I don’t agree. The evidence regarding to football go both ways. Our young players can play, but we lack a lot to really compete.
The most important for me is not the results this season. It’s important that we shake up and start a total transformation. I think we are well on our way.
You see, I know a little about long tail strategy versus short tail strategy.
We don't lack to compete for top 4 according to Ole as he was happy with the squad according to him. We didn't last season and Jose was sacked because of exactly that and we don't lack the players this season, either. Top 4 is the prerequisite for a team like Manchester United. Or if you're being extremely generous and take extenuating circumstances into the matter, at the end would should still have had a decent attempt of getting at least 70 points which would see you a bit short of top 4. Were on course for about 45-50 if not less. Mourinho won the Europa League and got us into the CL so there were few questions asked when he finished 6th. He also won the league cup. Make no mistake, if he finished 6th that season with nothing to show for it, people would have been calling for his head. Okay, I can imagine if we narrowly missed out this season, but we won't be anywhere near top for with Ole in charge. You do realise that he has us in the relegation form since he took over? We're more likely to be in the relegation fight than in a top 4 fight and that's a fact.
You let Herrera, Fellaini, Lukaku go without replacing them, you either believe in this squad to get us to challenge for top 4 or you're an incompetent fool. So which one is it? Oh yeah, so what is it that you see, anyway? We look devoid of any style of play, lack any ideas, our defence looks shit, despite spending 150 million on it in the past 2 years. Our decene actually looks to have regressed when seeing as we can't keep a clean sheet to save our lives. The midfield needed fixing -- that was always the case, even before Herrera and Fellaini left, so I'm not sure how it wasn't an absolute priority?
We went for AWB and Maguire despite having Young, Valencia, Darmian, Shaw, Dalot. Heck even Lindelof, Smalling, Bailly and Jones played at right back when needed. Yeah, we've also had tonne of centre backs options. Now, if we really needed a centre back could we not maybe have scouted a bit and spent within our means? Or looked how well Tuanzebe did last season?
You say it's not about results this season... so what's it about then? There are no results
or performances. We were given a run for our money against two newly promoted teams -- one of whom has a shocking away record. I watched pretty much every game this season, and we looked nothing short of shit. I could understand your point if we were some cohesive unit, who were getting undone by terrible decisions or even luck. No, were just shit. Quite frankly speaking, I've no clue what you're trying to say by that...
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Ole is the most clueless manager Manchester United have had in modern history. Worse than Moyes and that takes some beating. Great player, lovely bloke but totally inept and out of his depth at this level. Should be nowhere near man utd management as shown by irrefutable evidence, namely, his results and our performances since PSG and terrible job he did at Cardiff in the Premiership from which he got them relegated and then the Championship where they were one of the worst teams whilst under Ole's stewardship. Both of his tenures show complete lack of ability to turn things round or do anything remotely to arrest the current situation that were in.
I'm sorry but anyone that thinks that Ole's got this, at this point, has got to be living in bizarro land.
Ahh I'm away to bed.