In the early morning of next Monday, Beijing time, the 28th round of the Premier League, the Manchester City derby is about to be staged. But in the table, Manchester United are already 19 points behind Manchester City! Why is the gap between the two teams so large? We can find out one of the reasons.
Judging from the player's popularity and paper strength, the gap between the two males in Manchester City is not so large. According to the statistics of the "Transfer Market", the total value of Manchester City's team reached 890 million pounds, the largest in the Premier League; Manchester United's total value is 710 million, which is also the fourth in the Premier League.
Where is the real gap? In fact, it is the source of the composition of the players. The data shows that Manchester United's existing squad is actually composed of 5 different managers!
Among them, there are 2 old ministers left over from the Ferguson era (De Gea, Jones), Moyes has 1 (Mata), Van Gaal has bought 1 (Luke Shaw), Mourinho has signed 7, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has bought 9 (led by B Fee and C Ronaldo), which is still in the case of Lonnick's winter window without reinforcements.
Different managers have different team building ideas and tactical play styles to introduce different styles of players in a targeted manner. And under the account of another new coach, can they still be well integrated? Can it still form a fighting force that is enough to compete for the championship?
At a deeper level, it exposed the huge problems caused by Manchester United's lack of patience, lack of long-term planning and continuous change of coach.
In contrast, Manchester City fully support Guardiola, regardless of the results or bad, his coaching position has never wavered, so the Blue Moon's current squad, there are 16 people he personally introduced, all in line with Pep's tactical requirements, the predecessor Pellegrini only 3 people: Fernandinho, Sterling, de Bruyne.
The same is true for Liverpool, with as many as 17 in the current squad signed by Klopp, and 4 brought in by his predecessor Rodgers: Origi, Firmino, Milner, Gomez; Dalglish bought, leaving only captain Henderson.
Whatever the outcome of this derby, no matter what the results of this season, United will appoint a new manager this summer, hoping that the club will learn more from the two sworn enemies and give the new manager full support and more time.