Over on the t’other sides forum they have an excellent thread about the scholes/lingard revelation, followed by mctominey follow-up and now multiple quotes from ragnick about the clusterfuck going on.
I just looked at when I joined BM, sept 2015.
It’s been 6.5 years I’ve been posting on here about united.
In that time, it’s been said by me, and by probably 100’s of others far more eloquently, that there are many many issues at united:
Arrogance - they were good for 20 years, ‘it will always continue’. That one word, contains a million reasons for their current situation.
‘The United way’ - I think the last year has finally buried that from the last few holdouts in their fanbase.
financial zombieness - they had the golden goose, they spent & spent it, and now the lying platitudes (‘dream of playing for united’) are coming home to roost, money & players come in easily only when you are successful.
Media spotlight/old player pundits - it’s like Liverpool in the 90/00’s , does them no good and makes everyone else despise them.
infrastructure and community investment - announcing a lick of paint to great fanfares, isn’t the action of a club going anywhere but circling the drain - a la City in the late 90’s
buying old mercenaries - no surer sign of emergency plasters being applied to shore up a crumbling edifice.
‘celebrating’ and using the past - the phoenix like ascendancy of marking/milking the Munich disaster in the past 2x decade’s compared with the previous 5x decades.
going through the full spectrum of managerial types and playing styles every 2 years - no plan, no foresight, just headless chicken control
Ferguson hanging around - if ever you wanted to sum up the whole shitshow, you have it on display every home match as the camera flicks to showing the ‘glorious’ past sitting watching the dire present. Rock of Gibraltar set in motion the runaway train, but there’s been multiple points that could have pulled the emergency cord and saved the slow train wreck emerging, but due to point 1 , they didn’t. And now like Shankly and Busby before him, a football club can’t move forward till they cut from the past. Jelly and ice cream , should remain in the fridge for as long as possible.
to sum up/tldr:
oops.