Manchester United and the 'hair dryer' story

In Vietnam alone,MU Fans Clubwas established many years ago and since 2017 has been recognized as the official MU Fan Club! Another recent statistic shows that Vietnam ranks 4th among the countries that visit the official MU website the most with 3.34%. The official MU website is the home page of the football team with the most visitors in Vietnam. The MU Fan Club Fanpage in Vietnam currently has more than 235,000 followers.

Those numbers show that world football in general and MU in particular have long been "useful spiritual food" for a large number of football fans, not only in our country.

The only thing worth mentioning is that 8 years have passed since Sir Ferguson left the "Theatre of Dreams", fans around the world have continuously witnessed the disintegration of "flower dreams", the latest of which is the series of "dirty back and white stomach" losses of MU against Liverpool, Man City and most recently the tiny team Watford, forcing coach Solskjaer to... leave the house even though he didn't want to!

Coach Solskjaer, even though he doesn't want to, still has to..."go out". Photo: PLO

MU fans are certainly not happy with the scene of their favorite team falling into a miserable situation that is increasingly unfamiliar with the prestigious Premier League or Champions League throne. The longer they wait, the more disappointed they are when the team never knows how to win or after each win is a ridiculous loss, not at all worthy of the reputation of a powerful team admired by the whole world.

MU's Old Trafford stadium has a capacity of 76,000 seats, not the largest stadium in the world but is certainly packed with loyal, passionate fans for many years. Loving MU so much that these fans have repeatedly protested against MU's leadership regarding the appointment and dismissal of coaches, the purchase and transfer of players and many other matters.

The strange thing is that even though MU is in a terrible decline, the number of fans never changes and the image of the team in the media and in the eyes of the public is still a formidable force. That, a certain decline is normal in big teams, a necessary intervention from the top will bring the team back to normal orbit.

After hesitating and delaying for a long time, it is time for MU leaders to say "thank you and good luck" to Ole Solskjaer when everything has fallen to the bottom of disappointment and there is no clear way out. People often say "change generals change luck" but since MU replaced "monument" Sir Ferguson with D. Moyes, then Giggs as interim manager, L. van Gaal, then Mourinho and Solskjaer in the past 3 years, the team's "bad luck" has not changed at all.

Of course, being the owner of MU is never a place lacking money to buy good players and hire talented coaches. Solskjaer alone has been "pumped" 400 million pounds as a concrete proof. So why can MU, with its strong soldiers and generals, not be able to show its face and face to the world, not worthy of the money spent and the tradition it has built?

The famous Dutch coach, Louis van Gaal's statement about a MU leader "he doesn't know anything about football" could be the insider's answer and many people are hoping that this person will soon leave so that MU can find the right person to rebuild the team.

Not to mention, in the internal affairs of MU, among the countless heroes of the team who are currently focusing on pointing their spears at their juniors in the media, it also makes the story both tragic and comical, and at the same time makes the "scapegoat" the head coach quickly leave the stage and the team can find positive energy again?

In fact, it is not easy for MU to quickly restore order and return to the top after Solkjaer's departure like Chelsea was strangely lucky when replacing Lampard with Tuchel recently. But at least the team's stars, most of whom are European and world national team players, will quickly remove the negative energy of yesterday, join forces to revive a disintegrated collective into a unified block, regaining the team's inherent identity through each match.

After all, MU is not just a Premier League team but a team of fans all over the world. Instead of being a team that is only “good in every way” on paper and in the media like in the past, hopefully MU will be good and very good, very attractive on the field with beautiful, open-minded playing style, rich in achievements and dedication.

A team with many stars obviously needs a coach who is the brightest, most powerful star, close to the players, instructing them but ready to be a "hair dryer", ready to "throw shoes in the face" of someone, even a prominent star, for the unity and progress of the whole team like what Sir Ferguson did, it cannot be any other way...

Chau Phu