Romelu Lukaku shows next Chelsea owner how they can avoid Manchester United's brutal collapse

It is hard not to bask in a little bit of schadenfreude after seeing how little an impact Ralf Rangnick has actually had on that Manchester United dressing room. In the final weeks of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's doomed time in a burning hot seat, many pundits and experts alike trotted out the now overused line of "look at what Thomas Tuchel has done at Chelsea".

This was used as not only a justification for sacking Solskjaer but also because of the wonderful transformation at Stamford Bridge following the dismissal of another club legend, logic entailed that the same would unfold at Old Trafford.

What the last five months have shown us, is not that Rangnick is a poor coach, but that the United dressing room has become almost unmanageable. All too often in the modern game, we ascribe all of our ire to the feet of a head coach. Due to the success and admiration for the work of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, it is easy to see how this mindset took hold.

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And there is no denying how extraordinary those two coaches are, their tactical intelligence, their leadership and skills in managing elite players and the pressure of big occasions. But part of their brilliance has been forging two dressing rooms that seem to lack "superstars" or great egos.

As much as the chatter around both Manchester City and Liverpool focuses on the talent of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Kevin De Bruyne or Phil Foden, those players never seem to overshadow the coaches they play for, despite being so integral to them.

At Manchester United, it has been the inverse of that since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. Superstar players have been chased – from Paul Pogba to