This league has so many better managers than Ole, how are we ever going to compete even if he has the best plan in the world? Which I think even his plan isn't that great.
A half decent board bins Ole and gives Poch a chance to salvage top 4 this season. It's still achievable.
But we know Woodward will milk this as long as possible and try to save face.
One game out from half a season in, and 24 points, which could well be 27 with L'pool's game in hand, off the top of the table. Possibly even 27 having played a game more at half-way.
8/9/TEN games behind. Half the games played to date. That's cringe-worthy bad for any big club the PL era. We've had some utterly ***** seasons the PL with seasons done before Chrimbo. But we were never THIS far off the top at this stage.
I keep (stop laughing at the back) reading in here that Utd are only a few key signings away from challenging ..... when in reality the gap is widening with every passing season. 3 years ago it was 19 points out of first. Last season it had grown toa whopping 33. Currently, it's on pace to obliterate that and be HISTORICALLY bad. that's not a few signings turnaround. That's a 3/4 season minimum and more turnaround. With little signs it's even started yet.
Looking from the outside in, I was of the opinion that after you'd madly gone all in, through sentiment (learning absolutely NOTHING from the recent flashing warning signs of Kenny's second go-around), that you had no option but to be totally behind him and give him time to build. But he's that far out of his depth at this level he's just taking you further and further away from even being a top 6 club. Never mind top 4 or even challenging for major honours.
What exactly is Utd's identity under Solksjaer? Because 1 year in, I couldn't tell you with the way he changes that often.
The Glaziers need to take serious stock of the whole club and just what they want Utd to be. From there own joke of a structure (term used VERY loosely) within the football club, with Woodward and his reactionary, scattergun, questionable recruitment policy the biggest problem of anything. Through the man leading the club on the pitch who'll, in all likelihood, end up back in the Norweigian league after he finally leaves Utd. And all points in between.
Because this is fixing to be as big a title drought as the last one. This will be what, 7 seasons since Ferguson won the last one? Which will be 10, then 15 before you know it the more and more you make the same, self-inflicted, repeated stupid mistakes internally L'pool have for the majority of the past three decades. And then you're sat there at this point another decade down the line wondering just where it all fell off a cliff so spectacularly and how you'll EVER get back to the top?
Do they want to make the big changes needed to begin the long climb back up the mountain? Or are they happy to be the mid-table show Utd currently are not arsed whilst the sponsorship money rolls in and their pockets get bigger?
As much as it's highly amusing to see Utd in this mess, I can emphasise with your pain and frustration mate. As we've lived it first hand. As highly amusing as that was for you lads to laugh at. What's utterly mad though right here, right now is Liverpool were the blueprint of how NOT to do it for the majority of the last 3 decades. And you're now following that blueprint with the same. boneheaded mistakes within the football club and fans deluding themselves into thinking the name will carry you, it's uncanny.
If the ultimate goal is League Titles and European Cups, then going down the current path you're on, it'll get a LOT worse before it gets better.
