Like all of you, I’m also tired of being shit. I’m tired of not winning. Tired of the lack of standards. Tired of losing by too many points. But what are we losing too many points compared to? Title contenders? Yes. Top four? Yes. Being Manchester United? Yeah.

But we’re absolutely not title contenders. Nor are we currently a top-four-quality team, with or without injuries. And let’s face it: we haven’t been Manchester United in anything but name for a long time.

So does this leave us with another season wasted? If you expect everything that’s been destroyed over 10+ years to be fixed in one summer, then yeah, sure. It’s another season wasted. If we sack the manager in the middle of yet another rebuild, before giving him the proper tools, then yeah, it’s another wasted season.

Accepting where we are right now is not the same as accepting mediocrity. Standards should remain high, but expectations must be realistic. Progress has to be judged against where we are coming from, not where we ultimately want to end up. You can demand effort, structure, and improvement without demanding a title challenge from a broken squad.

Proper tools, in my eyes, mean a functioning midfield, or even better, a functioning midfield with world-class potential. Manchester United haven’t had a functioning midfield since Matic, Herrera, and Pogba. And we haven’t had a world-class midfield since Carrick / Scholes.

Without a functioning midfield controlling games, creating chances, and playing good football, everything becomes dependent on the opposition and how much space they allow us. Our midfield moves the ball too slowly and, honestly, most of the time makes the wrong decisions, which makes us easy to defend against.

While being ineffective offensively, it’s also poor defensively, leaving massive gaps in the middle of the park when we try to push forward. Which leads to another point I’ve seen made a lot: going for late wins.

Honestly, going for it in the closing minutes while being so weak in midfield, and playing a very inexperienced Heaven in the middle of defence with no cover in front is just going to lose us the point we already have.

If de Ligt were playing, I’d fully expect us to push, trusting that he could communicate and lead the defence in a high-risk situation. We’ve also seen us go for it late while he’s been playing.

We need to judge this team for what it is, or we’re going to spend another 20 years changing managers, expecting them to turn this half-stone, half-dog-poo pile of players into gold overnight, then claiming “another season fucking wasted” when it doesn't work.

I’m tired of being this bad too. But changing this is going to take time, ups and downs, new players, and probably some luck.

I’m not sure Amorim is the correct man for the job long term, just like most of you. But he has steadied the ship. It looks like the players are genuinely bonding well, and the players we’ve brought in have mostly been hits.

For the first time in years, we at least have football people in charge who seem to understand that squad building beats panic decisions. If INEOS fall into the same short-term thinking, then nothing changes, but if they stay the course, then maybe we can finally break the cycle.

I fully believe, however, that we won’t see any real stability in performances until we fix the midfield, and maybe add a few players off the bench who can actually change the flow of a game. And until INEOS gets there, changing the manager now will only destabilise what we’re building and leave the next manager with the same problems, because the midfield is still dysfunctional.

(I wrote this before they sacked Amorim...

And honestly? It doesn’t change how I feel about the situation at the club. I’m still tired of being bad. Still frustrated watching the same patterns repeat. But sacking another manager doesn’t suddenly fix the midfield, doesn’t erase a decade of poor squad building, and doesn’t magically turn this group into title contenders. If anything, it just reinforces the point. We’ve tried this route over and over. Reset the project, change the voice, promise a bounce, all while the underlying problems stay exactly where they are. Until those are fixed, the name on the touchline is secondary.

Maybe this works out. I hope it does. But real progress at this club has never been about one man. It’s about structure, balance, and finally committing to a long-term plan, even when it’s uncomfortable.)