Ive 2 things to back up my two pence worth.
1. Ive watched United for nearly 50yrs now.
2. Im paid in my job to observe, find patterns in things and sort them out. Put those two things together and im Mystic ferkin Meg! :-)
I can tell you now, were better than we have been in the last 4 yeaes but this is still a false dawn. Call it a semi-false dawn if you like, but we are nowhere near the finished article just yet to compete on a regular basis.
We have the spine of the team to build on now, De Gea, Bailley, Matic, Pogba, Lukaku, but the rest of the squad is like a water filled ballon with a hole in it. You can plug it up with your finger but the minute you do another hole will appear.
We will definitely finish top 4, were good enough to do that, but we wont win anything this year because were not good enough to beat City for the Prem, Real/PSG/Barca for the CL. We might have a cup run but if we met Spurs/Chelsea/City in the final i think we would lose.
Were close, just 2 or 3 better players than we have now in key areas and we'd be good to go. But until we start winning against teams like Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, City etc we will be what we are, a top 4 team at best but.not winners.
So technically its a false dawn but will happliy eat my own shite sandwich if proved wrong.