How to fix Man United in four steps (with some help from Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City)

Do you retrieve erstwhile Manchester United's newest prima signing said this?

"We person to beryllium together. Now is not the clip to blasted anyone. Now is not the clip to look for blameworthy people," helium said. "Now is the clip to instrumentality unneurotic -- with the manager, with his staff, the players and with the radical connected the committee of the club.

"We request to transportation on, to enactment with the manager. We request to judge successful him, due to the fact that arsenic players we cognize we person to improve. It's not conscionable the manager, it's not conscionable the tactics. It's each of us. It's not the clip to blasted 1 person. We are each unneurotic successful this."

No, I'm not talking astir Matheus Cunha, oregon Bryan Mbeumo, oregon Benjamin Sesko. Not adjacent Cristiano Ronaldo, oregon Bruno Fernandes, Ángel Di María, Jadon Sancho, Memphis Depay, Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba, Harry Maguire, Bastian Schweinsteiger, oregon anyone similar that.

No, I'm talking astir Juan Mata, who'd been frozen retired of the Chelsea squad by Jose Mourinho and had joined Man United for €44.73 cardinal backmost successful January of 2014. These quotes are from April of that aforesaid year.

"When I was successful my concern astatine Chelsea, not playing, everyone I spoke with successful shot said, 'Yeah, possibly Manchester United aren't astatine their champion this play -- but it's inactive Manchester United!' It's not a squad that's conscionable played 1 play successful the Champions League and you're going to a nine that's not apical level. No, this volition ever beryllium a top-level club, 1 of the biggest successful the world. So, if you don't play Champions League 1 season, you'll play successful it the adjacent year, oregon you volition inactive triumph trophies, due to the fact that it's what the nine is about."

A fewer weeks later, David Moyes was fired earlier the extremity of his archetypal play with United, the archetypal 1 aft Sir Alex Ferguson. Ten-plus years later, you tin copy-and-paste Mata's quotes into the mouths of conscionable astir anyone who has played with the nine since: the manager gets blamed for the team's mediocre performance, 1 of the players who the manager signed defends the manager, the past of the nine gets evoked arsenic a crushed to judge successful a amended future, and past the nonaccomplishment to unrecorded up to the past of the nine gets utilized arsenic the crushed to yet occurrence that manager.

It has, literally, happened each time. First it was Moyes, past Louis van Gaal, past Jose Mourinho, past Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, past Erik 10 Hag, and astatine immoderate constituent successful the future, past says it's going to hap to Ruben Amorim.

It's astir not adjacent worthy paying attraction to United's results oregon watching the players footwear the shot -- each affirmative oregon antagonistic improvement connected a fixed play is simply a distraction from the information that United person been stuck successful ...