A multitude of reasons. For me, the most important one is down to us, so as fans we ought to take a look in the mirror as well. Due to this ridiculous motive of wanting to keep hold of the Man United DNA and not be like Chelsea and City, we’ve backed all our managers since Fergie far too long. There were genuinely people who thought and still think Moyes needed time to get his players in and win titles, when in reality, we’d now have Coleman at RB, Fellaini at AM and Baines and Phil Neville as the assistant managers. LvG had the worst Christmas period I’ve ever seen in over a decade supporting United to date, and Mourinho still has a following now, even though the dressing room might well have burnt down had he stayed a week longer. With Ole, I simply don’t see how any of us can back him anymore, although I was silly enough to do so until Villa. What has the plan been for the past 3 years? It’s clear that his team talks hardly go beyond asking players to express themselves and how the Stretty sucks the ball in. Not a dig at the Stretty who support the team endlessly, but the vacuum has really been malfunctioning since early 2020!
Realistically, Moyes should never have been hired, LvG should have been sacked in December 2015, Mourinho in March 2018 after “Football Heritage” and Ole after the first debacle against Spurs last season. It’s what Chelsea and City would have done for continuous improvement, and it’s why they’ve won so much while all we’ve done is fight amongst ourselves since Fergie left.
Then you have reasons like club legends being horribly taken advantage of by the Glazers. You can see from their faces that when the likes of Rio and Gary blindly back Ole, they feel a bit dumb doing so, hence why these usually coherent pundits stutter and contradict themselves far more when talking about their mate. They’re inadvertently playing right into the hands of the admittedly clever cowards running the club, and many fans including me until recently, have been influenced like sheep by the words of these legends. I’ve given Gary a bit of grief on Twitter over the past few days, which I’m not proud of whether he reads my tweets or not, but felt it had to be done as he is helping the Glazers lower standards. Scholes has finally had enough, hence his outburst after the Atalanta game.
The attitude of the managers themselves, aside from Mourinho to an extent as he was simply disrespectful, have been shambolic as well. You’d expect Moyes to say rubbish like ‘we aspire to be like City’, but winners like LvG and Ole have suddenly turned into losers managing us. I’ve never seen two managers try to lower expectations as much as these two. I get irritated every time I hear Ole mention how it’s a crisis every time we lose a game. That’s because we’re the biggest club in the world. If he can’t handle that, then he has to resign. The thing about Conte and Zidane is that they’ve managed at massive clubs and won big things as well (former has referred to himself as a serial winner in public before), so they won’t be resorting to nonsense like this.
Then, you have the Glazers. Smart businessmen, yes, but utter cowards and losers, who are only interested in the top 4 and not trophies. Ole has to go, but the Glazers have to go even more. I’d take 5 more years of Ole to be rid of them.