I think Manchester United were going all out to win the title. However, when you consider who they did and didn't sign and who they have, it's impossible to see how they'd put a functional 11 out on the field. Their priorities are all over the place. For instance, being prideful about previous signings is counter-productive. It's been obvious that Pogba wasn't doing it at a level that justified his fee for a long time. However, rather than cut their losses and move him to Madrid when they had a chance, they kept persisting and are in a position where they either make him the highest paid player in the Premier League or let him leave for free. However, they haven't even persisted with Pogba correctly. I personally don't view him as world-class but Juventus and France have got much better use out of him by playing him in a specific role and tailoring the rest of the midfield to him. So you keep hold of a player because you'll lose face by selling him but you don't do anything to make him potentially perform better. I'm not a fan of the phrase "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing time-and-again, and expecting different results" but in this case it fits like a glove. They have this bloated football structure that makes no sense, full of people with no experience or who have failed upwards. They have a football director AND a technical director, two people with basically the same job title and neither of them are doing it right. In fact, they have lots of people with Director or Head in their job title. Still major playing decisions seem to be made above their pay grade so what is the point of layers of middle management that can't influence anything? It seems to me that if Malcolm Glazer didn't become incredibly wealthy, the Glazer sons would be hanging on their father's coat-tails in whatever endeavour he ended up in. If his business never progressed past buying, selling and repairing watches, that is what they'd be doing. They don't have any useful purpose. To use an American phrase, "they started on third but act like they scored a home run". They weren't worth the expensive educations they received.

I thought their previous second placed finish was more down to other teams failings than their own form. At the start of the season I thought top four (and probably forth) would be where they finished (they still could) Rangnick settling quickly will define their season. The squad always looked good enough on paper to compete but for me the problem seemed to be the manager

You used "memory" and "logic", this is not allowed in the united pundit rule book

How about a "What on Earth is Going on with St. Pauli?" A more positive version of your series. This time last season they were in a relegation scrap, after the winter break, was the best team in the division, and currently sit in first. Their main striker was on an immense goal drought before being let go on a free from Schalke. If you wanted to watch a couple of their matches, I'd be more than happy to let you borrow my log in, they have English commentary now

These days a lot of punditry is very entertaining but often light on actual debate or criticism. Some pundits like Souness almost feel as if they're actually "embracing the meme". People like Carragher and Neville often have a lot to add to discussion and are fascinating to listen to when they are properly debating things. However, it often feels like Sky ask them to discuss very specific topics because they know it will lead to very clickable videos online. As an example, I love the moments where they look back at older moments or teams and properly analyse what made them special. It's brilliant commentary whilst also being highly entertaining. Carragher and Rafa Benitez is probably my favourite

lifelong United fan and I agree with you, pre season we were being talked about as title contenders, not sure I was ever confident about it, but certainly I expected us to be competitive at the very top before the season began. I love Ole but I think his time had definitely come to an end, Rangnick I think is a really smart appointment so hopefully he can get us top 4 at least still this season.

Day 6: Do a documentary on Guy Roux, a man who spent 44 years in total at AJ Auxerre as their manager

No I didn't have my memory wiped out. I remember very clearly how much the team struggled at many points against "smaller" teams during the last 2 seasons, more so in 20/21, despite 3rd and 2nd finishes. Whatever the pundits or bookies said before a ball was kicked this season, I was waiting for the sand castle to crumble. I also remember Gary Neville very clearly, whenever asked, constantly trying to save his friend by lowering expectations after Sancho and Varane signed. He knew, and he is one of the many complicit to the illusion of "Ole's done a great job". Anyone who thought United was nailed on for a title challenge or top 2-3 finish again was lying to themselves and conveniently forgot all the bad performances, passive in-game managements, and unsustainable over-achieving lucky escapes.

United's underlying stats all throughout Ole's tenure were worrying. They were due a falloff like this until they changed the manager. Had they got rid of him in the summer, they had a chance but if Ole stayed in charge they wouldn't have finished far off the bottom three at their pace at the time.

