Yankee Devil 🐀

New low today. I’m going to cut #MUFC some slack. The conditions were brutal, the ref gave us no calls, and we put things right in the second half. It took a perfect storm for that loss. If we ease the pressure off, these quality players will fly. They’re trying too hard.

I would pay to see Rashford, Garnacho, Antony and Sancho go 1v1 for a spot in Ruben Amorim’s first team. Those are four of the best wide attackers in the world. If I was Amorim, I’d keep 2 and leave myself the option to change systems to surprise opponents. #ManchesterUnited

I support the manager and players and everyone at the club while they’re here. If United win, the Glazers win, and we the fans win. We’re all in it together. Onana is as inconsistent as everyone else at the club. De Gea was too.

If Garnacho scored a goal for every time he pissed off Amorim, we’d all have a merry Christmas.

Curious what part you disagree with? I wish we could somehow fix all of our problems by pulling some Barca levers. But we really can’t dodge FFP. The Glazers only care about profits, and they aren’t selling. Ineos is doing their best to fix things, but it will take time. No?

No amount of protesting will make the Glazers leave their business. Thankfully winning makes them more money, so they will continue to invest. I just think the more patience, positivity, and support we give the team, the sooner we will find success as a club. Am I crazy?

Ineos finally have a decent management structure in place at United with decent people at the helm. BUT, they are new, and will, of course, like our new manager, make mistakes as they find their way, just as the Glazers erred before them. Help speed their success with support.

I love United. I can’t overstate that. I’d rather we always win, but I watch every minute of every match regardless. I never leave early, no matter how bad the beating, because the worst minute of watching United is better than the best minute of anything else.

If we are ever going to have success as a club again, it will be when the supporters relax their expectations, and accept that a very long rebuild is needed. Unless we want to violate FFP, sadly, it will take selling many of our talented academy graduates to finance new signings.

We’ve been on the managerial merry-go-round ever since. New systems require new players, and new players require more money. The reason City were unsuccessful for so long after the takeover was that they could only attract mercenaries looking for a payday. Now that’s us.

Sir Alex Ferguson told us to support the new manager through thick and thin, but we didn’t. We didn’t give Moyes the time to build his legacy at the club. When the going got tough, we got negative and called for his sacking, and the ownership obliged.

I once attended a coaching seminar by Phil Jackson, the greatest NBA coach of all time. He said that negativity towards a player during a game puts fear into their mind, so even when they would make a mistake, he would remain positive. Positivity breeds confidence and success.

Our players aren’t good enough to win the league. We all know it. So why act like they should right now? Accept that we are currently a mid table club. More pressure and negativity won’t help the players to perform. It will only make things worse.

It isn’t the Glazers piling the pressure on the players (and managers). It’s the fans! It’s the booing matchgoing fans. It’s the snarky, entitled twitter fans. It’s fans like me that hold our current squad up against Keane, Scholes, and Rooney and long for days of yore.

Even still, the reality is that United have spent more money on first team stars than City or PSG in the last several years. Our demands for instant success pile pressure on players, management, and owners alike, leading to hasty sackings and ill conceived, costly transfers.