I want Ten Hag for a myriad of reasons. But could be whoever.
How would you feel about a massive clear out? The likes of Rashford, Shaw etc.
Players who have been here for years, won nothing, and developed a bad culture (whether due to the players themselves or terrible management).
Bring through a lot of the youth. Even if they aren't United quality. In the the hopes that a new, driven work ethic can be instilled. This could then be built upon by shrewd recruitment by a more football focussed upper management (fingers crossed) and tactically-consistent coaching.
Could well result in us hovering in the lower reaches of the top-6 for a few seasons, but I'd argue it would set us up better to challenge for titles again in the future. None of this treading water crap, which we can't even achieve!
What say you? Do you think this is a valid strategy? Or would you prefer we go down an Ancelotti/Zidane approach and try and milk the players we have?
Reality check. There's a limit to how much of a squad you can replace at once. And "bringing through the youth" isn't actually a generic viable approach for a big club to rebuild. Unless you happen to have lots of elite youngsters who are ready to step up, which is rarely the case and most certainly is
not the case with Manchester United today. If you bring 5 or 6 youth players into regular roles at once, not because they merit it but as a matter of approach, you don't end up with a foundation to build on. You just end up with a bad team that is going nowhere, and young players crushed by being thrust into positions of responsibility that are beyond their capacity. .
There's no quick way, no grand solution. We'll have the equivalent of a pretty big clearout just through the players whose contracts expire or otherwise disappear, and who will mostly need to be replaced - Cavani, Pogba, Lingard, Mata. Then there's Greenwood, also gone for nothing. Just replacing them, and maybe additionally finally get that DM everybody knows that we desperately need, is going to eat up the available resources, and then some. We're talking about, at a minimum, two top-class midfielders and two top-class attackers. Then there's a number of players that really should/wants to be moved out - Henderson, vd Beek, Martial, Bailly, probably Tuanzebe and Jones. My guess is we're not going to get very far down that list. They're never going to even seriously consider the sort of upgrade moves that might arguably be a good idea (Wan-Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Rashford, Matic, Ronaldo etc) - there's just way too much ahead of it on the list of priorities.
Let's be realistic here. The turnover's going to be maybe 5-7 players. And most of the outgoings are already settled. There are going to be many players on next year's team that a lot of people want to see gone.