I love Ralfs pressers. Such a breath of fresh air. He is not that typical pr spokesperson coach. He speaks out, gives actual insights and is brutally honest. Thats rare.
@@lucioledizerot196 Tuchel, Lampard and Pep(these days) does not do it, they act much more like puppets. The only time Tuchel called someone out was with Lukaku and that's cuz he crossed a massive line.
@@misters6749 he took a break from writing/social media. He's done other stuff with Tifo though, the guy is obviously within the top tier of football writers
When it comes to tactics, Carl is in that Michael Cox bracket with JJ and Alex. Honestly, people don’t realise the depths of Carl’s tactical analysis and insight because he’s predominantly a traditional journalist. Excellent stuff.
I love these segments. Combining the best of the athletic and the Tifo mob, for these longer form explainer pieces with JJ are brilliant to watch and utterly absorbing. More please and thank you.
the fireside chat format is absolutely great for these longs vids. would just like to say whilst the guests are always very good, I really think jj is doing a marvellous job in the moderator type role. Thank you for the content all
Solskjaer's poor performance is not due to absence of Varane...If you concede 4 goals against Watford in absence of one CB,it speaks volumes of your overall defensive organisation
@@sususegar We need a quality manager who demands top notch football from each player. Not someone who pats everyone on their shoulders and protects them from criticisms...Ole reign lead to a very soft team without any aggression or passion and no real competition within the squad..😓
Carl Anka on tifo, incredible stuff. Glad he’s back and excited to see more! Would love to see more of him on the channel if and when he has the time… he’s perfect
I feel like Utd brought in Ragnick in part to develop the youth and bring structure back to our club..... That will take time that I feel he deserves given what he achieved at RB Leipzig
Fact: No Manutd manager since Fergie (2010-11) qualified for champions league semi final, and all those manager took their time, why Rangnick should do that now? Unrealistic Expectations! All we want now is an improvement in style of play and the ability to CONTROL games.
Utd are in a dire dire situation. Dont think ppl realise. I'm talking Arsenal level crisis. Mark my words. No champions league next 2 years min. no trophies either. SAVE THIS COMMENT.
I know zoom zoomers wants instant gratification.. and football does move faster in its progression than it did a decade ago.. but it’s still a marathon, there’s still a shitton of factors and stuff is gonna take time. Being an interim manager is a short term commitment and your influence and power is limited.. so you gotta judge relative to the circumstances. I love the bluntness. His honest assessments helps sanitize the weak mentality that’s going on in the club. We see a lot of small improvements on a game to game basis. We’ve gotten squad rotation and giving the youth a chance. That’s a lot compared to what we had before. I don’t say it’s a 10/10 job, but probably a 6/10 bordering to a 7/10 which is a huge improvement, because we were far lower before. I’m happy he’s here, I do think if Tan Hag gets in, those two will sync together really well, they play similar way but divert a bit from each other. We all know that the managers getting into the post, are gonna have one hand tied on his back. I’m satisfied so far with Rangick. Not ecstatic, but he’s doing decent.
The way he pronounced Gegenpressing sounds like he is pressing Violins because Geige is Violin in German But now I learned the word "esoteric" so I'm happy again
"Fred as a left-sided 8, because he's left footed." Wrong. Fred was a right-sided 8 and Bruno a left-sided 8. Huge difference. Fred has gotten 3 assists from the 4 games he has played as a right-sided 8. He's much more isolated and has fewer option when playing as a left-sided 8. The reason why he always seems to play better and creates more chances in Brazil National Team is that he plays as a right-sided CM, rather than left-sided CM, as he also did in Shaktar Donetsk. Assists in the last 4 games as a right-sided 8: - FA Cup vs A. Villa - EPL vs. A. Villa - EPL vs Brentford. And we never really played 4-2-3-1, which so many thought we did. It was a 4-3-3 in which either Fred or Bruno press really high up to the 2 center backs.
@@vin8754 yup but we wont buy any cm with that hefty a fee in this transfer window as they are waitig for future manager and his demands plus united owners have made zero investment into the club.
@@gauravmufc1 the owners did make investments but they do it incompetently and buy the wrong players, we didnt need sancho for that much at all last summer. Varane signing was good but we havent signed a real DM since we got Matic and I dont understand how not one person on the board can see the gaping hold in that midfield
I don’t personally think that Rangnick being a consultant or director at the end of the season will be detrimental to the next manager. Both Poch and Ten Hag work under directors of football already, pretty much all successful European clubs have that sort of model. As long as they’re in agreement with the direction it should work 🤷🏻♂️
I agree, plus I think his biggest value will be in the structure and bigger picture stuff that Utd seem to be lacking in when compared to other elite clubs.
