Manchester United are set to match their longest run without silverware in 40 years this season.
That confirms the club's continuous decline towards dark depths. This season was supposed to be the campaign that it all changed. It was supposed to be the season of success. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was relieved of his duties in November instead and United are meandering again. The club is wrestling with its identity as it hopelessly drifts towards yet another year without silverware.
United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup earlier in the season, challenging for the Premier League title was clearly not possible as the months progressed, so success in the FA Cup or the Champions League were the only two remaining avenues for silverware.