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Can Manchester United get any worse?
"The presumption is that they’ve bottomed out. That, having missed out on the Champions League and discovered the full extent of their recruiting inefficiencies, United will blunder towards sensible reform almost by default.
Will they, though? At the time of writing, there remains no progress on the sporting director front, other than to say that Rio Ferdinand’s candidacy is still being taken seriously. On the pitch, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s ethereal brand of coaching is guiding a side not fit for purpose, full of wavering focus and riddled with imperfection. And, with each passing day, Solskjaer himself moves closer to his tearful goodbye, to the Di Matteo departure which his receding tactical credibility surely renders only a matter of time. The transfer market opening teases the possibility of a quantum leap up the table, but most likely it will just be a continuation of the same – the process by which the club have loaded their squad with under-invested, over-paid players who are just about alluring enough to keep the sponsors paying, but not actually good enough to alter the trend. Can it get worse? Absolutely. Maybe that’s what United need, too. While sixth place provides a Europa League spot and the illusion of hope, a further drop would demand a more nuclear response, in which the entire football department is detonated and rebuilt. As it is – and has been the case for some time – the prevailing internal mentality seems to be that, with enough commercial revenue flowing in and with enough Ferguson DNA on the training pitches, the club will just glide back to the game’s summit on the thermals of their past. It’s not much of a strategy and, you suspect, until United have been properly humbled there won’t really be one." . |
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No illusions tbh. It’s the first time I’ve come to familiarise with the new reality that we probably aren’t winning the league again any time soon. |
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What a load of insane %@#$&!s. Nobody knows who will come in and who will go and how the team will be set up and perform. £#%&! me he came in when we were shocking and gave us a lift - give the bloke a break and a chance to set us right before deciding the ship's holed below the waterline.
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