Manchester United are a Banter Club!!!
In less than 10 years, manchester united went from being the most dominant club inn England to being a banter club.
lets take a ride back time.
The post Ferguson era began with the appointment of David Moyes. They spent months linked with Thiago Alcantara
with a deal reportedly agreed before Moyes called it off because he didn’t know enough about the player,then they went for cesc Fabrigas which didn’t work and ended up signing Maroune Fellaini for £4m more than his release clause,which expired months before. They finished the season in 7th and Moyes was sacked before the season was over.
To replace him came LOUIS VAN GAAL, seemingly a step in the right direction,accompanied by some big name signing.They finally got Ander Herrera, a year after the farcical episode when three lawyers turned up to the LaLiga offices,claiming to represent United when neither United nor Herrera, nor Athletic club knew who they were. The season started dreadfully,with what was essentially a reserve team losing 4-0 to
Mk Dons in the league cup. They did end up finishing 4th, to be fair. 15/16 season and after an injury plagued loan spell,falcao was gone, and
Di maria also left after struggling to settle at United,and went to PSG to re-established himself as one of the best wingers in the Word. In came Memphis Depay,Matteo Darmian,Morgan Schneiderlin,Anthony Martial,Sergio Romero and most significantly Bastian Schweinsteiger. A resurgent Tottenham and that tittle winning Leicester team saw them lose the top 4 spot. But the FA cup final win over Crystal Palace gave them something to
cheer about.Unfortunately for LVG he was sacked immediately afterwards.
16/17 and enter; Jose Mourinho, Zlanta Ibrahimovic and the return of Paul Pogba, they finished 6th, and also won the league cup,and Europa League and Yes the community shield. Mourinho 2nd season Manchester United drastically improve and achieve their highest league finish since Sir ALEX retired;something Jose described as one of his greatest Achievement in Football because people don’t know what’s going on behind the scene, and also they
made their worst signing of the post Ferguson era,Not Lukaku but Alexis Sanchez. 18/19, Inevitably, third season syndrome kicked in for Jose. As the situation grew increasily toxic,mourinho was sacked and the club paid £18M to sack him. To replaced Jose, United hire a club legend, 1999 hero, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The baby face assassin returned to Old Trafford with a CV comprising 2 Norwegian League Titles,and a relegation with Cardiff City.
They started well in fairness, the players were relieved to be away from Jose Mourinho so Ole had to do was smile in training and they drastically improved. The high point of this campaign came in Paris,when a cobbled together United team managed to overcome a two goal deficit against perennial bottlers PSG, Ole was appointed permanently and their form fell off a cliff.
19/20, and United finally signed a centre back HARRY MAGUIRE and arguebly their best signing post Ferguson Era Bruno Fernandes, 3rd place in the pandemic season,champions league football, United lost 6-1 at home to a Tottenham side managed by Jose Mourinho. But as always they bounced back and even went top of the table for a bit in January and the signing of Edison Cavani on free as well as the injury crisis at Liverpool saw them finish 2nd in the
league, it was however another trophy less season for United as they lost the Europa League final to Villareal still the following season will provide reason to hope that United were BACK.
Long term target Jadon Sancho finally signed to solve their Right Wing problem and Rapheal Varane joined to partner Maguire in defense and of course Ronaldo came home. Whether it was logical to re-sign a 36 year old rather than invest in a young defensive midfielder, thats up for debate, and what followed was depressingly predictable.Some drab performances were bailed out by late Ronaldo goals which divided opinion. And time was eventually up for
Ole.
In came Ralf Ragnick the Godfather of gengenpressing. Finally a tactician to instil some order into this chaos, it didn’t quite went as planned. Reports of players having to Google who he was were understandable, given he had only done two seasons of management in the previous decade. He never really stood a chance of making any progress in such a short period of time…
AND NOW IT IS UP TO ERIC TEN HAG TO BRING THIS BANTER ERA TO AN END !!!
GOODLUCK TO ALL IN THE COMING SEASON…
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