You have to take into account the fact that Liverpool were missing their best defender for nearly the whole season and that Chelsea were European champions. Along with Man City winning the league easily Man U were simply no where near them. It seemed quite obvious that last season was a fluke for Man U and they were still a long way off the title

I think Roy Keane was always going to be right though. It boils down to the United squad being imbalanced and having the worst manager out of United, City, Liverpool, and Chelsea with Ole. On paper they were bound to end up 4th best considering City’s consistency; Chelsea’s defensive structure; and Liverpool’s firepower. As a United fan it doesn’t surprise me that we aren’t competing on such a level. Realistically, we should be 4th overall as a team. And maybe get one up in the Cups where games are one and done

You also have to realize how important branding is with this signing. There are many young fans that have never seen United be a real title contending team. Getting in someone with the prestige of Ronaldo will do major numbers for them in terms of likeability for the next generation of fans.

Who would win if all the PL managers played in a hunger games (Forrest Terrain)

Broke: Ronaldo was signed to get through the Champions Leage Woke: Ronaldo was signed to win the league Ascended: Ronaldo was signed to prevent Man City from signing Ronaldo

My take on the points in this video: We need to remember that whilst United finished 2nd last season, it doesn't mean "well next season they're contenders right?". Finishing 4th this season would essentially be the equivelent achievement due to how much better Chelsea and Liverpool are this season compared to the last. I think Ole's sacking was inevitable if United really had ambitions of winning the title. He did a fine job of rebuilding it's true but they were always going to need someone else to go H2H with the likes of Klopp, Pep and Tuchel. The point about what they signed Ronaldo for was a bit immature from Jamie Carragher. They've already qualified for the KO stages in the Champions League (first time since 2018). You can almost singlehandedly point to Ronaldo for getting them through. Whilst their start to the Premier League has been rocky we're only in December and much could change, if they do manage to finish 4th it would not be a bad result simply because of how good the competition is this year.

Even Alfie turning full on mainstream and ignoring the Red Bull elephant. Genuinely expected better

I totally agree with your assessment of Ole leading into this season. He was a great choice to stabilize the club post Jose but their mistake was giving him another contract before this season. That added pressure to Ole and scared him when results didn’t go his way

United finished 2nd last season thanks to Liverpool playing pretty much all year without a proper CB and a makeshift midfield & Chelsea having a poor first half of the season due to Lampards performance. Not forgetting the ridiculous amount of penalties United were awarded in the first half of the season. Anyone with any semblance of football knowledge could see they finished about 2 or 3 places higher than they should have based on their performances. They were always going to struggle again this season with their rivals back to full strength and their luck with dodgy penalties drying up.

Not sure what circles you frequent Alfie, but we all laughed at the lad in our group chat who thought Man U were favorites for the title at the start of the season. Top 4 favorite sure, but there was always a drop off from City/Liverpool/Chelsea. You are right though the media had them flying once Ronaldo came in and clearly the intention was to compete and clearly they did move forward.

great video as always. honestly the public discourse around manchester united to me as an outsider always seemed completely seperated from reality and overall intensely biased.

For me, the most interesting aspect of the United collapse is that despite all the drama and lack of major success, they still remain the biggest club in world.

It's funny. A few months ago, after their great ends to the season and amazing form in the Euros, both Maguire and Shaw were praised by just about everyone and seen as great players. But after their start to this season (which I won't argue that it hasn't been bad), they're seen as terrible players and everyone has forgotten about how they played a few months ago. (I know this was mentioned in the video but it wasn't expanded upon in the way Shaw and Maguire are seen now.)

I saw ManU finishing 2nd last season as an overperformance similar to the underperformance of Brighton in the sense that they were lucky/unlucky to finish where they finished. In United's case of overperformance because Liverpool had a bunch of injuries, Chelsea had Lampard for the first portion of the season. ManUnited not having title aspirations is wrong however as clearly they did with splashing cash on Sancho, Ronaldo, etc.

