Said before, I think he’s the right man, at least for now. My reasoning is simple - for the first time in years, I cannot look at Manchester United and day any of the first XI (and beyond, arguably), are not playing to their best. Every single member of the team is playing to the level I think they should be. That makes the rest simpler. Their best isn’t all good enough and they need some more quality, but in the past, we’ve been shorter on performance than we are on quality.
Beyond that, you need to always ask ‘what do you hope to achieve with a new manager?’. I can’t say what SPECIFICALLY I want a new manager to have done this season, apart from a layman’s ‘win more games’. Looking at our matches though, we could (and should) have easily won more games, and a combination of injuries and bad luck have stopped us, which could have happened to any manager. Missing pens against Wolves and Palace cost us points, an individual error (and injuries) stopped us from beating Arsenal, and bad luck (and injuries) stopped us beating Liverpool. We were easily the better side in these games, and on another season, would have won. The players ‘turned up’, which they have been accused of not doing in the past in games like this, and did their best. A new manager is just a new manager.
Players are improving at United for the first time since Fergie. Before just recently, almost no player we have signed post Fergie has gotten better here. It used to even be a joke in the TF in player threads how ‘it doesn’t matter anyway, as soon as he comes here he will turn to shit’. This is not the feeling I have anymore. Especially with the precision seemingly being put into selecting the players we are going after. I think we’re about 3 first XI players short of a title challenge now, and about 5 or 6 ideally years when considering squad depth.
