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Koeman could get the boot from Barca pretty soon and end up at OT

Here’s the cycle since 2013.

-Manager hired

-players signed regardless of importance to what team needs (or even if manager really wants them) , always question marks over who decides on signings but manager is blamed regardless cause they don’t come out on tv and say it (or some journalist says it so it must be true)

-players form falls off a cliff , managers fault, team is always considered better then it’s showing, this is man United , standards should be higher and stuff

-When most players (before Bruno) or manager leave their reputations are in tatters and they have to try and rebuild their careers (except zlatan)

-hire new manager

-Players get contract extensions regardless of form or requirement, some players signed immediately, not clear what role manager plays in either of these things but who cares right?!

Rinse , repeat, ending in “yeh the problem was the manger all along”.. Who chooses these managers?

Meanwhile, Barca, Chelsea , City and Liverpool have all different kinds of managers who are mostly able to at the very least keep their clubs in the top 4 and mount a decent challange every 2 years or so. But if United could just of chosen any other manager but the 4 they have chosen in 8 years, it would of been so much better?!

The only reason the “Ole needs to be replaced” argument holds any weight this season is because it is finally a strong looking squad that you would of expected any potential United manager to of inherited anytime over the last 8 years. This squad really should give it a good lash this season so expectations are correctly higher and a replacement manager would have a better chance then Moyes/LVG/Jose because they would inherit a strong squad.

But pretty much every manager taking over at Chelsea or Barca or City or Madrid, they always inherit a really strong squad and get a few quid to top it up. United managers usually inherit disjointed, unbalanced , demoralised squads , are given a few quid to spend while Woodward fails to offload players who are not needed (and gets f**k all for those he actually can sell cause he gave them stupid contracts) and we are limited in how quickly changes can be made.

And why did Ole get so many top targets in the summer , when so often United managers are left short or with alternative signings? Because of the Super league fiasco. So it’s taken the glazers f**king up , with their arrogant attitude to fans, treating us like sh*te and fans actually fighting back, for them to make the signings any United manager needs (or has needed) to make the squad look capable of challenging proper for top honors.

The fact United has spent so much money and has been so far away from challenging from either of the top 2 trophies is mostly down to the glazers. They are the ones who control finances, who control changes needed, who put people in positions to run the club (including managers) and who decide how the club will be run on the football side. If they are even just copied and pasted whatever it is Chelsea or City or Liverpool do, it would be an improvement. But instead they plough away with their failed way of running the club, with human shields (managers, the goto fallguys in football) protecting them from any meaningful scrutiny. “Yeh club isn’t great but manager…..”

United spends more then enough to challenge for top honors , they should of even fluked a big trophy at this stage. But their clusterf*ck way of running the club is mirrored by how their bucs team broke records in how much they didn’t make the playoffs for over a decade.

Every issue at the club starts and ends with those incompetent and apathetic degenerates at the helm. This is what’s been seperating United on field from comparable spending clubs and other elite clubs. Even look at some of the people posting in here , desperate for Ole to be replaced, they wouldn’t be surprised if the glazers hired a completely inadequate replacement that suited whatever agenda they had at the time.

Fans are like Sam in quantum leap , Trapped in the past, United finds itself leaping from manager to manager, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that the next manager will be the one who brings the EPL home.