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4 hours ago, FreshOwl said:

I don’t buy into this theory it’s all the Glazers fault. Yes strategically they can be a lot better and the internal appointments of bankers ahead of football people is baffling, but for me the bulk lies with the majority of this team, who downed tools over a year ago when I was rinsing them on this forum back in 2020

 

But you can’t hide from the fact they’ve spent more than any other club, and initially most of their fans were happy with the signings 

 

Varane

Sancho

Ronaldo

Bruno

 

Their fans creamed over them 4 above. They were happy with Maguire at the time who was in form at Leicester and England’s first choice CB. Luke Shaw was one of the best full backs in the world a year or so ago. 
 

They’ve now added a 5”8 CB whose gonna be put on the ropes by physical teams for most of the season 

 

I said before the season started that they’d be lucky to finish in the top half and I seriously meant that 

It’s these owners who have presided over god knows how many managers in the last 10 years. Who failed to a put a Fergie succession plan in place, who have failed to formulate a strategy for how the squad will be enhanced. They have basically looked at Man City and done the opposite whilst milking the club for millions. 
 

They are the absolute heart of the club’s malaise. 

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Imo success follows when you pick a good manager and give them the keys 

 

Too many short term fixes at Man Utd since Fergie went 

 

Moyes- Job was too big for him, alarm bells should have been ringing when he made Fellani one of his first signings 


Van Gaal and Mourinho never stick around for long 

 

Ole was massively out of his depth, and only got the job because the players decided to start playing again after downing tools under Mourinho 


 

 

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You can tell that the manager is already panicking.

 

Yesterday, he played Eriksen as a holding midfielder and pushed Fred into a more advanced attacking role.

 

Once managers start making changes like that, you've got to worry for them.

 

He also hauled off his new CB signing after 45 minutes. 

 

This is two games in and already the manager is looking like a man who is just realising what a mess he's walked into.

 

 

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Manchester United being relegated is fantasy land stuff that I’m in no way suggesting will actually happen.

 

But the ingredients are there.

 

They have a goalkeeper who doesn’t look like he knows where he is, then doesn’t like what he sees when he figures it out. There’s no shape. No rigidity. No obvious plan. No fight. Slow in possession. Scared in possession. A captain who looks lost. Star players who want out. Other star players who look like they can’t work out whether they want out or not. No leadership. No character. 

 

It’s a story we’ve all heard before and if this was a club like Leeds or Brighton (or yesterdays opponents Brentford) people would already be tipping them to drop. Manchester United will no doubt get out of any serious trouble but it’s difficult to see how on current evidence. 

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It’s pretty funny that Man United, the club that was at the forefront of the financialisation of football, are now suffering from the fact that the Glazers who bought them off the publicly traded  stock market are happy to wait it out in the states until what? Relegation ? You wonder if they will cash their chips in at some point and sell 

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