Improvements in results is merely the after effects of replacing our worst player in the starting lineup in Lingard/Andreas with a world class star in Bruno. Him having a bad game and we're reduced back to looking entirely toothless and it says a lot that the best football we've played under Ole was his initial run as the interim manager.
He's ultimately doomed to fail the moment he went back on his words that we will only keep players that want to be here and that players should be playing based on merit.
Unless we win the league / Europa this season, we should be moving on from him in the summer because all he's done is just to bring us back to the standard that Jose brought us initially before Jose started downing tools when he didn't get the players he wanted.
The way you make it sound, management is just a case of bringing in a world class player and everything is set. It doesn't work that way. Ole developed a system and identified the best possible fit for that system which suits the abilities of Bruno down to the ground. If it was anything less than a perfect fit, we'd be nowhere near. That's a credit to Ole, as well as to Bruno for coming in and firing straight away. It's not something that came by chance, and there was a reason why we were linked to him for the best part of 18 months before he arrived.
What players are not being picked on merit, please tell me? Bailly came in and displaced Lindelof in the Leicester game, where the latter was played RB. The fact that he hadn't had a look in until then was because of injury issues and him absolutely shitting the bed v Spurs. Cavani has been involved whenever he's been available. The only player who you could argue needs more of a chance is VdB, and he plays in the same position as one of the very best players in the league and Europe.
Likewise, the only player that he has kept who wanted to go, was Pogba, who is now essentially a squad player and when he does play, is out on the left rather than being the main man. We know he's gone, and that is why we likely bought VdB.
So please tell me, bearing all of the above in mind, where has Ole gone back on his word?