Post 2 (continued)
Mason Mount was going to be a pressing machine. The result? Injured most of the campaign, invisible when he did play, and the complete nothing player most sensible people know he is.
Also last season, Rashford is coming off his so-called ‘best ever campaign’. Their fans are crowing about a world-class, Player of the Season year coming up. We all know how that worked out.
Fast forward to the present. We are being treated to such pearls of wisdom as ‘de Ligt must be world class because Bayern fans wanted to keep him’ and endless clueless wannabe tacticians’ Youtube videos about the ‘number 9.5, not 9 or 10, get it right’ Joshua Zirkzee. Or how nothing player Burnley lad Sander Berge – a fella they wouldn’t have recognised in the street three weeks ago – is the answer to all of their problems as they’ve suddenly been linked to him.
Let’s not get too much into prior to 2021. 85m man Pogba and the guys who were gonna ‘unlock’ him, Donny Van de Beek the ‘80 million player they’re getting for 40 million’ or Harry ‘the potential best CB in the league’ Maguire for 80m. Or ‘we have sorted our right wing for the next decade’ (after one good game) Daniel James. Yes, I saw some of them say that.
Right now, they’re also clinging on to the FA Cup Final against City. A game they got lucky in with a mistake and then admittedly good second goal, and then defended their own box for an hour. This also proves they don’t understand that cup football is completely different to league football. That trophy has zero bearing on their projected league performance this season.
Fact is, their fans are generally delusional. We see it on their sites, where any dose of realism is derided as ‘negativity’ – when you have been as bad as they have for so long, it isn’t negative, it’s honest.
They’re so desperate to be back that they indulge in severe coping strategies and pop deludamol pills. And most of their fans are such thick lemmings that they believe the United propaganda in the sports media. As recently as the last few days with them drooling over an empty puff piece (not even written by him personally) from Omar Berrada (the same guy who slagged United when he was at Man City) about how they’re such a huge club, and how his father used to tell him stories of Munich and George Best (always an easy way to get United fans onside – mention Munich or Best or Charlton or Duncan Edwards). Like any of that has fucking anything do with his job, or how they will perform this season. Such an easily manipulated fanbase. Walk the walk, don’t talk the talk.
The thing with them is they need these players to be good, because their entire self-esteem is intertwined with United as a club. Most of them have no concrete achievements in their own life, and have latched onto United at some point in the last 60 years in an attempt to wallow in some reflected glory. They figured it was a safe bet. However, now that United have fallen apart over the last decade, they’re going insane as they can’t handle not having that safety net for their self-esteem. Many of their lives were mediocre and lacked fulfilment – but they could always rely on United winning the league. They don’t have that comfort blanket now, and that’s why they go so mad at defeats. It’s why they spin everything and everyone linked to them as the biggest and best ever – because of their extreme insecurity and need to win. The biggest glory-hunters on the planet.
They never learn, and it is doomed to failure yet again. Bearing in mind all of the above errors (and it’s far from exhaustive), why would you EVER listen to anything their fans or media cheerleaders say? They have been proved wrong REPEATEDLY. Their fans are clearly indoctrinated by the sycophancy in the press.
Don’t even get me started on Ferguson, their horrible ex-players (many of which talk tripe in a media space that enables them to do so), horrible tossers like Martin Edwards and Jim Ratcliffe.
The truth is they’re finished, and this ‘new era’ is all smoke and mirrors and will end in tears. Every season they talk about being ‘in transition’ and ‘making preparations to challenge in a few years’. But it never happens. While Pep is at City, they won’t challenge.
Also, something often overlooked, but one of their biggest problems is counter-attacking is built into the culture of their club. They can’t play controlling, dominant, possession football as the best teams do now. That’s not in their club’s ethos or capability. Even dating back to Ferguson’s time they played smack it long or up the wings, fire crosses in the box, 100mph chaos ball. They haven’t moved with the times on the pitch. Hence, they will naturally have a ceiling as to how many games they can win and how many points they can accrue, and consequently how many trophies they can muster.
End of story.
