Eamon Dunphy was on Irish radio station 2FM’s Game On last night and had an interesting view on where United’s current demise started. Love the man or hate the man he always gives his opinion and a lot of people would probably agree with him on this one.
“The beginning of the end for Manchester United came before Alex Ferguson left. In his last successful season, Van Persie scored the goals, a player who was coming to the end of his career, he was a quick fix and he did the job. Manchester United when Ferguson left had very little. It was a club that needed to be re-built from the foundations upwards.
Paul Scholes and Giggs were coming to the end. Even Wayne Rooney was coming to the end. They had to start again and nobody has addressed that core problem.
Everyone is looking for a quick fix. David Moyes was given seven months and no budget incidentally and then they got Van Gaal who was supposed to be a quick fix. He was given some money but he wasted it and now Mourinho has come in.
I mean the waste in the summer of £100m on Paul Pogba is one example, the centre back Bailly, who some people can offer something, he cost £35m.
They are in denial about where the club is. It’s in a downward spiral that is beyond the capacity of one coach to fix unless you give him a couple of billion.
Mourinho is not going to be a success. Nobody could succeed with this team.
Alex Ferguson decided four years ago that Pogba was not good enough to play for Manchester United and he was right.
Ibrahimovic is a folly. He’s 35, he can barely run and he’s not playing at all.
Manchester need to assess where they are and then choose the person who is going to rebuild them into being a great club. They are a mile away at the moment.
There is a young guy at Bournemouth, Eddie Howe, he should have got the England job. He should probably get the Manchester United job and say ‘ this is where we are at, we need four or five years to get back to where we need to be’.
In these times when there are so few players worth going for, United are stuck.
I think Mourinho is good and he’ll keep them in the mix a little bit. He’ll do what he has to do, like he did at Liverpool last Monday but he can’t make top class players out of the players he’s got, they are just pretty ordinary.
They’re doomed to mid-table or maybe scrapping for a Europa League place, that’s where they fit now.”