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Originally Posted by Tarryn

I don't think losing DDG will make us "Just another team", I don't think that will ever happen.
We are a massive brand like Liverpool. We are more well known around the world than most clubs.
Money talks.
Plus, you can just as easily get to the top again as you can drop down the league. That's just the way it is.
Some like to make out we are over but with a new manager & a few good signings everything could change.
I would not be cheering for our demise just yet, I think you are getting ahead of yourself

Being a massive brand with a big history but no current success is pointless and empty (like a pretty girl with no personality), Liverpool, Valencia, Milan, Inter, Lyon and Newcastle are also massive clubs with massive fan bases. Hardly setting world on fire now are they. Truth is clubs like PSG 1970 are more enticing than Man U. You are more likely to hear players saying 'I dream of playing for Barca/ Real Madrid/ Bayern' than Man U. Man U only get the big names once they are 30+. Hello Schweini. Possibly Zlatan and a return of Ronaldo. Young stars often headed to Spain or PSG 1970. If they have to join a Manchester side then it's City.

Also what's the point in a young player playing for Man U now? Fergies gone, no manager will ever come close not even Mourinho or even a shock change for Pep. For a new player it won't matter what he achieves in the eyes of fans, they will never be as good as Sir Bobby, Best, Law, Cantona, RVN, Beck's, Ronaldo etc. Why be second best to history, when you can make history elsewhere? Rashford and Lingard get game time, but in LVG sides

Any Man U side now regardless of what they do will be unfavourably compared to as Man U 2006, 2009, 1999 (treble) or any thing achieved with Sir Matt. It will take another 10 -20 years for Man U to fully move on from Sir Alex's considerable success, the way you had to after Sir Matt's success. It would just be money to entice players now. Except Sky money means the smaller clubs can hold onto the Payets, Kantes, Bolassies, Mahrezs etc. You can't even steal them and even if Man U could, more and more of these players don't want to go to Man U. Too much 'big club bulls*t'. Man U post Fergie is just not as attractive as it once was. What can Man U give a player that Man City can't. I highly doubt a player from Nigeria, Uruguay or Austria gives a fig about your history, history just isn't important to a lot of young players.

Say what you want about West Ham or Leicester City but Payet , Noble, Vardy, Drinkwater and co can be smug safe in knowledge they are playing at the best ever West Ham and Leicester teams of all time, just as Suarez, Neymar and Messi are playing at best Barcelona side of all time. Will current Man U players be able to say that?

Man U are a team living in the past a club obsessed with past history, sides like West Ham, Spurs and Leicester City are making "future" history.