Unai Emery is a very good manager for a very specific type of squad (whose traits he tends to exacerbate over time as he takes control of recruitment). I don’t really get elite club links. Big picture, I really hate how sports fans assume that talent should move up/down linearly based on performance

Can’t in my life recall a team just throwing multiple season defining games because they “haven’t figured out what to do next yet”

Arsenal unbelievably good lol it’s over

This Arsenal side’s an actual defensive menace. Unbelievable work rate and discipline

These teams are so good man. The player and particularly coaching quality gap to United is so wild

It’s actually astounding how little of the public discourse is about Carrick relative to what is happening to this United team. This side is as poorly coached as I’ve seen from any United manager with probably the best squad the team has had post-Ferguson

Honestly I know this shouldn’t be my focus but my main source of annoyance from this match is the commentator pronouncing his name “Stevow”

Martinez sent off and the camera pans to Wilcox, showing definitively that sometimes we do “look above”

Toronto FC will not let me rest. Who knew Josh Sargent would end up meaning this much to me

Not defending the board here, but I’m astonished how much defence Carrick is getting. The team (super fit last year) showed up this yr unfit physically and tactically. A few challenging results and Carrick instantly folded to some of the worst tactics United have ever had – a difficult bar to clear

Dropping Bruno is whatever given his comments. My real question is, why is Tielemans, the Emery 6, playing in his spot?

Have caught up on all the recent United games I missed and I do have to say, my criticism on the board this week let Carrick off easy. His coaching has gone from a split of pros/cons that were difficult to size to utterly woeful and inexplicable since the Spurs match

I love football, man. TFC could’ve limped out of playoff contention months ago but instead they won me back over only to go 3-0 down 30 mins into the decider. Can’t wait for the Leafs to play the Oilers tonight!

The fact people are still (hate)watching and covering City games like they’re some WWE villain is wild to me. This isn’t some movie narrative where the cheaters get served their own medicine at the end, it’s tampering with competitive pro sports

Honestly it’s pretty simple: United need a long-term strategy that goes beyond player and coach. Downstream of that might include replacing Carrick and some players, but without the upstream part, it’s pointless. They will lack strategic consistency and compounding and fall behind other teams

United’s season dead in October, not Carrick’s fault even though he’s not good enough. I don’t understand what this team is supposed to be. Fast? Strong? Fit? Technical? How are they supposed to score goals? What are we doing about SPs? Is it a project or are 3 points all that matters?

1-1 against Leeds at 80’ and Rashford Cunha Lacey are keeping the bench warm. Every vision this team claimed to have has been given up after 7 tough league matches

I don’t think there was a morsel of planning in how to make Santos and Tielemans’ lack of mobility work in a progressive side, other than “they’re cheap relative to what they are”. That doesn’t make United a market exploiter, it just makes them cheap

Have some questions about this approach from United (are we back to 343? Are we going to defend and counter all year now?) but no doubt it is better than the first two months of the season

I think great football teams result from adopting a smart teamwide vision, relentlessly pursuing it even when you get pushback, and compounding your gains over multiple seasons. I think Lisandro’s comments just publicly display that United don’t have any lasting top to bottom conviction in anything

Honestly maybe I’ll get over it but the City news does feel like a permanent rift in my enjoyment of the Premier League. Being told “everything you’ve watched the last 10 years as well as what you are currently watching is tainted” makes me… not that invested in watching anymore

Great win Toronto FC. There was no other match today

5 points from Hull Fulham Ipswich Everton and 10-man City with extremely mediocre shot margins. You tell me

This is actually multitudes worse than anything Amorim produced in 25/26

Attacking talent is just wild. Just Doku, Semenyo, Cherki, Ndiaye, Haaland, Foden, Enzo squaring up teams and blasting games open

Aaron Moniz@amoniz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With the level of talent in their XI now, feel like City can kind of just sleep their way through wins. Type of thing where by October (before fixtures and injuries start to hurt) nobody thinks they’re particularly good and yet they’re 7-2-1 in their first 10

This season is going to be a lot of wondering why United don’t dominate games they have huge talent advantages in, and don’t win matches they should be winning. 3/5 such matches to start the season

If any past United coach with more dogmatic tactical ideals put up this 11v10 there would be think pieces about how that tactical approach should never be used again in the league

Enzo is the most insufferable person in the history of the game. And for no reason, he’s literally good enough at football not to have to be like this

Carrick only lever is open up games, create and concede chances, or close down games, don’t create or concede many chances. Some of the midfield stuff is very cool but other than that… I hope he fixes the gaps man. Embarrassing 11v10

Tielemans off is a mistake. Pretty frustrating