Yeah exactly. I don't think Carrick, McKenna etc bring much to the table.
Have you seen what McKenna has done across youth levels? At those levels, it's almost entirely about the coaching - as that's when you're developing players and drilling them and educating them about the game, tactics etc. You don't achieve all he did at youth levels without knowing how to coach.
Note also that Carrick and Kieran were brought in by Jose - who does know a fair bit about coaching himself.
The coaching isn’t good enough, at any level.
Ummm... what? Which levels are these that you speak of?
The dichotomy is stark for us. Set aside the last game against Spurs and we have had an exceptionally good record under Ole against top teams - and none of those wins was a "fluke" or "smash and grab". In each, we looked superbly drilled and players knew exactly what to do. A lot of this I think has to do with depth and how players are pushed. It's not a conscious thing for most, but knowing that if you under-perform, there's someone just waiting to take your spot is something that is critical to sustaining top-end performance. It's something United's squad has lacked since Fergie. Look at us even now:
Center-back: Our options are Maguire and Lindelof ahead of perma-crocks Jones, Rojo, Axel and Bailly with an 18 year-old Mengi as the final alternative. Where's the pressure? It would take a long series of continued disasters before Maguire could expect to be dropped.
Right-back: Options behind AWB? TFM? Laird? Laird may be our great hope - but hasn't even debuted yet. And even a clearly jaded or even shattered AWB is therefore playing as the alternative is the "not quite good enough even at his best" TFM.
Left-back: We saw the immediate improvement in Shaw one Brandon had a good run of games.
Central mid:
No option to substitute Matic; McTominay lacks the passing and vision; Fred lacks the consistency
Pogba and who? Only Bruno offers the range of passing Pogba is expected to provide / can provide when ar*ed
Bruno - VDB is an alternative of some sort; so our best position in this case is where we have a player we least need to push
Forwards:
Right wing: So devoid of options we're playing Mason (a CF) here; would anyone prefer Mata, James or Lingard over even an off-colour Mason?
CF: Martial and...? Ighalo? Now we have Cavani of course, but this is a guy that's barely played in a year and a half!
LW: Rashford and...? James maybe? Or else we're looking at Tony on the LW...
We lack the quality of players that can push the first choice 11 - and we don't have (barring Bruno) the kind of player that will push his team-mates and boll*ck them when required to ensure that standards are always maintained. We've lacked those players since Fergie left (ok, technically since Moyes actually, but I like to forget about that season). So what we see now is a team that is occasionally brilliant - but wildly inconsistent as standards are just not maintained at all times. I am sure Ole knows what it takes as he lived through that - but he alone and the coaches alone - can't fix it. The squad is nowhere close to what it should be to challenge and that doesn't just come from individual skills or having a decent core of 14-16 players that can be relied upon (We don't even have that of course).