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“Back the manager”.
Yesterday it rang in my head as I wandered the streets of Liverpool city center on a well-deserved day off. I was walking away from the screens after Liverpool’s Crazy Friday, when Diogo Jota and Thiago Alcantara walked through the door and brought with them stripes of excitement and intrigue.
However, a brief glance on Twitter yesterday, after the Manchester United scoreboard caught my eye, meant the only thing I could ponder were those three words. Crystal Palace deserved the victory, they said, supports the manager, they said, Sancho announces, they begged.
The way United have chosen to follow the 90s Liverpool mismanagement model from above now resembles a form of social experiment, far removed from the concept of the game itself. In the first season of Real detective Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey, describes time as a flat circle, talking about how everything that has happened will eventually happen again in another cycle. United is leading and testing this particular thesis today.
This is not a bother for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the fact that I do not think he is a very good coach does not matter, it is more the concept that all United problems are now solved by hiring Jadon Sancho. That suddenly makes them a team capable of competing with Liverpool.
We cannot be in glass houses, before Thiago was official, there were many who affirmed exactly the same on the Liverpool side. But when you consider how much fundamentally and structurally wrong at United is right now, you realize that Liverpool’s “problems” were incredibly first-world by comparison.
It’s a seismic change, almost to the point that it makes you forget the size of the United club. That for 20 years they had Liverpool in a corner, receiving the odd jab but never looking unstable, as he constantly beat them into submission.
You remember the losses, the envy of the trophy and the signings like Nemanja Vidic that they decided to bring under the noses of Anfield, just because they could. Jadon Sancho does not solve anything for Manchester United at the moment. And even if he could, Liverpool could decide they want to sign him next summer.
What I read on Liverpool.com
Diogo Jota, Jota and more Jota. What kind of player is Liverpool receiving? Read here. How do you add tactical flexibility to Jürgen Klopp’s team? Read here. Everything you need to know about the 23-year-old attacker.
What else am I reading
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