So what you're saying is, you think that a non footballing person made a footballing decision by not taking the advice of an actual footballing person?
How could you possibly know that things wouldn't have been better without Ronaldo? I love the guy, but he didn't fit the style Ralf tried to implement in his short time here, you'd think the people who hired the footballing guy would listen to his input on footballing matters.
It points to what I've been saying since the end of the season, there is absolutely no long term plan in place, making reactionary decisions rather than proactive ones.
What if Ten Hag says he thinks Rashford should be sold? But the board say no? He's going to be hamstrung by a decision of a suit because they don't want any more hassle from fans? Sounds like things have changed indeed.
Multi billion pound organisation being run by a bunch of clowns.
I agree with nearly everything you say especially no long term plan but I think Ralph record of 37 points from a potential 72 points as Manager lost him any high ground, it’s clear he fell out with Ronaldo and he fell out with Rashford, Martial, Pogba and Lingard as well. He had Sancho, Cavani and Greenwood from mid November to January, a wealth of options when Cavani was unfit and Greenwood unavailable, he made it difficult for himself to go back to players that he had upset previously. The weird thing is had we these options this season with the 5 sub rule, I genuinely believe we would have been able to rely less on Ronaldo. I still think this is the main reason we were second the season before was because of the 5 sub rule, we didn’t blow teams away we just won a lot of close games by making attacking substitutes.
My point every thing you say is true but the truly Elite Managers are able to control the dressing room, the egos of the biggest players and to a lesser extent or indirectly the Director of Football and the board because if he’s successful and the club has not had success for a long time, he simply threatens to walk if he doesn’t get his own way, like Pep or Klopp would. We’ve only seen a small glimpse of this at united when Jose won the two trophies in his first season and In his second he was talking up the league and demanding players, Woodward for one season was purring like a Cheshire Cat!
I’m hoping ETH wins the Europa or an Fa cup because right now that will give him the currency with the clowns called the Glaziers to build a mid term plan of 3/4 years and that’s the best we can hope for.
Who writes this shit.