After Manchester United lost the "Manchester City derby" 1:4, the long-suppressed contradictions within the dressing room this season finally broke out, and some players were dissatisfied with Lonnick's employment and doubted Lonnick's qualifications. Lonnick always let some players who are not in good shape continue to start (most likely maguire, a "carrier U-turn" becomes the talk of the tea), and some hard training always gets no playing time.
Today's Manchester United has become an "internet celebrity team", the little things that happen will be infinitely magnified in the spotlight, management, coaches and players are under great pressure, and the four pressures within the club have brought Manchester United to the brink of collapse.
The first weight: the coach is no longer authoritative, the players are above the club
Ferguson was not just a coach at Manchester United, but also a manager, and in the dressing room it was definitely "one word" (and here it is a compliment). It is this paternalistic coaching style that allows Ferguson's tactical philosophy to be carried out throughout, and no player can be above the team, which is the red line of Ferguson's coaching of Manchester United, even if you are a superstar. Beckham was a proud disciple of Ferguson at the time, but since he married Victoria, he was a bit "unprofessional", too much involved in business activities, too much exposure to the magnesium lamp, so that Ferguson was very angry, which led to the "Flying Boot Gate" incident. Even Captain Keane could not challenge Ferguson's authority.
Since Ferguson's retirement, the authority of Manchester United's manager has slowly weakened, and the club has begun to pay attention to the development and operation of the player market. When Mourinho's conflict with Pogba became public and the club began to stand for the players, United didn't look like a normal team. In the Premier League, where the manager has the most power, in manchester United, where the patriarchal atmosphere of the premier league manager is the strongest, the players have semi-openly become the manager, which is equivalent to Manchester United destroying its own team culture. The "Red Devils" culture is created by Ferguson as the parent of the team, no one can override the interests of the team, beckham who is as close as his son is not OK, the young football king C Luo who has been personally cultivated is not OK, the legendary captain Keane is not OK, why do you Pogba? So after Pogba did Mourinho, there was no Red Devils United in the world.
Second: the club is too focused on commercial development and forgets about the football itself
In the 17/18 season, Klopp led Liverpool to a good result in the league, reaching the final in the Champions League. Klopp has said he loves Liverpool's history and he thinks he can help liverpool as a team and joining Liverpool is the perfect fit between him and the club. He mentioned that Manchester United had also invited him, but he refused because he wanted to join a pure club, and Manchester United is not like a football club, the exchange is all about marketing, marketing and portrait rights and so on. It's enough to see that Klopp doesn't think too much about things other than football, just wants to focus on the football itself, and Manchester United can't do that.
At the same time, the high-salary contract renewal has made the players give up the motivation to compete and win. Since de Gea's high-salary renewal, the salaries of Manchester United players have risen, Rashford and Maguire are now both paid £200,000 a week, and Sancho and Varane, who are new in the summer window, are both paid £350,000 a week, Rashford's recent performance has been disappointing, and Maguire has been reported by angry fans as a fake footballer. Today's Manchester United can only rely on high salaries to attract stars, Manchester United's total salary in 2021 is as high as 354 million pounds, but the performance of players has not met expectations, and there are too many players with "high salaries and low energy".
The third major: the gangs in the team are serious, and it is not appropriate to isolate them at an inopportune time
Alexis Sanchez was embarrassed to join Manchester United in the winter window, and Sanchez asked his agent if he could leave Manchester United. Because it is reasonable to say that the player has just joined a new club, the old players will welcome the new players, and no one in the first training class to talk to him, Sanchez is also a lonely person at dinner, as the old player Ashley Young saw this scene and went to dinner with Sanchez, when Sanchez got very little ball, no one in the front court was willing to pass for him.
After Mourinho left Manchester United, Lukaku also encountered such a situation, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took charge of Manchester United, the tactical status of Martial and Rashford was gradually improved, and Lukaku often pulled the side to move on the wing. Lukaku scored a goal with one assist, and After Lingard scored, he ran to the other side, only Lukaku stood there and held out his hands, but no teammates came to celebrate. This was the current situation in Manchester United at that time, Sanchez's high salary caused dissatisfaction among some players in the team, and the imbalance in the salary structure planted a mine in the dressing room.
In fact, some veteran players have not made a good example, Rooney often drank heavily and clubbing in the late Manchester United period, and Van Persie said in an interview that Rooney sometimes came to the training base drunk, and must have been drunk the night before. Later, the old batch of players are almost gone, Rooney is the "leading big brother" of the locker room, without the discipline constraints of the old comrades, Rooney is more indulgent, to know that Rooney is younger than C Ronaldo, and now he has been the head coach for a long time. Since then, the atmosphere in United's dressing room has also changed subtly, with more to see Jesse Lingard and Pogba singing and dancing to the music.
Fourth: Manchester United's critics put the squad and the players under tremendous pressure
After United lost the "Manchester City Derby", the veteran captain Keane expressed his dissatisfaction with the players, he believed that the performance of Manchester United in this game was very bad, there were many players in the team who did not deserve to wear Manchester United jerseys, criticized the body language of Manchester United players on the field, thinking that this was a surrender attitude, and McTominay responded that if everyone said so, then so be it.
For this game, the famous Scotts also expressed his opinion, he was confused, why United hired Lonnick as the manager in the first place. Ferdinand said The Manchester United players were walking on the pitch and didn't want to play well. Neville criticised Rashford for watching the Manchester City players pass the ball continuously, standing there motionless and not grabbing.
In short, after Ferguson's retirement, these celebrities of Manchester United still care about the club so much that they have broken their hearts. Their criticisms are good, pertinent, and once in a while, the team and players show respect for these big brothers. But if there is always chatter, too much criticism will cause disgust among clubs and players. I have never seen a club with so many celebrities coming out every time to criticize their own team. Therefore, it is not necessarily a good thing for celebrities to shut up and let the club stop a little.
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