Well, i commend you for trying to get through to people on this forum. People just love to complain one way or another. No patience, no foresight, no acknowledgment of what is being done that will benefit us later down the line. J
ust petulant ,emotional children.
As you've pointed out, what is being done in the background, to the culture, and for the foundation of the team is stabilizing and very important for us to use as springboard moving forward. Everyone and their dog saw that the club has been run terrible the last 4/5 years which left was with the juxtaposition of a terrible ,rotten squad and a bloated wage bill/ astronomical transfer spending. Yet somehow, people actually believe we can fix these issues in half a year.
There has been a clear shift in strategy on multiple levels, and imo it's for the better. We are not giving out ridiculous wages to mercenaries,
we are not yielding to ridiculously high transfer fees (
or at least trying to negotiate the best deals we can, which will hopefully stop the 30% premiums that come with player prices when the name man utd is mentioned) and we are targeting players with a particular type of character, which will eventually lead to the correct environment in the dressing room. The squad is clearly not deep enough, while also being young to the point that the team can be infuriatingly inconsistent.
We have lost our two best players for significant periods of the season, along with various other 1 month+ injuries to other important members of the squad. We have played games non-stop because
we have only just exited our first competition (although you wouldn't have thought so reading peoples' comments here). You'd think our own fans would give the team a break given all these factors, but it doesn't seem like it.
To put it into context, if you list the players that have departed since ole came to my past self he would have been over the moon. We should have obviously bought an extra attacking player or two in the summer but I don't for a second believe ole was happy with the inability of Woodward of getting them, so he's had to make due. But I'll choose to be an optimist and say that missing out on 2nd choice forwards last summer might give us the opportunity to
sign premium ones this upcoming summer (Here comes a flood of replies telling me how no player would ever sign to a terrible team like Man Utd...
)