Rudderless Manchester United have lurched from a crisis to a catastrophe after Brentford defeat

Manchester United finished last season in a desperate situation but things are even worse after their loss to Brentford. The reasons to despair are piling up.

Ad Last season the club had a captain who looked on the verge of mental exhaustion, a diabolical midfield, a disinterested board and a transfer strategy gripped by inertia and ignorance. Nothing has changed.

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Instead he has been found out as a one-paced sack of meat who can be reduced to shaking synapses if he is even looked at by a pacey player. For now, David de Gea’s mistake could just be a regular keeper aberration, but with the players crumbling to go 4-0 down in 40 minutes the situation suggests that the player’s brittle mentality hasn’t been helped by the arrival of an exacting and attacking manager, instead it has gotten worse.

Midway through the first half United were already being comfortably outrun and outsprinted by their opponents. City hit four to see off Bournemouth and make it two from two Jesus stars again as Arsenal beat Leicester to maintain 100% record Ings and Buendia on target as Villa edge out Everton after late drama We were told that Ten Hag wants high-energy and pressing from his team, and he must have been able to institute the training sessions he wants, from which it can be inferred that there are deep troubles amongst