I agree that the transfer policy and other things have impact, but playing a system that clearly does not work in attack and particularly defence match after match has nothing to do with that and comes down to the manager alone, he may not have had the options he wanted but playing kamikaze football without a midfield is just bad management, a good manager would use ALL they players he has to the best possible affect (including youth) not simply stick blindly to a formation and tactic which he does not have the players to execute.
I would say that LVG, Mourinho and even Moyes and Ole could have lasted longer, had more success but this current guy pure shite on a stick, I have never seen such tactical ineptitude from any manager at any club, in my memory, would rather have Jesse Marsch in that baldy-mc-nayclue!
The argument of not keeping sacking managers is very valid, there are other issues to address which will hamper any manager until rectified, but that should not be a reason to now keep ETH, who has broken more records with Utd than anyone since SAF, only problem is they are all negative ones
, fixing the structure problems and keeping ETH will be just another mistake, like fixing a leaking pipe but leaving the dripping tap