Today's Football 2016 / 2017 Season

PhilM · October 23, 2016

LinekersLegs said:
Agree about the mentality issue, also think it applies to their opposition - rival teams no longer go into a match, even at Old Trafford, thinking they are bound to lose so heads don't go down as much if they fall behind early.

Exactly. It's gone from a we'll be lucky to get a point here if we're incredibly lucky to actually thinking a win, let alone a draw, is possible.

People keep mentioning that they will bounce back as if it's inevitable; I'm sure people said the same about Liverpool back in the early 90s.

deipnosophist · October 23, 2016

Khalekan said:
Yip.

This is why I am annoyed with people just shrugging their shoulders and saying "we would have settled for this before the start of the season".

Of course we would....but we shouldn't be "settling" for it after the start we made in the first five games

Especially as outside of City, we dropped eight points in three very "favourable" fixtures.

We are not very good

Jack1882 · October 23, 2016

This United squad is the most expensive squad ever assembled and it's still painfully average. Considering how wealthy they are the entire club couldn't have really been more poorly directed over the past 5 years.

ianefc · October 23, 2016

@Alan Whittle your manager is a plank.

lol

ijjysmith · October 23, 2016

ianefc said:
@Alan Whittle your manager is a plank.

lol

Hahahaha!

LinekersLegs · October 23, 2016

Bet Hazard enjoyed that

daza_1973 · October 23, 2016

To draw parallels this utd side is in now well and truly in their Souness/Roy Evans era - nothing lasts for ever and every dynasty falls eventually.

Old Blue 2 · October 23, 2016

Oh dear. Oh dear dear. Oh dear dear dear!

And there could be more before the end the way this game is shaping up!!!

N.S.N.O. · October 23, 2016

Martial on....

Mourinho now has 25 minutes plus injury time to think about how he can word his post match interview to deflect all blame from himself...

kenada_blue · October 23, 2016

Pogba = Fraud

Khalekan · October 23, 2016

PhilM said:
I totally agree with that point, however personally I think a large part of their decline is in the form of some debilitating mentality they now have.

They're not winners any more although everyone, due to their history, expects them to be on a regular basis and it acts like a barrier.

And they simply seem unable to overcome that! Your right their players aren't as good as they once were, but they are still good players.

And good players should be able to perform better than they regularly have done for the last four years or so.