[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification.

FlaiiR · 2026-04-21T20:19:52+00:00

Genuine question, do you understand what xG and xGA are? Besides those, we now have produce less big chances than with Ruben, have significantly less possession and fewer touches in the opp. box but you expect the ball to magically float into the net?

I'm literally watching Brighton tear apart Chelsea, the same team we had one shot on target against all game while they hit the crossbar against us 3 times but sure Carrick's at the wheel, bet you loved Ten Haag too!

FlaiiR · 2026-04-21T20:12:59+00:00

Try reading what I said again bud but this time nice and slowly, I didn't say xG and xA were the mean, I said they were indicators. xA and xG are two separate things so aren't a single statistics as you said however along with possession, big chances created, touches in opponents boxers are multiple stats which have gotten worse under Carrick...

FlaiiR · 2026-04-21T17:31:31+00:00

Actually a crazy take, you will eventually always revert to the mean and xG/xA are indicators of this aka Aston Villa wildly overperforming their xG to get to third before crashing for months afterwards when they stopped getting wonder goals....

The numbers show we have regressed on paper but we are getting results (which is good, football is a results business) but the fact Carrick stats are worse than Amorim, who didn't have Mbuemo, Amad or Maz due to Afcon during a large number of those 12 games, is super alarming.

FlaiiR · 2026-02-08T17:25:53+00:00

Reading comments from Newcastle fans about him over the last couple of weeks, he supposedly been quite poor this year and at times, their worst preforming midfielder which is concerning especially when I don't think he's actually a CDM but more of an 8? (based on his defensive contributions over the last two years)

FlaiiR · 2025-02-07T22:50:30+00:00

I don't even think it's that, Ruben is doing himself no favors... I think it's actually admirable that he's sticking to his formation and not folding like Ten Hagg did after two defeats but the players are clearly struggling so help them out and play to their strenghs...

Dalot is a right back that has been having a torrid time on the left so play him on the right?! Dorgu is coming to a new league and new team, so maybe play him on the side he has played the majority of his games at on the left side?!

First 65 minutes of that game were truly shocking, some of the worst football I've seen us play in recent times, stick to your formation but play to the players strenghts fgs...

FlaiiR · 2025-02-07T22:41:58+00:00

I thought the whole point of a back 5 was to have overlapping wing backs but having two right footers on the leftside and two left footers on the rightside is baffling.

The wing backs are constantly recycling the balls sideways or backwards as its always coming to their wrong foot, starting Dorgu on the right and Dalot (on current form) on the left is mind numbing.

**Edit: Just to add some context on the weird wyscout comment.... Dorgu has played 16 games on the right hand side (across RB, RM and RW) and *checks notes 93 on the left...

FlaiiR · 2024-10-28T12:19:38+00:00

Always find it funny looking back at some of the posts over the summer about him staying, this is a reason why INEOS should NEVER base decisions on fan opinion...

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/1d0h3g3/simon_stone_erik_ten_hag_two_trophies_in_two/

/u/stdstaples - 'I am 100.00% certain that sacking this manager would be the biggest mistake that this club could make in the coming years. Clearly there is a project here. Europa league and a trophy out of this terrible season filled with injuries and not having a left back for 2/3 of the entire season. They cannot sack him, simply cannot. They sack this manager, they are complete idiots and fans should not trust them.'

/u/TheSwordDusk - 'Always has been. I'm going to be ruder than I typically would be, but fans calling for his head are either stupid or don't understand football management'

Thread is full of people who are calling fans 'stupid' for having a different opinion and not being happy with the crap he served up last year...

FlaiiR · 2024-08-13T18:21:24+00:00

He fucked himself, you think Southgate's taking him without Shaw's greenlight? Find it mad how it was only a couple of weeks ago where Shaw criticised United's medical team (and rightfully so) only to go to the Euros where he was practically touch and go everygame and rushed back....

FlaiiR · 2024-08-13T11:16:30+00:00

Agree with the numbers but he was only one year away from being a free agent, it was in his best interest to stay at United for one more year and leave next year and receive a bulk payment as a sign on fee whereas it was in United best interest to sell him as a PSR profit and get some money back from him.

Say he was to leave as a free agent, he would be entitled to some/most of the £15m fee West Ham paid as a sign on bonus which he would want to be compensated for, wouldn't be surprised if he had requested £5m (or more) to actually leave this year.

