This should be the line in the sand for Manchester United but that has been said countless times. Liverpool absolutely humiliated them.
1) To be honest, drawing 16 Conclusions on that has the same vibe as a throwaway piece of five things we learned during a club’s latest training session. For Liverpool, that really was a stroll around the cones. Their opponents were utterly embarrassing, from Alisson’s fourth minute Cruyff turn on Bruno Fernandes, to Martin Atkinson sticking a fork in Manchester United as a response to Diogo Dalot almost completing the mirror image of October’s decimation with an own goal.
Never before has a team been so thoroughly, regularly and publicly deconstructed to the sporadic glee of the baying masses. Mo Salah casually saying “they make our life easier in the midfield and in the back” after the game was crushing analysis of the single most comfortably one-sided season in this rivalry’s history.
2) It was after a chastening 4-0 defeat on Merseyside that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer once declared of his players, “some of them won’t be here next year,” following a performance “not worthy of a Man United team”.
That thrashing at Everton was on April 21 of 2019. Almost exactly three years later, David de Gea, Victor Lindelof, Phil Jones, Dalot, Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic and Marcus Rashford all reprised their starting roles for a display that was even worse. That XI being warned over their immediate futures and seven not only still being at the club but playing in such a prominent game so long after is a nonsensical equivalent to children continuing to misbehave because they do not fear the consequences of the guardian punished for their misbehaviour, nor the step-parent they know won’t be there long.
A line has to be drawn. The expiration of certain contracts dictates a certain level of churn but at least four of those that started against Liverpool must be moved on as soon as possible; history cannot be allowed to…
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