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Ronald Koeman discussion

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Nymzee said:
Thing is though how can you not prepare a team properly to counter a team that's widely known as a proponent of 3 at the back? You barely need to have heard of Atalanta to know that. Don't they do video sessions on the oppo etc.?
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We do but sadly Ronald spends most of those sessions with his face buried in a 3ft BMT from Subway with mayo dribbling down his chins whilst Steve Walsh blows our striker budget on incontinence pads as he can't stop pissing himself that someone was stupid enough to give him the job.
 
To be fair to Koeman I think he meant "blame me", as opposed to literally " we weren't prepared.

I'm amazed the players get an easy ride whilst the manager cops all the flack. There's a few I'd not have in the RBJ again, not just based on tonight but on the last two years. The likes of Baines, Jagielka and Mirallas.
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Bungle said:
We do but sadly Ronald spends most of those sessions with his face buried in a 3ft BMT from Subway with mayo dribbling down his chins whilst Steve Walsh blows our striker budget on incontinence pads as he can't stop pissing himself that someone was stupid enough to give him the job.
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To be fair I nearly needed to borrow an incontinence pad when I was reading that.
 
Nymzee said:
Some simple tactical tweaks I'd like to see over the next few months:

- Never play Williams
- Never play Martina outside of games like Brighton etc.
- If he's insistent on a back 3 put Schneiderlin in the middle of Keane and Holgate as two DM's in front is nonsensical.
- Until January DCL must start every match he physically can.
- Don't shoehorn 3x CAM's into the team just because you paid top money for them.
- Don't feel like it's a requirement to play Gana and Morgan every game; despite them being different types of defensive midfielder at the end of the day they both offer little offensively and in the build up.
- Depsite being our best player so far I don't feel Rooney has to play every game as his tendency to drop deep all over the pitch makes it easier to defend against us.
- If 4-3-3 is the stated formation don't make wingers out of central midfielders when we have wide players on the bench.

I lose faith in Koeman's ability to correctly set up the team when I see the amount of substitutions he's made at half-time so far this season.
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mkrudden said:
We went through similar in November / December last year.

We'll be fine.
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In what sense? Until January at least, we are stuck with a 20 year old striker who has 1 goal in 14 Premier League games so far after selling the leagues 2nd top scorer to the side one place above us in the league? At best we will get beaten on Sunday and then grind out a few wins in our next few after that. Best I can see is 7th and that looks in jeopardy the way Koeman is setting this side up to carry no goal threat and leak goals frequently.

Meaning that even if we got 7th (which I can't see at the moment) we'd have made no progress. This season was supposed to be one full of promise. I wasn't even expecting a top 4 finish, just to maybe put up a challenge for it, and get in amongst 5th or 6th.

That was all dependent on getting a suitable replacement for Lukaku. We didn't do it and Moshiri just brushed it under the carpet on deadline day as if it wasn't anything to worry about. Well it is, and it is going to cost us massively this season and could result in the end for Koeman, especially if he persists with this attempt to shove loads of players in a similar position in midfield. I can't see where the goals will come from at all.
 
Cork Evertonian said:
Im not enthusiastic at all.I just think the best course of action for now is to hope Koeman turns it around.With that said though im not sure he is the man to take us back to the elite at all.
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It's a conundrum isn't it?
We've bought all these new players but, they don't all have to play. They can be brought in gradually.
A set team formation and way of playing would be good.
Certain things could be handled better and yet I really don't like the idea, of the club being labelled as one of those that continually hire and fire managers.
If things aren't looking a lot better by xmas though, I can see Moshiri sending RK on his winter golfing hols.
 
The good news is that at least one senior player has already made representations to the Board about dissatisfaction with Koeman. In the past Kenright has been the one to keep the manager in post when everyone else has wanted him gone. But even Kenright doesn't like Koeman, so his days are numbered.
 

bicycleheader said:
Dunno

I only know Ronald Koeman was an at best slightly above average manager when we signed him and has done nothing to alter that opinion since. Certainly nowhere near good enough to be chasing after him the way we did and paying so much money to.

We finally get some money in, or so it seems, and we bin off a failing manager and go get in this.....this bland dull uninspiring human. Our majority shareholder will hopefully exclude himself from the selection committee if he thinks getting Koeman in was a way to match other big teams in the Prem and put our name on the map.

If we are gonna be a bit of a crap club for the rest of our existence then please god let us be entertained a bit whilst we do so.
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Remember Moshiri waxing lyrical about the "four world class managers in the North West" after Koeman had joined Jose, Pep and Klopp.

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mrb85 said:
The good news is that at least one senior player has already made representations to the Board about dissatisfaction with Koeman. In the past Kenright has been the one to keep the manager in post when everyone else has wanted him gone. But even Kenright doesn't like Koeman, so his days are numbered.
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Did not know this.
 
mrb85 said:
The good news is that at least one senior player has already made representations to the Board about dissatisfaction with Koeman. In the past Kenright has been the one to keep the manager in post when everyone else has wanted him gone. But even Kenright doesn't like Koeman, so his days are numbered.
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brigadier said:
Don't know if his double substitutions are him trying to own up he's got it wrong or he genuinely surprised that it's going wrong.
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Unless forced upon a manager by injuries, I can never see the logic of sending two subs on at once.

It is an acknowledged fact that it takes a sub a while to get into the pace of the game...so why have two players trying to do so at the same time.
 

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