The simple answer is to improve the quality all round. What has improved over the last couple of years is the investment in youth players. If we get quality in the can be fruitful, we have seen this with the breakthrough of a few players recently.
As for improving the quality of the manager, if we are not able to invest and sell players well as we havent for some time now it seems.....then how can we judge the manager and say we should get so and so in, as some have already said. I do however not fall in to the group that see Nagelsmann as a "hipster" manager, think he is very special and someone we should keep an eye on over the next season or two as yet to be convonced by Ole, he wants to do things the right way and United way, I admire that but does he have the nouse....still not sure, but he deserves more time
The main thing though we need to vastly improve is the recruitment and selling of players and this is for me where heads should roll.
The last 4/5 years what surprise signings of lesser known players have we made? Bailly and James and to a degree Lindelof......that is pretty much awful. EIther our scouts are doing somethign seriously wrong or our manager or someone else in recruitment is ignoring the advice, that is very poor, I can barely think of another side with such poor recruitment of lesser known players over the last five years in the whole league! I know we changed our policy with going for bigger players a while back and its changing now, well it needs huge improvement. We havent made a good surprise signing of a player over 18 and under 23/24 for a long time.
I also think our policy of going for good young British players though admirable isnt a great one. There are and were obviously several better players we could have signed at centre back than Maguire for similar fees. Many would certainly argue th same for Bissaka, though I personally still remain a fan of his and could have signed 100better players from abroad than Daniel James even for that small fee. Going down this route we are basically over paying on fees and not getting the best talent generally (obviously a different case when it is a player like Sancho). Not only that, just as importantly, we are also giving out bigger salaraies generally to British players as they are already on them compared to abroad which leads on to the next problem
Selling players. Just look at the wages for the likes of Maguire and Henderson, not that we should be, but imagine trying to sell them now if we wanted to.....its a problem hampered us, we are givin gout contract extensions of high wages to players that have done nothing to deserve them Jones, Mata for example. We have a good 10/12 players of deadwood at this club and so far we have only offloaded Sanchez.....for free. The fact is we do have a BIG squad, you have to trim that down if you are to add to it, it is a major problem
Purchasing players: Just about every window the last 5 years we have needed 5/6 quality additions to have a challenging side. If we do 2/3 a season and then during the next season 2/3 players show they are not good enough and also deed replacing....we still need 5/6, we dont progress, 5year plan is bs. WTF are we doing this window, it really is beyond me. We so obviously need a centre back and right winger to improve the first eleven, they are the priorities. Next would be a player to compete and cover for Fernandes and one to do the same for Matic, then it would maybe be a left back or cover/competition for Rashford
What have we done so far....signed VDB, good squad signing that can cover for Fernandes....more though he is cover for Pogba in my opinion....we already have several players for his position, so a good, not great signing in my opinion. Our moves for Sancho appear in the press at least to be embarrasing, is there even a contingency plan or are we going to go back in the last week of the window and offer the fee we coulf have got him for weeks ago, to be turned down as now too late for Dortmund to sell...then sign nobody. There appears no moves for a dm despite lots of great young ones about....we just seem to be moving strongly for a left back....again maybe just a squad improvement rather than a team one....even though as it stands we have four players can play left back for us.
Utter shambles. I get the DOF people want, it isnt even that for me, we just need someone to control a rudderless ship and for me the likes of Judge/Woodward appear to me to be the first that should be accountable and replaced above the owners, who hate them or not and of course though they havent done a good job and are destroying things taking money out of the club.....they have invested in players, that cant be ignored....just very poorly
