No two players can ever be the problem(s). It's clear that post Fergie none of our players have looked capable of reaching their full potential on a consistent basis.
We could have had prime Scholes and Ronaldo instead of Fernandes and Rashford yesterday and very little would have changed.
We've binned off all the "problem" players from the last 6/7 years. Lukaku, Sanchez, Pogba, Lingard, Martial etc and the same issues keep cropping up. I'm not having that this is solely down to Rashford and Fernandes.
In the pub yesterday, someone went ballistic at the screen when Garnacho went off instead of Rashford but did Garnacho do enough to stay on? But then, how long before this clearly talented player is also a problem.
And, even if Rashford/Bruno were sold in the summer, who are we bringing in? Rashford's good/great seasons are on another planet to every other winger we've had post Fergie. Its clear that there's no guaranteed success. If you were a promising young attacking player, why would you come to OT?
In the last 10 years, we've done the:
Academy/young player route - Januzaj, Elanga, Pellestri, Amad, Garnacho
We've gone down the route of signing talented players with good potential for big is money - Martial, Depay, Mkhitaryan, Antony, Sancho
We've also had the supposedly World class players in their prime lads in - Di Maria, Sanchez
That's just the wide players. You could also throw in the likes of Pogba and Mata who for all their obvious talent never "clicked" often enough.
The vast majority of the players mentioned above were complete failures. But at what point though, does it stop being the players that are the problems.
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