"Up to 11 players now want to leave United after becoming disillusioned with life at the club."

[VidaRed]

How you start to fix the mess we have in our squad.

Martial > Elanga
Lingard > Shoretire
Mata > Amad
Pogba > Hannibal
Matic > Garner
AWB/Dalot > Laird
Bailly > Mengi
Replace them with young, hungry players with a point to prove. Don't care what anyone says. That's as good a place as any to start fixing the club.

I'd remove dalot from that list. He's quite decent.

 

[TheRedDevil2019]

What's more worrying is that there's players who clearly want out but the board still haven't shifted anyone...

The squad is bloated and given its current size, any manager will have problems managing the squad harmony.

 

[steffyr2]

Have they left yet?

 

[Bluelion7]

SO… this is where the Glazers start to hurt. When they are pushing out millions of dollars for transfers everyone says “look, they are willing to spend.” But spending money you think you will get back, or even improve upon is not as big a commitment as people think it is.
Now you have situations like Martial: you need to get him out of the reading room. You are into him for too much. And the Glazers want a loan fee AND full coverage of his absurd wages? They have to know that isn’t warranted. The answer is they are not willing to spend money they won’t get back to pull the club up. I’m American, a Floridian, and I have actually met some of the Glazers before. They are not bad people, but “soccer” is NOT their first love priority. A club like Manchester United deserves to be helmed by someone for whom it is the first, last, and most important thing.
The dead weight needs to go, invest in ALL other areas besides just players needs to go up, there needs to be a director of football whose first and foremost visions is club success, not profit. And all of this is going to require a change in priorities by he Glazers, or a change in ownership. It costs real, unrecoverable money to fix mistakes.

 

[Kellyiom]

What's more worrying is that there's players who clearly want out but the board still haven't shifted anyone...

The squad is bloated and given its current size, any manager will have problems managing the squad harmony.

And even when for the really obvious ones like Martial, there's all these conditions and demands, there is no element of compromise so short of hanging on or making a unilateral big financial gesture, the club is stuck.

 

[Kellyiom]

SO… this is where the Glazers start to hurt. When they are pushing out millions of dollars for transfers everyone says “look, they are willing to spend.” But spending money you think you will get back, or even improve upon is not as big a commitment as people think it is.
Now you have situations like Martial: you need to get him out of the reading room. You are into him for too much. And the Glazers want a loan fee AND full coverage of his absurd wages? They have to know that isn’t warranted. The answer is they are not willing to spend money they won’t get back to pull the club up. I’m American, a Floridian, and I have actually met some of the Glazers before. They are not bad people, but “soccer” is NOT their first love priority. A club like Manchester United deserves to be helmed by someone for whom it is the first, last, and most important thing.
The dead weight needs to go, invest in ALL other areas besides just players needs to go up, there needs to be a director of football whose first and foremost visions is club success, not profit. And all of this is going to require a change in priorities by he Glazers, or a change in ownership. It costs real, unrecoverable money to fix mistakes.

Spot on, totally different culture and business model from their perspective. Something has to give.

 

[ManchesterManchester]

SO… this is where the Glazers start to hurt. When they are pushing out millions of dollars for transfers everyone says “look, they are willing to spend.” But spending money you think you will get back, or even improve upon is not as big a commitment as people think it is.
Now you have situations like Martial: you need to get him out of the reading room. You are into him for too much. And the Glazers want a loan fee AND full coverage of his absurd wages? They have to know that isn’t warranted. The answer is they are not willing to spend money they won’t get back to pull the club up. I’m American, a Floridian, and I have actually met some of the Glazers before. They are not bad people, but “soccer” is NOT their first love priority. A club like Manchester United deserves to be helmed by someone for whom it is the first, last, and most important thing.
The dead weight needs to go, invest in ALL other areas besides just players needs to go up, there needs to be a director of football whose first and foremost visions is club success, not profit. And all of this is going to require a change in priorities by he Glazers, or a change in ownership. It costs real, unrecoverable money to fix mistakes.

Couldn’t have put it better myself mate!

I have said a million times the Glazers are too poor to own Man Utd, Man Utd is rich but the glazers aren’t. They don’t have the stomach to write off their bad investments like Martial as you eluded too.

This season for example, we will finish outside top 4 because of their poor decisions yet they will not invest although we are failing. They will also continue to take dividends. Man Utd will have to foot the bill as always for their mistakes. They couldn’t give a toss.