You cannot expect to be higher in the league with the standard of players we have.
Lingard, Jones, Young, Valencia, Fred are nowhere near good enough
Then there’s the inconsistency of the players we do have that are good enough - Pogba, Martial, Rashford, now De Gea
That’s a scary combination. We really do need a lot of money spending on a lot of new players - this idea that you can’t ship out seven players and sign seven better ones due to upsetting squad harmony or something is what will leave us light years behind City, Liverpool and the rest of Europe.
Also much as Ole had an incredible run, why did we make him permanent on the back of two defeats, going out of the cup and handing new contracts to the likes of Phil Jones? The momentum had clearly gone. That’s one win in five now. We didn’t need to make him permanent until the summer, he was desperate for the job, why not wait to see where we finished?