In all honesty - being out of Europe is probably better for their rebuild than having the pressure of CL games in the first half of the season. I know that the CL is worth at least like 80M to a club like United, and that will help them with recruitment, but their squad is an absolute shambles, and adding at least 8 must-win European games is going to cause them more problems. Not only that, but they’re likely to get humiliated in most of those matches, too, which will hurt morale and make Amorim somehow look even more hapless than he already does.
That first full season with Klopp allowed us to keep the squad small, focus on getting rid of surplus players and recruiting the core of the team we would become, as well as instilling Klopp’s philosophies in the team. If we’d had the distractions of the CL I think we would have struggled a lot more than we did.
All of this is academic anyway, they aren’t winning shit.
They don’t want to do open heart surgery. As simple as that. They need to gut their team properly, and if it means getting rid of most of their overpaid dross and finish 12th to 15th in the league for a couple of seasons , so be it.
I think Goldbridge was predicting that United would lose against Wolves. And that United fans should all be okay with the result seeing as that europa is the only thing that’s important for them.
It’s a real pity that Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich have been so poor this season, as it would have been great to see United embroiled in a real relegation scrap.
United have got 16 of their 38 points this season against the bottom three. That makes 2.67 ppg against that trio, with only a pathetic 0.81 ppg against everyone else. In any other year, they’d be right in the relegation battle.
Leicester getting into this position has a lot to do with the PL allowing Everton to survive. (And their dire performances too as well , probably in equal measure).
Had the PL not been influenced by the Everton sob story the first time around, they would have been relegated and Leicester probably survived.
Even accounting for the fact that Brendan got them into a relegation battle in the first place with a team that had no business being there.
We beat Spurs on Dec 22, our 17th game of the season, If we hadnt played another game all season we’d still have the same number of goals scored as where Utd are now and be 1 point ahead of them
I for one think the United brass should back Amorim to the tune of 300M this summer. It’s worth risking the points deduction because he’s guaranteed to take them back to the top. Amorim in!!
