I think alot of people in an attempt to protect Ole, are throwing the team itself under the bus. This is the team, and a few summer signing's are not going to change that.
I think united fans themselves may well share some of the blame in the post ferguson era.
Fans who did nothing but win, and compete at the highest level, for many years, when things started going horribly wrong, instead of supporting the team properly, started to abuse it.
Read the match thread yesterday, and you'll see comments such as 'Mata can f+ck off' as well as countless others in a similar vein! Supporters who don't actually seem to even like their own players, or have any fondness, or loyalty towards them whatsoever, but just simply want to win (and therefore feel happy). The players can almost literally 'fu*k off' if that condition is not met!
Might well be the reason, the team seems to play so nervously in front of their own fans?
Social media, and sites like this, and youtube, is really not helping IMO.
Tell a child constantly that he's 'sh*it' and he will end up believing you. This is pretty much the same for anyone else, and footballers as well.
The whole negative, and toxic mentality starts with the fans, and bleeds down into the players IMO. It happens right across the board (I watched a very nervy liverpool match the other month in front of their own fans who were moaning and groaning every little mistake) these days, but is worse with united, due to years of inbred entitlement.
I honestly get the feeling that a big problem is that the players themselves do not enjoy playing at old trafford, and in front of their own fans. Afraid of making mistakes, they therefore make them. From there it's a vicious circle, as the groans, and moans from the fans, ensure that they lose all confidence, and make yet more.
Uniteds biggest problem is not ability, but mentality.
This idea that Ole can do no wrong because the players are crap, is ridiculous, and counter productive. Now try stop calling the players crap!