No one is too bothered now but for a while in the summer things looked pretty bleak for Manchester United.
Fans were eager to leave the horrid times in the past and were willing to get fully on board with Erik ten Hag's revolution. But June ticked by without a single new addition to a squad that needed a drastic makeover. When the first signing, a reserve left-back, was finally made it hardly inspired confidence.
Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez were more like it but then the opening day of the season arrived and any lingering optimism was snuffed out. A loss to Brighton and then a 4-0 hammering by Brentford. All the promise of pre-season, all the progress, all the hope, left in ruins. As Ten Hag looked on powerless, it was already hard to see how he could possibly turn United around.
