It’s 2025; the outlook for Manchester United is not looking all that for this season. We have to acknowledge that. So why has it gotten this bad? Who do we blame for it being this bad? Manchester United are fighting to save it’s soul and it’s identity. The club we once were is not there anymore. Not just in terms of success or significant trophies but on the entire magnitude of just where we’re at.
We have players at the club that are not at the level needed, nor do they inspire confidence. We’ve recruited badly due to an ownership that has no knowledge of how to run a football club. You look at INEO’s coming in, and the situation is still the same. Because the Glazers are the ones still calling the shots and commercially benefiting from one billion Manchester United fans that are travelling and buying shirts.
There is no other club other than Manchester United that would allow this to happen. We’re victims of our past success with Sir Alex Furguson. Because ultimately, what is continuing to happen is a cycle of running the club like a business. It’s not the football club it used to be.
That’s even with the supposed footballing people at the top. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change until we’re taken over again and we’re not run as a major asset anymore. An asset that is being milked and drained for everything it has and saddled in debt that is nearing bankruptcy.
If you think that is neive, then think again; we’re looking at not buying anyone in the transfer window and are using the same excuses for it.
That’s a big problem, because yes, we spent £600 million on recruitment in the past, but not a lot of it was spent well. We’ve been sacking people left right and centre, and the mismanagement in the entireity is mostly evident in everything we’ve had to do recently to make up for those costly mistakes. So even as a business, the conclusion to that is they’re not any good at that either. It’s a circus, and the clowns are continuing to run the show.
Of course, Manchester United fans are upset with the ownership. We wouldn’t be fans otherwise. This is not your average everyday run-of-the-mill ownership. This leveraged buyout wouldn’t happen today. There are no excuses for the kind of stuff that’s been happening at Manchester United recently. It doesn’t matter who owns us; the story continues until real change happens to our owners and we’re not mismanaged.
We’ve all witnessed as fans what is happening. It’s not just about a football team doing rubbish anymore. The culture has become poisoned to the core in every department of that club, and we’ve become a poisoned chalice for any manager to undertake. We can continue to blame the players on the field, or we can start realising what the real problem has always been.
We are here because of years of neglect to a football institution that deserves a hell of more respect than what it’s getting. Yes, we have players that are not up to task and are not playing for the shirt. That’s one part of the culture you need to reset. The only way you do that is by removing those that do not want to be part of the project going forward.
People are talking about relegation, and on form it looks that way. But to be honest, I’ll support Manchester United no matter what league we’re in. This club is adored by the ones that matter. Ultimately, if it does happen, it could be the reset we need to finally remove the problems at the club. No matter what, though, Manchester United will always remain, no matter what happens next. After all, being united is all we will ever know. We owe it to ourselves to do all we can as fans to continue to back Amorim and call out every decision that makes his job more difficult in the long run.
Written by Craig Clark
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