when the new manager came and obviously you know, were rock bottom
and we're talking about the recruitment.
But I think what was key as well was the five or six players who left.
I'm not knocking all these players, but they were experienced players.
Ma,
these Jesse Lingard. Glad you've been around
and kind of knew they were leaving.
They knew a few months ago they were going to
be leaving their contracts up with most of them,
and I think that that wasn't helping, was there.
Definitely feels around the club a new energy.
New managers obviously put a few markers on after such a bad start to the season,
and that momentum that feel good factor is certainly back at the club.
And you, you feel the energy levels are slightly different.
You mentioned it's been a good couple of months,
so the other player there that has left, although it wasn't in the summer,
is Ronaldo and you can't You can't really avoid that when you see how United have done
since the World Cup and certain individuals and I
think that's helped the manager in the club.
Obviously no one wanted to hang him hanging over for the the second part of the season
that should have been dealt with in the summer.
That was the issue with Ronaldo scenario.
The fact is, he obviously wasn't going to sit on the bench and be happy with it,
so that was always going to be problems for that.
That should have been dealt with. But it has been also Ronaldo's moved on,
and that is not hanging over the club anymore.
But also again, the other five or six players who left big players.
Cavan, These lads who were maybe fringe players are coming off the bench,
and when they were coming on,
they were bringing much to the party because
they felt they should have been starting.
That's what we talk about the so called subs and fringe players.
They've got to come on and be ready.
Whereas the players last year who weren't involved, you just felt they were
energy sappers.
From your experiences of being in squads and fringe players,
managing squads as well
is the key to it. Honestly, is that Is that what we're saying? So that
you know, even if you have a good 20 minutes as a sub OK, that's brilliant.
It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to start next
time so that you don't create false hope.
It's key to having a manager who is boss,
and I don't think Manchester United had that last year. They didn't have an Eric
who was
at the top of the rain
and I'm the boss. I'm in charge. I picked the team
and we say Right, it's my way. We've seen incidents in in the season so far.
He's dealt with it. It's been put to bed and the players know where they stand from
time,
keeping little things all transforms onto the pitch to make you together as a group.
And last year it was a caretaker manager for
second half of the season and there was that
hanging over. So when that
the manager hasn't got that power the players see through us,
that's the way the players then
take the Mick out of the club situation or the manager.
And again,
he wasn't he wasn't calling the shots so players could
take advantage of that and you could see it.
You could see it on the pitch. There was no hiding place