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I don't particularly think it's a bad thing. This is Manchester United. We should aim to get better every year, every day... Sir Alex Ferguson would want such a mentality coming from our players also. We bash Real Madrid fans for booing their own players, even a legend like CR7. Yet I think that's exactly what keeps Real Madrid players on their toes.People will bash every single aspect of our team and every single player until we are winning the league title and then they will proceed to bash every single aspect of our team and every single player until we win it again after that.
Our state today, if you think about it, comes from the year 2009 when we let Ronaldo and Tevez departed, without bringing in proper replacement. We should have been fuming with ourselves and gotten a greater hunger to succeed in the Champions League next season after losing to Barca. Yet we were content with ourselves, hence we only brought in Valencia and Owen to replace Ronaldo and Tevez. We still did okay, but to me that was the true moment when we stopped aiming for higher goals and just grew content with the present. That's the cause of where we are today.
Back to the main point, I think our defence leaves a lot to be desired. You can point out stats. Yet whenever the opponents got a set-piece, I was always on my edge. I never got the type of confidence I had in our defence like with Rio-Vidic. Our defense is quite good, but still lacks consistency just like our striker (Yes, I'm looking at you Martial!).
The only players whom I felt deliver enough consistency this season are only Wan-Bissaka and Fred. Maguire is not in that list of being consistent yet, at least to me.