I just feel like too many people are blaming Ole (or Jose or LVG before) for things that he does not have control of or just has to deal with the bad consequences. I think people are quick to forget that the same issues have been there pretty much since 2009 and only the fact that SAF was pretty much running the club himself was minimising the impact of these issues.
Some short fun facts of since then:
- In 2006, the Glazers related loan was $660m pounds. Since then interest, fees, dividends and other loan costs of more than $1.3billion has been paid. The 2019 loan balance is still over $450m.
- In 09-10 we sold Ronaldo. We bought Valencia, Obertan, Owen and Diouf, followed by Smalling and Chicharito the next season.
- In 11-12 Scholes, Hargreaves, Brown and O'Shea left and we signed Young and Jones.
- In 14-15 Rio, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher, Nani and Chicharito left, we spent huge money on Di Maria and Falcao (plus some others that lasted a bit longer). Next season we signed Depay, Darmian, Schweiinsteiger and Schneiderlin, who are again are no longer here.
- In 18-19, after coming 2nd in the league, we bought Fred, Dalot and Grant.
As people have rightly pointed out, none of the issues are in isolation but with the hand that these owners deal to the managers, you are unlikely to do much better than a 6/10