Very good post. This is how we should have been thinking for the last five years but no one has the balls to suffer a few bad seasons, yet we’re actually having bad seasons anyway
Some players will have to stay and see out their contracts to ensure some kind of capability, like Bruno. But Shaw is not worth the money or playing time for us at this point. We won’t be competing for a title in the next two years.
I think you are right in the respect that this is how we, the fans, should have been thinking. Problems arise with the fans (some swayed by the pundits (who don’t really know or remember stuff like ‘long term thinking’) see an attack of Garnacho (long term thinking), Højlund (long term thinking) and Mainoo (long term thinking), Rashford (actually a result of long term thinking) and McTominay (ditto) struggle to play coherent top class football, which we blame (not on them of course, they are young and learning) on Bruno, Antony, Rashford and McTominay (because they are old and possible to blame.
Fans are not only fickle, but incredibly unknowledgeable (and I include myself in this), and most sports journous, and certainly the anybodies who fans mistake for journous, are not better, because they don’t have time to look deep nor do they have incentives, and incentives is all they know, that’s why they’re hired, in short -
We should all really let the knowledgeable people get on with it in peace.
But of course we can’t - we’re
fans, after all (myself included), what can we do? We can talk, comment, comolain, weep, that’s all we can do in the end. So we do what we can. Glory!