I've read the forums for over a decade and never really felt the urge to post but the nonsense being thrown about over the past few weeks is almost too much to handle. It's great that you're all passionate about Utd but why is all reasoning being lobbed out of the nearest window?
Firstly, people are posting as if it's fact that Jose actively wanted to sell Pogba and the club opposed him? None of these "beginning of the end" articles state this.
Secondly, the board have vetoed Jose? Right. Half the players listed are said to have been offered to Utd. Does that sound like we were going after them specifically on Jose's instruction? Not to me.
And what of those players? Boateng it seems was deemed fit to be taken on loan, Godin deemed great but unfortunately just wanted a new contract and finally, Mina was also acceptable bar issues with his agent....
This is not fact but in the very article that apparently shows how the board are 100% in opposition to Jose haha! To top it all, apparently Maguire was fine too had Leicester played ball. So exactly where have the board gone against anything? One player?! Wow. Big news. And this coming from the press who have been trying their best to convince us up until a few hours ago, that we definitely were bidding for that player.
So who to believe?! Nevermind that, this must be rock solid...even though it makes no sense whatsoever true or otherwise since the conclusion drawn from it is bollocks. Not to mention that most people on here would grossly disagree with the idea that Alderwereild would not improve us, so the problem there it seems is with the boards view, not Jose's.
Now for short termism. How is buying Dalot and Fred short term? Lindelof, Bailly, Pogba, Lukaku, Fred? It's laughable. And then people post saying 'but Pogba was benched!!!' So what? Just because he's a record signing, doesn't mean he should be playing every single match regardless of performance. That's not the full story of course not, but just an example of the hilarity on this forum at the moment. Either way, Jose is not signing a bunch of old players so let's just stop entertaining that idea please. It's clearly false.
Finally, think of this. 7th in the league, Moyes...no Champions League and no trophies. Major names in, and then quickly out again after playing terribly week in, week out. Then, we finish an awful era with an FA Cup, follow that up with the League Cup and the Europa League, then make the knockout stages of the Champions League, the FA Cup Final and finish second behind a record breaking team.
We beat every top team in the premiership and end up higher than the incredible, legendary, beacons of all things right, true and entertaining; Spurs and Liverpool. So why the meltdown?
Ok so we haven't won the league in five years and we haven't won the Champions League in a decade. Not to mention the football isn't setting the world on fire. But surely anybody can see that we are somewhat back on track? That we are building? Why all the 'time's up! Out! Time to find another!'?
Don't we hate clubs who chop and change every couple of minutes? We're not like that are we? Perhaps you don't like the football style or the manager. Maybe just the way he conducts himself but dear god, in no way whatsoever are we in crisis. So it's time to stop feeding that delusion and put things into perspective.