I don’t think there is a rewriting of history, so much as there was a vocal portion of football fans who saw United finish second and then make 3 huge signings and said United have to win the league now, and a few months later the more measured football fans who realised United only finished second because Liverpool had an injury crisis and Chelsea had a Lampard in charge for half the season, who realised actually Varane is quite injury prone, Ronaldo doesn’t really fit the system that was in place, and United had failed to sign a quality CDM for what feels like the tenth summer in a row. Actually, was winning the title ever a realistic goal for this season? I would agree they should be doing better than they are. They shouldn’t have performed as poorly as they did against Liverpool and City, and they’ve dropped points poorly all season. I think the club agrees with that too, after the sacking of Solskjaer and with the news several players are set to leave the club. But I don’t think it’s revisionist history to say United were never going to win the league this season, whether the club was trying to with their signings or not. I think most United fans would tell you their expectations were much more reasonable. It’s only over eager fans and pundits with short memories who would have predicted United to win the league this year.

At NO point did I think United would make a title challenge this season. Getting 2nd was by default. LFC finished 6 points behind them conceding less goals with the injuries we had! As this season has proved with our results LFC/Man City play at a different level to the chasing pack

You are the best channel on this platform. Thank you for continuing to do what you do :)

Can you make a list of the greatest squads ever assembled that underperformed massively

Wow. I'd forgotten that Raul played for Schalke at the end of his career. Crazy.

I think united had a very good team by the end of last season and most importantly a settled 11 with Cavani as striker, Pogba on Lw and Greenwood as RW.. Sancho and Varane were definitely needed.. however, the signing of Ronaldo definitely caused a big stir in the plans.. and not signing a defensive midfielder was definitely the nail in the coffin.. Ronaldo's definitely starting every game policy hampered the balance of the team.. and Ole just couldn't find a tactical solution to get the best out of Ronaldo.. Cavani thrived because he had to work very hard off the ball to score goals.. meanwhile Ronaldo is a Rolls Royce.. you have to create chances for him instead of him working for them.. but he guarantees goals so you can't fault.. but thats where Ole and his management fucked up.. thinking Ronaldo and Cavani are the same type of strikers.. Although given Ronaldo has carried united this season.. but who knows how would united have played with a similar starting eleven as last season..

Man Utd should realistically be able to challenge for SOMETHING with the world class squad they have. As much as I like to make fun of Maguire, he was one of the world's best centre backs statistically last season, and with varane that defense should be solid. The midfield and attack is world class in every position except cdm, and your whole team shouldn't have to be world class to win something. Mcfred should honestly be good enough cause everyone else is world class

Thank you so much for this video. Some nonsense flying round

Everything before the season started was about Solskjaer's job being on the line if he didn't win the league after such investment. To say otherwise that Man Utd weren't ever targeting the title is nonsense.

I think a major reason everyone is trying to retroactively bin the season. Is because most of these people are incredibly misinformed on Ralf and think this is a just a caretaker job and not a foundational movement by the club to actually, and this is a crazy idea, be a football team instead of a business.

Even under ragnick united will continue the cycle theyve been for the last 4-5 years. Play solid, energetic football for a couple of months, maybe get a surprise result in their favor (idk beating liverpool in the fa cup or something like that), then slowly but surely wear down and end up the season trophyless and proud that they had a “decent” year (despite having one of the best squads in England).

They've got a wage bill 370% of the PL average and 140% that of the next highest club. (something like that I may be a little out). The idea that they should have gone into the season as anything other than title challengers is a joke. I think few things exemplify the failures at every level at Manchester United than this point about the wages. It really hits at the crux of the matter which is that they've overspend and underperformed on a statistically significant level.

First time I hear someone mentioning schalke around the situation of CR fitting in under ragnick. As a Portuguese person I just believe the man will fit in wherever he wants to, cause he’ll do the work.

