Nicky Butt appointed Nick Cox...
The transfers and scouting started getting much better long before Cox turned up, and the coaches were already starting to be changed around. I don't know what happened with McClair but he didn't seem to be doing a good job at the end. That's quite a long time ago now though. And we still managed to produce Rashford, Pogba, Lingard and McTominay in that time so the coaching can't have been all that bad.
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If you want to believe Nicky Butt was solely responsible for the appointment of Nick Cox, then that’s up to you. The scouting and transfers dealings did change before Cox arrived, mainly to counter the threat of City and its aggressive recruitment due to it moving to its shiny new academy. When Cox arrived he started to make wholesale changes from the get go and is continuing to do so.
If you also think that a player gets into the first team because he has fantastic coaching you’re deluded, I would say it’s more to do with the individuals talent and desire, mixed with a large slice of luck. Also, using Pogba as an example of our fantastic coaching being responsible for his development is bordering on fantasy.