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Manchester United are shambles and there is no hiding from that. The most crucial transfer window in the club’s recent history has seen 1 signing and that’s it. Don’t let the folks who run United fool you into thinking that everything is difficult at United, it’s not. The reality is simple, United from top to bottom reek of sheer incompetence.

How else do you explain that a club of this stature only has a football development, scouting and sports science structure but are missing a performance, player development, recruitment and retention structure? Even if it was to put this entire structure together, is there anyone responsible to coordinate with all of them and support the manager + advise the board…NO.

The hallmark of incompetency are haphazard teams with lack of clarity on roles and responsibilities. United are the absolute pinnacle of this. We as fans are fools to expect otherwise from this club. This is a club that took a good 4 weeks (after announcing the manager) to confirm the contract of their assistant manager. This is a club that dithers on bringing Rio and Fletch as sounding boards, but is happy to quickly hand out new deals to Rojo, Young, Mike and Smalling.

Today, we will see the fixture list of the premier league season being announced and for the first time in my 23 years of following United – I am not excited about the new season. I am petrified for Ole and the witch hunt he will face for the incompetencies of others. There is a genuine cause for concern that instead of overtaking those above us, we will be overtaken by those below us.

26 years of Sir Alex’s magic, undone by 6 years of madness.

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