There's only one problem, really; the need and desire to get an instant success. Of everything that happened at the end of Ole era, it's just up to bad luck and bad timing of injuries and off-form from some key players. What they needed was times to shake off these while new players settled in and gelled properly with the way of United being playing since Ole came in. Now, with the new manager, there are two ways this could go: 1. The players finally gelled, and could play as a team and make whatever tactic Ralf laid out, worked. 2. The team started from scratch again, making any imbalance that exists more obvious, players are getting desperate to show their quality so that they won't be offloaded elsewhere or worst, ends up on the bench just before World Cup, thus opened up for more mistakes to happen, overworked and injuries. Anyhow, I don't see letting go Ole actually making their problem any worst or any better. Players can have off-forms, it's just so happened that the current Man United squad being off together at the same time. Bad results went onto the head and make these mistakes and off-form more telling, and the manager took the chop.

Glad you made this video, because I remember thinking at the start of the year that this could be the biggest gap between the top four teams and the rest of the league in a while... and then United promptly decided to make me look like an idiot. They were "one DM away" from a title charge yet fast forward and some act as if they had Watford's squad lol.

De Gea - W.B (Dalot), Varane, Maguire, Shaw (Telles) - VdB (McTominay), Fred (Matic) - Sancho, Bruno, Rashford (Greenwood) - CR7 (Cavani, Martial)... Surely the should be aiming to win the Premier League this year or the next at most

Only reason why Man United finished 2nd last year was because Liverpool got destroyed by injuries and Chelsea had Lampard. Still United finished 12 points behind City with only 74 points, do I have to remind you that Liverpool and City both finished with 90+ points for numerous times in the last 5 years? City even managed to hit 100 points. And you are gonna tell me that a United team that can barely get 74 points can compete with that?

As a United fan I always try to be as objective as possible when it comes to any opinions on the club. But I seriously cannot understand people who say signing Cristiano Ronaldo was a mistake…If your club has the chance to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, you sign him. There is no debate, he’s one of if not the best players of all time, how on earth do you turn down the prospect of having him at your club?…

Roy Keane is wrong. Look at the splash signings they've made in the last 3 seasons - Sancho, Varane, Ronaldo, Cavani, Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Fernandes. That's an incredible amount of star power to bring in - all top players in their positions - and money to splash out (plus van de Beek and Dan James who cost £60m combined) in just 3 seasons. They should be competing right at the top of the league right now.

As always, great video. Also day four of asking "What on Earth is going on at Atlético Tucumán"?

My fave part of this vid is when u put up Eddie howe's pic and said "anyhow"

Keane and Carragher probably aren't idiots. They know a heated debate over Ronaldo will get views, they'd argue over the price of a matchday pie if that's what people wanted to see.

HITCSevens, please do a video about the best XI in the Premier League since 1992 in each position e.g Schmeichel, Cech in goal, Neville, Azpilicueta, Walker at right back. It would be brilliant.

With al due respect and even owning a Solskjaer jersey myself...as long as he was manager United was never gonna get a Premier League, last year was more a string of good results while everyone else collapsed around them. But the part that they reinforced the squad to aim for titles is indeed true, or at least thinking about the long run, save for CR7

Pundits have a memory going back one match. Everything else is ancient history.

Keane just failed to think on his feet. Instead of tying himself to this silly "to win cups" comment, he could have just said that the signing of Ronaldo was done to improve the team/squad, which is self-evident and can't realistically be dismissed.

I thought the exact same thing. They got second and objectively upgraded, so the thought they suddenly wouldnt be even be close ti winning the PL made no sense to me. City didnt do anything in the transfer period and sure Chelsea got significantly better, but still it would be logical to say they would do better than last year

TOP 7 RECOVERIES FROM "CAREER ENDING" INJURY WHETHER IT OCCURRED ON THE PITCH OR NOT , WITH RESPECT TO ERIKSEN AND AGUERO...

Im a United fan, before the season started we had the 4th best squad in England, a squad which is also massively unbalanced at that. I never believed we'd win the league but I did think we'd at least challenge.

