Keane was right about some United players being weak. There is only so long their representatives can drone on about the club’s lopsided wage structure and cite Sanchez whilst clients under-perform. Pogba is without a goal from open play in over two months, Rashford has three goals in 13 and De Gea is treating speculative shots with about as much attention as Friday afternoon emails. Pogba led the way at Goodison - off the pitch. He was the first down the tunnel after the final whistle and it will be a depressing day if United compete with Real Madrid for Pogba’s affections.
United are partial to that hollow tawdriness, for they kowtowed to player-power by dismissing a manager who had sussed several of this squad’s feckless footballers. Pogba has been the most destabilising influence at United for close to 18 months and his social media reaction to Mourinho’s sacking was one of the most disrespectful gestures by a modern player that is also endemic of this squad.
At a club where dressing room sources compared certain players’ behaviour to eight-year-olds, the United hierarchy has deprived the manager of control and if those players rode roughshod over Mourinho they could do the same with Solskjaer.
Time to give them a swerve.
From Manchester Evening News - Sums up how I feel.