Not the best comparison you’ve made there. Three of those players joined a team in the Champions League, a team that we’re progressing and managed by one of top managers in Europe. See the difference?.
And yet he still joined, despite a 'nobody' manager. Kind of defeats our own argument.
So now you are changing the goal post? I guess Leicester will attract Sancho and the liked next season because they are a progressing team in CL and managed by a decent manager?
We heard similar excuses made for Moyes and Van Gaal and it turned out that we only had a reverse gear. Can you think of many examples (without mentioning you know who) of a worsening of results for a sustained period followed by a new dawn? I generally see new managers at ambitious clubs either achieving noticeable improvements in a short space of time (recent example include Rodgers, Conte and Ancelotti) or getting the boot.
Of course we’ll do exactly that. We’re never pro active anymore with decisions
No idea what saying about Sancho and Leicester, just pointing out Maguire has gone backwards, I doubt he was sold that.
Liverpool, City all had weak seasons prior to building something.
Pep and Klopp did not have worse results than us while they were in charge.
Why does it have to be us?
Can anyone post Ed's quotes, please.
On your logic, Leicester should be able to attract Sancho? he would see Leicester a better project than United cause they are improving, have CL next season?
Were you not saying that Pep and Klopp had worse results than us?
Thanks, mate. It looks like Ed is expecting us to finish in top 4, taking into account the vast amounts spent since Ole's arrival. If we finish outside of CL places, we will have a new manager come summer imho.
Can't be real. Talking about no shortage in investments sounds like we are not going to go big this summer either
. I totally agree with you that without CL football we will struggle to sign players. This is why the next few months are important.
I do believe that our average net spent is limited at around 100 million quid a year. I doubt we will buy more than 2 proven and established players if there are no major departures.Can't be real. Talking about no shortage in investments sounds like we are not going to go big this summer either
Probably true, but would he talk towards that way already.
Sounds like he might keep Ole with little investment and hope it magically works.
That sounds very depressing. A good manager could do a lot with little, but not sure we will get one.
We are in for a serious storm and I doubt we have a proper captain and crew to navigate through it. We are reaching new lows after SAF's departure. What a time to be alive... for noisy neighbours and scousers.
I would argue that we are not a club which wants to move forward (at the financial cost it would takes).
This is blatantly untrue. There have been periods where we had everyone available and we looked awful.
It’s not just the Champions League football, it’s the manager, Woodward, how team has performed this season, how we’ve performed last 7 in comparison to every other one.
I think we still got a decent core around in a thin squad, but I fear it will be destroyed soon.
To be in the title hunt most years.
We are Manchester United. If the bar for the PL title is going to be raised to 100 points by our rivals, the expectations are to create a side able to gain 101 points by the end of the season.
We should only expect the occasional blip, the occassional transition year. Even then a transitional year should probably be a 4th place finish.
Yep, this total myth needs to die, fast. Basically since we got knocked out to Barca last season, after fluking it against PSG, the football has been largely awful regardless of who’s been on the pitch. The side that lost 0-2 to Cardiff on the final day, had Pogba playing as well most of the rest of our key players.
And yet our record against the top teams is very good this season. Ole must himself be a good coach to do well against the top coaches with such a thin squad.
A bit of a late reply to this post of mine, but lets be fair here, Lukaku was not a flop, he did well for Jose's purpose for him, and Ole just didn't fancy him, and so for a while became an east target for fans, but I think he's had the last laugh so far..
It's also annoying because the team, even with injuries, should be performing better than it is. The caf is always an extreme place to find opinions but what we actually see on the pitch really hasn't been good enough both when Ole had a full squad and when he hasn't.
Problem is, with Ole as manager expectations are lowered.
Most of the Ole Out folks cant see what the management team are doing. People who have done change management or even build companies/operations from scratch will see it. It inevitably never works out in a straight line despite all the best planning.
I really don't get this. If you give him credit for bringing in Maguire, AWB and James (three transfers that cumulatively rank a 6/10, IMO), then he also deserves blame for not properly replacing Lukaku and Sanchez (some seem to feel that getting rid of those two is some great victory in and of itself.) Furthermore, if he's getting the transfer credit, he also then bears the responsibility for us not bringing Bruno, or any other attacking mid, in over the summer, thereby leaving us with the likes of Pereira and Lingard playing regularly.
