I will take anyone who, even if 20 years too late, gets us to pass and move off the ball and open up space.
This ‘big switch from left to right to alternate which winger gets to have a go at his full back’ or just general freestyle football will take us nowhere. As proven by it taking us nowhere.
Someone who can instill some synergy to our play, score more team goals that involve a few players, and engineer situations where the scorer doesn’t actually need to be a world class finisher to score a goal (tap ins, more about the work that went before to get the player in that position in the first place).
One thing I am confident of, it doesn’t require billions of pounds spent. It might require that to do it to a level where we win all the trophies. But there are many non-trophy winning teams with less resources than us that manage to play better football than us. The beauty of United should be that we have more resources than these clubs so that we can do what they do to a higher level. However, our excess funds are only being used to attain parity with some of these better organised teams. It is our individuals that are bridging the gap in organisation, rather than separating us.
No point in throwing out names, it could be one of many coaches. This league has shown us many times in recent years that good coaching and organisation is not limited to Pep Guardiola - he is just fortunate to be in a place where elite coaching meets large resources. With us, we have mediocre coaching with large resources, which in a good year lands us a top 4 slot.
