The Manchester United "Squad building" myth One thing that pisses me off coming from the latest #managerout crowd is the constant barrage of: "we've spent millions on HIS signings for HIS style" "signing players only for his style will set us back years" "he's got his players and still can't compete" "his style needs too many specialist profiles" This is all bollocks. A) He's signed 4 players and 3 have barely played 2-3 games together. B) All the players signed can play in multiple systems, not just Rubens. C) Our squad is 3-5 players short of being decent, the same problem thats hurt EVERY manager post Fergie. But even putting all that to the side, our squad building ability has been shit for years and like it or not our squad barely scrapes into the top 6-8 and yet fans want, expect and demand form of a top 4 club🤷 Every single manager post Fergie reached the stage of: "the squad is better than this" "this squad would do so much more with a new manager" "if only the manager played XXX we'd be much better" and in hindsight always turns out to be bollocks and each manger has failed again and again.. In the end everything can be pointed back at the Glazers, poor transfers and poor squad building, never seeing a project, a rebuild through and never giving ANY manager the players they need to compete. Regardless who the manager is and regardless what system is being played to compete in the Premier League today you need physical, fast, technically sound players that have composure. You need monsters. Go and look at the squads of Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City or Chelsea... particularly there starting 11's. They are FULL of PL Proven players with 3-5 years PL experience. Our squad doesnt even come close, this is the current state of our squad: I'll let you guess the players: GK - Unproven in PL / Backup: Unproven in PL LWB - Unproven in PL / Backup: Unproven in PL CB - Decent / Backup: Injury prone CB - Slow as fuck / Backup: Kid learning CB - Decent young learning CB / Backup: Injury prone RWB - Playing out of position / Backup: Don't even go there CM - Learning a new position, not natural / Backup: young, fitness issues, not creative, not physical enough CM - Declining / Backup: zero confidence or technical ability. L.10 - Decent / Backup: Injury Prone ST - Unproven in PL / Backup: Not a natural ST R.10 - Decent / Backup: Playing at RWB or in CM You all want to berate Ruben Amorim but not willing to accept our squad is way off. It doesn't matter who the manager is, not a single manager since the day Fergie left has been given a full squad and a decent starting 11 without having 2 or 3 melons in it producing constant brain farts.. Maguire, Shaw, Dalot, Casemiro, Bayindir to name a few, 5 starters that wouldn't get anywhere near any other Top 8 starting 11. Give Ruben or any manager a chance without those players and then judge them, give a manager a fighting chance. INEOS are trying, trying to fix it, trying to change it, trying to buy good, young players but unfortunately the financial constraints and dirty baggage from the Glazers era will no doubt drag Ruben down with it... Maybe one day people will start going after the real bad guys and stop battering the ones trying to fix the mess they put us in.