A summer with a thesaurus always at hand awaits. Without the money and prestige of Champions League football, Ruben Amorim will be unable to complete his pivotal squad overhaul. More of the same listlessness awaits next season. And beyond.
Amorim was handed the most difficult task in football in November – restoring a fallen giant to its former glories mid-season with only rusting, falling-apart tools to go about his work.
A generation of talent is not old enough to remember United being anything like the force they were in the Sir Alex Ferguson epoch, and if there are other Premier League rivals in contention, transfer targets will almost certainly look elsewhere.
Amorim has again cast doubt on his future (Photo: Getty)“I’m always open, if the board and the fans feel that I am not the right guy, I will go the next day without any conversation about compensation,” Amorim insisted.
Someone has to. As former World Cup winner turned acclaimed pundit and writer Jorge Valdano once said of English teams in European football, the quality on show in a mistake-ridden Bilbao final was like a “shit hanging from a stick”. United contributing the most excrement.
But on the pitch, both assumed their psychologically fragile, physically inept Premier League selves for a first-half that was every inch 16th versus 17th. While the lack of fluidity and cohesion hardly made for gripping viewing, one thing remained to keep those within the stadium glued to every wayward pass straight out of play – the encounter reeked of desperation.
Fernandes, in a deeper role, simply could not be everywhere at once, as much as his teammates wanted him to be, wide players got into dangerous positions only to get the final passes glaringly wrong, while sluggish defending, in key moments, ultimately became their undoing.
On the big occasion, the Portuguese was animated in the extreme. The Europa League has been his side’s sanctuary this season, shelter from the domestic storm they are engulfed by week in, week out.
Other than Micky van de Ven’s superb goal-line clearance and a fine Guglielmo Vicario save, United never looked like finding an equaliser, despite utilising every attacking option they had, from a fully fit squad.
And that is how the might of Manchester United have fallen. And, as big-spending rivals get better, stealing all the best talent, it is only going to get worse.
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