I don't understand why Manchester United would prioritize signing a relatively young talent instead of focusing on bringing experienced players who can add significant depth and quality to the team. Given the club's current struggles, their priorities should be on acquiring established players who can make an immediate impact and help restore their competitive edge.
The amount of leverage when it involves the Red Devils diversities, it was incredible but today, everything changed after poor stats and consecutive losses. Do you still support a team like Manchester United that don't have ambition to compete in the English Premier League, rather they stick to tabling below standard clubs. Manchester United doesn't possess the odds to be persuasive to assigned intellectual players. When you looked at Manchester United, do you see any sign of improvement under the regime of the new coach? Ruben Amorim is doing his possible best but I think he's not good enough to handle the managerial position in Old Trafford.
You phrased your post as if their bad situation was a choice rather than a mix of events that consists of bad decisions. Yes bad decisions are choices, but if somebody doesn't know better in that club, they are like a ghost rider on a highway who under most circumstances doesn't make that bad decision intentionally. That is how I see Manchester United. Bad decision was followed by a bad decision was again followed by a bad decision because so many losers were in charge of the club. That is the problem they need to solve. Amorim was bought because he had a few good games with Sporting. But it was just another gamble. I was so sure that he can't bring over that success as if it would be easily done, of course not.
But from now on things will only be getting worse as now financial resources will become an issue, club reputation will become an issue. It will now snowball and there isn't much they can do about it because they waited too long and gave ten Hag too many options to destroy the club.