Love it……..both the manager and the much vaunted Ronaldo are simply symbols of their club’s glorious past.
They really seem to believe that they can recapture the glory days by appointing (or having them sit in the stand) players/staff who characterise that past, despite the effect that will have on their young talent.
You can hear it now on the phone-ins on the radio, the delusion and arrogance of fans who seem to confuse what is happening now with events of 15/20 years ago, you know the stuff…’biggest club in the world’, ’this is man Utd’ etc.-all a very desperate clutching at the straws of history.
They are becoming the brexiters of football- long may it last!