Long Term.

Missed yesterday's game, but that's a massive 2pts dropped even at this early stage of the season.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & City look much more stabile sides than what we do, with a clear playing style and strongest 11, we are yet to stumble across ours.

We have the personel to play some exciting and fluid football and once we can get them playing together regularly, I hope we can begin to pick up some points.

As I alluded to earlier, I think stability has been the key factor in why we have not progressed in the manor we all want to see. It's been exciting spending money on some quality players on paper, but constant splurges is not the answer. The next two windows we should be really shrewd in my opinion, spending very little and focusing on what we do have. I'd be tempted to say sign nobody in Jan, and a max of 2/3 players this summer, and they don't have to be stellar signings either.

Jose has done some good things and some bad things. Phasing out Rooney has been brave and much needed, there has been an attempt to rid of the possesion style that has plagued us for 2 seasons which has been an inconsistent experiment so far. I don't think he has always fielded the best teams which I hope he can learn from, Fellaini should be a squad player and has been over used. Martial has picked up niggling injuries, but I see him being a massive part of his plans long term, and I have a slight beef that he is wasting Rashford out wide and not giving Miki a chance to play his way into the team (there must be something we may not know about but logical I hope). His use of Mata and Herrera has been pleasing and I'm also chuffed the Blind rumours have been nonsense and he has continued to play lots.

I don't want us to give up on the League this season, but I could accept an experimental season provided there was a big emphasis on trying to play attacking football and the players look to all be pulling in the same direction, I think we still seem too nice and weak mentally.

For me, we need to play a 4-3-3 when with the ball and a 4-1-4-1 without it. Zlatan should be rotated a bit more with Rashford as Ideally going forward, I'd like to see a front 3 that is interchangeable and pacy.

For the majority of games this season I'd like to see us set up:
---------------- --- DDG---------------
Valencia--- Bailly--- Blind-- Shaw
------------------Herrera--------------
------------Mata--------Pogba-------
-Mkhitaryan---Rashford----Martial

Having Rashford central would change the whole dynamic for me, and he can at least swap with Martial during a game, making us a lot less predictable.

In some of the bigger games, I'd like to see Carrick come in for either Mata or Herrera.

After this season, I'd shed no tears saying goodbye to Schneiderlin, Rooney, Schweini and Januzaj. I'd still keep Depay as backup for the left side, with Lingard and Young in reserve for the wide slots too.

Depending on Miki fares, the right hand side may need addressing in the summer, same as the right back position. I'd still like to see a proper DM too, someone with the posistional sense to allow our other midfielders and strikers to flourish.

I'm not too downbeat yet as we have the potential to improve much more, we just need to make a few changes to the first eleven and continue with a creative attack and I'm positive we can have a solid season with some progression.