The blame ultimately has to fall at the door of the owners, it is their role to ensure the club is well run as both a footballing entity as well as a business one and they have failed to do that.
We have hired a manager too small for the job who couldn't attract the kind of players that would drive the club forward, followed by two managers past their prime who invested in players to fit their outdated styles (or philosophies...)
It is beyond embarrassing that we still have players starting games that were at the club during the Fergie years but couldn't get a game then and haven't improved since.
The club have also been absolutely toothless when it has come to getting rid of deadwood at the club. Say what you will about the treatment of Fellaini, but there is no way a player like him who showed no real signs of being good enough for the team should get 177 appearances for the team. It was clear after the Moyes season that he wasn't cut out for it and should have been quickly moved on. Teams like City would have cut their losses and moved on to the next signing.
The wages have also ballooned out of control within the team because we can't offer the prestige of being a top team anymore so there has to be a trade off, and we have gotten into bed with crooks like Raiola far too often.
The club needs to have more footballing men at board level to ensure we have a strategy. And we have to pick a manager with a vision and whether that be Ole, Poch or whomever we need to back that vision and give the manager time.
One problem I can see is that the club's value is astronomical, so the only options for a new ownership is likely to be some kind of oil state with troublesome relationships with human rights.
The club is in a dark dark place right now, but we don't have to look particularly far to see how we can get back into the elite with wise spending and proper strategy. the fact that Spurs got to the CL final without spending a penny should give us hope about our own future.
Spot on, especially about moving on the dead weight. We have a squad full of 'squad players' that would struggle to make it into any other squad in the top half of the PL table.
Liverpool win the CL on Saturday & release 2 player on Tuesday - getting business done on and off the pitch.
Meanwhile at OT - Young, Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Darmian, Bailly, Matic, Lingard, Lukaku, Sanchez, Fred, Rashford, Martial. Would anyone genuinely lament the 'loss' of any of this lot?
Owners care not about football, only the profits they pinch from the club via golden-boy Ed (who negotiated the purchase of the club which didn't cost the Glazers a sing penny let's not forget!).
Board care not about football, only commercial deals.
Manager is possibly out of his depth and will be undermined by the above.
Players care not about the club or the fans. It looks like they don't even enjoy playing football at all. I've seen more will to win in over 40's 5-a-side.
It's rotten from the top down and the bottom up. Dark days ahead with little to no sign of light at the end of the tunnel!