I didn't say it was black and white. It's an opinion piece, the reasons for which I have forwarded more than once, as have a number of others - so clearly not something I have just pulled out of the air and evidence that it is possible for someone other than one with a 'gripe' about Bruno to think this.
And I agree that Bruno was one of the best in that team. That is also my point. That is a team in which Bruno showed the very best of his capabilities. It just wasn't a good enough team. And anyone who watched the games would be able to see why. You could replace Rashford with Mbappe in the hope that he could produce more 'moments' than Rashford. But that is still the best you can hope for. The team came second and third, but played nowhere near the type of football as the team that came first, and were still, even in terms of points, way off the very best. You mention all these players we could replace - these players were playing just as well as Bruno ffs. Rashford for Mane - pretty sure Rashford scored more goals than Mane even. Martial got 21 goals. Cavani came in and got about 18. And your suggestion is to replace them with not Messi - but Jota?! Jota is a perfect example of a player able to fit into the system of a top team, he's not a better individual than our forwards, give or take for form.
Let's even get to the point. You watched the games yourself when we finished second and third. You also saw we were miles off winning the league, despite most of our players considered to have played well, especially in the first season. So if you had to turn that same team into title winners, what would you do in the market that you would honestly believe would get it done? If the only answer you can think of is 'buy Mbappe, Verratti, Van Dijk, Haaland' etc - then that just proves my point. Because that isn't what we were up against ourselves. Our rivals had good players playing as great teams. So who from 20/21 would you have upgraded and to make that same team good enough to fight for the league? I mean, we went and added Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane to it and still looked miles off. It's clear as day that we needed to go back to the drawing board and stop this clueless percentage football we have played that worked under Sir Alex but does not in today's game. We needed a new coach, not just for the sake of it, but we needed a new coach BECAUSE we needed to modernise the way we play in order to play a level /brand of football that could compete with the two teams capable of winning the league. Teams that were not full of all the world's best individuals themselves, but they at had the qualities to play the right way. Once we got that coach, we then, obviously, need to get players in that image. In your own opinion, forget mine, is Bruno in such image? This is the simple sequence I have followed to arrive at this thread, so if you disagree with it, tell me which part and why.