12 Oct 2026 20:15:28
I've supported Manchester United for 35 years, and I've watched some great teams made up of all sorts of players who would run through brick walls, play through pain and fight for every single ball. They understood what wearing that shirt meant.

What frustrates me most about this current team is that it feels like the same rinse-and-repeat cycle every time. New manager comes in, new players arrive, performances improve for a few weeks, everyone gets excited, and then we slowly drift straight back to the same old problems.

We've qualified for the ECL, and now we're back to the norm again. Where's the hunger? Where's the intensity? Where's the pride in chasing down every ball?

Look at other teams in the Premier League. They run, they press, they track back, they fight for second balls. If the ball goes forward, they sprint forward. If they lose it, they sprint back. It's basic effort and desire.

Honestly, watching my United team at the moment is like watching a DoorDash delivery service. They'll sprint for the delivery when there's something in it for them, but if they miss out on a tip, they stroll back and leave massive gaps for everyone else to deal with! ?

And don't get me started on the lack of energy. At this point, maybe we need to introduce a boxer-style ban on sex before matches to preserve some testosterone, because this team looks lethargic, predictable and, at times, painfully boring to watch! ?

The boos ringing around the ground are becoming more common, and fans have every right to expect more. We're not asking for miracles every week. We're asking for effort, intensity, commitment and players who look like they actually care.

I've supported this club for 35 years, through great teams and difficult periods, but what hurts most is watching a team that too often looks like it's going through the motions.

You can lose a football match. It happens. But you should never lose the fight.

This is Manchester United. The shirt should mean something. The standards should mean something. And running yourself into the ground for your teammates should be the bare minimum.

Am I expecting too much?

1.) 12 Oct 2026
12 Oct 2026 20:40:06
No it's the least you should expect RDF.

2.) 12 Oct 2026
12 Oct 2026 21:19:51
RDF

You should expect that as an absolute minimum and have often talked about playing for the shirt.

Like it or not Amorim identified culprits and kept them separate. Rashford a prime example, who clearly showed he didn't care for the shirt by his actions. He should have been shipped out at whatever cost.

I cannot stress highly enough that Carrick bringing Rashford back and playing him over the others who had put effort in last season was utterly stupid and amateur. If you want to look back at your description "running yourself into the ground for your teammates should be the bare minimum" and then consider Rashford doing the opposite it has to impact the team.

3.) 13 Oct 2026
12 Oct 2026 23:35:14
Standards are dropping fast.

4.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 04:47:00
Standards dropped years ago but just more rapidly in last 2-3 years, when your signing the likes of Dorgu, Cunha, Tielemans Santos, Martinez, DeLigt, Mount, Maz even Mbuemo and Lammens the standards are too low with the club, but even lower on here when fans are lauding most of those signings when they happened which they were and many still do

United is in serious trouble I said it at the time SJR was the worst thing that could happen to United, more so than the Glazers imo.

We all know the Glazers should be gone but the last thing needed is SJR.

5.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 12:08:04
just a tiny snapshot of the lowering of standards -Sesko and Shaw wearing those tiny shinpads -whats Shaw thinking after his awful injury? But where is the manager, the coach, the captain the senior player to say - those shinpads are a joke get them off and get proper ones that will protect you - does my head in that no seems to give a proverbial.

6.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 13:01:40
I don't think Carrick 'brought Rashford back'.No-one wanted him, whether due to his transfer fee or most likely his salary. After a few games, he was one of our better players. He wasn't even involved in the last game where there is plenty of viral footage of Mainoo and in particular Tielemann's lack of intensity as being Manchester United's biggest on-field problem at the moment.


Add to that another £50m spent on Santos who doesn't seem to be in favour already, and the failure to spend that money on a leftback or centreforward, which would both have been pretty useful at this moment in time.
It's just a really poor concoction of decisions and their outcomes in the last few months that has quickly snuffed out the crest of a wave feeling Carrick's caretaker spell provided.

7.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 13:36:26
I said before we even bought Santos there is clearly a problem with him, for having so many clubs, what is it 5 by 21 years old, clearly the same problem spotted now, how on earth are we so stupid that we don't look at these things and ask questions.

8.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 14:36:21
I agree Je suis unite but maybe give him a game rather than sticking with Mainoo and Tielemans which clearly hasn't worked. Santos has played around 80 minutes of football this season, it's hardly enough time to try and win over the manager and the fans is it.


I am not saying he's the answer but try something different, Carrick also now has Beleba has another option.

9.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 15:25:03
I agree Sim, you can't keep sticking with something that don't work like Carrick does and we have him so he might as well get some games, but there is a reason he had 5 clubs at only 21 and not really stepped up in any of those so how on earth give 50 million for that pedigree, it's diabolical.
I said from game 1 Tielemans looks like he running in treacle should be nowhere near a United first 11 but certainly not in a two with Mainoo who is not exactly athletic although to be fair he looked like he kicked on a bit from last season.

Bruno looks too tired and carrying an injury, but Carrick gameplay is give the ball to Bruno and cross our fingers he can produce a piece of magic, this is a joke in itself.

I thought we were poor under ETH and RA but this is a new level of poor, but why be surprised when we have a manager and coaches who are all championship level and buying players who are bottom half of EPL on a good day. Maybe you can risk one of them in a team, or 2 in a squad but we have virtually a whole squad of sub par players.

10.) 13 Oct 2026
13 Oct 2026 17:41:42
Why appoint a DoF, sack him, chase a great young manager in Amorim. Sack him and not back him.

Appoint a failed Boro manager. And we'll sack him too.

Club is run by clowns.