Really interesting discussion but it simply isn't true about Varane. He missed a number of games but was fit for all but Liverpool, City, Watford and Villarreal in Ole's last 6-7 weeks. He got injured at Villarreal away shortly before Liverpool. He's only been fit for 4 of Ragnick's games in charge
Yeah, and it's far too simplistic to say that United's problems are down to a single individual, whether it's Ronaldo being not fit enough for pressing, Varane being injured, or Ole. There's something holistically wrong at United, and has been since Ferguson left. It can't be fixed by just swapping manager every few years, or spending 100£mil on a couple famous players every summer, even if it means United luck themselves into the Champions League every ow and again. They need a complete behind the scenes overhaul, and hopefully Ragnick is the beginning of that in the summer, and not the end
@@ILikedGooglePlus agree with that word for word mate! Although I think the rot was allowed to set in under Fergie personally, that squad was allowed to wilt from 2009 instead of building on it. We allowed Ronaldo to leave, Scholesy to retire, Hargreaves went, Pique left, the average age of the team was 29 when Fergie left and he took discount options on Valencia, Owen Young, Kagawa, Pope and even Bebe. D'yu remember all that "there's no value in the market" when the fans were begging for a centre mid? The solution was to get Scholesy out of retirement. For me, despite the money spent since, it can all be traced back to The Glazers and the faulty hierarchy they installed.
@@liamr194 I agree. I remember in 2010 there were calls for Carrick to be sold! Yes he had a renaissance (IIRC the nadir was a FA Cup semi final (2010?) where Toure ran past him to score the winner) 2011 onwards, but the midfield was sorely lacking back then. This was probably when Fletcher also had his UC and began to not be the same player- so we had an aging Scholes and Giggs, and the holy trio of Anderson, Cleverley and Gibson. The fact it was such a well oiled machine kept us at the top end. Its been a problem area for a decade, and the fact we've hardly had any decent CM prospects from the academy for years is also a concern for me...
i feel like united’s problem in the attack is they have like 4 strikers on the pitch, sure they’re all versatile but it seems like they’re all competing to be the goal scorer
I'm hoping that "consultancy" is a soft way of talking now about him being the sporting director in the future and helping them build united into a modern club without coming right out and saying in the middle of the season that they're going to fire fletcher and murtough and move forward with someone like Enrique or ten Haag as the coach under Rangnick.
For anyone who's seen Rangnick as a manager in the 90's and 2000's, it's not odd at all, he was a fabulous manager and ahead of his time. I think United should consider him as a permanent manager - IF he wants that. I think that's what it all hinges on, he might prefer to be in a sporting/football director role. But if he should want to continue, I'd say let him! You won't find a better manager that's not already at a top club. Also it's not "Geigenpressing", that would mean Violin pressing. It's Gegenpressing (counter pressing).
This channel is a bore.. nothing revolutionary. They talk about the past. Lets hear some predictions and see how they come true. Thats how it is now. Ppl make tactical vids of one snapshot of a game and get views and sound like a genius.
Want to appreciate the new wide angle shot! Much better balance, still obstructing a little but overall much better! Adds a great texture and excited to see the crew play around with it even more! : D
so this guy is just going to completely defend Ole or what? I know context matters but Ole had this team unorganized and heading for mid to bottome table. at least under Ralf we have structure, confidence is piling up and we are organized most of the time.
Love how it ends abruptly with a “Yeah we haven’t gotten any wiser about the situation, we don’t know anything about how it’s going or where it’s headed”.
Bruno most definitely plays as the left 8 not as the right. In fact look at Fred's 2 assists for Mctominay and Elanga, both from the right 8 role. Heat maps for Bruno show he's been all over the left you silly sausages.
He should stay long-term. Only City got more points since he's in charge. And you can slowly see the progress. First he said Utd need to conveive less goals. Accomplished. And now u more and more can see his game plan. It takes time. Give him a transfer window and a pre season, you'll see the identity and difference.
nope. We all know what happened with Ole, won his first 10 games, beat PSG and got the job and we all know how that ended. Sure United have won games but his strength helping the structure of clubs not managing long-term. He should go straight to the board and help the new manager.
I like ralf, I think he's a great couch but what frustrates me Is that he isn't as strict as people said he is. He spread his cheeks for the board and keeps playing the same horrible midfield, he did improve us a little bit defensively but we keep squeezing out wins and his favorite word control isn't there. I genuinely think he's trying to impress the board and get the full time job and that's why he keeps playing the same bad midfield and maguire, if he fails to see vdb Is light years better than mcfrshit then I don't want him to be permanent he didn't do any major change.
