Let us also not forget that Manchester United has spent more than one billion dollars on player acquisitions over the last 10 years or so. Certainly more than Nottingham Forrest, Bournemouth and Aston, currently sitting at 4th, 5th and 6th place in the EPL, respectively. Their squads are mediocre.
This just isn't true though mate - at all. I notice sometimes you seem fixated with how much teams spend. There's no correlation between how much you pay for players and how good they are. Loads of people in football are clueless and vastly overpay all the time. United are among the worst for it. As a Barca fan you should be familiar with it too.
United have spent a fortune, indeed, but that's because they vastly overpay for garbage. They spent 80million on Antony and Maguire, 55m on Mount etc. Those players actual quality is FAR below that level of spending.
Then you imply Bournemouth and Forest MUST have mediocre squads because they spend less - but they buy far better players than United have and get more bang for their buck. If anything you are highlighting the problem man United fans have - thinking their players are far better than they are. I seen one of the better Redcafe posters say - one of their many problems as a club is overrating their players a lot. I mean if someone plays for United (a garbage fallen giant) they must be better than a far less famous player ar Forest or Bournemouth, right? Wrong.
Until they get real about the poor quality of their players they will never improve.
Your entire post comes from your position of being a Barcelona fan - you don't know much about Bournemouth and Forest. They don't register to you because they are not an 'elite club' like the one you support. So you foolishly write off all their players. You just assume they're 'mediocre' because of igorance and them not playing for Real, Barca, Bayern, United, Liverpool etc. It's boring.
This sort of big club arrogance is EXACTLY why United are in the doldrums - deluding themselves their best players are brilliant because they play for a massive club. NO - they just buy garbage. If Lisandro Martinez, matthijs De Ligt and Alejandro Garnacho were playing for Bournemouth these United fans wouldn't even want anything to do with them as players. They're all poor to mediocre players who some think MUST be good because they are at a big club, and Semenyo, Kulivert et al cannot be that good because 'they only play for Bournemouth, aren't that famous, and didn't cost much'. Calling their squads mediocre because you aren't familiar with their players is bollocks.
The truth is that Bournemouth and Forest have better players AND better systems than United. I know it seems amazing to believe given what United achieved in the 90s, but it is true.
For instance, Rashford is a mile more famous than Semenyo, but I would have Semenyo in my team over that clown every day of the week. Ditto the likes of Hojlund, Garnacho and Mainoo - absolute nothing players like Macheda, Januzaj, Darron Gibson and many others before them, but insanely hyped because of Man United being media darlings. If they played for Southampton I guarantee you NOBODY would rate any of them. They're protected by their youth, but their potential is nil. You'll see when time proves me right.
How much longer does this team have to be wank for people to get the hint? I have been proved right EVERY step of the way. Most of their players are garbage and nowhere near top club standards. Combine that with their clueless coaches in recent years, their joke of a structure, and their inability to win 50-50 duels and play possession football, and we are left with the shambles we see now.
They aren't going to improve - these players aren't good enough, nowhere near. Amorim I am not convinced by either, but even if he is a good coach, he can't turn rubbish into gold.
