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Let's hope he gets fired mid season. Only way to avoid a very difficult summer for us.
I’d be more worried about us losing Poch to Madrid rather than another PL side. Seen Madrid fancy (for some reason) having Maureen back so maybe he can go there and Zidane to UTDLet's hope he gets fired mid season. Only way to avoid a very difficult summer for us.
We all know he will be sacked after the Newcastle match on January 2, and the new manager will be in place for our match.Let's hope he gets fired mid season. Only way to avoid a very difficult summer for us.
Does it make me a bad person if I say Bailly is a very good central defender and I would like him st Spurs ?
Mourinho really has been a car crash at Man U. I do not know how he gets away with stealing a living there. He's spent something like £360M in just over two years, and that's after inheriting top quality players like Martial, Mata, Rashford and De Gea. He spent close to £80M buying two new CBs (Bailly and Lindelof), and now says he cannot trust his defence. He has spent £89M on Pogba, £40M on Matic, and £52M on Fred and yet his midfield is all over the place and cannot dominate games. He bought Mikhitaryan for a massive fee and failed to integrate him, a year or so later he swapped him for Alexis Sanchez (and spends close to £500k per week on his wages) and cannot integrate him either. He spent £75M on Lukaku and he's turned into an embarrassing footballer who has a heavy first touch and cannot score, mainly as Mourinho's tactics do not play into his strengths (he needs balls played into channels for him to run onto). Young players like Shaw, Lingard, Pogba, Rashford, have all gone backwards. How can they give him another £200M to rebuild this car crash of a project?
Let’s go back in time a little….. everybody knows that United’s great resurgence essentially started with the class of 92 ( 3 world class players) and the Neville’s plus Butt and was completed by the signing of Cantona , a sublime footballer with a point to prove having been essentially kicked out of France and finding a short term home in Leeds were he won a title and clearly shouldn’t have been sold. He was a hungry footballer with a point to prove basis what happened to him in France.
When Eric decided to hang up his boots Ferguson changed the make up of the team particularly up front where he signed Cole and Yorke, both in my opinion underrated players particularly Cole whose goal scoring record was second to none. Cole was a hungry footballer with a point to prove basis being sold by Newcastle. Yorke had made the jump from Villa and gladly accepted the step up.
When that second great team of Fergie started to creak United went out and then bought another pair of attackers Ronaldo and Rooney who at that point were arguably the best yet not quite proven young talent in European football. Ronaldo was a hungry footballer believing himself to be on the verge of superstardom and needed a bigger stage than Lisbon to prove it. Rooney in those days was well basically just hungry ( carrying a little too much timber) but for a kid from the streets of Liverpool was just as hungry for success and his desire has been there for all his career.
So what has been United’s transfer policy of the last few years ? Go out and sign potentially the best young hungry talent in European football … Bale , Ali , Kane , Van Dijk , Eriksen ( see why Spurs are so good here ) Richarlison, Sane , Fabinho , Firmino , Mané and there are many more … the one player who fits in this category is De Gea .. an unqualified success and arguably the only player in the current team who is significantly improved.
So what do United do , instead of competing and signing players of the above ilk that with their financial clout and overall club brand they could have easily taken… they sign the following…..
Pogba , left once already , won everything at Juve and France …. (onto his 3rd club)
Lukaku , been round the block , Chelsea , West Brom Everton … (4th premier club)
Matic , signed and released by Chelsea , resigned by Chelsea … ( 4th club)
Sanchez , Barca , Arsenal … knackered , too much wonga ( 3 rd big club)
There are literally hundreds of examples of exactly the same mistakes being made at other “big clubs” … Chelsea signing Torres , United with Veron , Liverpool with Joe Cole… Liverpool with Morientes , all of these players have been excellent at one stage of their career … BUT it is always at either the club they started at or after their first big move…..once you are onto your 3rd or 4th club , the desire clearly wanes , the legs become wearier and the wallet is bursting at the seams…… there is always the odd exception … Ronaldo springs to mind… but compare him to say Tevez and say Schevchenko and the trend is clear….
Quite simply if United want to return to the top of European football they just need to go back in time a bit and look at what made them successful… signing the youngest talent first…. not third hand….