sugar_kane
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The last six seasons have been pretty bleak as a whole, but there have been some high points (as well as lots of lows)
Here's how I'd rank them from best to worst:
1. 2016/17
Highs
2. 2014/15
Highs
3. 2015/16
Highs
The reason I look back on it fondly is the FA Cup win which was great in almost all respects, Mata bringing us back in the game and Jesse getting the winner and wiping that smug grin off Pardew's face (the dancing prick...)
Rashford and Martial also gave us a lot of great memories that season.
The fact that this season is 3 out of 6 in this list probably says everything about how shite things have been since Fergie left.
4. 2017/18
Highs
The first half of the season was decent from memory, albeit we continued to play cowardly against the top teams and should have decimated a Liverpool team in a very poor spell but instead parked the bus.
It all went to shit when we signed Sanchez and Jose started publicly squabbling with Pogba who suddenly turned to shit having been our best player for 18 months.
While our league position was good, we were way behind 1st and all the signs suggested a complete meltdown the following season.
5. 2018/19
Highs
Other than that though it's been an unmitigated disaster and a confirmation that our club needs to get it's shit together, which I don't have much hope it will any time soon.
6. 2013/14
Highs
Too many to list really, but the main ones are:
Here's to 2019/20
Here's how I'd rank them from best to worst:
1. 2016/17
Highs
- Hiring a world class manager after two failed experiments
- Signing Pogba and Zlatan
- Winning the Europa League (first time ever) and guaranteeing CL football
- Winning the EFL Cup with Zlatan in beast mode
- Mourinho's handling of Rooney
- Return of attacking football, ish.
- Getting hammered by Chelsea
- Mourinho's treatment of Shaw, Martial and Mkhitaryan
- Zlatan getting injured
2. 2014/15
Highs
- Signing Shaw, Herrera, Di Maria and Blind
- The excitement of getting LVG post World Cup
- Juanfield (inc. Gerrard getting sent off)
- Liverpool's general averageness after nearly winning the league
- Getting CL football again
- The March/April run against Liverpool, City and Spurs
- A clear commitment to promoting youth
- The terrible start to the season (despite the often aired view that we were good until the Leicester game, we were shite in our first ten games getting 13 points)
- MK Dons
- LVG's treatment of Di Maria and Van Persie
- Most of our promoted youth players being shite
3. 2015/16
Highs
- Rashford bursting onto the scene, especially the Arsenal game
- Martial and his debut goal
- signing what at the time seemed a very exciting group of players in Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin and Depay
- Winning our first proper trophy post-Fergie (and one we'd not won for a while)
- The semi-final against Everton and Martial's last minute winner
- Getting completely outclassed by Liverpool in the Europa League
- Awful, boring football that got worse and worse as the season went on
- Inability to get a shot on target in most games
- The creeping sense that LVG was probably just a mad man
- LVG selling a load of players who could have proved useful for us in the years to come and were experienced PL winners who got the club
The reason I look back on it fondly is the FA Cup win which was great in almost all respects, Mata bringing us back in the game and Jesse getting the winner and wiping that smug grin off Pardew's face (the dancing prick...)
Rashford and Martial also gave us a lot of great memories that season.
The fact that this season is 3 out of 6 in this list probably says everything about how shite things have been since Fergie left.
4. 2017/18
Highs
- Our best league finish and points tally since Fergie, and one of our best points tallies overall in the Premier League era
- Coming back to beat City at the Etihad and ruining their title celebrations
- Getting to the FA Cup Final and outclassing Spurs in the Semi
- Liverpool falling at the final hurdle in the CL
- The Sanchez signing and resulting fall out
- The two legs against Sevilla and Jose's meltdown
- Jose falling out with Pogba and dropping him for Fellaini
- The 2nd half of the season in general
- our performance in the FA Cup final
- City absolutely dominating the league and breaking every record going
The first half of the season was decent from memory, albeit we continued to play cowardly against the top teams and should have decimated a Liverpool team in a very poor spell but instead parked the bus.
It all went to shit when we signed Sanchez and Jose started publicly squabbling with Pogba who suddenly turned to shit having been our best player for 18 months.
While our league position was good, we were way behind 1st and all the signs suggested a complete meltdown the following season.
5. 2018/19
Highs
- Ole's initial run and the feel good factor around the club
- Us breaking the record of best ever start of a manager and most away wins in a row
- The Miracle in Paris
- Dismantling some fairly decent sides under Ole
- McTominay starting to look like a decent player
- Disastrous transfer window
- Jose clearly losing the plot on the pre-season tour
- The entire first half of the season
- Jose losing the dressing room and most of our players turning to shit
- The disastrous run from Ole getting the job full time
- Liverpool winning the Champions League
- Clear confirmation of our club being terribly run
- Awful kit - in itself not an issue but it was just insult to injury that we couldn't even get the colours of the kit right
Other than that though it's been an unmitigated disaster and a confirmation that our club needs to get it's shit together, which I don't have much hope it will any time soon.
6. 2013/14
Highs
- Evra's wonder goal vs. Bayern
- Adnan Januzaj, especially his goals against Sunderland
- Signing Juan Mata was exciting for a bit even if it was clearly not what we needed
- I seem to recall Kagawa/Mata having a few decent games together
- The brief excitement of seeing Giggs manage the club
- er... we had a nice kit?
Too many to list really, but the main ones are:
- Breaking every negative record going
- Our transfer window, and resultant signing of Fellaini
- The game of a thousand crosses
- Olympiakos first leg
- Being the laughing stock of the country almost every week
- Seeing the club you loved completely collapsing in a rapid amount of time
- The dawning realisation our squad was mostly shit and Fergie was a miracle worker
- Listening to David Moyes and his miserable, defeatist shit every week
Here's to 2019/20
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