End of next season yeah possibly. But we’d need to see Mount more, see how the side develops in the next 18 months.
@noodlehair has made some great points. Even if we accept Bruno isn’t the long term solution he’s also not the biggest problem and right now we need better profiles in our CB, DM and CM zones. Arguably also a LB and RB (although I think Dalot can make this position his own).
We will change managers, goal keepers, defenders, wingers, strikers but we will remain the same team that played in 2020..
We played De Gea, now we have Onana same problems persist. Leaking goals and conceding chances.
Bought Martinez and Varane binned Maguire and Lindelof we still leaked 43 goals last seasons, as of today we have leaked 34 goals in PL with 13 games remaining.
We binned off McFred and bought Casemiro, Eriksen last season we were 4th in possession % in the league.
We binned off Martial, Cavani etc bought Hojlund we still won't score more than 60 goals this season.
We finished last season with +15 GD, we are at +1 today.
We moved away from wingers like Dan James, Greenwood to Antony, Garnacho but still we don't score enough and our wingers don't have sustained period of elite output..
There is no different profile we need to achieve anything, that's unknown.
What we need is a sustainable way of playing which can be upgraded and scaled-up.
Our set-up is unsustainable and unscale-able.
That's why since 2019 Ole times, there is absolutely nothing different has happened. We still collapse in games, average 70 points a season, never control games, never been in champions league QF since 2019, never had more than 74 points in the league. Eliminated in CL group stage twice..
How many different kind of profile have we signed since 2019,how much money have we spent since Ole took over to date?
How comes nothing big has changed?
We need to move away from playing transition football. Zero control football.
Nothing amplifies transition football more than Bruno. The only thing ETH was supposed to do was to move away from this kind of football but alas, he's made it his own.
Let me tell you a sustainable way of playing which is scale-able, Arsenal way.
Arsenal need a proven striker and their team will be almost complete why? not because they are rich than United, or United is cursed.. Noo, it's because Arsenal found a sustainable way of playing then they scale it up every season every other window. Bit by bit.
For us now, ask around, even in this forum, only Hojlund, Mainoo, Garnacho, Martinez we can all agree should stay at this club. At least 95% of fans can agree on this.
Every other player from Antony, Casemiro, Varane, Maguire, Rashford, Bruno, Eriksen, Dalot, Onana, Shaw there is another group of fans who wouldn't mind if they left. ask yourself why?
Because our team is fundamentally flawed, it lacks
1. Principled way of playing.
2. Players capable of playing in that principled way.
As bad as it may, lack of a genuine Football Director has brought the wild chase but our manager should have solved this problem if he was Elite.
Pep can't stick with Bruno a player who loses the ball is such a way and it that frequency and offers absolutely nothing major in return. It doesn't need $1B of players to solve that problem nor $400m ETH has spent.
This is supported by the fact, we have spent over 800m since Mourinho left yet we have never achieved anything close to 80 points in any season, won only 1 Carabao Cup in 7 years, eliminated in CL group stage TWICE (Ole once and ETH ), Ole brought us Bruno our style of play changed and we have stuck to it to date. Yet it's not achieving anything substantial
Upshot:
We need to move away from being a transition team.
Nothing is more of an embodiment of transition football than Bruno Fernandes.
I have talked about this for the last 2 years now, and everything has persisted as they were in 2021, nothing will change as long as we play transition football.
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with 13 games less. That's a 1/3 of the campaign.