Solving Uniteds issues....

United's main problem is not signing players who are good enough. It's really not that complicated. You don't need any particular structure to solve this, but you need at least some people who are capable of identifying players who are good enough.
 
The club is in complete disarray right now. I'm not confident that there is any quick fix. Looking at our players, how many would fit into City's starting 11? None. That is absolutely shocking for a club like United and how much we've spent.

Ten Hag is under huge pressure but even if we sack him and bring someone else in I don't think it will matter. We may have a short term bounce but every single manager we bring in fails.

It's ridiculous that we still have the likes of Dalot, Maguire, Lindelof, McTominay and Martial at the club. We can't sell these players because they either have too high wages or we can't get the fees we want. We have no money to sign new players. The club is a disgrace right now.
 
Iker Quesadillas said:
United's main problem is not signing players who are good enough. It's really not that complicated. You don't need any particular structure to solve this, but you need at least some people who are capable of identifying players who are good enough.
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Yep. People saying "Ten Hag isn't good enough, the players he signed are crap," are missing the point. You need specialists who know how to identify talent. SAF was a freak in that he was both a world class coach AND a world class DOF. The reason we keep getting it wrong is that no other manager out there is at SAF's level, and coach vs. recruitment functions should be split. Give Ten Hag good players and a good recruitment team behind him, and he would do ok I think. Let him make the decisions, and this is what you get.
 
The task is huge but how you go about it is very obvious.

Owner comes in. Review operations in every part of the club. Aim to completely clean house within x amount of years - new coaching staff, new directors, new owners/restriction on their ability to make decisions, new players. Administrative / grounds staff etc. the only ones that wouldnt be on the chopping block. Should be looking at almost complete new staff within about 5 years - about 2 players could survive.
Some sort of wage cap implemented/rein in mad wage policy. Headhunt highly regarded football operations to completely start again. No more short term signings / funding other teams long term success / signing directors internally/from Everton.

We're shit but the silver lining being that it's laid bare what needs to happen.
 
The club is in quite a lot of trouble. This is the first time we can’t spend our way out of it with new signings. If we assume top four is gone, can we even sustain two years out of the champions League?
 
talking robot said:
Yep. People saying "Ten Hag isn't good enough, the players he signed are crap," are missing the point. You need specialists who know how to identify talent. SAF was a freak in that he was both a world class coach AND a world class DOF. The reason we keep getting it wrong is that no other manager out there is at SAF's level, and coach vs. recruitment functions should be split. Give Ten Hag good players and a good recruitment team behind him, and he would do ok I think. Let him make the decisions, and this is what you get.
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I can never understand this. If you are a good manager you can assess a player's strengths and weaknesses pretty fast. BOTH his own players and players playing for other teams. You build and adopt your tactics based on this.

Playing Casemiro as your only defense minded midfielder was never going to work when you also have Rashford who is weak defensively and Antony weak going forward. ETH must see this. He is not United standard and neither is Murtough.
 
It's the worst squad we've had in 30 years.
The manager is shit.
The stadium is ancient and dilapidated
The owners are worse than shit
We're in massive debt


It's quite the list of serious issues
 
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