This is interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Yes, yes I do. I hope he learned how to handle players a bit better after his time at PSG and Arsenal. He seemed to constantly undermine his own authority with us.

To an extent, this is true. Raul Sanllehi basically just got players he liked, not players that Emery wanted/needed. That said, Arsenal were an absolute mess on the pitch with Emery, even in his first year when we just missed out in Champions League. Emery was constantly changing formation and tactics to the point where the players clearly didn’t know what was going on. Combine that with the plan going forward appearing to be little more than get down the wings for crosses and cutbacks and the plan without the ball being crazy high line with little pressure on the ball and things were a proper mess. There still appears to be some of this in how his team’s play, as seen in the first half of this game where Spurs were constantly getting in behind (a fair number were offsides, but there were also some very good chances).

Still, happy with Emery doing well and it’s cool to see what a squad built to his needs can do in the EPL. Also, they knocked Spurs back, so that’s cool.

Everything is reasonable about this besides “No Spurs fan genuinely thought a title challenge was on after 2 months.” Sadly, every club has completely delusional fans and they will tear you down for being objective and claim you don’t back your club, manager, players, groundskeeper, boot room staff, etc, etc. Its why I’m mad at myself for opening this thread, much less scrolling this far down and writing something like this only to see it downvoted into oblivion because people are mental.

This is literally what every rival supporter says in this sub. Like United, other teams have injury issues AND other issues that keep them from being legitimate title challengers. Unfortunately for you, United’s issues may be the deepest and most systemic. It’s gonna be a long 4-5 years for United fans.

It’s not even worth trying to have a reasonable conversation about this on this thread.

This a totally reasonable take. The high line without pressure on the ball reminded me of Emery’s suicide ball style when he was at Arsenal; led to some mental games.

No. They’re different styles, different attributes, but both very dangerous and very young.