Posting this here as it diverges away from the Wreck it Ralph thread...
Thankfully Utd have some deep aversion to hiring a manager who would sort stuff out. Mourinho may have done but as soon as he put his foot down the players didn't like it and the upper echelons of Utd sided with the players without blinking. Conte was available but they didn't want to know or Conte refused the conditions set.
They have so many players who enjoy the comfy life they have there to, so for the next few seasons that dynamic likely won't change. They have fostered a setup that makes it easier to just remove the manager as opposed to players.
Even if they did decide to grow a pair and tell the players they are getting sold, who is going to buy them? Nearly all of them are on far better wages than their talent merits. Wages other clubs either wouldn't or couldn't meet.
For so long they had other clubs who for some reason would buy their dross off them like it was some personal favour to a mate, it really annoyed me that. Those are drying up now as their old allies are not managers or directors anymore, or they can't dream of getting close to the wages the players would demand.
It is 100% all their own fault to so no sympathy from me.
