One thing I will say is that Rangnick has managed to alienate some players that we thought were decent going into the season. Despite the poor results at the start of the season, I thought our midfield and Maguire were what actually looked weaker to start the season. Ole never had Rashford or Shaw being this alienated or playing badly. In addition, he hasn't been able to get a tune out of Bruno, Ronaldo, Pogba or anyone. AWB is a complete afterthought, his reputation has taken a hit despite not getting nearly as much game time. Same thing goes for Shaw. Most of which has been based more on ideas Rangnick has or has had prior to his arrival at United. Noone believed Dalot was anywhere near AWB or that Telles was anywhere near Shaw. Yet now we can't seem to get a decent performance from anyone.
I just feel its way too easy to group all the players together and say its them as a unit. We let the Pogba saga run too long, we kept too many of our deadwoods sitting on the bench, we overpaid too many unproven players, but we were not what we are now. This is LVG second season bad and Rangnick has to take a lot of blame for that. All of a sudden our fans want to slice and dice a squad that people thought might challenge for the league this season. I also blame the media for this too. After certain games, the issues we have on the pitch are discussed. The midfield being terrible and not up to par to even beat some mid table teams is discussed. However, when it comes time to talk about what we need or how the club needs to move forward, this is hardly ever presented. It's always a more grandiose project that needs to occur like the Glazers leaving or the club as a whole being rotten, when in reality our problems on the pitch are actually where all the angst stems from. Most decent teams in world football have at least 3 players that can operate deep in midfield; meaning they can find spaces to receive the ball from deep and move it to more dangerous areas of the pitch. Chelsea have 3, City have about 5, Liverpool have 3. We don't have any outside of an aging Matic. To make matters worse, we don't have a midfielder with the positional sense to help us sustain pressure in the opposition half and avoid counter attacks. Again, most decent teams have 2. Almost all premier league teams have one, we don't even have a bad one. We don't have a player who can play as a defensive midfielder or deepest midfielder at a premier league level on our team. Add that to the fact that our full backs are not great at carrying the ball, it means our ball progression is static and our attackers are often left isolated or crowded out, having to make spectacular passes or have spectacular touches to create magic. Yet we lump all our players into the same category or worst of all blame our attacking players ( who are more popular) for our issues.
) so the decks can be cleared.