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Hard to say until we see the business that happens in the summer. But we'll have to really spend well and get rid of the crap for me to expect much more than a very underwhelming battle for top 4.
That’s the spirit.Till we appoint a DOF who is competent. Its pointless to care
You’re a proper tit aren’t you? What do you expect OGS to say? “They’re all shite, we need to sign 25 new players”?After these comments, I'm expecting nothing to change at all. Survival of the fittest... don't make me laugh!Tweet
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How much longer are we expected to put up with these players? It's a joke now.
6th place finish gtd without Pogba & De Gea.
I just say how i see it. If we're planning on keeping the same old group of players together with the same structure in place, then i struggle to see how we are going to be successful, when we are now struggling to keep the only two top players we have even got.You’re a proper tit aren’t you? What do you expect OGS to say? “They’re all shite, we need to sign 25 new players”?
Clearly he knows that this summer will be probably 5-6 players out, and 4-5 in. Max. So he has to continue to get the best out of the remaining 20. Instilling the right culture takes time and won’t happen overnight. But making everyone believe that they are playing for their future, only seems sensible. No one should ever be complacent at Manchester United.
Fact is, when OGS came in we suddenly started running more and pressing more. We started steamrolling teams and playing with real verve. Then all the soft tissue injuries set in. A result of little proper fitness work under Mourinho in pre-season. In getting over that injury crisis, it is clear the team has had to preserve their legs and not run as much. We just have to keep players fit until the end of the season. There was a clear correlation there. Results and performances obviously declined; but all that matters right now is grinding out results to the end of the season.
OGS will have a proper pre-season to get all the necessary fitness work in. It’s vital to the way he wants us to play. I think after the incredible work he’s done to salvage anything from our season, he be given the benefit of the doubt.
This club has no divine right to win trophies. It takes hard work, investment, planning, and....luck. People hold Liverpool up as a role model, but forget they are talking about a club that was regularly finishing outside the CL places 2-3 years ago; and people were calling Klopp a fraud. A club that hasn’t won the league in nearly 30 years.
Football is cyclical to a certain degree, and our time will come again. I think far too much is being made of our decline. It’s a rough period, yes, but we’ll be back. I am quite certain the people running the club are a whole lot more competent than the fans believe. Football is one of those things where everyone is an expert from the comfort of their armchair. And hindsight is the number one tool of analysis.
There is so much vitriol from fans about transfer activity; but the fact is, the club has been a kings ransom since Fergie retired, and many of those signings were lauded by fans at the time. I’m talking players like Mata, Di Maria, Ibrahimovich, Mkhitaryan, Falcao, Pogba, Lukaku, Shaw, Matic, Alexis. Players fans went bananas over when we signed them. But now most of them didn’t succeed, the same fans are deriding our transfer policy.
My biggest gripe is that there is a clear lack of strategic intent in hiring managers. No continuity in playing style, meaning that each managerial change requires an expensive and disruptive retooling of the squad. To combat this, the club has to have a clear identity of how they play. The “Manchester United Way”. People thrown that phrase around all the time, but can anyone actually provide a definition of what that means? I guarantee that’s the biggest problem.
There is a huge fallacy that Ferguson left a playing style identity. He didn’t. The Manchester United Way, was the Ferguson way. And he evolved multiple times over the years. When he walked out the door, so did a huge part of our identity. So what script is it that Woodward is exactly reading from? I mean, haters are going to tear him down, fair enough, but what master plan is he exactly deviating from? What grand plan was left behind for him? There isn’t one, I’ll tell you that.
He (Woodward) has simply funded his managers to the hilt. The club has invested generously. But the lack of a clear vision as to what the identity of the club is, is what is hurting us. Appointing OGS and Phelan, and getting a sporting director in like VDS, are the moves needed to put us on a path to success. And that is going to take time. In the interim there is a massive culture of negativity around the club, much of which is emanating from the younger sections of the fan base. Fans who are spoiled on success, and seem permanently poised to turn on players, managers, staff etc. It’s sad. Success has turned some fans into miserable brats. This place increasingly reads like RAWK. Just bitter and nonsensical, repeating the same tired tropes about clueless leadership, and incompetent chairman. All the while having zero clue as to the enormity of revitalising and modernising a massive institution built around the intellectual capital of one legendary man, in the most competitive domestic era of all time.
Could win the EL thoughAfter listening ole its 4th-6th place and a new manager by February
Thanks, quite the compliment there, especially as I never said anything like that.Ok you know more than the manager
I share the same thought, I think people are starting to realize the issues at our clubs are structural rather than simply down to manager or players. Recruitment has been a major issues, but ask yourself who takes accountability for poor buys? Is it the manager, or scouts, or Woodward, or board as a whole? One common denominator on whom the blame has fallen is the manager, and we are now on our 4th one. Who is to say, that won't be the case for Ole as well?Till we appoint a DOF who is competent. Its pointless to care
I hope he’s given a few years. We are all out of ideas now anyway as far as managers go. We’ve tried domestic, youth friendly and superstar manager and nothing has worked. Ole sits somewhere in the middle of that. It’s the players we need to upgrade, we still lack quality even though we’ve spent shit loads on proven players. Get the next wave of superstars in here. The profile of Félix Deligt Sancho but before they absolutely break out and cost the world. Give them games. We’ve missed our chance once a really outstanding talent has the big Spanish clubs interested.We will finish somewhere around 6th and Solskjaer will be sacked
80 points.What are the realistic chances of a significant upturn in fortunes both in terms of results and performances? Are there particular factors that will determine this outcome?
In particular how much will depend on
a full-scale overhaul of the current squad and recruitment of new talent based on a strategy that has a clear purpose? In other words not the piecemeal and directionless approach we have become accustomed to these last few years. Perhaps most crucial of all how likely is this to happen?
Not that it matters much but I'm keeping my own expectations thoroughly in check.
This.Can't say till I see our transfer business in summer.