Today is almost exactly five years to the day since David Moyes was dismissed following a wretched defeat to Everton at Goodison Park. In the intervening period, Louis Van Gaal and Jose Mourinho have followed Moyes out of the door, many hundreds of millions of pounds have been spent on transfers and wages on a squad that has become a curious mix of a revolving door and barnacle-like survivors from Ferguson’s last years. No title challenge has been mounted in that period and finishing outside the Top 4 no longer causes shock.
After a brief caretaker bounce under Ole, we are again in a dreadful downward spiral of form and today back to being humiliated by an average Everton team.
Throughout that period, an ex-accountant and investment banker with no background in football has remained in overall charge of the football side of the club despite sustained under-achievement on the pitch and a litany of mistakes.
As to what his “strategy” is for the football club, I have no idea as, apart from the occasional misjudged boast about United’s wealth, he largely conducts media briefings through leaks to the press.
However, no matter what United’s CEO thinks he is trying to achieve and even if his intentions are benign, it is becoming increasingly clear that the root cause of United’s decline goes beyond the identity of the patsy of the month in the dug out. Until the football operations are put in the hands of a competent professional and a better balance is struck between the football and commercial sides of the club, nothing will fundamentally change at United.
After a brief caretaker bounce under Ole, we are again in a dreadful downward spiral of form and today back to being humiliated by an average Everton team.
Throughout that period, an ex-accountant and investment banker with no background in football has remained in overall charge of the football side of the club despite sustained under-achievement on the pitch and a litany of mistakes.
As to what his “strategy” is for the football club, I have no idea as, apart from the occasional misjudged boast about United’s wealth, he largely conducts media briefings through leaks to the press.
However, no matter what United’s CEO thinks he is trying to achieve and even if his intentions are benign, it is becoming increasingly clear that the root cause of United’s decline goes beyond the identity of the patsy of the month in the dug out. Until the football operations are put in the hands of a competent professional and a better balance is struck between the football and commercial sides of the club, nothing will fundamentally change at United.
