Why Manchester United’s fall feels worse than ever — and what it says about the Premier League
This is another story about Manchester United decayAbout 12 unprecedented losses in 25 games and a humiliating decrease in fifteenth place, and after three sites of relegation.
But in fact, it is a story about the Premier League, because the Red Devils have been bad before; The difference this time is the quality of the embarrassing difference for them.
United, to clarify, mainly responsible for its demise. The club is rotting because of Excitement Executive directors are ignorant Bad management. It drowned to the lowest new level after a new decline, below New manager after a new managerBecause many of its players are medium and/or injury. He worsened under the leadership of Robin Amorim, the desired coach who arrived in November. “I have a lot of problems,” Amorim admitted yet Sunday 1-0 In Tottenham.
While he digested the defeat, he also diagnosed another source of his pain. Premier League, He said“It is the most difficult competition in the world.”
It has become more and more difficult over the past decade. And its strength from top to bottom is the reason that mediocyte can now withdraw the Upper Cortex clubs such as United and leak towards the basement. The 2010S TV revenue boom allowed its 2010-from a local deal worth 1.8 billion pounds in 2012-13 to 5.1 billion pounds from 2016-17- It surpasses many Champions League clubs throughout the European continent. Those are the clubs that overcame United and approach. They are also part of this story.
In 2012-13Deloette Football money leagueWhich is ranked first in the world 30 football clubs through revenues, eight of England appeared; Now it includes 14, including West Ham, Aston Villa, Brighton, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham Wolfs.
These clubs that have previously been excessive have been used in their new wealth to significantly bring the caliber of a player to the middle of the Premier League, which is the type of player that narrows the gap between them and the former “Big Six”.
Several years ago, it seems that these six – Man United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham – have separated from the chase package in the Premier League. now, MediumAnd there is a relatively small chapter, because Villa and West Ham and Wolves hire the stars carried out by the first four teams in Germany and Italy once.
In 2012-13, for example, the four noon villa was Matt Luton, Clark, Nathan Baker and Joe Bennett, with Ashley Westwood in front of them; Now, it’s Matte Cash, Izri KONSA, Pao Torres and Lucas Digni-SDF for the national teams in Poland, England, Spain and France-with the Argentine World Cup champion, Emiliano Martinez, behind them.
The stark contrasts everywhere you look. They are in Newcastle, Fulham and Bournemouth. That last year from the last modest TV deal, West Ham is riding Kevin Nolan, Mark Noble, Matt Garvis, Matthew Taylor, Carlton Cole and Andy Carroll; Now the players who signed from PSG, Ajax and Borussia Dortmund, in addition to the start of the Brazilian national team.
By the way, in the sixteenth place, because this is not a story on individual teams. The entire league has been loaded, regardless of the newly promoted teams, in the 2012-13 terms.
It is loaded with men who used to go to Milan, Rome, to France or the Netherlands. Now, 221 of The best 500 players in Transfermarkt In English clubs – nearly 229 in the rest of the five major league championships in Europe combined.
Although the six adults still boast of dozens of each of them, there is more (113 versus 108) in the so -called 14th. There are 15 in Brighton and nine in Berntord. There are eight in Bournemouth and seven in the wolves – stuck in the landing battle.
The financial strength of the Premier League, and the opposite excellence attracted a worldly group of coaches to England.
The result: Although the adults still have great advantages, its error margin has been narrowed.
Therefore, when Man United slides from a 20 -year -old team in the world to No. 35 in OPTA global energy classificationsThere are 12 club clubs over it – instead of the five will be there in Spain, or that there will be in Germany.
It is impossible to know the extent of United from 2012-13, which also coincided with the last season of Mr. Alex Ferguson. It is impossible to categorically say whether United is better or worse during the Eric Tin Hag era, Oli Gunnar Solkger, David Moyes or Amorim. But it is clear that part of the reason why the Red Devils has declined so far, and it remained very late in one season, is that the EPL as a whole has risen.
