Everyone else has bigger issues, but let’s continue to blame Man United

Manchester United are a badly run football club, after all they signed a 35 years old who has scored only 13 goals this season, they overpaid to sign the best young midfielder in the world, they made the Armenian wizard rot on the bench till he developed physically and they signed an unknown defender who defends well but is overpriced and will leave for the African cup of nation. They have a manager who is very aggressive and demanding, he only wants to win and doesn’t care about referee’s and player’s feelings. Good managers are those who caress their player’s ego even if they end a season trophyless. Look at Jurgen with that brotherly love for his senseless defenders, they will be the critic’s favorite for everything. Or look at Pep, he is the Cruyff incarnate, here to teach the world how football is played – formationless, positionless even if it is mostly clueless. As per the Einsteins, Pep will turn Stones into Beckenbauer, Bravo into a Maradona. Jose is such a fool that he is only making efficient defenders out of the likes of Jones, Rojo and Valencia. De Gea is an average goalkeeper, it is the era of sweeper keepers – all De Gea does is pull of great saves, marshall his defense and distribute effectively – overrated keepers like Schmeichel, Buffon, Casillas and Van der Sar used to do that – all hail Bravo. Look at Pep, doesn’t matter if Aguero, KDB and even their kitman are looking tired this season…but hey he made a hero out of kolarov…the man is a genius. Arsenal and Chelsea might have struggled without the brilliance of Sanchez and Costa, but hey Wenger has Grace and Conte jumps like a Banana monkey on the touchline…respect that. Jose is improving the likes of Herrera, but look at Klopp who has turned goal getter Wijnaldum into Henderson’s sleeping mate in midfield. All hail Conte who has transformed Chelsea, the very same team who won the league a year back (under some guy called Jose) and signed the best holding midfielder in the league to strength a defense that re-purchased David Luiz. Who cares if Jose has a settled formation, has a squad that has a good balance of youth and experience, it is convenient to blame a Jose Mourinho led Manchester United, after all so many are scared of the day they will be back to their best, so let’s badger them till they are down. A special kind of footballing stupidity is required to understand that something special and everlasting is not happening at Old Trafford, and the football world has no dearth of such ignorant idiots.

P.S: Written with malice to one and all.

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