Perso 4-0 a Brighton, LOL.
Ma l'highlight della settimana è stata la conferenza pre partita di Rangnick dove come al solito ha sparato a zero su tutto e tutti, il marciume di questa società è clamoroso.
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Questo il testo completo.
Alcune chicche, prima su Lingard:
You talked about some of the players who are out of contract at the end of the season, one of those is Jesse Lingard, who didn’t feature on Monday night. His brother said this week that it was classless not to give him one final game at Old Trafford, I wonder what your reaction was to that and also why he hasn’t featured almost at all this year, only four starts across all competitions?
RR: To start with, I think in the last couple of weeks under my tenure, he has played far more games than he used to before I came. That’s to start with. Number two, on game day against Chelsea, he contacted me in the hotel and asked me to release him from the game and release him from the training session the following day or two days after the Chelsea game for some personal, family reasons and I also allowed him to do that. This was also the reason that with only three subs, still unfortunately, in all the other leagues you have five subs, I had to take a decision between bringing on Edinson Cavani or Jesse Lingard or the young Alejandro Garnacho who I would have also loved to bring on and give a chance having been 3-0 up but I took the decision to bring on Edinson for the very reasons I explained to you [...]
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Just going back to Lingard, whether it’s him or his brother that are saying he should be picked, is that the sort of thing you don’t need in your football club if you’re trying to build something? If anything, is it not classless towards the player you did bring on? If you’re Edinson Cavani, are you thinking ‘what does that say about your opinion of me?’ It’s not great for team spirit, is it?
RR: Well, I don’t think in this case it will affect the team spirit. This is a question you will have to ask Jesse. I’ve been in very regular contact with Jesse in recent weeks and months. In January, when the window was still open, he contacted me in that couple of days we had off after the West Ham game and asked me for my blessing to leave the club. And then I said to him, ‘you have my blessing, I will let you go, not matter to which club’. But three days later we had the issue with Mason Greenwood and Anthony Martial had gone on loan. No one could predict how often Cavani could be missing. That’s when the board decided he should stay. With Jesse himself, I’ve always been in regular contact.
You seem to have done everything you can to be fair. Do you not feel a little bit let down?
RR: We are now talking about a post from his brother who I don’t even know. This is an issue between Jesse and his brother. Jesse should speak to his brother. I have no focus or time or energy to focus on a post from Jesse’s brother. It doesn’t make sense.
Poi sul mercato di Gennaio e l'immobilismo della dirigenza:
t’s obvious now, but when you first came in did you understand and appreciate…
RR: If there hadn’t been problems before I came, I wouldn’t have come. Ole would probably would still be here answering your questions. There were problems the team had and as we all know in the first couple of months, we were improving, we were conceding less goals, we had a point average of 2.1, but yeh, then after the international break we lost, including Cavani, three strikers, then we had problems with scoring goals and finding balance. This is what happened. Maybe, I still believe, we should have tried in those 48 hours, we should have tried to sign a player. And the board agreed with me. But, as I said, we didn’t. Maybe I should have pushed even more. But we didn’t. Now it’s time to look ahead, we have two games to play and get as many points as we can. Together with the board, with Erik and the scouting department, identify and convince the players to come to Manchester United.
That decision could have cost you a place in the top four. So why didn’t they go and get that player?
RR: The answer at the time was no, there is no player at the market at that time who would help us.
Could you not see one on the market at that time who could have helped?
RR: There were a few. The answer is, Diaz who is now at Liverpool. Another is Alvarez, who will be at Man City in the summer, Vlahovic, who at the time who still was Fiorentina. Those are just three that come across my mind now.
Was it a question of finances?
RR: The answer was no, and that was it.
Do you feel you didn’t push enough for it?
RR: Well, I mean I came back after four days off, I was informed about the issues around Mason Greenwood, and obviously Anthony Martial had already left. I was aware within four days we had strikers missing and it might make sense, we were still in three competitions, but as I said it is the past.
To clarify, did you ask the board to sign a striker and they said no?
RR: I spoke to the board, should we not at least speak, and analyse, and try to find out if we could get a player on loan or on a permanent deal, but in the end, the answer was no.
Did they give a reason why?
RR: The answer was no. Maybe they didn’t want it. The answer was no.
Who communicated that to you? Murtough? Arnold?
RR: Yeh. I spoke to the board.
Given where you’ve ended up, do you think you could have had a fighting chance to sign a player like Diaz or do you think that was a done deal?
RR: I don’t know. But as I said, maybe we should have at least internally discussed it. It might have been necessary and important.
Does that sum up the problems there have been with recruitment? With the benefit of hindsight, it looks like an obvious recruitment they should have made with your approval?
RR: I still believe we should have at least tried. It would have been short notice, with 48 hours, but it might have been at least worth it to internally discuss it, but we didn’t. That’s why without three strikers there’s been an impact on our goalscoring ratio.
BURN IT DOWN.
