He picks them so he is responsible for them
It's true if it only happens under Ole. But it happened under Mourinho, a strict manager and under Ole, a more friendly manager. Also by that logic Ed pick Ole so he's responsible for Ole, and Glazer pick Ed (and keep) so all responsibility should be on the Glazer?
What I am trying to say is, you can't put in the same performance as Lingard, or Lindelof, or a lot of our other players at a club like Real or Barcelona. But until this year there is almost nobody in the stadium, or in the media, criticize them, so it seems our "culture" allows that to continue. Lingard has been doing feck all for who knows how long, but there is still a big fan base that maintains the opinion he is "hard-working". In my opinion, the same can be said about Lindelof, Shaw, Mata, Martial, etc. I didn't include Pogba since he already got too much abuse from the media and our legends.
The last time our players were coached was during LVG's tenure. After that, it's been one poor coach and staff to another. These players are obviously not the best, or anywhere near, but a top quality manager and coaching team would have got a lot more out of them than Mourinho and Ole's crews have.
They've shown, in small portions, that they can pull big wins out of the hat or go on winning streaks. A better manager manipulates and forges whatever he can and uses it as foundation from which he builds. That's why progressive managers should be sought at all costs.
Mourinho is not a poor coach, as evidenced in our result under him, and the result of every single team under him before us. But after there is an issue between the manager and the player, the manager got sacked and players get out scot-free, some even get a new contract. It is happening right now again under Ole.
My point is, our fan need to be more "vocal" to the laziness and hiding from our player, otherwise, the manager, whether it's Ole or anyone else will have no help, as he surely got no help from our board. What if we got Klopp or Pep, who is famous for forcing their player to try super hard both in work rate and follow instructions, and our players just didn't like it?
What we need is talented players that tries hard, but with the current situation, it seems we can only have talented players that do not care or try-harding player without talent. Why try to win if you can just turn up, look "busy" and collect a paycheck every week?