While I understand that the thread title is gimmicky in nature, this is indeed a serious thread. We are going to undergo a period of change. A major one at that which covers our squad, our manager, the structure upstairs and hopefully, our recruitment process. Unless you're living under a rock, you would've realized that any Manchester United news sells. Unnamed sources will become more active, agents will be using our name to get their players new contracts/other offers and a tsunami-like wave of transfer rumors will begin. And this is where it becomes problematic. While rumors have always been a part of the silly season, we are starting to reach a point where the discussion over those rumors leads to judgments being made whether a coach is a fraud or a genius. Whether we're going to slide further down the table or are going to win every tournament we play in.
There will be signings and there will be opinions formed over it. But we need to be focused on the fact that we're a team which will have finished in 6th-8th position. Erik Ten Hag, if he replicates his Ajax style, will have a challenge which is worse than starting from scratch. He will have a squad which is used to being outplayed. Some players would be obvious picks for him but some squad members would also let him down. We have hit such a low point right now that all we can hope for next season is improvement. That improvement may or may not be displayed through results on the pitch. A corollary could also happen like under Ole where we had false positives which lured us into a sense of optimism only to be kicked in the nuts.
Either way, the longer we stay away from the pitch, the more mental mathematicians and armchair pundits build us up and how we will definitely be back. Last years transfer business when observed on paper had us bringing in proven players with massive hype and this years business could generate a similar media response in a positive or negative way. On paper, all years where we signed Di Maria, Schmidfield, Zlatan, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Sanchez, Varane, Ronaldo, Sancho etc had been considered successful windows.
Hence, for the sake of our own mental sanity and world peace, let us all pledge that there will be no over-excitement, extreme reactions and especially, description of their state of arousal with respect to transfer signings or rumors.
There will be signings and there will be opinions formed over it. But we need to be focused on the fact that we're a team which will have finished in 6th-8th position. Erik Ten Hag, if he replicates his Ajax style, will have a challenge which is worse than starting from scratch. He will have a squad which is used to being outplayed. Some players would be obvious picks for him but some squad members would also let him down. We have hit such a low point right now that all we can hope for next season is improvement. That improvement may or may not be displayed through results on the pitch. A corollary could also happen like under Ole where we had false positives which lured us into a sense of optimism only to be kicked in the nuts.
Either way, the longer we stay away from the pitch, the more mental mathematicians and armchair pundits build us up and how we will definitely be back. Last years transfer business when observed on paper had us bringing in proven players with massive hype and this years business could generate a similar media response in a positive or negative way. On paper, all years where we signed Di Maria, Schmidfield, Zlatan, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Sanchez, Varane, Ronaldo, Sancho etc had been considered successful windows.
Hence, for the sake of our own mental sanity and world peace, let us all pledge that there will be no over-excitement, extreme reactions and especially, description of their state of arousal with respect to transfer signings or rumors.
