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Manchester United have only managed to simplify their shopping list.
They need a couple of centers, a different executive vice president and a new manager, or their season will be over.
The English Premier League is often described as too complex, but the Red Devils’ miserable 6-1 home loss to Tottenham Hotspur this morning (Singapore time) brings sudden clarity.
| MAN UNITED | TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR |
| one | 6 |
| (Bruno Fernandes 2 pens) | (Tanguy Ndombele 4, Son Heung-min 7, 37, Harry Kane 30, 79-pen, Serge Aurier 51) |
Forget the price, Harry Maguire has become a liability. Eric Bailly was given the thankless task of being Maguire’s last partner, which is like the partner who joins forces with the protagonist of a cop buddy movie.
It never gets to the end of the movie. Bailly won’t make it to the end of the season alongside Maguire. Neither has the qualities of a Manchester United center-back.
How the Red Devils sank into such pitiful depths of defensive incompetence is painfully easy to explain.
In the stands, Ed Woodward fiddled with his mask. In the dugout, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer played the violin while Old Trafford burned.
The hesitant pair somehow allowed the fallen giants to make it into the final days of the transfer window without reinforcing a weak team enough, naively believing that Bruno Fernandes’ form in Project Restart might be enough to carry them along. a full season.
And the frankly ridiculous ties to Edinson Cavani should be grounds for firing both men. A slowing 33-year-old Uruguayan striker offers no solution to any of United’s many problems.
Cavani does not help a team that conceded four goals in the first half at home for the first time in the EPL era. Cavani doesn’t address Maguire’s disoriented course to the Spurs’ first goal, or Bailly’s lack of focus for the second, or the misjudgment of Bailly’s pass for the third, or Maguire went crazy for the fourth.
A fading superstar shouldn’t focus on the erratic transfer transactions of Woodward, who has sanctioned expenses totaling £ 500 million (S $ 882.3 million) net in the past five years, or an inexperienced manager painfully outside his scope.
Solskjaer’s legendary club status has provided a safety net that is now doing more harm than good to both parties.
DEATH
Between the manager and the executive vice president, the pair conspired to form a ramshackle team that still lacks a left back and a wide forward, on top of a couple of center-backs and still can’t stop Paul’s depressing disappearance. Pogba.
As Tottenham chased and stalked, the isolated Anthony Martial barely appeared until his meek slap found Erik Lamela’s face after half an hour and earned the Frenchman a weak red card.
But Solskjaer would do well not to blame the loss of a man too much, when the plot was already lost.
José Mourinho’s spirited 4-3-3 formation dominated possession, chances and shots on goal, as his team advanced at every opportunity.
Son Heung-min earned a corset for trashing Aaron Wan-Bissaka and the hapless Bailly. Harry Kane also scored twice, humiliating his desperate England teammate Maguire along the way.
Tanguy Ndombele and Serge Aurier scored the other goals and deservedly. Tottenham’s victory was easy.
United lacks any semblance of a consistent recruiting policy, struggling to get rid of deadwood let alone secure worthwhile replacements. And his manager, always reluctant to defy Woodward’s indecision, continues to behave like a club mascot that gets a last-minute cameo on the field.
He still can’t believe they gave him the job.
But the concert is over, surely. Six goals against Spurs at home, three goals against Crystal Palace at home, these numbers are not read as statistics. They are a charge sheet.
Solskjaer has always said that managing his beloved club is a dream job, but sentimentality has sustained the status quo for quite some time.
The dream is over. Bring the poor out of their misery.
UNITED MAN:
De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Bailly, Shaw, Pogba, Matic (Fred 46), Greenwood (van de Beek 67), Fernandes (McTominay 46), Rashford, Martial
TOTTENHAM:
Lloris, Reguilon, Dier, Sánchez, Aurier, Ndombele (Alli 69), Hojbjerg, Sissoko, Son (Davies 73), Kane, Lamela (Moura 46)
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