We can’t blame the players for being slow. But we can blame those who brought them in for failing to realise that, whist you can hide one slow player if you have pace alongside him, you can’t hide at least five players who are too slow to play in the same side at the same time at this level.
The recruitment at United has been awful for a decade. During the last couple of years it has been worse than that. De Ligt and Maguire both need someone with legs alongside them. Not to be playing together. And we all know Eriksen and Casemiro are beyond slow.
Amorim has an absolutely massive task on his hands. This is the worst United squad I have seen in fifty years. And, given the money squandered, that is shameful beyond belief.
