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Manchester United to struggle?


I can see them doing a Leeds Utd in a few years time if they continue as they are. Club has been ran shambolically and everything appears to be in some form of decline.

The players they are bringing I don’t think are good enough to take them to the level they want to be. The manager stubbornly sticks to a system that doesn’t suit the squad. They need a real upheaval across the club to return to the elite level.
 
Solskjaer actually had them playing well with a youthful side, which also had them losing random games 4-0 due to playing bairns. The football was actually good to watch though and they all looked good prospects.

Then they signed Ronaldo who stunk the place out, Ole got the blame and sack, then it's been a downward spiral ever since.

Not saying Solskjaer is a good manager, but they were at least watchable.

They'll sack their manager by October, bring in Danny Rohl who thinks he's the next Klopp, will quickly be caught out for being out of his depth, given a summer rebuild anyway, then sacked the start of next season. And repeat.

And long may it continue, their fans are cocks, plastics and all.
The Marra Doner said:
I can see them doing a Leeds Utd in a few years time if they continue as they are. Club has been ran shambolically and everything appears to be in some form of decline.

The players they are bringing I don’t think are good enough to take them to the level they want to be. The manager stubbornly sticks to a system that doesn’t suit the squad. They need a real upheaval across the club to return to the elite level.
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£70m for Mbuemo, almost like they never learn from the past. In a few years he'll be 30. He's peaked and will have no resale value.

For that amount of money they could have easily gone for 2-3 standout youngsters and paid them a pittance, developed them properly. They're still chasing the ready built title winning squad which doesn't exist anymore.

Hate to say it but in hindsight Chelsea are doing a hell of a lot better with their rebuilds every year. Add to that their low wages which only increase if a player actually does well and goes for the contractual incentives they're probably only a season or two away from challenging the top teams again for trophies.
 
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With the stature of the club, they will always be able to attract the biggest named managers, who will think they can turn it round, and players still see it as a big move.
They have produced a masterclass in how not to run a football club mind. The glaziers have done a job on them.
Recruitment wise, they have a knack of signing players with shocking attitudes that don't fit, and putting them on long expensive contracts, the 'jack Rodwell' method.
Teams used to turn up at old Trafford knowing they were beaten before the game started. Now teams rock up looking forward to it, hard to turn that back round.
 
kingmonkey said:
With the stature of the club, they will always be able to attract the biggest named managers, who will think they can turn it round, and players still see it as a big move.
They have produced a masterclass in how not to run a football club mind. The glaziers have done a job on them.
Recruitment wise, they have a knack of signing players with shocking attitudes that don't fit, and putting them on long expensive contracts, the 'jack Rodwell' method.
Teams used to turn up at old Trafford knowing they were beaten before the game started. Now teams rock up looking forward to it, hard to turn that back round.
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Until it gets sorted above manager level I don’t see a manager making much difference
 
Jyoosi said:
Solskjaer actually had them playing well with a youthful side, which also had them losing random games 4-0 due to playing bairns. The football was actually good to watch though and they all looked good prospects.

Then they signed Ronaldo who stunk the place out, Ole got the blame and sack, then it's been a downward spiral ever since.

Not saying Solskjaer is a good manager, but they were at least watchable.

They'll sack their manager by October, bring in Danny Rohl who thinks he's the next Klopp, will quickly be caught out for being out of his depth, given a summer rebuild anyway, then sacked the start of next season. And repeat.

And long may it continue, their fans are cocks, plastics and all.

£70m for Mbuemo, almost like they never learn from the past. In a few years he'll be 30. He's peaked and will have no resale value.

For that amount of money they could have easily gone for 2-3 standout youngsters and paid them a pittance, developed them properly. They're still chasing the ready built title winning squad which doesn't exist anymore.

Hate to say it but in hindsight Chelsea are doing a hell of a lot better with their rebuilds every year. Add to that their low wages which only increase if a player actually does well and goes for the contractual incentives they're probably only a season or two away from challenging the top teams again for trophies.
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Said very similar to yourself a while back . Ole had a young team playing high pressing football looking like they were improving. In comes Ronaldo and although Ronaldo scored a decent amount of goals the system had to change completely to accommodate him and it's back down hill since.
 
I’ve been thinking the same to be honest. All the talk about their struggles since Amorim come in is that he didn’t have the players to play his preferred formation… but stuck at it anyway.

Yet, they’ve bought one wingback. I was expecting wingbacks being the priority to ensure he could play that style, but doesn’t seem to be the case.
 
BucketBiff said:
Adopting the Spurs approach to transfers. Signing the big fish out of the small ponds.
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Ferguson had some huge success cherry picking players in a similar way . Yorke Saha Valencia and young as just a few examples .
Liverpool signed sane and jota obviously good players but went to a complete different level .
 
I think they'll struggle with Amorim still in charge. Looked like he alienated most of the squad last season, and clearly only has on way of playing and will not adjust or adapt. I don't think he's got much credit in the bank left at Man U and they could be one of the first teams looking about for a new head coach long before Christmas.
 
I find it odd that, no-one is really talking about how both them and spurs finished on relegation battle points. If not for the current gulf between the newly promoted clubs, it would have had much more attention. I'd love for one or more of us to give it a good go this year and see who else ends up in the mix, genuinely could be them
 
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