I'm surprisingly not bothered by the result. As has been mentioned before they deserved everything they got.
When you listen to the likes of Scholes interviewed about their success they always refer to that they were encouraged to go forward, encouraged to be creative, encouraged to attack. In a way encouraged to be fearless.
Every since SAF left this fearlessness and positivity which psychologically put other teams on the back foot has given way to a fearfulness, a nervousness which teams sense. A fear of losing.
I honestly believe that you could flip Pep and Mou around with the same players and Pep would have success at United whilst De Bruyne et al would be somewhat stagnated.
It is one thing throwing millions at a bunch of individual players, another to get the best out of them and building a cohesive team.
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