmal depth of our squad and that is what will halt any progress than Ole can create. Our best starting X1 might be OK but in general the rest are average at best and some are very poor.
If Pep and Ole swapped clubs at season end without buying any players Ole would finish above Pep simply because the City squad is far superior to ours.
The sad thing is that our owners will not pay out the big money to get world class players as the City owner will, and that is why they have won 9 trophies in the last 5 years.