This DNA thing is baffling the fuck out of me. How Ferguson played in the early years was 442 with good wingers and two strikers. But then he realised that this wasn't cutting it in Europe so changed to a 433 (I'm thinking Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez). There was also the game in 2012 when they barely crossed the halfway line knowing that a single goal probably puts them over the line in the race for the Premier League. Where was the famous Manchester United DNA that night I wonder?
What they mean is that they used to have all the best players and nobody could compete over a sustained period of time with them. They've tried a safe pair of hands (Moyes), a serial winner (Mourinho), two "next big things" (Ten Hag and Amorim), a man with United DNA running through his veins (Solskjaer), a proven winner in European football (Van Gaal), a safe pairs of hands (Rangnick) and a few interims - and nothing has worked. All these managers have had their own methods. The game has moved on from them having two fast, young wingers flirting crosses in left, right and centre, but if that's what they insist on because that's United DNA, look know futher than Mike "4-4-fucking-2" Bassett.