Hate to repeat myself but personally i dont give a feck about top 4 nonsense if its not 1st. Progression, something when season ends, we can look at it and say "yea i can see where this leads and i cant fecking wait", sorry but if those in charge dont betray the vision, we have to build ourselfs back up to the top.
My stance will never change, when it comes to goals, 5th plus FA cup > 4th any day of the week, i understand winning regardless of how is important but for some reason it doesnt do us any good in a long run, maybe its time to have wins as a result of our performances on the pitch.
We tried to fix our issues with throwing money away, didnt work. We tried to have one of biggest winners at the helm, winning spite of performances and things happening on the pitch, didnt work. We didnt learn from it, so we tried same shit under Ole, where performances were sacrificed the moment top 4 was at our reach and how that went at the end? We tried to hop from one manager to another, with almost no similarities between them, it didnt work. So can we for the love of God at least once try and let the DNA of this football club dictates the paths we gonna take into the future.
When it comes to youngsters, often you can read "not good enough" line in here, not good enough for who exactly? Did some of you just woke up from 6 years coma or what. It was never a question about youngsters being good enough or not, they are not worse than some seniors we have, on top of it as a bonus, they are on lower wages and they have potential maybe just maybe to be improved and shaped into proper United players. Also, when people try to defend a team selection, they throw "they are not ready" line, please, do you see what some of those experienced heads are doing during a game!? If kids are not ready in your mind just because of their age, what to say about some older ones, they are ready but shit?
All above i am talking from our perspective, in our current situation not in general. So top 4, why it seems so important.
For owners like Glazers and Kroenke, guess its money related. For United fans, some say it is, so we could attract world class players, sure but did you check our transfer dealings with CL and no CL on the table (post SAF)? I mean, its actually funny to go through those names we signed. Also, if i am not wrong, we managed to have CL back to back only once, ONCE. We shout about demanding players to actually wanna play for us and be here, while in the same time we use money and CL as a main lure. Maybe people just wanna watch us in CL, year in year out regardless of positive or negative impact on our future, something like Arsenal, get in CL, reach knockout, get your ass whooped by proper top tier team, same shit next year, how many back to back to back year will they be now in EL? 3? Damn, they really built on one 2nd and those 3rd and 4th spots in last 10 plus years.