There is a lot wrong but the least of it has been the manager. If you look at it since Ferguson left how many of those signings are still at the club. Blind, Schneiderlin, Herrera, Fellaini, Di Maria, Falcao, Victor Valdez, Depay, Darmian, Schweinsteiger, Mikhitaryan, Sanchez, Lukaku all gone from the club. Some of these signings were just terrible.

Mourinho is a good manager but the players he wanted to bring in would have only been fit for purpose not necessarily to challenge for the title on a consistent basis. We have seen him do so at Chelsea multiple times and now Ole is stuck removing the dead wood he accumulated during that time.

Out of the 10 signings he made only three, Dalot, Fred and Lindeloff have a a future at the club. Imagine that. The rest are either gone or about to go.

Truth be told, Ole is the first manager who has had all of his three signings actually be good and perform well in a thread bear squad. He is clearing the dead wood but it remains to be seen if the board will give him the necessary tools and finances to succeed at the club.