Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
It's quite the indictment. If you can't toss the records out in a rivalry game, it isn't a rivalry more or less by definition. United is no longer in the same league on the pitch. I have no idea how ten Hag even begins to go about fixing it.United have now only won 2 of the last 15 matches against Liverpool in all comps.You would never see that in the 80s, 90s, 2000s,or even the 1970s when they were relegated they still competed against top LFC side, beating them in an fa cup final and semi final. They are a joke now.
If there's a saving grace for the dowager empress that is United, it's that they couldn't have designed a more favorable FFP rule than 70% of revenue. Given 2-3 years, their situation is very fixable. Whether or not ten Hag is the guy remains to be seen. Like Rangnick, there's no question he's good. Whether he's good enough to buy enough time through results, and whether or not he can convert on that time, remain open questions.