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Originally Posted by Charlestown Rouge
Plenty of realism from hardened cardigan wearers - plenty of whom are match goers and have hated the football, the negativity and the transfer money blown away. The issue has always been give him a proper length of time to see if he can improve season after season and the jury will be out soon. Same rules would apply to a new coach I hope.
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This.
I think there's a huge underestimation of the mess United were in when LvG arrived, not just on the pitch or the over-bloated squad, but the way everything is done. You can't just fix it just like that. Most of the pro-Mouers went into this season expecting a title charge and a run in the CL without at any point taking into account the slow progress/change of the previous 2 seasons and the glaring squad issues, and are judging him based on that arbitrary expectation whilst dismissing any mitigating factors as his fault or to be expected.
Yeah he's made mistakes, and I've been quicker to criticise him on a lot that's most (Welbeck, Kagawa, Falcao, Di Maria, 3-5-2, Fellaini, Mata etc..) I've given him shit the same way I gave Fergie shit for some of his decisions, but I maintain he's been pushing the club uphill the whole time. There's a good chance it all starts to flatten out next season imo, and considering the shit he's had to put up with so far (some of his own making).