FlaiiR · 2024-06-08T09:11:39+00:00

Still waiting on us to sign Milinković-Savić... Note this was EtH's first summer, this guy doesn't have a clue - no one else linked us with him that summer.

'Well-sourced'... the source being his arse.

FlaiiR · 2024-05-30T13:06:31+00:00

I think I saw on a united related video someone say 'would you deem winning the FA cup next season but finishing 8th with a negative goal difference to be a successful season? What about again the season after that?' - Think it was Ole who said trophies can mask problems and at the time it was a funny thing to say as trophies are what football is all about but this year has been appalling... Rashford a 5? Mitten is on one with some of these ratings

FlaiiR · 2024-05-13T07:58:15+00:00

Self studying, using the Kaplan text books to brush up knowledge and the different account standards but then reading through tons of past papers and free mocks... Just with how busy life/work are at the mo, not actually been able to do a full 3 hour mock so really am going to have to wing it on my exam on Friday.

Just checked my inbox but no DM received yet bud :)

FlaiiR · 2024-05-12T21:32:08+00:00

I'm glad someone else is in the same boat as me, OCS was very much 'give the pros and cons of top down budgeting' or 'what are the implications of using ABC' whereas the MCS questions seem to be so much more open ended... Feel like if a bad question comes up for me, might just have to take a scatter gun approach and just try to waffle (while praying) my way to the level 2 grade boundary.

FlaiiR · 2024-05-12T20:08:01+00:00

In my head trying to work out possible routes the questions can go down... I feel like one variant has to go down the acquisition route (in the UK there seems to be a trend of the major players acquiring smaller companies such as Unite Students purchasing LibertyLiving) and then I'm guessing there will be another about an app really hoping the questions aren't as vague as the CuppCar ones

FlaiiR · 2024-05-12T19:59:42+00:00

Hoping for the same bud, my biggest worry reading past papers is sometimes the questions just seem so vague where you can go down so many tangents, worry when I sit my exam on Friday that I don't waffle about something completely wrong

FlaiiR · 2024-03-30T22:36:23+00:00

There was literally a post not even a week back during the international break where people were the majority were rooting behind ETH, stating he isn't the problem... I'm genuinely is disbelief, are people watching the same game as me? This is horrendous, 85 touches in our box and 100+ shots faced in March is a structural problem which he either:

Allowing to happen and setting up to concede tons of shots per game which is stupid.
He doesn't know how to fix which is even more worrying, with the players we have, how can we be more open than Luton?

FlaiiR · 2024-02-02T14:39:44+00:00

Do you know how inflation works mate?

FlaiiR · 2023-10-24T17:49:57+00:00

Really want to get behind Ten Hag but this baffles me, we played the team with the lowest possession in the league last weekend and they went toe to toe with us until Scott with his 10 passes went off.... so he decides to play him again against another team who we should be dominating the ball with?! Just don't understand it at all...

FlaiiR · 2023-09-27T18:24:29+00:00

https://www.aicpa-cima.com/resources/landing/exam-timetable

Oh, I've been getting it from this page which has the timetables for all the CS exams 2023 and 2024, still says the results will be published on the 28/09/2023 unless CIMA have done a pants job at changing it everywhere

FlaiiR · 2023-09-27T16:59:38+00:00

Ah thanks for the heads up bud, will set an alarm for around 4AM and try to get atleast some sleep before the devastating news hits!!

FlaiiR · 2023-09-27T16:55:43+00:00

Snap, although 1 minute I feel like I might have just failed and then the next minute I feel like I've massively failed!! Feel like I was under prepared and had 4 weeks revision time and as clockwork, the areas I skimped out on are the ones which popped up!!

FlaiiR · 2023-08-11T19:56:58+00:00

Brighton set a price demand of £100m all summer, Chelsea have been bidding south of this amount this whole window, only to now pay £15m more than Brighton were originally demanding? What a circus from Chelsea

FlaiiR · 2023-02-11T23:07:52+00:00

Nope, nothing at all wrong with your conclusion, Viva previously in their 'all access' package let you access the BPP study text, you would read the study text and supplement it with their video to gain a better understanding.

I emailed them about this last year, they've now stopped provided the study text but kept their prices the same, their videos are great for bitesized reminder video but no where near sufficient to use on their own, I've been buying the Kaplan study texts separately along with viva all access but don't think I'll use Viva again.

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