We were in dire need of improvement in terms of personnel. We have depth now. We have some fantastic young players and some promising signings, and overall we have a better attitude throughout.
We might not be ready to win the PL but in my eyes he’s successfully steered us in the right direction. What would not be a success, would be keeping him too long and letting it all go to shit before levelling up.
We have depth but thats not something we can give credit or blame Ole for, having depth or not is on the board. Also the argument on us having depth is pretty debatable, we dont have any natural right winger in the team, in defence besides Tuanzabe who is a gamble and must prove he can stay injury free we dont really have any depth for the CB position. In midfield we have numbers but not enough quality it seems, Matic, Fred, McTominay are all ok players. Squad level players but none can claim theyre actually god enough to nail their place in the starting XI.
In attack we added Cavani and hopefully he can be a good back up to Martial and we have VdB that can cover for Bruno but what about Rashford? if he gets injured who is his back up? James? thats pretty good damn poor. While we're not in a depth crisis I dont think we could say we have a solid squad.
About having fantastic young players, we have always had fantastic promising players of course the jewel of the crown right now is Greenwood but appart from him I dont think we can name others that are truly special that we can be more excited than usual, and again its not something we can give credit or blame Ole for.
Promising signings I dont know about that, every player when first arrives seems like the next big thing but as time passes they seem to regress, AWB, Maguire, James, heck even Bruno looked way better when they first arrived. Regarding VdB, Pellestri, Diallo and Cavani is way too early to tell.
Regarding a better attitude I agree with you, despite the awful form, performances and results the attitude in the squad is not toxic, which I dont know if its a good or a bad thing. I mean having the toxicity we had under the last days of Mourinho was awful but I dont think having a happy squad with the current results is healthy either. It seems our squad is not worried about it, they dont feel preassure and that comes from the manager. I expect any ambicious team with our current results having internal problems, players mad at each other, its only normal when some players feel others are not contributing as they should. I expected some more moments like Bruno yelling and fighting with Lindelof, but different from that everyone in the squad seems, if not happy, at least ok about it.
Yeah after each game we hear the same "its not good enough, we are Manchester United" bullshit repeated over and over. I think this has to do with Ole, the fact that he has so many extra points in fans eyes because of his past and legend status as a player eases the preassure on him and is allowing mediocrity in to the team.
I dont know about you but I felt way closer to big titles after Mourinho's second season when we finished 2nd than at this point, I think all the "caretaker manager which will build the bases on which the next manager will actually win trophies" argument is pure bullshit just to ease preassure on the fact that Ole wont win shit. I dont think a club of the greatness like Manchester United can give itself the luxury of having a "transition" manager for over 2 years.