United are screwed for as long as the Glazers stick around. But Joel and Avram weren’t phoning it in at Brentford. These players must go too…
A fish rots from the head down and so do Manchester United. We know the root of most of their problems stem from the boardroom and maybe the Red Devils are damned for as long as the Glazers’ name is above the door. But even if they were owned by a Taliban/Isis consortium, the players and staff at Old Trafford would have no excuse for what they have just served up at Brentford.
The first 45 minutes showed just how broken United are. Another new nadir for a team who, when you think they’ve hit rock bottom, manage to dig deeper still.
The 4-0 defeat to Brighton at the end of last season was desperately bad, as low as we thought they could go. By that trip to the AmEx, United’s players had downed tools for Ralf Rangnick and the board had long since stopped listening to him. It was a disgraceful display of arrogance and entitlement, traits which needed to be driven out of the dressing room this summer.
But, despite the arrival of Erik ten Hag, United remain an utter disgrace.
Ten Hag will carry the can, and some of his decisions in his first two games warrant scrutiny. But the Red Devils’ malaise is bigger than the boss. No manager out there is capable of reviving the braindead bunch of surrender monkeys currently being paid huge sums to phone it in for Manchester United.
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Now, surely, we can move away from the notion that this is a talented squad capable of better things under the right manager. Many of this mob have seen off multiple managers. Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Rangnick… the time has long since passed where we ought to have been looking more intently at the common denominator: the players.
They’re just not very good. Technically and tactically, collectively, they are falling further behind their former contemporaries. Not in the pay scale, obviously. But none of the aforementioned managers were able to play the style of football they would have wished to because the players are simply not capable of it.
It took Rangnick two games to suss that they could not press or play quickly enough to make a success of the formation he has used everywhere else he has been. Unless he’s as thick as the players staring blankly back at him, Ten Hag must have reached the same conclusion even more swiftly.
If that…
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