by Hoop Blah »
20 Nov 2019 09:22
Old Man Andrews ...In hindsight he did a fantastic job at United with those players to come 2nd in the League.
I disagree to an extent. That side he had was pretty decent and just looks worse in hindsight because of how badly things went wrong once Mourinho and the players copped the hump, the dynamic massively changed and, to be fair, some just got a bit old.
I think De Gea was still awesome that season, and that made quite the difference. Herra and Matic (he'd played a key role in Chelsea winning the league the season before) were both pretty good and gave Pogba a platform to do well too. For all his faults Chris Smalling was a decent centre back and has won the league twice and in Lukaka and Martial he had two players who are capable of, and were, scoring a decent number of goals.
Obviously they were shit the year before, so you have to give him credit for that 2nd place, I'm just not convinced it was that fantastic a job considering the resources they had.