Not in the post I quoted you didn’t. You said we didn’t have a massive squad. And in that case the manager shouldn’t have been so naive last year burning our players out going for every cup last year instead of building the team and squad and then going for it. I said it last year and this year with all these injuries people keep bringing up just reinforces that.
If we don’t have a strong squad , who can the manager bring in to replace important players? Having bodies doesng make your squad strong.
Liverpool and City generally are there and there abouts for league or CL most seasons. They can afford to take league and fa cup less seriously. United don’t have that luxury as we have never been near our top honors targets so have to take the lessor cups more serious.
That aside, top managers don’t regularly rotate their teams unless they absolutely have to. Even Pep whinges about player fatigue and he has the strongest squad to pick from in the world.
When he took over
He did not join a settled club or squad, we had a terrible season the summer he joined,
Serious Player issues:
Ronaldo , Sancho , Anthony , Greenwood
Club issues:
Club sale has unsettled things for ETH entire tenure. Will new owners want him as manager ? Will they take a different approach and sell certain players ? anybody in team must be wondering about manager or club future. Will things be better or worse? It’s like the opposite of Newcastle where everything at the club must be so positive.
World Cup in between season
Granted this affected all clubs, but we had the World Cup the same season as we had a gruelling season. Liverpool were already wrecked after a similar season to us without the World Cup
Striker issue
Lost his best striker whose ego tried to derail everything and was eventually offered a cheap option. He got weghorst but clearly funds weren’t there to do much better
Club signs an injured young striker and nobody else. Greenwood was to be our other option but that fell apart too late to rectfy
Defender issues - New GK
At the best of times it can be tough for new keepers to settle in, particularly at united. But the season we sign a new keeper , the entire defence is injured for prolonged periods of time. The keeper seldom has a settled defence on front of him.
I can’t think of anything else that could actually go wrong for ETH , he’s been at the club 18 months , not several years!! I can’t see how all these things can be brushed away as things everybody just has to deal with Because you won’t find a top club with comparable issues all at once.