Solskjaer's legacy and his future

Mr PG

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Ole left us a broken club. It was during his reign we made the worst investments ever. 80M for Maguire, 50m for AWB, 35m/DVB, 20m for Amad and 10m for Pellistri and 350k/wk for a goalkeeper have all left the club on it's knees financially. It's insane we actually offered Pogba 300k/ wk for a new contract. Maguire, AWB and DVB have little to no resale value especially on current salaries and are contributing next to nothing. Also if we sold Pogba earlier he wouldn't have walked away for free. Yes we had about 4 yrs to decide if he was good enough to persist with. Never underestimate the potential damage from offering an Ocean-liner like United to an unqualified Captain.

Mourinho as well was guilty for 75m for Lukaku and 89m for Pogba but at least Lukaku was re-sold for similar amount.
 

Zen86

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Ole left us a broken club. It was during his reign we made the worst investments ever. 80M for Maguire, 50m for AWB, 35m/DVB, 20m for Amad and 10m for Pellistri and 350k/wk for a goalkeeper have all left the club on it's knees financially. It's insane we actually offered Pogba 300k/ wk for a new contract. Maguire, AWB and DVB have little to no resale value especially on current salaries and are contributing next to nothing. Also if we sold Pogba earlier he wouldn't have walked away for free. Yes we had about 4 yrs to decide if he was good enough to persist with. Never underestimate the potential damage from offering an Ocean-liner like United to an unqualified Captain.

Mourinho as well was guilty for 75m for Lukaku and 89m for Pogba but at least Lukaku was re-sold for similar amount.
Oh don't be so melodramatic. If we were a "broken club", the blame is squarely at Woodward's door. It's his complete scattergun approach to transfers and managerial/staff appointments that brought us to the very pits. The deterioration started the minute he took the reins and continued until the day he left.
 

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Ole left us a broken club. It was during his reign we made the worst investments ever. 80M for Maguire, 50m for AWB, 35m/DVB, 20m for Amad and 10m for Pellistri and 350k/wk for a goalkeeper have all left the club on it's knees financially. It's insane we actually offered Pogba 300k/ wk for a new contract. Maguire, AWB and DVB have little to no resale value especially on current salaries and are contributing next to nothing. Also if we sold Pogba earlier he wouldn't have walked away for free. Yes we had about 4 yrs to decide if he was good enough to persist with. Never underestimate the potential damage from offering an Ocean-liner like United to an unqualified Captain.

Mourinho as well was guilty for 75m for Lukaku and 89m for Pogba but at least Lukaku was re-sold for similar amount.
Yup, was a 3-year shit-show.
 

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Ole left us a broken club. It was during his reign we made the worst investments ever. 80M for Maguire, 50m for AWB, 35m/DVB, 20m for Amad and 10m for Pellistri and 350k/wk for a goalkeeper have all left the club on it's knees financially. It's insane we actually offered Pogba 300k/ wk for a new contract. Maguire, AWB and DVB have little to no resale value especially on current salaries and are contributing next to nothing. Also if we sold Pogba earlier he wouldn't have walked away for free. Yes we had about 4 yrs to decide if he was good enough to persist with. Never underestimate the potential damage from offering an Ocean-liner like United to an unqualified Captain.

Mourinho as well was guilty for 75m for Lukaku and 89m for Pogba but at least Lukaku was re-sold for similar amount.
The worst part of all was all our players stagnating under him. Fat load of good even if we had world class players in the squad, he wasted 3 years of their careers and all of them will never recover from that.