Can we all take a moment to calm down?
The club is rotten to its very core. Until the Glazers are gone it will be a rinse and repeat cycle.
SAF masked the Glazers short comings and in reality they were there for us all to see toward the end. Yes, SAF won the League before bowing out...but it wasn't a squad built for the future. The Glazer rot was already set in.
ETH is doing a fantastic job. The whole squad needs to be revamped and that won't take two seasons, it will take 3-5 seasons including the club being sold and restructured.
Top, top players don't believe in the United "project" because there is no "project" under the Glazer regime!
ETH has been given money, yes, but what top player or top youth player wants to come to be in the battle for top 4 cycle?
ETH has given us some great depth to build upon in the coming seasons. These will be the up and down years akin to when SAF arrived.
If we stick with him, even when the club sales, I think we will make our way back to the top.
ETH signings so far if we look at them for what they are...
Casemiro - Stop Gap, instantly solidified a position we lacked. Mainoo the heir to this position?
Antony - Yes, could be an expensive flop, granted, he doesn't seem to be grasping life in the PL at all, but we haven't got a CF to thrive off his football, Sancho the same tbf.
Eriksen - Another stop gap, did we really want to continue with the McFred pivot??
Martinez - Looked like a world beater last season, coming back after a long injury lay off, trust he will be back to his best, needs a fast CB next to him to compliment - similar to how Rio and Vidic complimented eachother.
Onana - Can we yet agree, even after two games, that it is great to see a commanding, modern day goalkeeper? This could turn out to be a fantastic signing and will get us playing better football.
Mount - This will be a depth signing, somebody to bring off the bench or play in games where Bruno NEEDS a rest, without loosing too much quality.
Hojlund - Prospect, we had/have one, that we cannot talk about, that should have been the future! But this guy looks great, watching our first two games you can see we are crying out for Hojlund to fill the Rashford position and I think it he was involved he would have his first three United goals already.
We have also removed a lot of the deadwood and dress that should have NEVER been signed for United in the first place. I'm sure if we all had our own way the club would have only kept 3-4 players and released the rest, promoted from youth and dove deep into the transfer market.
We need a bit of calm and understanding, back the manager and back the players. We are building something, it will be slow but there are signs it will get there.
You can see already that we have been training our new patterns of play to include a proper CF and Rashford just isn't that.
Amrabat and Pavard, are they real targets? Who knows. But it is similar to last year, two poor first games, back into the market.
I wouldn't be surprised if our XI going forward is
Onana
Pavard
Varane
Martinez
Shaw
Casemiro
Amrabat
Bruno
Antony
Hojlund
Rashford
and fingers crossed, we start to see the ETH vision come through even more!