As said, top managers can easily handle a high staff turnover. Sir Alex brought 11 players in two years (1988-1989) at a time when squads were way smaller then they are now. However that meant being flexible and have a good sense of who is ready to step up and who is not. Ole genuinely believed that the kids were ready + he couldn't provide with an alternative for Longstaff. Yes, Longstaff.......let that sink in. We're paying the price for that.
I don't blame Ole of everything quite the contrary. I actually think he's yet another example of our real problem ie an board that is clueless in football. You don't bring in someone who couldn't handle Cardiff to manage United, that's silly. Having said that, if we don't accept his share of responsibility then we're as deluded as he is and Jeez the guy is A Class deluded. I never heard someone in such shit being so positive about it. The guy would probably whistle in front of the execution squad.
I don't necessarily disagree with you regarding the board, but I'm not good at manager picking either, I mean, I voted Zidane for replacing Mou ffs. The only name I've gotten right as a good manager since Sir Alex retired was Klopp.
Just for sake of argument: Sir Alex bought 11 players between 1988-89, yet finished 12th and 13th.
As for Longstaff, personally I think he was our second option. But neither were coming. I don't mind a manager betting on what he knows and wants, he will after all be judged on that. I also don't mind him not doing what Mourinho did as he plainly admitted: he didn't want Fred but given he was available let's just do it. If the manager is not getting a player he sees as improving us, no point in just buying crap.
I agree that as a club and under several managers now it is shocking given our need for a quality defensive midfielder that we haven't identified a whole list of players that can fit that role in what, maybe 10 years now? Because we have needed one ever since Carrick slowed down.
As for the media outings, Ole is going to be Ole, he is not going to rock the boat in public. He most certainly is not going to come out in public and say: I wanted 6 players this summer, I only got 3. Pitting himself against the board in public but having to work with them behind the scenes.
I get it though, you don't believe Ole is good enough, and I'm fine with that. Doesn't change the fact that the squad needs to be overhauled and plucking the weeds out wether done by Ole or another is not something I will criticise.