I have been very quiet for a long time. I have been very much under the weather and although I have carried on my day-to-day existence, everything has been done much more slowly. However, I had to write something about the disastrous season so far for Manchester United. Louis van Gaal was appointed some months ago to replace David Moyes and he was going to be the wundermanager who would set everything right at Old Trafford. David Moyes got lots of stick during his term as manager and was blamed for everything that went wrong. So Ryan Giggs operated as interim manager until the end of last season. Louis van Gaal has explained why he is such a wondrous manager and it all sounded good until he actually arrived and started doing the job. So far he has been in charge for three matches and he has lost two and drawn one. But tonight's loss was something special. This was one for the record books.
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Manchester United played MK Dons in Round 2 of the League Cup and they were trounced — there is no other word for it. Here is a team that cost countless millions and has an astronomical wage bill and they never looked like beating the Dons. In fact it was the 72nd minute before MU mounted any sort of challenge on the MK Dons goal — and by then they were 3 goals down the pan. This display was pathetic beyond words. Today MU signed Angel de Maria for a Premier League record fee of £59.7 million. I hope the scouts have convinced themselves that he can play football. It is apparent that MU already have some exceedingly expensive players who are clueless. I have watched them a good number of times in the last year and there are some players who are beyond useless. The defence is riddled with holes — how else could a Div One side knock in four goals — and the MU strikers — if such exist — never seemed to look like being a serious attacking force. Van Gall is going to have to sign whole legions of de Marias if he is to turn this side into something serious. This side of MK Dons has only existed for 10 years, is run on a shoe-string — like most Div One and Div Two sides — was put together for less than £500,000 and has a wage bill of next to nothing. Some of the kids playing for the Dons tonight were not far off getting nothing at all for their efforts. But if they have any sense they will be in with the manager tomorrow negotiating new contracts. There were 26,000 spectators in the ground tonight to watch the destruction — much the biggest gate in MK Don history.
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This was one of — if not the — worst defeats in Manchester United history. Will they make top four in the league this season? On this showing they will struggle to stay out of the bottom three. No doubt van Gaal will give his players a bollocking on the bus home and tomorrow at the training ground but all concerned will be unable to avoid the ridicule from Manchester City and many another football club down to Accrington Stanley at the bottom of Div Two.
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