So many good points, where to start! 1) CR7 would not sign with a team that could not compete for the PL 2) New coach has shown he fits bests players 3) Before the season MANU were in the top4 conversation, and fighting for 1st place, etc...

In my country Sweden, were public service still plays a vital role, pundits are often more neutral, tactically driven and use their brain more than their heart. Most of their coverage is built on analysis and statistics rather than to let loose their inner supporters and to moan about how bad the situation is for their club. That factor has always made me cringe when I watch the Sky Sports pundits. The metaphor with the chimpanzee sums up my whole experience with Sky Sports. It seems to me that all those pundits are there just because they were successful players and not because they are competent pundits. I seldom listen to Sky Sports discussions anymore because I can't stand the bias, the public support and the overly passionate nature of the pundits. If I want to listen to supporters moan and discuss I can meet my friends, have a beer and watch the matches on the couch. If I want to listen to pundits I want neutrality, objectivity and calm discussions, and that's why I always take the swedish pundits more serious than the english pundits. Most of the pundits in Sweden were crap players, yet they are superior in terms of punditry, probably because they are journalistically educated and not taken in because they have a famous name. They feel that they could use T.V. to make a difference in terms of punditry and not as an opportunity to moan about how pissed they are because their club is crap. That said, this tendency is more appearent in the coverage of our domestic league than in the coverage of international football, since our coverage of PL, La Liga and Serie A starts to go in the path of Sky Sports. That's a shame and I hope it ends sooner or later, since that's not the kind of punditry I'm comfortable with.

1) Moyes out of his depth 2) Van gaal having the philosophy of 80 percent 2 shots off target 3) Mourinho, Mourinho 4) Solskjaer back to club values, but had to clear up 3 previous managers hole digging and never had the respect He did a good job and built a good squad but it went full ranieri. Seems like the lesson they've learnt is that no one can do this job on there own and they need to change to management structure in the club to take the pressure off the coach. End of an era, you will never see a Ferguson or a Clough again at the top level.

Shows Eddy Howe's picture and says "Any Howe"... Nice

Please do a video explaining Why it is difficult if clubs to rewrite their glory days after experiencing a slump. Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester United are among some of the clubs that have struggled, recent years, to rewrite their glory days. What are their common mistakes what can they do to get back to their best?

Ronaldo was signed to prevent city from getting him.... End of

What i see in the comments talking about how last season was a step forward and etc etc, didnt notice or mentioned that the were mostly playing counter attacking whether it be at home or away.. They got all the way to second (heck even went top) but never truly could sustain any momentum towards that part before man city flew pass for that stretch of period (4 games in january) that ole and Manchester united couldn't get win..Just shows how of a fluke that second place was..

Oles buddies are re-writing history to protect him. You’ll see them claim that he “fixed the club behind the scenes” and that “he left the club in a better place”

What's going on at Sheffield wednesday day 50

Last season was a false dawn for Man Utd for numerous reasons and Liverpool had an injury crisis and didn't even have a proper defense for most of the season it was always going to be a struggle to maintain a title challenge although I didn't expect things to go so sour for Ole Gunner Solskjaer this season but the task was simply too much for him and United had no choice but to act.

I agree with this video, I myself thought the addition of Varane was big and considering they finished 2nd last season, I thought Man U were decent value at 9/1.

I've been binging on these videos lately since I've been ill and had to go to hospital.

14:18 well even though Barca and Milan are rebuilding it can not be said that they are not as big clubs as Real and Juve respectively both economically, culturally & economically!

united were never going to immediately be a compact team when they literally brought in half of a new starting 11. sadly, they psychologically sank as well and it cost them the whole beginning of a season. it's true that they weren't going to be a title contender and it was visible from the first ball they kicked when the season began.

Ole often was 5th or 6th best manager of the traditional top 6. When he was sacked he was the 5th best manager in league, only ahead of Arteta. His players struggled, outside of the period of time they got a astronomical amount of penalties, when forced to possess the ball and take the game to defensive sides, which occurs in most the games United play. Ultimately, they needed a manager that can make players more comfortable on the front foot, breaking down low blocks, and pressing, neccesary when playing any team that not one of 5 or 6 teams.

