Let’s wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn’t dare cross any of you. I mean – Oh wait, since you guys are obviously not Gotham Mafia bosses lets instead wind back the clock instead to a bright sunny day in Manchester where these 11 guys De Gea, Evra, Jones, Evans, Smalling, Anderson, Nani, Young, Cleverley, Rooney and Welbeck went out and obliterated Arsenal 8-2. Ignore the fact that Arsenal were missing many of their key players due to injuries, that they played Coquelin in midfield and all the other reasons that caused that insane score line. The fact is there are players in that Manchester United lineup who have absolutely no business winning 8-2. Getting hammered 8-2, yes but definitely not winning 8-2. That match sums up the genius of that mad, arrogant, hypocritical whiskey-nosed madman.
Sir Alex Ferguson had that knack of getting average players to play beyond their abilities and get results. After selling Ronaldo to Real Madrid, the United team was not exactly brimming with top quality players throughout the first XI. But yet in his last 4 years Sir Alex managed to win the league twice, finish equal on points and lose via goal difference and miss the league by one point. That accomplishment is nothing short of outrageous.
In a weird way, all of United’s current problems emanate from Sir Alex. His ability to keep winning despite his squad not being exactly brilliant while all his competitors kept strengthening allowed the clowns in the upper management of the club to get away with a consistent negligent attitude to the team. They buried their head in the sands and allowed an average squad to go stale without any refreshment or rebuilding.
Woodward is at fault for a lot of the problems United face currently with respect to their slightly poor transfer record. Six new players, yes, but ask yourself, were these all United’s first choice targets. Did they overpay for players they could’ve had for cheaper had the transfer dealings were better organized? The rot however runs much deeper. Take the 2013-14 season. In the summer they lost Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill who were replaced by a coach who specialized in managing a club punching above its weight and a guy who primarily was a banker. How could it possibly go wrong? As we all know, it worked out brilliantly. Ed Woodward signed all the players they desperately needed to strengthen and David Moyes played some beautiful attacking football and they won trophies. No wait, as expected Woodward struggled to make any signings and David Moyes suffered the same problems that Roy Hodgson faced at Liverpool. After a career of being the underdog and trying to nick a win against the top teams, the jump to setting out to dominate the opposition and always playing on the front foot was too much for him.
Moyes is no more at the club while Woodward remains. As usual the manager is the fall guy while the other parties manage to get away with it. Now a new manager has come in, King Louis himself. While preseason under him was pretty strong, you could say it has gone slightly wrong for them in competitive fixtures. If you are honest, you could even say it has gone catastrophically wrong for them. Contrary to popular belief they are not losing because of this new-fangled exotic 3-5-2 formation that Louis Van Gaal is using. The Manchester United players are making fundamental mistakes. Case in point this :-