They would have had at least 4/5 on pitch sessions plus 3/4 video sessions between Utd and Brighton. Each training session they come in for is at minimum half a day.
In fairness nunes got shown a red (yes rescinded) last season when he was a sub.
That is a scripted NPC response if I ever saw one. Might be worth researching the club you are working for going in mate, and the circumstances that led to your predecessors departure, rather than coming off as pig ignorant and obviously deflecting. There is a lot of things to fix, but the vast majority of it is off the pitch.
We played Monday, Tuesday would of been a day off, Wednesday stretches, Thursday/Friday on the grass. That’s come from an employee unless you know better
I dont, I based my week description of what I had to deal with and saw when I was working at league 1 and championship clubs.
He used the “it’s them” when bad and “it’s me” when good tactic that the clown from Southampton used last season when talking about performances!!!
I am starting to understand why Nuno would just say the same line every time..
A sign of deflection of bad review or opinion from others to protect the ego of the person making those comments is the accepted psychological theory behind doing that.
Good question and one only O'Neil can answer.
True. But this squad is better than the one he had at Bournemouth.
Which he took over from the guy who said they weren't good enough. Although he did spend just the odd £75m in January. I suspect that might not happen for him again.
We fell apart in the first 15 minutes of both halfs at the Amex not that long ago. Lopetegui was manager then.
For me, that just shows how observant Brightons coaching staff are compared to ours.. they have them well prepared for our weaknesses from the off, pick up on things in the first half, change, and then go after us right after the break.
Conceded 3 in 20 mins or less to Brighton and Arsenal and managed to concede 4 to a **** Leeds side at home.
Honestly baffles me.
I think what they really mean is ' a squad that cost a lot'. There is no correlation between cost and quality/commitment, especially with Mendes mercenaries.
And yet our form last season, once we changed the coach, was top half.. top half is a stretch maybe this year, but I am one of those who believes we definitely have a better squad than the likes of Brentford for example, who will be close to top half.. but they have consistency in the coaching team and know how to get the most out of players for their way of playing.
The results were midtable, the performances weren’t.
I remain optimistic about the players at our disposal, I just have little confidence in our coaching setup currently and the squad is a little light.
The team were on mid table form most of last season and had excellent home form. We started badly because we had an idiot for a manager. Yes we have deficiencies but we've got a matching first 13-14 vs last season other than neves, or close enough.
We also had no centre forward and endless awful var decisions. We're a midtable squad.
The trouble is a mid-table squad is only ever a few injuries and suspensions, never mind bad boardroom decisions, away from being a relegation threatened squad. I'd say we'll finish above Luton and Sheff U, after that I don't think I could confidently name anyone. Having said that I'll confess I left OT feeling confident. Can it all have really gone wrong so fast?
Agree with everything here. All bottom half teams have the injury issue though.
Yes…..I’m hoping that Gary is a fast learner and sets the team up better for the next game.
Bit like lopetegui then
Yes..
I imagine there are clauses built into his contract that allow us to get rid of him for a month's pay. Same with his staff.
To be fair to GON, I don’t think Bournemouth fans have any right to be anything other than completely grateful and positive towards him. The fact they have even said that is just weird.
Yet endless Bournemouth fans have said that and the club fired him. That tells you everything you need to know. It's always different when you watch your own club week in week out and even the owners thought the same. They were thankful but thought he got lucky and actually wasn't very good.
I'd recommend reading @Adrian_Monk 's astute analysis of the Brighton and Arsenal batterings. Once it was confirmed we were safe, Lopetegui about-faced tactically from the low block that ground out consistent 1-0 type results to suddenly pushing the full backs up very high. In other words, he foisted his preferred tactics from his Sevilla days onto the current group to see how they'd cope.