Can we get a "what on concacaf series?"

Seeing as Swindon are now playing city in fa cup 3rd round can you do what the hell happened at Swindon town

I had Chelsea to win, then figured united and City would be 2nd and 3rd with 2nd going to whichever focused more on the league than CL. I had Liverpool in 4th because I looked at the squads and figured they had a weaker squad than the other 3 and generally that balances out over a season. How very wrong I was lol.

I took Keane saying that Ronaldo was brought in to help Utd challenge for cups was him saying that it was unrealistic for people to expect Utd to challenge for the league this season since last season was a false finish because Chelsea did poorly under Lampard and Liverpool had the injuries. He kept saying “that’s their level. That’s where they are right now”, and one considered where Utd would have finished had Liverpool and Chelsea not had issues last season, and where Utd are now, his point is valid. Utd are a cup team. That is their level and I don’t think that one has to change the history of expectation in order to agree.

What happend to the Jordy??

Excellent and interesting as usual.

I rememberthinking the team was unbalanced and had a major problem with the Manager. But a lot of my friend thought they would challenge for everything. As a Bayern fan I thought they were delusional.

People also forget that before Christmas last season, Pep basically stated he thought they couldn't win the league.

While Manchester United might re-write history I will rewrite this video suggestion: Day 6: Top 7 football clubs that have similar logos (FC Barcelona and Consolat Marseille, Benfica Lisbon and Hamm Benfica)

U gonna do a vid on Ajax winning 6 groupstage games?

United had a balanced formation at the start of the season and started with a bang. Then they signed Ronaldo and had to wedge him into the starting 11 which unbalanced Fernandes as the playmaker, Cavani as forward, etc and afterwards everything fell apart.

11:46 Lovely photo selection :D !

Has someone shared this with Terry at The Football Terrace?

They got some ground work to do

Anyone that thought united would win the league with Fred and McTominay in midfield and Ole in charge is either absolutely clueless or inanely deluded. Yes we made some good signings but we didn’t address our two biggest weaknesses from last season which was the two holding midfield positions

Maguire never looked like a United captain he was poor for 2/3 of the season last season, United were suppose to be in a title race but Solskjear was sooo pooor he single handedly put us out the title race, we lost 5 games in under him while liverpool, city and chelsea lost 1 or 2…. But now we have Ragnick so top 4 is still nailed on but solskjear damaged our season.

thought this was going to be about how everyone now believes Man Utd played really aggressive attacking football under Fergie

Even if they were intending to challenge, they were still clearly at least 2 or 3 seasons from actually being a serious contender.

my top 4 preseason was Liverpool, City, Chelsea, United and i have not changed my mind though west ham have been brilliant

I'm definitely not the only one who rewinds to see Eddie Howe when I hear Anyhow

Isn't punditry just a glorified commentary? Not sure if I have understood that correctly, though. Besides, still love the consistency of Eddie Howe pun.

Roy Keane always thinks that United are underperforming also-rans who couldn't hold a candle to his United teams. He would say that barely a handful would be good enough to get into his title winning squads, therefore United cannot be considered challengers.

Manchester United have been close to the title for a while now but outside of maybe a 3 month period under Mourinho I don't think Man U ever looked like a real title challenging team (I always thought that these Ole teams just looked like good teams on red hot form not actually great teams (especially with Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City) despite being very close position wise, Mourinho even said finishing 2nd with Manchester United was his greatest managerial accomplishment. In hindsight Manchester United were eventually going to have a bad season and that bad season was going to come before a really good one but with the signings of players like Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane who couldn't blame you for thinking this Man U team were within striking distance of winning the league

Great and balanced video as always. Breath of fresh air compared to a lot of football sensationalist drivel published every second. I'll preface this comment by saying it was time for Ole to leave, especially when the club actually had an actual alternative other than Poch. Thank you for backing Ole's skills as a manager, and actually recognising his achievements at Man Utd.

