United they fall

Overnight, Manchester United announced they had resigned a player, they had let go some four years ago for pennies, for a world record price of £89million. Paul Pogba is a world class player, and in the current climate is probably worth it.

This purchase takes United's spending for this transfer window to £250,000,000, and spending over the past three summer transfer windows to close to £500,000,000. I'll let that sink in. But then when you look at who they bought, and news also this morning that new manager Jose Mourinho wants to release four players he deems not to be good enough, all four players have been bought in the last two years, thus showing that the vast majority of that half a billion quid was pissed up against the wall, and wasted.

What this does go to show is that at a senior level, Manchester United really have no idea of a long term plan for the club, pissing ever-increasingly large amounts of money in chasing recapturing the glory years of Sir Alex. And with each quid spunked against the wall, United move ever-further away from the values that Sir Alex brought to the club. Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marcos Rojo and Daley Blind, Juan Mata, Angel di Maria and Radamel Falcao have all come and gone, or will go. Not only that, the squad that won the last league title under Sir Alex have been smashed apart by managers who should have known better, and a club that should be looking after its own long term future, not just letting a "big name" manager come in, spend a fortune before being sacked and moving on.

Mourinho will do well for a year, not so well in the second year, and the wheels will come off in the third, at which time the whole debacle will begin again.

Pogba probably will be a success at United. Maybe he won't. But with an increase in TV revenues of 70% this season, the madness will only get worse. And we fans, will have to pay more and more to see the millionaires playing.