It did not make good viewing did it!
The wait for Manchester United’s 2020 / 2021 season came to an end yesterday when they kicked their season off with a home fixture against Crystal Palace.
It was a game that Manchester United were expected to win after all Manchester United have a lovely habit of winning their opening fixtures and with title aspirations growing, it was a game we expected to win.
The script surely did not point to a Crystal Palace win, but that was how it ended, with Manchester United comprehensively beaten.
Okay, we might want to moan about the penalty decision and the twice taken penalty affecting the game, but Crystal Palace looked far more fluent going forward.
Manchester United looked jaded and looked as far away as ever when it comes to challenging for Liverpool’s crown.
They say that you can, in the modern game, only afford to lose 3 games if you wish to challenge for the title, well, any more performances like that will soon end that title dream.
After the game, speaking to the media and as reported by The BBC, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer had this to say:
“You can see we are short, and they deserved the points.
“Today was a performance you don’t see very often from this group. We should look at ourselves in the mirror. Everyone knows we can perform better than this.”
So where has it all gone wrong so soon?
Has the clubs’ minimal transfer activity been the problem?
We look around and see that Liverpool and Chelsea have been bold in the market whereas it all seems to have been transfer tittle-tattle when it comes to Manchester United, all talk and no end product as they might say.
Here at Vital Manchester United, we are looking forward to what you have to say on the subject matter, who do you think is to blame and where do the problems lie.
Please feel free to drop your views into the comment facility beneath this article.
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Manu must go to the market for new central left footed defender. Need also to think of using Rojo and Maguire as new partnership. Need to use Bisaka as compulsory number 2 , Matic as number 6 along side Van beek. Rashford should be benched and use Martial to play number 11, Fenandez in number 10, Greenwood as number 7 and Ighalo as number 9.
The glazer’s including Ed Woodward are most definitely to blame ….it’s not their Football Club, it’s their cash cow. BUT, I blame the fans including myself — because we have allowes this to go on for 10 years and we shouldn’t allow this to go on any longer! We should GO ON STRIKE and stop supporting Man United in every way and hit them, the Glazer’s where its the hardest [STOP the shirt sales and STOP watching live games]
A continues loss of revenue is the only way that will force the Glazer’s to sell the club…
STOP ALLOWING ED WOODWARD & COMPANY TO RUN OUR FOOTBALL TEAM INTO THE GROUND…
LET’S TAKE ACTION NOW
There is a perception, whether it’s true or not, that the Glazers hold the strings to purchases, are not that bothered if United win the league or don’t and everything stems outward from there. There seems no clear, unequivocal intent from the top to succeed and a strong statement from the Glazers would work wonders for the morale of the fan base to start with. As for the game with Crystal Palace, after the first twenty minutes I could see Place were more intent on a win than United. With the obvious buzz surrounding other teams’ transfer successes and the boost it’s given them as opposed to United’s failures to strengthen, Patrice Evra’s despondence, disappointment before the game seemed to have reached the whole team. I also think that Rashford’s new political interests haven’t helped his football career. At the moment I have no confidence that we won’t have a repeat of last year, losing to every lower team. There is no sure consistency in the team. Is that the manager?
sign koulibaily and sancho. bring back smalling into the team if cant sign a central back. another striker is need.
Unfortunately the club is owned by people who measure success in a different way to the fans of the club. They are interested in the bottom line of a balance sheet. They have little interest in success on the field. The fans think in the opposite way entirely.
Until the club is owned by people who see success on the fields as a priority, recent history will continue to be the norm.
There is little else to say. Managers come and go but are contained by the same shackles. It breaks my heart but that is how it is.
For me I don’t think we will challenge and win major trophies until we get a change of ownership and then rid of woodwards incompetence
For way to long now the club has gone backwards due to The Glazers who are not interested in winning trophies but using what once was the biggest football club in the world now to be there cash cow.
There answer is keep sacking managers (Four). Very easy to blame the manager. Spend money one year to stay in the top four then the following, nothing spent and sack the manager.
The club has an accountant running the club who knows nothing about football and has become a puppet for the owners.
All must go and is time for all United supporters to become one and put pressure on the Glazers to sell and get out and then all the board resign.
Glazers and the board you have done well to fool so many supporters to now, however all are waking up to what you have done to our great club.
No more, time for all of you to leave.
Been a supporter for 55 years never seen a team from man Utd with so little fight in them maybe spending to much time on social media ,I would give them a rest for a while and put the under 23 team on, these lads would fight for 90 minutes unlike the so called stars.
The Glazers and Ed Woodward are to blame. Especially the Glazers they are not in it for trophies or Premiership titles, they are using Utd as a cash cow. They draw out money from the club for their own benefit