While everyone blames one player or another for our bad performances, I believe the problems in our team our that, first, there are too many players in our team who play better when the team revolves around them, and second, too many players that naturally play with the ball at their feet. their feet.

As for those who need the tem to revolve around them, players like Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Memphis, Rooney especially come to mind. Pogba had a free role to attack at Juventus, so to Memphis at PSV, Ibrahimovic was a god at PSG, and we know that Rooney's best individual seasons have been when he was our star player for those seasons. The problem is when players like this play together, they often conflict as they all want to do their own thing, for example, both Rooney and Ibrahimovic dropping deep, Pogba dribbling too much or Memphis shooting too often. None of this helps the team.

As for players wanting the ball to their feet all the time, players like Martial, Mata, even Rashford come to mind. Mata likes to cut inside and find a killer pass while both Rashford and Martial like to run at defenders with the ball. There are obvious exceptions like Mata's first goal against Liverpool in a 2-1 win in Van Gaal's first season. These two problems combined mean that although we have players that are good on the ball, there are few players making runs off of it, since they all naturally play with the ball at their feet.

Many people may criticize a player like Ashley Young, but when he plays as a winger, he is willing to stay wide, he is disciplined, combines well with shaw and also delivers good crosses. He may not be as talented as Martial or Memphis but sometimes you need these kinds of players playing on the wings. The same goes for Lingard and Mkhitaryan who i believe is great on the wings. We are more likely to get better off the ball runs, so that players like Mata, Herrera or Rooney can combine well with them.

Having a team of great players is good, but balance in your attack is better.

TL;DR Our two problems are players who are used to a team being revolved around them and too many player who want the ball played to feet.