The owners of Manchester United may never get it right. The best they can hope for this season is a place in the Europa League, even though they were rewarded with a Super Bowl title when they signed Tom Brady. Two minutes after Marcos Alonso's volleyed opener,Ronaldo equalized with a second-half goal to take his league goal tally to 18. The only player with more goals this season is Mohamed Salah. You can watch FC Daily on the internet.
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This United team is so bad, so bereft of confidence, that even the incredible contribution ofRonaldo has only been good enough to take them into sixth position in the table. Manchester City andLiverpool are both 25 and 24 points clear of United, so they are still in the running for the title.
The rest of the team has been so bad that their heroics have been unable to carry the club to glory this season, despite the fact that they have been led by a player who has scored eight of their past nine goals.
By signing both of them, it shows you how the Glazers roll the dice as owners, even though the two most famous figures in modern sports play completely different ballgames. They place a huge value on the individual star name, hoping their personality and reputation can transform an average team into a winning one, at the same time as delivering an increase in commercial revenue.
It worked for the Bucs, who won their first Super Bowl in 18 years after signing Brady for the 2020 season, but it wasn't enough for United to be inspired by sporting miracles. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Falcao, Di Maria,nchez, and Pogba are all free agents this summer and have failed to match Brady's success.
The fans blame the American owners of United for years of stagnation as the anti-Glazer protests showed. Since the takeover of United in 2005, the Glazers have been unpopular. The success of Sir Alex Ferguson is no longer relevant, and it has been five years since the last trophy.
The barren run was caused by failed managerial appointments and wasted money in the transfer market. The mismanagement at the training ground has left United with a poor squad and an interim manager who is expected to accept the role of Austria coach, leaving his planned role as a consultant at Old United in doubt.
The run of one win in seven games is over. It is safe to assume that United will not be pleading with Solskjaer to ignore his Austrian escape route since he was fired in November after winning two of his last seven.
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The blunt assessment of the players and the decision-making of the hierarchy has become popular among many United fans, but he has also cleverly diverted the scrutiny from his own shortcomings in terms of man management, tactics and selection. Everyone is looking for someone else to blame and trying to protect their own reputation, while the fans continue to call for the Glazers to sell up and leave.
It is a club that seems desperate for this season of turmoil to end, with everyone waiting for the incoming coach from Ajax to start the job of rebuilding confidence and belief and restoring some hunger and pride to the squad.
Ten Hag will inherit a lot of problems, but not one of them. The fans will never accept the Glazers, but ten Hag can only deal with that by building a winning team that gives the supporters something positive to focus on.
He needs to have the qualities of Brady and Ronaldo in order to bring the good times back to United.
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