Aaron Moniz

I'm not a huge believer in mid-season sackings unless: a) highly coveted coach becomes available mid-season, b) team is untenably underperforming. Neither is true. Amorim will be coach unless/until this is a bottom half team or United sign better players (midfielders especially) but don't get better

Yep. I also just think that... all coaches are prone to odd decisions/selections. It's part of being a coach. It just looks worse when you're choosing between bad players

United are like the 7-8th best team in the PL with the 7-8th best squad and sit 6th. 4 pts off 2nd, 10 clear of 18th. By most bottom line metrics (expected/actual GD and Pts) they are projected +15-20 pts and +6-10 league positions on last year. I don't get the hate. The team is fine. Change my view

McTom Hojlund Dorgu in one game. Crazy

Striker on pace to score 40 vs defence on pace to concede 20 like a statistical experiment except it’s the actual Premier League season

Leafs won big tonight while everyone was distracted 😭

Honestly I went from actively disliking baseball a few weeks ago to being mesmerized for like 3 hours tonight, and the team I was rooting for lost. What an outstanding game

2 of the most dangerous players in the league last season not featuring

Not gonna overreact but Cunha is literally peak Pogba and Martial in one player

Not gonna gloryhunt baseball, however,,,

🍁

Fly to Toronto.

Wow that actually sucks. Pool and the Mariners losing is great though

The things that are very funny to you are actually sources of pain for me (shoutout Toronto FC winning MLS though)

Sacrificed your best goat for a Mariners win, I know your game

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Maybe – actually haven’t thought about it enough because I’ve been so focused on the defensive stuff. In the aggregate United are a bottom 5 side in the league from SPs

I’m not sure Amorim will last long enough at United to prove me right that he’s at least competent tactically in open play – the culture is too toxic, the club doesn’t recruit players properly, and the set pieces are bad – but I see my role as gathering evidence and outputting what it suggests

I don’t post much anymore for many reasons, but IMO we’re hitting a level on the podcast we’ve never hit before. We disagree in many ways with most of the public United discourse and big voices in the space ab Amorim. I think if you’re interested in my work / United you should tune in

Glad you enjoyed!

Btw I don’t think GA-PSxG is a fraud stat but I do think:
a) the commonly sourced public models are worse than the ones from lockdown (Statsbomb data unavailable now)
b) the sample size needs to be huuuuuuuge

Did you see him make like 5 saves from Messi last week? I was in the stands cheering like a madman

The Beatles 12 is Abbey Road, end of conversation, pack it in

The general consensus is that this is the 7th/8th best squad, with a bottom 5 midfield, and the evidence so far this season is that they are… probably the 7th/8th best team in the league.

So for United’s board… you chose to keep Amorim last summer… why would you choose to sack him now?

Hear me out:
– United have played 3 of last year’s T4 so far
– They have 10 points from 7
– They will sit ~10th on Monday
– Their xGD is a bit skewed, but they will sit roughly 5th/6th on xGD

After they play Liverpool next week, they have a run of 13 matches with no T4 opposition (1/2)

Didn’t have a chance to submit my Top 10 this year, but you should really tap into SCOUTED if you haven’t yet. Substantive, high-effort, knowledgeable football coverage is not easy to come by on the internet these days

We all finally stopped taking the bait with Sunderland signing under-the-radar young talent from other leagues to try and survive the PL, only for them to get over 30% of the points they need in their first 6 games

Had an ice pack on in the stands

The real deadline day win

Very true actually. Originally my main reason for saying it was that Frank just hasn’t done yet in the Premier League what they’ll need to do consistently to really be a Top 6 side again, so I’m interested to see what he comes up with

Said to a buddy of mine who supports them this week: I want to see what happens when the time comes to be proactive and outplay teams that are good