Poch only makes sense if you genuinely believe Ole isn't good enough to get top 4 at United. But he's already got 3rd with a young, injury decimated squad last season.
Since the end of the January window we've been easily better than anyone barring City or Liverpool who we have pretty much matched.
You don't need to be an expert to see that the lack of preseason is behind the poor start to this season. All the teams who played in the EL tournament were well off their usual standards.
Now that we've had another couple of weeks fitness you can already see the quality returning. They dominated Newcastle and could have scored 6 or 7.
I know the window was disappointing and the Spurs games will have made a lot of people lose perspective but there's absolutely no reason to be panicking about top 4 right now. Despite the board cheaping out this summer we've still managed to improve our options in each line of the pitch. Compare Saturday to the same fixture last season and tell me we're not in a much better place. And that was without Martial, Greenwood and Cavani.
https://www.premierleague.com/match/46680
This time last year we were a poor side, awful to watch and struggling to create any chances. These days we are free scoring, enjoyable to watch and before the preseason mess we were quite solid defensively too. It's a mistake let a tiny sample size of games under unusual circumstances distract you from that.