I don't think United were realistic candidated for title this season, but after last season and summer transfer window, I believe top 4 was, or was supposed to be a done job. I still think we will finish in the top 4 with Rangnick. That being said, I do think that United are one or two starting XI signings away from very serious title challenge.

I'm not in the UK, but amongst my football fan friends, there was never any doubt that United wouldn't challenge for the title. Their points tally last season was relatively low, and the finished second based on everyone else having issues. Ronaldo in our view was always going to score goals, and somehow make United worse, like he did with his last season with Juventus. We were joking at the beginning of the season as to how the bookies had United the second favorites to win the league. We genuinely felt like we were in a vacuum, surrounded by solid United propaganda.

All of this makes you realise how amazing Alex Ferguson was, bringing massive consistent success over literal decades. It seems as though the club is chasing that ghost and can’t quite get it right. When the new manager comes in after Rangnick that will be another 3-5 years of rebuilding and that’s assuming the right guy comes in that can get the job done. Man City took 4-5 years and Liverpool took 3 years and that was with the best managers around. It cannot be stressed how important it is for Man Utd to get in a manager of the level of Pep and Klopp in this next appointment - or else they could have a Liverpool on their hands and still be waiting for another league title in 30 years time. It’s already coming up to 10 years since they won the league - what’s another 20 between friends? ☺️

Mate go look at Sir Alex Ferguson’s first 7 years at Man Utd 86/87-92/93 we finished 11th 86/87 2nd 87/88 & 13th 88/89 our first trophy was the FA Cup in the 89/90 season then the European Cup Winners Cup in 90/91 then we won the Premier League in 92/93. The rebuilding & the fixing of the club was always going to take 7 years & if you look at Ralf Radnock even he back a project that is built over a 7 year time period with patents. So Potch will come in & get 4 seasons to complete the project & complete the project the United while playing a 4-2-2-2 high line high pace gegonpressing attacking football. The clubs poor running of the club & the poor judgement of hiring & firing managers by the board & the fans not giving time or having real patents. That’s why Sue Alex Ferguson backed the Ralf Radnick deal for 6 months then 2 years upstairs with Sir Alex Ferguson Darren Fletcher & John Murtough controlling the football decisons of the club. Moving the club Foward & hopfully winning our trophy back around 25/26 maximum. If we keep hiring & firing managers we will repeat our history of going 26 years without a league title from 66/67-92/93 this time it will be 12/13-37/38. Fact Ronaldo was signed by Joe Glazer to generate money as a Glazer cash cow it had nothin about him playing & winning trophies. What the plan was under Ole & continues under Ralf Radnick & will be finished by Potch is fixing & rebuilding the United way. I’m speaking as a ex manager & player of the beautiful game & as a Man Utd supporter since 1986 for 35 years Fans today where mostly born during our successful era under Sir Alex Ferguson & know nothin about the clubs history & know nothin about the sacrifices fans like me & older had to go though& they are deluded thinking we can copy Chelsea Man City & Liverpool we are not them & we do it the United way & now the unthinkable delusional fans thought wouldn’t come & now they are paying the sacrifices we did from 86/87-92/93 & they think hiring & firing will fix it but no it won’t it will just bring us closer to repeating history.

Hey Alfie, been a bit busy lately but still see NO SIGN of that sub-Saharan Africa club Best XI I've been asking for. Great video btw!!

“Two deaf chimpanzees” - then at 00:58 a picture of Martin Keown, brilliant 🤣

You do wonder whether former footballers are the best people for punditry, given that they'll say any old shite to help one of their old team mates out.

I was thinking "didnt they just come in second last season" for the first 2 minutes of the video. In the world of 24 hour TV news/reporting stuff gets cranked to 11 aka a lot of hyperbole to keep masses engaged.

Ronaldo would only need to spend his last years in europe in the best league and therefore being more relevant that at Juventus. the one point you missed, Alfie.