@@Elricsedric He has done absolutely nothing specifically for the board, what on Earth are you referring to? As for the Donny cries, please shut up about that already. Three different managers have decided that he isn't good enough to start ahead of the players in his actual position, that's not a coincidence. He is not fit to play the role that McFred play in the team. Makes the occasional intelligent/nice run, but aside from that his passing, tackling, dribbling, shooting, physicality, fitness, mentality are all totally ordinary.
@@PpTheGreatest he has done specific things for the board literally still playing mcfred when he himself said that we lose the midfield so if u lose it why can't u just change it? He hasn't made any major change and literally barely squeezing wins he's trying to impress them by playing the ones they like. And on donny how the hell isn't he good enough so basically mcfrshit is good enough? How can u say he isn't good enough while not playing him. Ole doesn't know any better and ralf literally has the same Ole couchs with the same influence. And man what u just said, literally can't be any dumber u basically said he does everything well and still not playing, have u even even seen him play hes a genius even in the minimal mins he played he did really well. It's like you're deliberately acting dumb. "he's not fit to play the role of mcfred" dumbest statement I've heard Ina while. he's by far our best midfielder.
@@Elricsedric Jesus Christ. You're beyond help 😭 I can't see a single reasonable point in that entire poorly written block of drivel... Apparently the board "like" McFred...? Apparently I said that "Mcfrshit" (??????????) are good enough...? Ralf is trying to impress the board by... not winning convincingly? Ralf is working with all of Ole's coaches when Mckenna, Carrick and Ole himself are all gone and Phelan is taking a back seat...? Donny is a "genius"...????? In the few minutes he's played, he's played well?????? The last game he started, he literally played the pass that stopped us from winning the game, from McFred's position of all places! You don't speak football, you speak brainwashed twitter nonsense.
It's definitely far too simplistic to say that United's problems are down to a single individual, whether it's Ronaldo being not fit enough for pressing, Varane being injured, or Ole. There's something holistically wrong at United, and has been since Ferguson left. It can't be fixed by just swapping manager every few years, or spending 100£mil on a couple famous players every summer, even if it means United luck themselves into the Champions League every ow and again. They need a complete behind the scenes overhaul, and hopefully Ragnick is the beginning of that in the summer, and not the end
Someone surely.. by now.. surely.. has to be officially held accountable for all those signings. Not one player has been bought properly. All been a fluke. Ultimately.. forget tactics - its the players who play.
So the 'problems' section is just using ronaldo and his off field overblown stuff to make it look like that is an issue which is not. And even the comments about young players isn't wrong and he wants the team to do better which I'm sure the younger players want to as well. This video is about how rangnick is doing not ronaldo. The problems section didn't even include how tactically or which players can do something different or better to make united a better team.
@@markharris5861 He's achieved close to nothing in his managerial career. There's probably a reason for that. He'd be much better as a Sporting director and a middle man between the owners and the manager.
I think the idea of him developing the players was in an indirect way, his elite mentality is second to none and it shows in the way he trains, the way he conducts himself. If United’s youth were to shadow him without him having to put any effort into them, they stand to gain a lot and there’s no harm in doing so
@@steinstolper Yeah, that’s the only thing that’s made me clench my teeth at times, I guess you can justify it by saying he got to where he is being that way sometimes but still, you know
@@steinstolper While Ronaldo didn't conduct himself well, Rangnick showed that he's the boss especially with how he clutched his hand while explaining the substitution during the game. Ole's buddy mentality would only encourage such petulance.
The main problem Ralf has to solve now is that dreadful midfield. And considering it's 3 days before the window ends, there's no sign of United signing a new midfielder which is worrying. Ralf cannot work with a midfield of McFred and Matic for the next months if he wants to make top 4. Donny is not favored and the squad just simply don't have any quality in that area.
I like ralf, I think he's a great couch but what frustrates me Is that he isn't as strict as people said he is. He spread his cheeks for the board and keeps playing the same horrible midfield, he did improve us a little bit defensively but we keep squeezing out wins and his favorite word control isn't there. I genuinely think he's trying to impress the board and get the full time job and that's why he keeps playing the same bad midfield and maguire, if he fails to see vdb Is light years better than mcfrshit then I don't want him to be permanent he didn't do any major change.
