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Originally Posted by utd99
As worried as we were when Fergie retired, I don’t think it ever entered my mind that we could make this much of a pigs ear of things; that we could have been reduced to such a laughing stock in five short years.
Couldn’t even bring myself to watch tbh.
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Yep, I’ve been genuinely shocked at what a £#%&! up we’ve made of it. We’ve said it a million times but Fergie operated a dated autocratic system in which he was largely in total control. He allowed and supported a system of reduced investment in players and oversaw a scouting structure that failed to keep pace with our challengers.
The club then allowed him and that shithouse Gill to leave at the same time with appallingly inadequate replacements who inherited and took over a structure that was no longer fit for purpose and really only fit for one man. Informed owners would have addressed this long before Fergie retired.
Everyone who has followed has been shit but also massively disadvantaged by that.
The problem was born in 2005 - it was allowed to germinate because of Fergie and when his powers started to fall away, we were left with a bag of shite.
Oh, and we’ve signed some horrific players since he left.