Even when we'd had enough of LVG, Moyes and Mourinho atleast you could see a gameplan even if we didn't like it.
no? jose's gameplan in his last season was to go behind at half time, throw on pogba, mata, and martial, and hope something works out in the 80th minute. before that it was to hope lukaku or rashford score quickly and then sit back and maybe score on the counter. you could see the total lack of a plan in any phase - defence, possession, attack - in some of the games vs bigger teams - city, liverpool, and chelsea.
moyes liked to start with valencia and young spamming crosses, then switching to januzaj and nani trying and failing to do combinations. there was no plan. after getting destroyed bycity and liverpool, he switched it around - start with nani and kagawa and januzaj - and then got smashed by everton.
none of them had any of the mythical "patterns of play" either.
LvG? Ok. There was a plan. didn't work well, and the team itself was poor, but fine.