The fate of Manchester United is like the "Schrodinger's cat" which is caught in a life-and-death situation, always wavering between the strongest and the weakest team.
The season came to an end, United urgently need to analyze the crux of the decline in results, the collapse of the system in the league is not due to a single factor, the coach Ten Hagar, although it is difficult to escape from the blame, but it is difficult to take full responsibility.
It is not too late to mend. Standing at the crossroads of destiny, the Red Devils must eradicate the stubborn disease, before hopefully nirvana rebirth.
The person directly responsible for United's poor performance in the Premier League is undoubtedly Ten Hagar.
This season, the Dutchman has suffered a lot of difficulties, looking back to last summer's ambitions, as if it were a lifetime ago. Perhaps it is his unrealistic "dream" that has skewed United's perception.
Ten Hag pursues the ultimate in tactics, and even has a bit of piety, treating Cruyff and Guardiola's tactical philosophy as the bible, trying to realize his own ideals in the Dream Theater, to create a strengthened version of Ajax with "stable ball control, dominating the game, and pressing the attack".
In fact, as the creator of the Jaffa Youth Prohibition Army, Ten Hag is quite strong in terms of tactical thinking, team building level, and tactical execution. It is just that the Dutch League is different from the Premier League, and the resistance to United's reform goes far beyond the field.
Last summer, the Dutch coach's reinforcements can not be said to be not big, the former Chelsea Prince Munt, Danish star Hoylen, Champions League runner-up goalkeeper Onana, World Cup dark horse core Amrabat have joined the Dream Theater, from the point of view of the strength of the paper, these people are non-trivial.
In the ideal state, Varane, Lima and Onana's central defense goalkeeper combination of both defense and attack, Luke Shaw and Wan-Bissaka's double wings of one attack and one defense to make the team as a whole more balanced, United even has the ability to briefly change to three center backs.
The ideal is rich, but the reality is bone dry.
In the first round of the Premier League, Ten Hagar rolled out his 4141 formation, which basically matched his vision except for Hoylum, who was absent at center forward due to injury.
However, the gap between ideal and reality is obvious. Facing the new manager's Wolves, United's pressing attack was ineffective. Wolves' high press and quick retreat made it difficult for United to gain attacking space, instead, Wolves' counter-attacks made United's backline tired.
United tried to control the game, but it was ineffective. After Varane's goal, Wolves were in full control of the attacking rhythm. At the time, it seemed that the lack of a center forward as a bridgehead, United's pressing attack was like scratching an itch.
At this point, Hoylen, who Ten Hagar had high hopes for, was suffering from injuries, and there were four others on the injury list with the Dane, such a high percentage of injuries that it set the stage for a full season.
The lack of integration of the new tactics and the poor integration of the new recruits saw Onana concede a whopping fourteen goals in five games, not only because of the Cameroonian's poor form, but also because of Ten Hag's pressing attacking tactics that gave the opponents too many chances to counter-attack.
Newcomer Munt only played two games for Manchester United suffered injuries, more bizarre is Varane, Luke Shaw, Lima, Wan-Bissaka four defensive mainstay has been injured, the back line is full of injuries, and ultimately even have to Casemiro guest center back.
Ten Hagar's troubles are far from over, with injuries in the midfield and backfield, and problems in the attacking line. Several attackers have made "Ten Hagar banned Sancho into the cafeteria" incident, Anthony domestic violence storm, Rashford bad lying incident.
It was not easy to survive the winter, the return to form of Manchester United once high, and even expected to compete for the top four, however, the Danish boy Hoylen's injury once again interrupted the team's hot form.
For most of the season, Ten Hagar has had little opportunity to study tactics and hone his squad - after all, the players under him are always changing, and he needs to keep overdrawing on his current players to ensure the quality of his games.
Even Ten Hagar has been "talking crazy" in front of the media a lot this season, which in my opinion could be an attempt to take the pressure off the players, to attract the media's attention with crazy talk, and to keep the team fighting as much as possible.
"He always took a bullet for everyone."
Dalot recently said in an interview that he thinks Ten Hagar takes all the responsibility for the team and defends the players to the fullest in front of the media, even in the face of the harshest criticism.
Here's a word for Ten Hag, these objective factors will give any coach a headache if he encounters them, and even make it very tricky to deal with, the Dutchman at least didn't let his team fall apart, and even played a classic battle to turn back arch-rivals Liverpool and shoot down the blue moon to win the FA Cup.
United's problems are rooted mostly off the field.
Manchester United have had a man of the match this season, in large part because of the need for a change of ownership. While the Red Devils were chatting with a Middle Eastern consortium at the start of the season, it turned out to be Sir Ratcliffe who took over, but he only got a 25% stake.
Although the Glazer family treats Manchester United as a "golden egg", they have invested heavily in the transfer market, but rarely spend on the right things.
Ratcliffe has focused mainly on building the management side of the team since he took over, and hopes to really help Lord Ratcliffe run the team in the future.
Manchester United also suffers from an old Old Trafford stadium, low standard of the team medical team and chaotic management of the supporting industrial facilities, all of which need to be resolved urgently.
Most importantly, the new management needs to break the "Netflix identity" of Manchester United.
Manchester United was once a powerhouse movie star, now it's a flow of fresh meat. Achievements on the soccer field need to be real, and Manchester United over the years most valued not the competitive achievements, just as one of the means of profit.
Over the years United have not valued competitive results above all else, but only as one of the means of making a profit, and when there are no results, they think of using the team and the flow of stars to achieve economic benefits.
Back then Crowe returned precisely for traffic maximization reasons, and many other United players have been held hostage by traffic to become internet celebrities, with their off-field news far more exciting than their on-field performances.
Manchester United in the operation and competitive level is not very good balance, and even long-term because of the operation and slow down the competition, the current Yinglex-led Manchester United senior blood change, in fact, is noted that the results have affected the revenue.
After all the annoying stuff, let's talk about something happy.
Manchester United's young players in the first team have played well this season, Ghana Joe has become a regular starter, Menu has shown the style of a great general, and Diallo also has the ability to turn things around.
In terms of ladder construction and talent pool, Manchester United has also reaped great rewards. This season, United's U18s were crowned Triple Crown champions, and the U14s won the Ferran Cup North and overall.
"The sons of Jiangdong are many and talented, and a comeback is yet to be seen."
Now, the drama of the sky-dropping rich people crazy money to facilitate the rejuvenation of the giants is outdated, and nowadays it is more necessary to build up the strength of the team's revitalization.
Arsenal's old rival and old friend is a mirror of Manchester United. After two decades, the Gunners returned to the ranks of the Premier League title contenders, and despite two seasons of title charge faltered, the gap between them and the Blue Moon Army has become smaller and smaller.
We all know what Arsenal has been through over the years, Wenger was forced to be frugal and sell his captain to keep things running, and the team's lack of attraction made Emery's tactical innovations a non-starter.
Such a process of subconsciously cultivating internal strength will not escape the hopefully revitalized Manchester United. The good thing is, United seems to have embarked on such a path, and I hope that after the senior management is in place, United can enter the main theme of steady improvement.
Since ancient times, the revitalization of dynasties has been very difficult, not only need the sky to drop fierce men, but also need to accumulate little by little.
This season, Sir Charlton passed away, but his spiritual fire cannot be extinguished. Compared to the Munich air disaster, the difficulties of Manchester United are nothing.
