THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Crewe are fucking dire, I’ve no idea how
they managed to get a play off spot

Terrible.

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Crystal Palace 4 - 0 Man Utd 67 minutes played, what an absolute shambles Utd are, gutless performance

It's no big deal. Anyone can beat Man United 4-0.

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Also a squad gutted by injuries.
Only 1, half fit, 36 year old CB in the whole squad. No fit LB's for most of season. Only DM in squad having to fill in at CB. All 3 most senior attacking players - Rashford, Martial, Fernandes - all out.

This season has been a nightmare for injuries - up to a record number of about 70 now! We finished 3rd last season and reached both cup finals. The main reason they're down to 8th this year is all the injuries. It just rarely gets mentioned because other more derogatory narratives are much preferred.

True injuries have an impact, but this is about the desire of the players out there now, there isn’t much of that on show, Ten Haag in my opinion is a poor manager and Utd need to get him gone before they can rebuild, which they need big time

They put their entire squad up for sale last week. In all honesty who'd want to buy any of these!

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That's fair. I certainly don't see Ten Hag as the manager to win us the PL or CL. But we've been so far away from that for a decade and counting anyway, and I'm sure we'd have been in contention for top 4 with him again this year but for the injuries.

But moving forward then, yeah, United are finally getting some good people in place in important roles. And the youth levels are looking very strong. Next thing is definitely another rebuild of the first team squad and probably best getting a new manager in place for that.

The trouble is, there's isn't really any obvious managerial option out there that you could say was in any way elite or a certainty to do well. Really not sure who we should go for.

Ah, I'm convinced. A 4-0 defeat and a finish outside the top six is suddenly understandable

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"It's not about hoping this little moment will change our momentum, its about our daily actions and courage in everything we do.. We've got to stop believing in fairytales"

- Graham Alexander, October 2023

Not saying they shouldn't have shown more fight to avoid such a heavy defeat against the likes of Palace - but a squad increasingly decimated by injuries is quite clearly the main reason for such a low league position compared to last year.

We've got 4 equally tough / tougher matches left so it's not going to get any better before this f****** season finally ends.