Manchester United became the worse team in its history, they are 15th on the Premier League as of the time this article was published. The team surprinsgly continues to break records of mediocrity.
United have changes coaches at regular intervals, invests in everything but nothing seems to work as planned.
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For 10 years, despite winning some trophies, the disgrace continues to worsen. Today, the problem goes beyond Ruben Amorim, Marcus Rashford and all the rest…
What image does a kid or even a young adult have today of one of the biggest clubs in the world? That of a team in perpetual crisis, which blows hundreds of millions every year on players who are not worth that much.
What happened to Manchester United (the Red Devils?)
Man United has long been among the best clubs in the world. Beyond a gigantic list of achievements with 20 Premier Leagues and 3 Champions Leagues, it shone everywhere it went, defending a certain idea of English football and its power.
From Bobby Charlton to David Beckham, from George Best to Wayne Rooney, from Eric Cantona to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Since Alex Ferguson left in 2013, United have not won a championship or a Champions League and their few successes (a Europa League here, a Cup there) barely slow down the collapse. However, their resources remain colossal, their investments in the transfer market pharaonic.
” Is anyone really surprised? ” former club legend Rio Ferdinand wondered aloud on Sunday. ” I think that’s just where we are at the moment. I’m not here in complete shock. It’s so strange to think that I’ve come to expect that we could lose this game against Crystal Palace .” United have fallen into line and Sunday’s 2-0 defeat comes in a terrible sequence for Ruben Amorim who appears to be following the same path as his predecessors.
Last year, the Red Devils finished 8th. Today, they are 13th and are breaking records of mediocrity. It has been 131 years since they last lost 6 of their first 12 home games of the season. ” We are perhaps the worst team in the history of Manchester United, we have to admit that ,” the Portuguese coach said on January 19th to Sky Sports. It has been more than 35 years since the Red Devils finished a season above 10th place in the league.
As if, after so many years of falls and disgrace, Manchester United had finally hit rock bottom. Whose fault is it? The managers? United have tried everything: the confirmed English coach (David Moyes), the international references with a long list of achievements and iron discipline (José Mourinho, Louis van Gaal), the coach of the moment that Europe is fighting over (Erik Ten Hag, Ruben Amorim), the former star of the club promised a great future on the bench (Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer). All of them have crashed, to varying degrees, and have seen their careers take a very serious nosedive.
Manchester United Transfer Spendings
The problem goes far beyond the coach. It’s not a question of means either. United have spent more than… 2 billion euros in transfer fees since Ferguson left. How many players have brought real added value to the eleven? Too few.
While the fiascos, from Paul Pogba recruited for 105 million euros, Jadon Sancho (85 million), Anthony Martial (60 million), Romelu Lukaku (84.7 million) to Antony (95 million), have multiplied over the years to build a shaky and overvalued squad.
This gap between financial resources and sporting results is unprecedented in Europe. There is no precedent for a club so economically powerful and so poor on the pitch, at least over such a long period. When the decline has lasted for ten years, the accident theory does not work.
In 2022, Ralf Ragnick, who was manager of the club from November 2021 to May 2022, made a scathing observation: “We don’t even need glasses to see and analyze where the problems are.
Now it’s a question of knowing how to solve them ,” he explained. ” It’s not enough to make a few small changes, cosmetic things. In medicine, we would say that it’s open heart surgery. “