We are just a massive muddle of a side and I think maybe if things go to plan with Ralf, then maybe we might start to have a better structure. Ole's time at United was basically him extracting the maximum (at least imo) out of a talented but fairly incoherent bunch of players, before as usual United bought players seemingly with little plan besides them being good players and thus working together, which unsurprisingly didn't work. The club does need some sort of plan in place for what it wants to do, and however they want to be in the future they do need to have a better off-field structure. Hopefully Ralf would be listened to, but I suspect Adam is right about it mostly coming down to results. League position-wise honestly if we hadn't signed Ronaldo I don't think Ole would be sacked at this stage, for better or for worse. We wouldn't be much better than last year, just probably worse off in league position at this stage than we were last year because Chelsea and Liverpool are much better. I don't doubt Ronaldo's commitment to the club or anything like that, but it has created a scenario where a team that was good as a collective of decent to very good players (plus one superstar in Bruno) is now an incoherent mish-mash of very exciting attacking players who all have reasonable claims to start, alongside a midfield and defence that is limited in certain ways. Just hopefully we come out of this period with a much clearer idea of what the club wants to be, apart from a commercial giant.
Exactly, I really don’t agree with people sticking their head in the sand about Ronaldo. A lot seem to be denying the problems that his way of playing has brought to the squad which was undeniably a more cohesive unit last season. I’m not blaming Ronaldo and he is not the singlar problem United are facing.
From a man management perspective he's actually been pretty good considering what a fetid swamp that club is. He's refreshingly blunt and seems like he genuinely doesn't care about the club which is great.
@@hafsaz4513 Yeah he doesn't care about them, his body language is that of an agency temp who doesn't have to be nice to anyone because his contract ends soon anyway. Good for him.
As a City fan, I'm very interested in United's development as a team since SAF's retirement. While there has been amazing derby games since then, the last few years haven't felt the same with United struggling as they are.
Ralf reminds me a lot with Bielsa. Both are hardcore pressers, both are highly rated by great managers in world football today (Pep, Klopp, Tuchel, Pochettino), and oddly enough both are not as successful as we might think. I can't wait to see Man. United vs Leeds in the upcoming game.
I do enjoy watching this kind of format. It is way better, if some people in other ways involved in production stay away from the camera or microphone.
Ronaldo say he could play until 40, yes i believe that if its mean he just wait in the penalty box and ask everyone to give assist to him or he become angry against his team mate. Honestly modern striker like haaland, vlahovic who is in his prime they work harder than ronaldo, they make run behind defender, initiate the press and hold the ball for their team mate. I dont think ronaldo able to do that because of his physicality, most work he done is for himself.
for Ronaldo, it's hard to see him making a touch and finish as clean as his first goal at this point in the season. I mean he's 36, I think one match and then having him in almost every match since with prem intensity has done his legs in just enough to put him off it.
Adam’s view on RALF is already biased. The way he scoffed at his tactics and his view on Ronaldo is not here to develop the players baffles me. How can experimentation of different tactical setup not be a good thing? It shows aptitude and understanding of the game, and also the willingness to take risks. As for the Ronaldo part, everyone can see how Greenwood & co are just too arrogant to take in the views of a 5-time Balon D’or winner and have not improved and developed since they arrived.
I like ralf, I think he's a great couch but what frustrates me Is that he isn't as strict as people said he is. He spread his cheeks for the board and keeps playing the same horrible midfield he did improve us a little bit defensively but we keep squeezing out wins and his favorite word control isn't there. I genuinely think he's trying to impress the board and that's why he keeps playing the same bad midfield and maguire, if he fails to see vdb Is light years better than mcfrshit then I don't want him to be permanent he didn't do any major change.
@@Elricsedric Why are you comparing Fred with Mctominay? Mctominay is a lot worse than Fred. One has to start as a CB for a weak Scotland side behind the likes of McGinn in midfield and the other starts in the midfield for one of the best national teams.
Watching this one would think Man Utd is one chaotic club and people in charge have no clue as to what they are doing or what they want or which direction the club should go. Sad thing is they wouldn't be wrong to think like that.
The problem with Ronny is that he's the single best attacker that we have, however in being that good he's made every other player north of the halfway line *significantly* worse. And let's face it, we were only stocked with good players north of the halfway line, everyone else on the pitch was being carried by that unit. And he's not good enough to carry the whole team on his own anymore.
I’ve just written something similar myself with Bruno Fernandez of particular focus and how Fernandez has gone from Man Utd’s best player last season to being barely average this season.
Great insight on the mess at Manchester United, it seems R.R is trying to leave a blueprint but the current player’s are pulling in another direction like a tug of war vs the manager.
loved the winger stats comp. id love to see a lineup with Elanga and Sancho on the wings and give Mason or Marcus run at the 9. important to have options outside of the CR7 dilemma
