My Rant
Shihab Rahman
L
ately people have been bashing Manchester
United a lot as we’re lying eighth in the Premier league.
Players aren’t performing to their bests and the
resultshave not been good. Worries over the new
trainingregime is flowing as a lot of players have
got injured lately while there are also transfer
speculations of top stars leaving and us not being
able to land world class signing any more. One of the
reasons behind this is that there is a new coach
in,David Moyes and some are complaining that he, so
far, has got it all wrong. You can see some section of
supporters complaining about him, demanding him
to be sacked while our rivals smiling with their teeth out at his misery and trolling us with all
sorts of memes. “Moyesout” chants have broken out at large, despite this being his sixth month
in charge only and even half of the season hasn’t been completed. Yet people seems to blame
him for the inevitable mistakes done. Well let me tell you that Moyes was SAF’s handpicked
choice and he had quite a successful stint before at his former clubs, Preston North End and
Everton, it wasn’t a trophy shaded stint but a good spell. And Sir Alex isn’t going to choose
someone who isn’t worthy enough.
“You need to understand the fact that, there is a new face in after over
26 years and it takes time to understand the philosophy that a team
follows.”
As a manager you have to analyse the club at its core and know everything about it like where the
team lacks and where to make improvements, what formation suits the team and so plus you need
to know the players thoroughly like how and where they want to play, what their strengths are and
what are their weakness and how to bring the best from them, then there is the coaching staff and
you can’t interact with them being formal and so. Say i buy you a Mercedes today; will you be able
to drive it? No, because you need time to learn how to drive,even if have driven common Toyota’s
before, but Mercedes is a totally different thing. But once you learn to drive it, there is no
stopping you is there? Moyes never managed a club this big,yet the squad he inherited is not up
to the reputation the clubs holds, so there will be slip ups.Unlike Chelsea or Madrid we don’t
sack manager just after a few bad results, because we don’twant to build a team, we want to build
a club. The pressure of succeeding SAF and thriving inOld Trafford is immense. But to thrive
you need to strive first and Moyes nodifferent here. We aren’t like Chesea, Man City, PSG or Real
Madrid that we would just go on and spend agazillion bucks for overpriced players. We also don’t
inherit a squad fully made of homemade players like Barca or Dortmund that the players would
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