On 22 January 2020 we lost 2-0 at home to Burnley. We followed that up with a 0-0 at home to Wolves. We are really not very good no matter how we have done in the past 3 games. I don’t see us getting 4th or even 5th. It’s called realism.
Could we get relegated? | United officially now safe from relegation for 2019/20 season
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Right, but at least nobody expects us to get relegated, anymore, this season. Very unlikely to finish outside top 10. And yet getting relegated was very real possibility based on the results when this thread was open, back in October.
Progress?
Bruno coming in and Fred suddenly becoming a top midfielder, are two things I think made the biggest difference. On smaller scale, Matic starting to play decently also helped the shambolic midfield we had. And of course, Rashy carried us on goals, until he got injured
The real question is, when we get relegated are we good enough to come straight back up? Answer to that one is probably scarier than the original.
This shambles hasn't been bumped for a few months. Random highlights above
And the good news is that Bournemouth, in 18th, have amassed 27 points from 31 games, have the potential to reach 48, if they win their remaining fixtures.
As we have 49, the great news is that we are now safe from relegation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apart from a touch of humour, the other reason for sharing this is to show how very different 'mathematically safe' is to 'not going to be relegated'.
And how many clueless idiots there are here - some of the comments made in this thread are really unbelievable
@Lynty great bump. 
Don't jinx it ffs
There's 21 points to play for and we're 22 points outside the relegation zone, I think we've bought ourselves another season.
oh damn I didn't think of that, maybe we should bring in Big Sam just in case.
I chuckled when I read this. Particularly the bolded part.
Thanks
This thread!Tbf, you were mostly talking about next season
Great thread. Next season might be our year under Ole.
Jesus Christ.
Absolutely. I wasn’t confident of us fighting for 4th/3rd at that time, but I’m sure I did say not a chance of even a relegation battle. Also, we seem to have sorted out most of your concerns in that post now, wouldn’t you say?
Hindsight is easy isn't it though? I have been ardently Ole in throughout but I still genuinely think we were an injury to Rashford away from being close to the relegation zone.
Rashford turned on godmode and started absolutely carrying us and then we got Bruno. Avoiding relegation was my biggest hope at that time because our squad was (and still is in some ways) paper thin
Who would have predicted Fred would suddenly become a proper player or that Brandon Williams would be the revelation he was? Pogbas injury made things look REALLY bleak.
But we came through it and hopefully the only way is up now.
Honestly, if I was this wrong consistently I’d just ban myself from the forum and consider my life choices
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Oh for sure. My attitude at the time (as dark as it was) was that this was INCREDIBLY ballsy by Ole - bringing in a load of youth players, relying on a 17 year old kid in greenwood, and so on, and that if we survived the league we'd just make another 3 signings next summer either with Ole or without. Turns out that we are slowly getting coached into something better than the sum of all the mediocre footballers we ever saw under Jose or LVGAbsolutely. I wasn’t confident of us fighting for 4th/3rd at that time, but I’m sure I did say not a chance of even a relegation battle. Also, we seem to have sorted out most of your concerns in that post now, wouldn’t you say?
Don't take it too hard mate, just playing around. If i'm being perfectly honest, I done a cheeky little search on my name to see if I'd posted anything controversial
I knew relegation was an impossibility with the firepower we had. But I did have a wobble in trusting Ole around the Bournemouth game
Yeah, he said as much last August about gambling a little to bring the kids in to the fold. One thing looks clear though, our manager recognizes good players, which cannot be said for the other two in their time here.
Exactly. People forget the position we were in December and early Jan. We were playing crap football, not looking like scoring a goal even if we played for another 2 hours Vs Burnley.
We were reliant on Rashford in every game, we couldn't get past Wolves and had to bring Rashford on and he got injured if anyone remembers?
At that time, we were messing around in getting Bruno, conceding silly goals. A goal went in, confidence dropped, teams sat back and we had 0 shots on target.
We were right to criticise, like we are right to praise what is going on right now. I believed in Ole in terms of if he had the players, but playing Lingard CAM / RW and Perreira was getting us nowhere.
Yup, I was worried at the time.
. Here is your prediction for top 6:
We all post silly thingsDon't take it too hard mate, just playing around. If i'm being perfectly honest, I done a cheeky little search on my name to see if I'd posted anything controversial
I knew relegation was an impossibility with the firepower we had. But I did have a wobble in trusting Ole around the Bournemouth game
. Here is your prediction for top 6:You guys have forgotten how bad we were.
Yup, I was worried at the time.
We all post silly things
*runs away before my posts are brought up*
Yup, I was worried at the time.
We all post silly things
It's a forum, ciritism and discussion is what we are here for.
Tbf I thought this would be arsenals season, and never thought Liverpool would sustain their record with such a mediocre midfield
...just got to find the light side of all this.
Damn you got meYup, I was worried at the time.
We all post silly things
Tbf I thought this would be arsenals season, and never thought Liverpool would sustain their record with such a mediocre midfield
Ha! This thread aged well.
Please quote the whole thing.
This was in October... do I need to remind you the stats in October?
The reason why we have had a resurgence is Bruno - scoring goals. A team that cannot create will have problems. We are now creating.
Did you want me to have a genie hat on and predict we will sign Bruno in Jan?
Thank god for the thread title update, I was honestly getting worried!
Now this is the outside the box thinking we need.
Pass it to Maguire and boot it up to Ighalo.
We'll get those 40 points we need with a few games to spare.
If we can't get relegated on the same day Liverpool win the League to take all the media attention away from them I don't want to get relegated, so there.
Bruno didn't save us from relegation. He gave us the lift to get top 4. Your missing a whole load of league positions between the two.
It's perfectly fine to be wrong. I'm wrong often, as seen in my top 6 prediction.
I don't think that would work out the way you think it would. Them winning the league and us getting relegated on the same day, the Scousers would just cream themselves.
Wowee
To the surprise of no one, the squad is and was always the problem. Coupled with massive injuries and development trajectories over the season for key players: That we are better now with a full strength squad and Bruno Fernandes is not entirely unpredictable.
What is more surprising to me is that De Gea is supposedly "done" after keeping 7 clean sheets in his 8 last Premier League matches.
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