But ‘these players’ haven’t failed under multiple managers. You don’t have to throw out the baby with the bath water whenever you sack a manager.
Ten Hags first choice 11 includes Rashford, Bruno, Shaw, Dalot and Varane. The rest are his players.
The rest aren’t good enough to start week in week out for United, you could argue, and they look shocking collectively when we have a lot of injuries. The problem is we all know this and yet the system we play doesn’t allow us to at least play to some of their strengths so they just look shit and it makes our good players look shit also. I’m not excusing the application but no matter how much running Rashford does, it won’t make McTomminay a better passer, or Martial’s knees start working.
I’d love 12 new players to come in but we also have to be careful with just exiling and clearing out players because we can end up in a worse position, as we’re finding out now with Ten Hags recruitments.
I mean there's at least 6 players that have been around for 3 or 4 managers now. For a start, the majority of those need to go. On top of that, the likes of Maguire and AWB need to go. That's already a fair few, and there's others too that I would be reticent to keep.
Obviously we can't just annexe a whole squad in one go, nor am I advocating that. The new man will have to work with what he's left with, but over time, yeah I would be binning the majority of these off.
I asked earlier; has there been an instance in modern times where a club was successful with a squad full of random players that were handpicked by random managers? Leicester City. That's probably it. It's just not sustainable unless it's a well run club with a sporting structure who picks players and managers from a specific blueprint.
That doesn't mean that Ole, Jose or ETH shouldn't have played better football with the players at their disposal, but that's the thing, a properly run club wouldn't have picked a plethora of random managers with no commonalities and let them handpick random players that cost hundreds of millions. This isn't excusing ETH whatsoever, but the reality is, we haven't been run in a manner where we'll be successful for a long time now. That also needs to change.